Metalcasting Plants by Nation Country
Austria Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil
Canada China
Croatia
Czech Republic Denmark Finland France
Germany Hungary India Italy
Japan Korea
New to the List New to the census list this year is
Pakistan. Producing 360,000 metric tons, Pakistan falls midrange among the other surveyed countries. Sev- enty percent of the country’s casting production is gray iron for use in the sugar mill, automotive, agriculture, cement and chemical industries. However, with a total of 2,050 operating facilities in the country, its tonnage per plant is just 175.
Economic Rebounds With few exceptions, casting
production dipped in 2009 across the board. Te current casting data from 2010 shows countries making slight production increases, but production is still not back to pre-2008 levels. Te top two producers, China and India, are the exception. Germany, regain- ing its position at number five after its drop to six last year, showed 23% growth, although the country is still not above 2008 levels. In a year that included a devastating earthquake, Japan saw 8.5% growth. Prior to 2012, Japan’s production had been decreasing since its peak in 2006. Some countries, however, have been
unfazed by the economy. Countries above their 2008 production numbers include China, Hungary, India, Korea, Portugal and Turkey. China, India, Korea and Portugal showed growth in 2009, when every other nation experi- enced a decreased in casting produc- tion from the previous year.
18 | MODERN CASTING December 2011 Mexico
Mongolia* Norway Pakistan Poland
Portugal Romania Russia* Serbia
Slovenia
South Africa Spain
Sweden
Switzerland Taiwan** Turkey
Ukraine***
United Kingdom United States TOTALS
Iron 21
14 7
609 38
17,000 15 88 7
14
102 216 36 -
156 433 512 175 24 7
1,800 180 35 49 -
15 8
73 57 32 18
478 653 400 228 658
24,153 *2009 data ** 2007 data ***2002 results
Steel 25
7 2
204 27
4,700 3
31 0 6
37 53 17 -
27 71
143 167 15 3
50 36 7
43 -
9 3
38 30 13 4
40 73
233 -
413 6,500
Nonferrous -
8 4
541 110
4,300 24 65 10 16
315 345 80 -
917
1,108 226 339 3 9
200 245 39 65 -
18 47 88 52 72 50
330 400 437 216 989
11,683
Total 46
29 13
1,354 175
26,000 42
184 17 36
454 614 133
4,500 1,100 1,612 881 681 42 19
2,050 461 81
157
1,350 42 58
199 139 117 72
848
1,126 1,070 444
2,060 48,186
Gray iron continues to be the largest contributing material to global production, at 44.1 million of the 91.4 million-ton total. Steel and nonferrous materials each showed a 1% decrease from last year, while ductile and gray iron both showed a 1% increase.
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