SYNCHRO ERP will be attending the 64th Investment Casting Annual Technical Conference and Equipment Expo held October 16-17 2017 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Centre, Covington, Kentucky. We will also be demonstrating our new Least Cost Mix module together with a new system 'Search' facility. We look forward to seeing you there at Booth 137.

The World Foundry Congress, the most important event of the foundry sector, constitutes an excellent occasion for exchanging knowledge and experiences, the newest achievements and innovations. The 73rd World Foundry Congress in Krakow, 23-27 September 2018, will be held with the motto “Creative Foundry”‚ including broad thematic blocks: • Materials • Technologies • Digitalization • Management • Ecology…

John Winter is progressing its journey to become a more environmentally-friendly foundry supplier by investing significantly into its facilities and infrastructure. Changes at the site include the installation of recycling facilities, new LED lighting and investment in manufacturing increasingly sustainable products. The investment will dramatically reduce the company’s carbon footprint, saving at least 33…

Tribo-Chemie was founded in 1992 with the aim of manufacturing “Made in Germany” release agents that provide solutions for companies looking for suitable products for pressure die casting and forging. Tribo-Chemie has been a much in demand partner for many years when it comes to customised release agents and lubricants for an efficient, cost-optimised production process. Tribo-Chemie places great importance…

JOEST delivered the complete vibrating machines to Trakya Dokum’s new smart foundry in Turkey. The plant is designed for the production of various automotive cast iron parts in a vertical flaskless molding line. The molding line is a DISA 270A; mold dimensions 950 mm x 700 mm, operated at 400 moulds/hour, 150 t/h sand throughput in average, 12 t/h liquid metal in average with inductotherm dual track melting…

Surrounded by green fields and a mile from St. Lawrence River tributary Richelieu River in the small Quebecois town of Saint-Ours, Fonderie Laperle carries on a tradition started in the 19th century, but its melting department is a strictly 21st century operation. The plant makes manhole castings—a somewhat commoditized market segment that has largely moved to overseas, lower-cost countries. It ships only…

By using additive manufacturing processes, enterprises of the pressure die-casting industry can expand their range of products and services, open up new fields of business and develop new business models. The number of enterprises and research institutes which are engaged with the manifold application and development opportunities of 3D printing processes is growing. These processes, also called additive…

With the theme of “Joint Innovation and win-win Cooperation”, the 2nd Belt and Road Foundry Industry Forum on Cooperation and Development revolved around the exchanges of experiences on foundry industrial policies, sustainable development, and capacity cooperation among countries along the “Belt and Road”. It was sponsored by China Foundry Association, and co-organized by the Peoples’ Government of Hancheng…

Construction companies are now required to reduce respirable crystalline silica dust on work sites by 80 percent, on average during an eight-hour shift, following new federal regulations that took effect Sept. 23. While less than a week in effect, the rules face a challenge before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as attorneys for the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association and the Brick Industry…

For the most part, car design hasn’t quite changed much over the last couple of decades. It’s still more or less a metal box with four wheels, and nothing like the futuristic madness that we’re treated to with concept cars. Will this continue to be the case ten, twenty years down the line? Would the car of the future look basically like what we see on the roads today? I spoke to Simon Ng, Head of Design &…