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Within a short period of time, infections with Covid-19 have risen to more than 500,000 worldwide.

The consequences of the coronavirus on the light metal industry are not yet fully foreseeable.

"Many people believe that Turkey will be doing better after the corona crisis."

"Despite all cost adjustments the company's results will collapse sharply."

The 3D demonstrator is a useful tool for the automotive industry, as the proportion of magnesium parts incorporated is increasing.

The protective measures against the coronavirus led to inefficiencies in production and further pressure on the profitability of the sites.

Whether and how the production can be automated will be discussed by the members of the working group XXL products at the next meeting.

Networking and exchange in times of coronavirus - secure, flexible and location-independent.

"The goal is to preserve the company and as many jobs as possible."

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With a complete shot of a total mass of 20 kg aluminum and a cycle time of 40 s, the die casting tool has to perform a heat exchange of almost 0.5 MW

This figure shows a SEM image of the intermetallic layers after deep etching with NaOH.

Figure 1: Left: Structure of the tensile test specimen using LBM (orange) and casting (grey) manufactured with interface area (yellow); Right: tested interface structures in detailed view.

Cast blanks: Vacucast's managing director Tonguc Sahin in front of already cooled down cast alloys with hip stems made of a cobalt-chrome-molybdenum alloy.

"The aim was to create relief for the employees in this physically demanding work area. In addition, the standardization of the processes enables a repeatability that is reflected in the factors quality and speed."

The five challenges for die casting include technological transition, workforce, changing customer requirements, resources and world trade.

With the opening of the new production hall, the company is demonstrating its strong commitment to Switzerland as a workplace.

With an annual environmental statement, Föhl wants continuously increase its energy erfficiency.

All casting machines and x-ray inspection machines, as well as proprietary linear robotics and machine vision systems integrated into this semisolid die casting process, will ensure the fast production of good parts, and maintain stable automatic closed loop process control.

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