TOTAL CASTING TONNAGE BY ALLOY
44.5 million. Tat boost represents a large majority of the overall increase in global production, meaning China con- tinued to increase its share of the global market. Meanwhile, the U.S., the world’s second largest producer, saw its ton- nage 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 producing 5.54 million metric tons, Germany 5.19 million, Russia 4.1 million, Brazil 3.07 mil- lion, Korea 2.56 million, Italy 1.97 million and France 1.75 million. Te top-10 nations produced 88% of the world’s castings, a figure that remains unchanged from 2012. Te U.S. saw a 4.4% increase in its
productivity per site, with its 2,001 metalcasting facilities averaging 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 calculated as total tonnage divided by the num- ber of plants reported. Total production of iron increased, with gray iron growing 4.6%, and ductile iron expanding by 1.3%, while malleable iron fell 27.1%. Steel output dropped by 0.1%, while aluminum production jumped by 9.9%. Te data reported in the 48th Cen-
sus of World Casting Production is supplied by each nation’s metalcasting association or similar representatives. Countries that did not participate this year were Denmark, Mexico, Serbia, Slovakia and South Africa. Tese countries remain listed according to the last year they participated. Mon- golia, which has not submitted data since 2009, has been removed from the list. Tailand returned to the census after an extended absence, reporting 316,400 metric tons. Mexico, Ukraine and Turkey remain just outside the top-10 countries in
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
Iron Steel Nonferrous Total 25 12 7
4 6 4
500 41
148 29
17,000 5,000 26 86 9
5
34 -
14 89
258A 27 -
149 817 525 175 7
1,500 185 31 40 -
12 12 8
63 48 34 18 -
280 603 285
221A 640
5
36 -
19 -
25 75
146 167 3
40 48 7
39 -
8 7 2
26 30 13 4 -
40 66
305 -
360 23,745 6,703 *2012 data ** 2011 data A) Total ferrous December 2014 MODERN CASTING | 19
33 7 4
704 110
8,000 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 15,313
43 25 15
1,352 180
30,000 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
‘08 Total ‘03 Total 77 33 0
96 39 0
1,340 185
30,000 41
200 17 31
499 600 190
4,700 1,167 1,702 873 -
20 -
430 92
176
1,900 - -
78
255 143 131 63
848 476
1,246 1,070 475
2,170 51,228
1,000 195
12,000 41
194 18 43
529 651 210
4,500 1,139 1,713 769
1,787 23 -
454 115 343
1,900 - -
53
269 306 145 60
894 73
1,057 960 524
2,620 34,720
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