The 7th International Foundry Forum in Prague – where the CEO’s meet- was held on September 21st and 22nd in which 240 CEO’s from the world’s leading foundries and their suppliers were provided with the opportunity to discuss with major casting buyers about future expectations, challenges and current industry trends. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Institute of Metal Forming and Casting (utg) of the Technische Universität München (TUM) is located in Garching, approximately 20 km north of Munich. The utg works in the field of production engineering, which is associated with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The institute’s four research groups focus on casting, […]
Institute of Metal Forming and Casting, Technische Universität München
The new chair for Foundry Technology under the leadership of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Fehlbier has started its work in teaching and research since 1st of October 2012. The chair was implemented by the support of Prof. Dr. Becker from Volkswagen Kassel with the objective to ensure the increasing demand on […]
Installation of a new Institute for Foundry-Technology at Kassel University
2 The GTA, the Foundry Technology Aalen, the “G” stands for the german word “Giesserei” (Foundry), which aims at the development of foundry products and foundry processes. The research facility incorporates all major casting processes and casting alloys. This includes aluminum and magnesium high pressure die casting as well as iron […]
Foundry Technology at Aalen University of Applied Sciences – GTA
Adolf Ledebur (1837-1906), an expert in iron and steelwork, was the founder of research and studies in Foundry Technology at the Mining Academy. He took up the professorship of a newly established chair in Iron Metallurgy and also concerned himself with Foundry Technology (primarily iron and steel casting). Later on, […]
The Foundry Institute of the TU Mining Academy, Freiberg
The 4th IFCE – 2012 provided an opportunity for investors, machinery manufacturers, foundry supply companies and service providers to showcase their products and services to their counterparts and potential customers to develope alliances. The forum also provided a platform to eminent academics and technologist to come together and discuss advances […]
Industrialized Pakistan, World in Focus
Introduction In recent years there has been a drive to increase the re-use of foundry sands to limit the cost of new sand purchases and to minimise both the cost of dumping used sand and to limit environmental impact. Traditional foundry sands systems are often based on silica sand, with […]
Characteristics of synthetic sand and application of refractory coatings
voxeljet builds Aston Martin models for Skyfall Innovative 3D printing technology from Augsburg-based voxeljet is on display in the newest James Bond film Skyfall – more specifically in the scene when James Bond’s car explodes in flames. A total of three Aston Martin DB 5 models were created at the […]
James Bond film makers impressed by Augsburg-based 3D printing technology
In the motor development of passenger cars at the works in Untertürkeim, Germany Daimler applies the dry ice blasting technology of the Swiss company ASCO CARBON DIOXIDE LTD. It is essential, that various motor components such as pistons, cylinder heads, oil pans and crankcases are cleaned gently from silicone residues, […]
ASCOJET Dry Ice Blasting Technology in Motor Development and Measurement ...
With a celebratory groundbreaking ceremony, ASK Chemicals laid the foundation for the construction of a new plant in Kurkumbh (near Pune), India. The company is thus opening a further chapter of its Indian-German cooperation. The first step is to build a 12,000 sq m manufacturing and storage facility on an […]