Metal Matters as EICF Members Gather in Helsinki


welcomed by Ms. Nasima Razmyar Deputy Mayor for Culture and Leisure. EICF Chairman presented to Ms Nasima Razmyar a glass memento in appreciation to the City of Helsinki.


Helsinki took the first place in the European Commission’s The European Capital of Smart Tourism competition for 2019. EICF selected Helsinki as the destination for the 2019 Seminar & Exhibition.


Europe’s production represents the


25% of the world production market, 90 % of it within the “High added value” and “Automotive” market segments.


Federation is the Investment Casting Association


reference in


The European Investment Casters´ of


Europe


representing the interests of the European investment casting industry, to improve it’s working methods and practices and to widen the markets for its products.


Full information and post event


details on the EICF Euro Seminar 2019 in Helsinki can be found at the EICF website, www.eicf.org.


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The 2019 EICF Technical Seminar saw a record 186 participants gather in Helsinki for a full day of technical papers centred around the theme of ‘Alloy Melting and Pouring – Casting Best Practice’. The keynote address was from Professor Juhani Orkas, Professor of Foundry


Engineering, Aalto University, and President of the Finish Foundry Association, who help to organise the event. Prof Orkas provided an overview of the Finnish Economy and the current situation of the foundry industry. Alongside the seminar, delegates were able to visit the table-top exhibition


with over 27 stands with a wide range of global suppliers to the industry, as well as the EICF booth, and attend a Welcome Reception at City Hall and a formal Dinner held in an historic red brick warehouse, now restaurant Ravintola Sipuli, in the beautiful setting of Helsinki harbour. During the Dinner, EICF Chairman Virgilio Oliveira took the opportunity to honour Mark Bijvoet, with a Memento to mark his recent retirement as European Technical Manager for Ransom and Randolph.


After a short coach ride, over 100 delegates were hosted by family owned


company, Sacotec Components Oy, Finland’s only investment foundry, with Chairman Antti Zitting providing a short overview of the company, which pro- duces over 3 million steel investment castings each year. The company offered a comprehensive tour of the facility including a visit to the Replicast licensed foundry, which is capable of producing precision castings of over 200kg in weight using polystyrene patterns. The company’s origins were in firearms and still provides castings to the adjacent SAKO, part of Beretta Holding. The event was also the occasion of the 2019 AGM for the EICF, which saw a number of new members joining the Board, as well as Virgilio Oliveira con- firmed as the Chairman for the coming year. Next year will see the EICF travel to Austria (Vier Länder Region Bodensee), to hold the European Conference in Bregenz, Austria, during May where the theme will be “Driving the Digital Transformation into Investment Casting” with a works visit to Feinguss Blank foundry in nearby Riedlingen, Germany.


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