Foundry-Planet goes where opportunities arise, where production happens, and where there is a good investment climate. As a global partner to the foundry industry, we were particularly excited about the first Fundiexpo GIFA México 2024, held in Mexico City. For the first time, Fundiexpo and GIFA Messe Düsseldorf collaborated as strong partners at the Mexico trade fair venue. After three intense exhibition…

The event is set to bring together companies, professionals, and industry experts in a gathering that promises to be key to the future of this sector. This edition’s Business Opportunities Forum will be one of the main stages where strategic investments will be announced, impacting not only the national industry but also international markets in the short, medium, and long term. This forum will be a space…

An Evolving Sector: Innovation and Challenges The foundry industry has historically been a pillar of global manufacturing, enabling the production of ferrous and non-ferrous metal parts as well as essential components that form the backbone of numerous industries. However, like many other areas of industrial production, the foundry industry is not immune to contemporary challenges. Among these challenges…

The structural change from combustion engines to e-mobility as well as the growing expansion of the Chinese automotive industry that has identified Latin America as a manufacturing and expanding market, lead to an investment race in the region. The winners of this development are especially long-established manufacturing locations like Mexico, one of Latin America’s automobile production countries. Mexico…

From 25 to 28 September 2024 the international thermal process industry will meet at THERMPROCESS China presenting numerous technological innovations and a line-up of high-calibre side events in parallel with the world-leading Düsseldorf trade fairs for wire, cable and tube and pipes, wire and Tube China, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). In 2020, the total output value of China’s heat…

To this end, two of Germany’s biggest trade fair companies pool their expertise in a joint venture: Messe Düsseldorf and Deutsche Messe AG will in future each hold a 50% share in “Hannover Messe Ankiros Fuarcilik A.S.”. Company founder Ibrahim Anil will continue acting as General Manager of the company. In this venture Messe Düsseldorf contributes its network and industry expertise gained through its…

The transformation of the metals industry towards climate neutrality was the main theme of the Bright World of Metals, which took place with great success in Düsseldorf from 12 to 16 June 2023, and was also much discussed at the GIFA and NEWCAST stands. The exhibiting companies and expert conferences focused on technologies and solutions for decarbonisation, sustainability, energy and resource efficiency in…

From 16 to 18 October 2024 GIFA Mexico held at the Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City will bring together industry experts from all over the world and present a wide spectrum of machinery, equipment, materials, and technical innovations for various user industries such as the automotive and construction industries, mechanical engineering and the iron and NF-metal industries. Alongside small and medium-sized…

Messe Düsseldorf celebrated a successful premiere in Jakarta with GIFA and METEC INDONESIA as the new authoritative metallurgy and foundry platforms for Indonesia’s emerging market from September 13 to 16, 2023. About 200 exhibitors from 18 countries and more than 4,900 trade visitors from all sectors of the foundry and metallurgical industries took part in the events at the JIEXPO Convention Center. In…

Commenting on this, Malte Seifert, Director of GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, says: “We are delighted to have found dates in early summer that have already proven their worth in the past. The Bright World of Metals is and will remain the absolute highlight for the metallurgy and foundry sectors worldwide.” The five-day duration of the fair with its tried-and-tested weekday…