The popular VDG Foundry Meetings of the Bavarian Regional Group, organised by Dr. Steffen Klan and his team, were extended this time to include participants from Hesse.
Steffen Klan welcomed the VDG participants, including several large German foundries, to the transnational meeting and joint exchange at FRANKENGUSS in Kitzingen and, together with Dr. Wolfgang Lenz, reported on current developments and upcoming dates.
Afterwards, FRANKENGUSS boss Josef Ramthun did not miss the opportunity to personally introduce his companies.
FRANKENGUSS is a leading foundry company in the Main-Franconia region with a tradition of over 90 years with an annual capacity of 80,000t FE and 4,500t AL. At the Kitzingen site, the foundry offers customised solutions in iron and aluminium casting as well as in additive manufacturing.
With its approximately 650 employees, FRANKENGUSS has its sights firmly set on the future and is constantly building on the professional training of young talent.
In times of transformation and climate change, those responsible are facing major challenges and Ramthun leaves no doubt that he would like to see more support from the political arena. Upcoming investments can only be carried through with a clear commitment to Germany as an industrial location and confidence in implementation. Especially when it comes to the topic of climate-neutral energy supply, the company manager recognises great deficits in federal and state policy, but nevertheless concludes his presentation optimistically, because at FRANKENGUSS, one concentrates first and foremost on good products, and there one is right at the forefront.
In another presentation, Dr Ralf Gerke-Cantow introduced his company Visiometa, which has made a name for itself in the field of evaluating casting geometries. Gerke-Cantow does not want his offer to be understood as just another simulation software, but as a deliberately different alternative to existing possibilities.
The series of lectures was then concluded by Dr. Wolfgang Knothe, the long-standing head of research and development at FRANKENGUSS, who, as always, was passionate about the many possibilities in casting. His topic this time: Shaping by casting enables the load-oriented design of structural parts.
The subsequent foundry tour gave all participants a good insight into the halls of a well-functioning company with an extraordinary variety of processes, as iron casting is produced at the site with three moulding plants and laminar die casting with 12 die casting cells.
