New to the List A few new countries have been
added to this year’s census of casting producers and another has been updat- ed after seven years of incomplete data. Ukraine: Before this year, the most
recent production data from Ukraine dated to 2002, when the country was producing 974,170 tons of castings a year. Not much has changed. The Foundry Association of Ukraine reports the country produced about 1 million tons of castings in 2009. Ferrous casting makes up the lion’s share of production (95.5%), but nonferrous casting has improved 42.9% since 2002. Serbia: For many years, this country
has been in turmoil, with much of the casting activity shut down or severely hampered. From 1990 through 1999, its economy was cut in half. Since then, Serbia has been making up ground. In 2008, the Serbian Foundrymen Society was formed. The country’s casting in- dustry is 81% ferrous and 19% nonfer- rous by tonnage produced. Production per plant is 2,345 tons. Mongolia: More than two-thirds of
all of Mongolia’s exports go to China, its neighbor to the south. Its largest casting market is steel, which makes up 81.6% of total production.
Economic Woes With the exception of a few nations,
the global casting industry reported a dip in production in 2009. But some countries fared worse than others. Russia: From 2007 to 2009, Russia’s
production decreased by 46.2%, from 7.8 million tons to 4.2 million tons. The third largest casting producing nation in 2007, Russia has since fallen behind In- dia and Japan. It saw a reduction of 300 metalcasting facilities in 2009. Finland: In one year, Finland’s cast-
ing production was cut in half, from 152,888 tons to 75,741 tons. Casting production value decreased 46% to $350 million. Zero metalcasting facili- ties closed, according to the European Foundry Assocation, but employment in the industry constricted by 700— 15.7% of the workforce. Czech Republic: The nation’s produc-
tion fell 49.5% from 536,789 tons to 270,970 tons. Productivity dropped from 2,684 tons/plant to 1,505 tons/plant. MC
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Metalcasting Plants by Nation
Country Austria
Belgium
Bosnia/Herzegovina Brazil
CanadaA China
Croatia
Czech Republic DenmarkA Finland France
Germany Hungary India Italy
Japan Korea
Mexico Mongolia
NetherlandsB Norway PolandC Portugal Romania Russia Serbia
Slovenia
South Africa Spain
Sweden
Switzerland TaiwanC
ThailandD Turkey
UkraineE
United Kingdom United States
Iron 29 16 5
552 41
17,000 15 84 7
14
103 205 62 -
157 456 508 181 24 16 8
185 47 53 -
14 8
88 60 32 18
478 230 741 400
230* 659
*Includes iron and steel facilities. A)2008 data
Steel 4 7 2
191 29
4,700 3
34 0 6
37 53 31 -
44 75
142 162 15 0 3 0 6
45 -
8 3
51 32 13 4
40 26 72
233 -
416 B)2004 data
Nonferrous 39 8 4
588 115
4,300 24 62 10 16
319 344 97 -
920
1,166 223 350 3 5
11
245 39 71 -
16 16
117 50 73 43
330 220 433 437 220 985
C)2007 data D)2006 data
Total 72 31 11
1,331 185
26,000 42
180 17 36
459 602 190
4,600 1,121 1,697 873 647 42 21 22
430 92
169
1,350 38 27
256 142 118 65
848 476
1,246 960 450
2,060 E)2002 data
Gray Iron vs. Ductile Iron
Globally, 65% of iron castings produced are in gray iron, compared to 35% produced in duc- tile iron. But this type of disparity is not present in every country. Among the top five casting nations, the U.S. produces more ductile iron castings than gray iron, while Russia and Japan show closer gaps between the two materials than do China and India.
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