Dürr is selling 85% of the shares in the Dürr Ecoclean Group to Chinese engineering and machinery company Shenyang Blue Silver Group (SBS Group). With annual sales of around € 200 million, the Dürr Ecoclean Group is the global market leader in cleaning and surface processing systems for industrial parts. The SBS Group is expected to acquire the shares at the end of 2016 subject to approval by the…

Precious metals like platinum and rhodium are very valuable, and also very rare. That makes it increasingly important to recycle these precious metals from a wide variety of industrial uses. For example, various catalytic processes in the chemical industry generate large amounts of fluid residue containing low concentrations of precious metal catalysts. The new adsorption process (scavenger technology)…

Additionally, there is an increasing demand for more environmentally friendly products as well as a shortage of raw materials and energy. In order to meet this demand, Römheld & Moelle Eisengießerei has been building up a strategic sustainability management since 2022 and no, for the first time, the company gives an insight in its sustainability activities according to the standard of the German…

Kurzfassung Im Jahr 2007 wurde im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit eine empirische Untersuchung zu den Strategien und Herausforderungen der Gießereiindustrie mittels Fragebogen durchgeführt. Befragt wurden ca. 450 Eisen- und NE-Metallgießereien in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Zielsetzung war eine Aktualisierung der Studie ,Gießerei 2010" aus dem Jahr 2001. Auf die Befragung haben 72 Gießereien aus…

A Turning Point for Globalization The rules of global trade are changing at breakneck speed: tariffs as political leverage, state-driven industrial policy as a location factor, and value chains increasingly shaped by geopolitics. Europe in particular finds it difficult to adapt to this new reality. But what does this mean for the foundry industry – a sector more dependent than most on global markets and…

The aluminium foundry industry has changed noticeably for everyone since the fourth quarter of 2018. After years of permanent growth (worldwide cast aluminium production 2000 approx. 8 million t → 2017 approx. 18 million t), there was a decline in production figures in the 4th quarter of 2018 for the first time in 50 years (except for the crises 1994/95 and 2008/09). At this point, the ever-increasing…

Fast, flexible and incredibly easy to operate, DISA GRIND is perfect for short and medium runs at small and medium-sized foundries. “In today’s job market, it is hard to find employees that want to work in manual grinding,” says Kasper Paw Madsen, Vice President Portfolio Development & Marketing at DISA. “Automated grinding with DISA GRIND is cleaner and safer, so it’s much easier to recruit operators and…

Elkem has opened a new office in Seoul, "Elkem Korea Office", with three efficient and dedicated colleagues. The previous liaison office in Seoul has now been promoted to a branch office as of June 13. With this status change, Elkem has a resounding representation in Korea as the Elkem Korea Office and can be directly involved in business communications with customers through its own local organization.…

Manufacturers of die cast components worldwide are constantly seeking improvements in their processes, owing mainly to the intensity of global competition alongside the need to meet increasingly stringent operating requirements. Growing opportunities in sectors such as e-mobility are driving up standards in quality and repeatability, leading to a renewed focus on the die lubricants at the heart of…