As Doug Kurkul (CEO, AFS) reports in an article for Modern Casting, the American foundry industry finished with total sales of $47 billion. Responsible for this: Intense and encouraging growth in demand for castings combined with major challenges. Key challenges included maintaining staffing levels, dealing with massive price fluctuations in materials, components and energy, and other supply chain…

After having done their duty on Denmark’s roads, most Danish car tires are reused as playground swings or artificial turf pitch granules — but that’s only half the story. Alongside rubber, care tires also feature steel cords. The steel cords are sent to the foundry BIRN in Holstebro in Western Denmark for reuse. The foundry, one of Northern Europe’s biggest, adds the newly recycled steel cord briquettes…

Plasma technology can be used to modify the surface properties of a wide variety of materials in order to optimally prepare materials and material combinations for subsequent processes. Plasmatreat has developed various processes for this purpose: In the fine cleaning of metals or glass, for example, with Openair-Plasma, surfaces are gently and safely freed from dust, grease, release agents and additives.…

To deepen their knowledge of Foundry Technology 2, the students of Aalen University travelled with their professor Lothar Kallien to Bühler AG and DGS Druckguss Systeme in Switzerland.

By Mr Dileep Yadav – Vadodara, Gujarat, India Mr Christian Kleeberg – Singapore MR. U CHANG ENG – Malaysia

The WFO is proud to announce the Call for Papers of the first edition of the WFO Foundry Young Researchers and Early Career Professionals Conference taking place online in April 18th 2023. This will be an outstanding opportunity to connect with young researchers and professionals in the early stages of developing their careers in our industry, offering an agenda of advanced technical research in topics like…

LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area, metals which are essential for, among other applications, the manufacture of electric vehicles and wind turbines. Following successful exploration, the company today reports mineral resources of rare earth metals exceeding one million tonnes of rare earth oxides and the largest known deposit of its kind in Europe. "This is…

Andy Gu, Chairman of KUKA's Supervisory Board, says: "Peter Mohnen and Alexander Tan have stabilized KUKA in difficult circumstances and set the course for global growth even under challenging economic conditions. We look forward to continuing to plan with these two top leaders at KUKA." KUKA posted record order intake and sales last year. The company was able to increase its operating result despite supply…

Mr Röders, your company was founded in 1814. The owners have always run the company, now in the 6th generation. How do you manage to keep innovating? Innovation is a constant process and has a lot to do with strategic orientation. Sometimes, however, good ideas are simply the result of a creative impulse from an employee. That is why we attach great importance to good training and further education for our…