Imerys Metalcasting is a leading green molding sand supplier to the foundry industry. The Company is constantly evolving, aiming to always be one step ahead of the technological developments, initiating innovative research, and leading to state-of-the art products launches. This way, it manages to cover the market demands for high quality castings, higher production efficiency, and meeting the increasing…

The final quality of the metal casting is the results of a tremendous amount of controlled parameters inside the foundry workshop. On a daily basis, parameters such as pouring temperature, sand quality, molding conditions, etc. are leveraged by metal casters to balance quality versus the yield of production, which have usually an opposite trend. The molding sand and the sand used for core making have a…

The 2018 Ankiros trade fair took place from 25th till 27th October in Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of the biggest bi-annual metallurgy events and stays for a major get together of all actors in the foundry industry. It goes without saying that Imerys had a strong presence with its Metalcasting and Aluminates’ expert teams. As the leading supplier of innovative solutions, covering the entire applications of…

Vic LaFay, Science and Technology Foundry Manager at Imerys Metalcasting, guided the audience through the main elements of molding sand binder design. His vivid presentation “Evaluation of Green Sand Premixes for Emission Characteristics” provided information about the key parameters of the molding sand test protocols, underlining the equal importance of adequate strengths-, reduced emissions- and desired…

Imerys Metalcasting is a leading green molding sand supplier to the foundry industry. The Company is constantly evolving, aiming to always be one step ahead of the technological developments, initiating innovative research, and leading to state-of-the art products launches. This way, it manages to cover the market demands for high quality castings, higher production efficiency, and meeting the increasing…

The Metal + Metallurgy China, the largest exhibition in Asia and the second largest worldwide for hot metal processing and the equipment manufacturing industry, took place with great success from 16-19 May 2018 in Beijing. More than 1.000 exhibitors displayed their top-selling products and latest technologies on a large area above 100.000 m2 and were attended by almost 75.000 visitors from 57…

Imerys Metalcasting offers green moulding sand additives and customized blends based on bentonites, lustrous carbon formers and other selected high quality raw materials as well as technical expertise to the foundry industry. S&B Bentonite (Chaoyang) is a member of the Imerys Metalcasting family based in China. The joint venture, established in 2013 through a tie-up with a real estate conglomerate, is…

The Imerys bentonite operations in China announced a significant increase in production capacity due to a massive surge in sales. Certainly, the bentonite market conditions were favorable with the rising clay demand. However, essential for this development were also the outstanding achievements of the local Imerys team. It has managed to transfer the technical expertise and high quality standards from the…

Imerys Metalcasting, a world-leading supplier of green moulding sand additives, attended with great success the 2. Formstoff-Forum 2018 held on March 7th and 8th in Aachen, Germany. This key industry event, organized by BDG and VDG, with focus on moulding materials (Formstoffe) brought together more than 400 experts from the German-speaking foundry industry. Imerys participated in the Forum with a booth in…

The IKO brand, representing the green moulding sand additives producer based in Germany, was well known throughout the foundry industry. However, three years ago, IKO became "Imerys Metalcasting Solutions". The French group of companies Imerys, a world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, acquired the Greek S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. in 2015. And it just fits: IKO/ S&B and Imerys…