How is the Chinese foundry market is structured, what features and standards need to be considered, and how will my firm find the right quality suppliers beginning from sourcing to signing of a contract. These questions and many more are answered by China Consulting expert Birger Vinck in his intensive seminar, specifically for casting shopping in China. "The Chinese market is very complex, and that’s not…

Pre-Meeting of Asia Foundry Forum has been successfully held by China Foundry Association (CFA) in Shanghai on Sept.1 2009. The representatives attending this forum are China Foundry Association, Japan Foundry Society, the Institute of Indian Foundrymen; Mongolian Metallurgical Association, Taiwan Casting Industry Association, Hongkong Diecasting and Foundry Association, Mr. Zhang Libo, Exec.vice president…

also avaible in AWEBA-WEBO-Eröffnung How you can be successful by using innovation, know-how and the right strategy although there is a financial crisis, was demonstrated by the WEBO Werkzeugbau Oberschwaben Gmbh at its opening ceremony in Amtzell. Managing director Mr. Axel Wittig presented to about 130 invited guests the spectrum of power of the tooling specialists, including a total novelity. Mr. Willi…

also avaible in The event "Leichtbau in Guss", organized by Hanser-Verlag in cooperation with VDG, BDGuss und the Munich Colloquium, took place on 2009 october 06. and 07. in Augsburg, germany. Aligned with the focus "With innovation in the future" the symposium took up current issues a presented innovative solutions and future trends. Click to enlarge Interview with "Rudolf Diesel" About 40 participants…

also avaible in Dipl.-Kfm. Hans-Georg Ehrmann (left)Dipl.-Kfm. Sigrid Röth-Ehrmann from Georg Röth Eisengießerei GmbH & Co.with Michael Colditz (right) from DISA On 28. and 29. October 2009 there was held the DISA-Symposium in Bad Wimpfen, a medievial small town near Heilbronn (Germany).So DISA offered business partners and parties the opportunity to inform themselves about the experience in the…

NovaCast subsidiary Camito receives new order for die shoe castings from Schweikert GmbH, one of Europe’s leading system suppliers of car body parts. The order consists of two smaller CAMITO die shoe castings, a base for dies that Schweikert will complete and use for production of stamped car body parts to one of the leading automotive groups in the world. This is Schweikert’s third order for Camito’s…

New EVO Turbine Single disk blast wheels are characterized by their ease of maintenance and the quick change of their throwing blades. These characteristics make them the ideal blast wheels for applications where pre-blast and post-blast manufacturing steps, like for example, robotic parts loading or the capacity of a painting system or a burn table, pose a limit to the overall parts transport speed.…

Kurtz Gravity Casting Machines The Core Pull Makes The Difference On the whole, gravity casting is the classical casting process. Practiced for hudreds of years, it still offers potential for improvement. Kurtz has developed a machine concept especially for jobbing foundries. Due to the modular machine design this concept can be universally employed. What is needed is fl exibility with respect to the most…

The new 8- speed automatic transmission from ZF makes vehicles more economical. Honsel assisted ZF by developing the optimal casting process for the gearbox housing. The light metal expert supplies light compact housings as well as high-precision control parts for the gear shifting mechanism. Honsel manufactures the components on a new fully automated production line. With its new 8-speed transmission known…

Experts, current and future users of high-resolution computed tomography (CT) are invited to attend the 2010 International CT Symposium, sponsored by phoenix|x-ray, a part of GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies, in Dresden from August 31 – September 2. The event will be a forum for conversation and discussion regarding latest developments in CT technology and analysis methods, as well as the future of CT…