TOTAL CASTING TONNAGE BY ALLOY
tion, with its metalcasting indus- try contracting by 18.8%. Among the top-10 countries in total output, Brazil had the highest boost in 2013 with an increase of 7.4% in production. The rebound came a year after South America’s only entry in the global survey saw a 16.9% decrease in total production. China increased its total
Metalcasting Plants by Nation & Trends Country
Austria Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil
Canada China
Croatia
Czech Republic Denmark** Finland France
Germany Hungary India Italy
Japan Korea
Mexico** Norway Pakistan Poland
Portugal Romania Russia Serbia
Slovakia** Slovenia
South Africa* Spain
Sweden
Switzerland Taiwan
Thailand Turkey Ukraine
United Kingdom United States TOTAL
*2012 data
25 12 7
4 6 4
33 7 4
43 25 15
Iron Steel Nonferrous Total ‘08 Total ‘03 Total 77 33 0
96 39 0
500 148 41
29 5 -
86 34 9
14
258A 27 -
5
89 36 -
19 -
149 25 817 75 525 146 175 167 7
3
1,500 40 185 48 31
7
40 39 -
-
12 12 8
8 7 2
63 26 48 30 34 13 18 -
4 -
221A
280 40 603 66 285 305 -
640 360 ** 2011 data
704 110
27 63 11
16
303 341 97 -
913
1,193 239 339 6
100 255 30 55 -
18
32 5
91
52 77 50 -
260 366 310 205
1,001
23,745 6,703 15,313 A) Total ferrous
1,352 180
58
183 20 35
428 599 143
4,600 1,087 2,085 910 681 16
1,640 488 68
134
1,200 38 51 15
180 130 124 72 -
580
1,035 900 426
2,001 51,561
1,340 185
41
200 17 31
499 600 190
1,000 195
17,000 5,000 8,000 30,000 30,000 12,000 26
41
194 18
43
529 651 210
4,700 4,500 1,167 1,702 873 -
1,139 1,713 769
20 -
430 92
176
1,900 - -
78
255 143 131 63
848 476
1,246 1,070 475
2,170 51,228 26 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Jan/Feb 2015
1,787 23 -
454 115
343
1,900 - -
53
269 306 145 60
894 73
1,057 960 524
2,620 34,720
production by two million metric tons to a total of 44.5 million. That boost represents a large majority of the overall increase in global production, meaning China continued to increase its share of the global market. Meanwhile, the U.S., the world’s second largest producer, saw its tonnage increase by 3.9% to 12.25 million metric tons. While the top two produc- ing nations saw increases, other top metalcasting countries had production headed south in 2013. France, Germany and Russia reported 3% to 5% decreases. India remained No. 3 in total
production at 9.81 million tons. Spots 4 through 10 remained unchanged, with Japan produc- ing 5.54 million metric tons, Germany 5.19 million, Russia 4.1 million, Brazil 3.07 million, Korea 2.56 million, Italy 1.97 million and France 1.75 million. The top-10 nations produced 88% of the world’s castings, a figure that remains unchanged from 2012. The U.S. saw a 4.4% increase
in its production per site, with its 2,001 metalcasting facilities aver- aging 6,122 metric tons. Germany, the world leader in per plant production at 8,659, experienced a negligible increase of 41 metric tons per plant.
China and India, the two coun-
tries with the greatest number of facilities, reported gains of 4.73% and 2.7%. Productivity is calcu- lated as total tonnage divided by the number of plants reported. Total production of iron
increased, with gray iron growing 4.6%, and ductile iron expanding
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