The upcoming conference “Guss im Wandel” ("Casting Evolution") from 17 - 18 November 2020 offers an opportunity to get to know strategies pertaining the digitalization, innovations and quality management in the foundry industry and to discuss them with leading experts from industry and application research, with manufacturers and users. The German-speaking symposium aims to be a meeting place - participants…

Everything in the same week The new Daimler boss Ola Källenius announces massive changes and billions in savings in the Daimler Group, economic experts report renewed downturn in the Far East, Europe's governments decide tangible measures to help protect the climate while TESLA flirts with a new Giga car factory near Berlin. At the same time, experts from the foundry and automotive industry, science,…

Lighter, better, more efficient: For the thirteenth time now, Hanser Verlag is organizing the popular specialist conference, and invites foundry experts from all over Germany and neighboring countries to Lightweight Casting (Leichtbau in Guss) 2019 - this time held in Nürtingen, near Stuttgart. A promising lecture program is also planned for this year, in addition to the highlight of the event: a factory…

The annual technical meeting of experts, "Leichtbau in Guss" (“Lightweight Construction in Casting”), took place for the 12th time and was held in the Lower Bavarian Bad Gögging. Nearly 80 experts from foundries, automotive, universities, institutes, and suppliers exchanged information on current topics in the foundry industry for two days. Key topics were discussed by speakers from: AUDI, BMW Group, NEMAK…

Lighter, better, more efficient: for the twelfth time, Hanser Verlag is organizing the renowned symposium and invites foundry experts from all over Germany and neighboring countries to Lightweight Casting 2018 - this time to Bad Gögging. A promising lecture program is also planned for this year, and a highlight of the event will be a visit to Audi‘s structural parts production facility. The conference will…

Innovative component design and process technology as the key to success 7th - 8th November 2017 in Hanover After the successful jubilee issue last year, the “Leichtbau in Guss 2017” will take place for the 11th time. This time the organizer Hanser Verlag invites the participants to Hanover, where a visit to the VW foundry takes place. The conference on 7th and 8th November 2017 is entitled "Innovative…

26. und 27. Oktober 2016 in Landshut Bereits zum 10. Mal traf sich in diesem Jahr die Gießer-Branche auf der Leichtbau in Guss. Die diesjährige Veranstaltung in Landshut stand unter dem Motto "Gießen 4.0" - die Weiterentwicklung der Branche in allen Belangen. Die Vorträge zu den Tagungs-Schwerpunkten "Integralbauteile - gelebter Leichtbau", "Planerische Leichtbauaspekte - Gießerei 4.0" und "Innovative…

In den vergangenen Jahren führte der Leichtbaugedanke insbesondere in der Automobilindustrie zur Substitution von Eisenwerkstoffen durch Leichtmetalle. Aufgrund der spezifischen Eigenschaften von eisenbasierten Werkstoffen wie den höheren Festigkeiten und der guten Temperaturbeständigkeit behalten diese jedoch weiterhin ihre Bedeutung als weit verbreiteter Konstruktionswerkstoff für Motorkomponenten und…

The annual conference of the Hanser Publishing "Lightweight Casting" took place this year in Saarbrücken. Within two days of the seminar the participants had the opportunity of listening to the very interesting presentations from renowned companies such as BMW, Nemak, Italpress etc. as well Universities (University Munich, Aalen University ) to undertake a more intensive trip to the broad spectrum of the…