Cathode casting in action Right on time and on schedule for the fourth Advent, the four new "candles" (four new promeos® furnaces) in the cathode production at TRIMET Aluminium in Essen were burning. A great project "has passed its baptism of fire", says the experienced Trimet project manager, Dr Joachim Heil, with satisfaction. After the successful assembly and commissioning of the units specially…

Preparations are now underway and are progressing well to have the second cylinder cast in the near future. Premier Patterns in Smethwick produced the polystyrene patterns and then these were dispatched to the Shakespeare Foundry in Preston where they were to be cast. However, sadly, the company went into receivership before the patterns could be cast, so later enquiries identified a specialist who had…

indometal 2013, the international metal & steel exhibition for the region is now opened, providing a beneficial business and procurement platform for all those involved in the industries’ upstream and downstream sectors. indometal 2013 is a specialist exhibition focused on the synergistic interrelations of foundry technology, casting products, metallurgy and thermoprocess technology. In addition, indotools…

On the 1 st of February 2023 the first iron casting was made in a new foundry established by UzAutosanoat (the biggest automotive manufacturing company in the CIS, producing all range of vehicles and components to them). The new foundry was named after a famous character ( KOVA) in “Shahnameh” (“Book of Kings”) written in the year 1010 by Persian writer Firdawsi. The foundry was designed and engineered by…

Contract signed in Warsaw: Daimler to build new engine plant in the Polish city of Jawor Founding of “Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland" with new CEO Dr Andreas Schenkel. Daimler plans to invest about 500 million euros in new engine production in Jawor. Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain Management: “The capacity expansion in Poland reflects…

On January 18th 2017 at exactly 11:18 a.m., the first train cover for a transmission case was successfully cast in the new plant of Chongqing Millison Technology Co., Ltd., in the Banan district Chongqing in China. Chongqing Millison was founded in 2001 with a clear focus on the die casting industry. Today, the company owns three production sites and employs over 2,000 people. It is a specialist in aluminum…

Data is generated in foundries in disparate locations and sources. There are different analogue as well as digital loggers which stand independently at their host-machine and locations churning out reams of data which passes into oblivion as most of it remains uncaptured; or logged and forgotten, or deleted automatically as soon as expiry date/capacity is reached. Many other data points exist which are…

Effective July 1, 2014, Dr. Alexander Sagel heading Hardparts division Dr. Alexander Sagel (43) has been appointed head of KSPG's Hardparts division which encompasses the following business units: Small-Bore Pistons, Large-Bore Pistons, Bearings, and Castings. The division subsumes the global operations of this first-tier auto-industry supplier within the Rheinmetall Group in the markets for small- and…