GRAY IRON VS. DUCTILE IRON
Metalcasting Plants by Nation Country
Austria Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil
Canada China
Croatia**
Czech Republic Denmark* Finland France
Top 5 Producers of Iron Castings
Globally, 46% of iron castings produced are in gray iron, compared to 25% produced in ductile iron. But this type of disparity is not present in every country. Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. produce more ductile iron than gray iron.
Germany Hungary India Italy
Japan Korea
Mexico** Norway Pakistan Poland
Portugal Romania Russia* Serbia
Slovakia* Slovenia
South Africa Spain
Sweden
Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Gray iron (the calculation includes malleable iron) continues to be the largest contributing material to global production, at 46 million of the 100.8-million-ton total. Ductile iron increased slightly from 2011 levels, remaining at one quarter of total production. Steel and nonferrous castings also increased.
While Ukrainian production of gray iron dropped from 640,000 to 420,000 metric tons, the country experienced significant growth in steel (530,000, up from 275,000 metric tons) and ductile iron (140,000, up from 40,000 metric tons).
United Kingdom United States TOTAL
4 6 4
33 7 4
Iron Steel Nonferrous Total 25 13 7
62 26 15
521 42
196 29
17,000 5,000 15 85 9
3
34 -
16 93
209 15 -
152 808 517 175 7
1,500 185 31 - -
12 12
15A 63 49 32 18
680 260
224A 643
7
36 53 10 -
43 78
145 167 3
40 48 7 - -
8 7 -
26 30 13 4
98
280 -
362 23,433 6,741 *2011 data ** 2010 data A) Total Ferrous
Economic Rebound Global casting production grew in
2012, but other than the large gains in the U.S. and China, total tonnage dropped slightly. Economic volatility meant big losses and gains for certain countries. Although France and Brazil reported decreases in the double digits,
the majority of the world’s largest producers reported only steady growth or slight contraction. Te countries in the top 10 reported a total growth rate of 2.5%, which could be seen as an encouraging sign that the the bulk of worldwide volatility is found in smaller markets.
December 2013 MODERN CASTING | 21
560 111
8,000 24 65 11 16
307 343 90 -
916
1,227 235 339 5
100 255 30 - -
18 32 50 91 52 72 50
349 265 208
1,005 14,870
1,277 182
30,000 42
184 20 39
436 605 115
4,500 1,111 2,113 897 681 15
1,640 488 68
125
1,240 38 51 65
180 131 117 72
1,127 805 432
2,010 50,909
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