The EUROGUSS MEXICO Virtual Weeks 2021 concluded successfully. Numerous international exhibitors presented a wide range of topics from the die casting and light metal casting industry as part of their webinars. All webinars of the EUROGUSS MEXICO Virtual Weeks 2021 are now available free of charge and on demand exclusively at SPOTLIGHTMETAL.

To ensure its competitiveness in the marketplace, the Chinese company FAIST Precision Suzhou, within the Business Unit Light Metals, is investing in the installation of a new die casting machine. The FRECH GDK3200T will be used to run 5G projects for mass production.

The CEMAFON presidential election provided some continuity in these challenging times. Besides to the President, also the Vice President has been re-elected in 2020.

The Forum Gießerei-Industrie had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To shorten the time until the event in June 2021, we organized an exciting discussion round in which German industry experts of foundrymen and machine manufacturers sent a clear message to politicians and pleaded for a joint fight against the crisis.

The foundry industry has been turned upside down more than ever before by the Corona pandemic. Can the massive challenges be overcome and if so, how? The industry experts Prof. Dr. Sven Roeren and Johannes Messer provide relevant insights and point out an initial scale for the German foundry industry.

As a cooperation project between NürnbergMesse and Vogel Communications Group, SPOTLIGHTMETAL is organizing the German-speaking event "Forum Gießerei-Industrie" in Würzburg (Germany) for the first time on June 14 and 15, 2021. The aim of the event is to give the industry "impetus from the crisis".

Faist Alucast, a foundry of the Light Metals business unit based in Mexico, recently commissioned a new Frech aluminum die casting machine with a capacity of 1850-2000 tons.

The market for additive manufacturing is growing very fast and strongly worldwide in various different areas and applications. Key markets include the aerospace industry, health care including medical technology and the automotive industry. Thus, additive manufacturing holds great potential also for die casting foundries.

3D printing is ideally suited for the rapid and cost-effective manufacturing of components and parts. This is not only an advantage in the plastics, automotive and aviation industries. Also foundries can use 3D printing to their advantage.

Automation is becoming increasingly important in many different industries around the globe. The sharp increase can be explained by the high potential of robots and continuous optimization processes in the manufacturing industry. The foundry sector also benefits from the use of robots.