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A Preview of Metal China 2014

The world top foundry industry event Metal China 2014 will be held on May 19-22 in China International Exhibition Center (new venue), Beijing. It’s expected to be 100,000m2 show areas with 100,000 exhibitors from more than 80 countries and regions gathering at the grand event. 

Key words: Intelligent Robots
With the increasing automation in foundry industry, robots are able to take the place of repeated and labor-intensive manual work to improve productivity. At the upcoming Metal China 2014, a lot of robots manufacturers, such as REIS Robotics, Grenzebach, ABB, Zhejiang Wanfeng, Fanuc and KUKA will display their innovative products for molding, core making, feeding, cleaning, and handling. REIS Robotics group will show full set of automatic robot line for non-ferrous gravity casting. Grenzebach(Shanghai) will display the first automatic polishing machine in China. ABB will exhibit robot software, peripheral equipments and standard components as well as a variety of robots. Zhejiang Wanfeng, Fanuc and KUKA will exhibit automatic feeding and blanking materials robots, automatic pouring robots and polishing robots.

Key words:3D Printing and Digital Dieless Forming
3D printing now is changing people’s life. Its ever-increasing application to foundry area is demonstrated at Metal China 2014. 3D printing and digital dieless investment casting forming technology will make a change to the traditional production mode. You will have the access to 3D printing equipment and also the CAD-based model driven casting process which is more flexible and faster.
Advanced Manufacture Technology Center of China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology will showcase 28 digital dieless investment casting molding equipment with national invention patents, by cutting through sand directly (ceramics, graphite, resin sand, coated sand, etc.) to get all kinds of complex shapes of molds/cores. But the cost is only 1/10 of that of die manufacturing.
Beijing RHX Technology Development, Co.,Ltd. and Beijing North Hengli Science and Technology Co., Ltd. will exhibit 3D sand/sand core printers and various 3D laser powder sintering rapid prototyping printers, which can print out complete casting die, sample castings and sand mould/core in several hours, reducing the new product development cycle by 50-80%.

Key words: Environmental Friendly Equipment 
To increase the environmental protection level is the key in foundry industry. Dozens of environment friendly equipment and a series of dust removal equipments will be showcased at Metal China.        
Wuxi Xizhang will exhibit a new generation pulse dust collector-- Burning plastic plate dust collector which can effectively filter dust with particle size ≥0.1μm, and emission concentration is less than 1mg/Nm3, which is able to better reduce the emission concentration of PM2.5, while its volume is only 1/3 of traditional baghouse collector. Casting molding line, cooling oil, smoke treatment devices and mobile industrial vacuum cleaner which are initiated products will also be exhibited.

Wuxi Xizhang will exhibit a new generation pulse dust collector-- Burning plastic plate dust collector which can effectively filter dust with particle size ≥0.1μm, and emission concentration is less than 1mg/Nm3, which is able to better reduce the emission concentration of PM2.5, while its volume is only 1/3 of traditional baghouse collector. Casting molding line, cooling oil, smoke treatment devices and mobile industrial vacuum cleaner which are initiated products will also be exhibited.

Key words: Functional Casting Materials Boost Energy Efficiency
According to statistics, 50% castings scrap is related to casting materials directly or indirectly. There will be more than 100 exhibitors at Metal China to showcase various functional casting materials for targeted quality problems, including Jinan SQ Group, Suzhou Xingye, FOSECO, Bonnie Chemical (Tianjin), ASK, Elkem, HUETTENES-ALBERTUS CHEMISCHE WERKE GMBH, Shandong Kaitai Group, Zibo TAA, Chongqing Yangtze modeling material (Group), Beijing Renchuang, Shanxi Qinxin Group, Shenyang Jin’an, etc..

Key words: Leading Enterprises Display High-end Products 
On the show, leading enterprises will showcase high-end castings for energy, power, machine tools, rail vehicles, ships and other fields, as well as advanced management concepts and quality control technology.                                                                           
KOCEL will showcase high precision machine tool body casings with lost foam process; main frame of the latest models for railway lines; cylinders for F-class heavy gas turbine, supporting gearbox castings of large-scale offshore oil/gas rigs top drive systems, ultra-supercritical condensing steam turbine castings.
Dongfeng Investment Casting Co., Ltd. will showcase 6 series and 50 products of rocker arm, leaf spring bracket, control arm, beam in front of heavy vehicles, heavy vehicles bracket, bracket-left front side assembly for domestic and foreign customers to provide solutions to lightweight components.

Sinosteel XTMMC, Wuhan Heavy Forging Co., Ltd., Wuxi Foundry Plant, Liaoning Fu’an Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., Anhui Heli Co., Ltd., Dalian Jinhe Casting Co., Zhangjiakou Coal Mining Machinery Co., Ltd., Shenyang Research Institute of Foundry and many other well-known companies will showcase high-tech casting products.

Key words: Foundry Cluster
All of well-known foundry cluster areas—Hebei Botou, Hunan Jiahe, Anhui Ningguo, Shanxi Zezhou, will show at the exhibition to exhibit their featured products as well as upgrading experiences. 
For more information about Metal China 2014, please go to http:// www.expochina.cn