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30 New Melting at Fonderie Laperle

30 Laperle铸造公司新建熔炼车间

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35 Assessing the Root Cause of Metalcasting Injuries

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35 铸造工伤事故根本原因的评估 T. SCHORN

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43 A New Way to Design for Light Weight

43 轻量化设计的新途径

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47 Interview With Patricio Gil, CEO of Blackhawk Mexico and New AFS President GCM STAFF REPORT

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47 对Blackhawk（墨西哥）公司CEO及新任美国铸造协会会长Patricio Gil的访谈 GCM STAFF REPORT

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New Opportunities, New Challenges, Mutual Benefit 新机遇，新挑战，互惠共赢

he September issue of GCM has come out as scheduled. I’m glad to share the latest information with all of you. On Sep. 1, the second session of Belt and Road Forum on Foundry Industry Cooperation and Development has been successfully held in Hancheng, Shaanxi, with the theme of “Joint Innovation and Win-win Cooperation”. More than 20 international participants from 10 countries including Germany, Japan, Belgium, Mongolia, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, Vietnam, England and Thailand, and over 200 representatives from China have attended the forum and exchanged views on foundry industry park construction, general contract, technical cooperation, business and trade, sharing insights in international standard, laws, policies and cultural aspects. The Belt and Road Initiative offers new opportunities for the countries along Belt and Road and also the whole world. As the foundation of manufacturing industry, the foundry industry is very promising. China Foundry Association is willing to cooperate with countries along Belt and Road under the principle of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration, integrating global high-quality resources and promoting enterprises cooperation in a multilevel and multi-channel way by the bilateral and multilateral mechanisms. China Foundry Association will play a bigger role in linking and gathering more foundry industry organizations and their member enterprises to take part in the Belt and Road win-win cooperation. ■

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017年第3期杂志如期上线，在此与大家分享一则消息：9月1日，在陕西韩城，中国铸造

协会成功主办了主题为“携手创新、合作共赢”的第二届“一带一路”国际铸造产业合作发展论坛。来自德国、日本、比利时、蒙古、巴基斯坦、土耳其、俄罗斯、越南、英国、泰国等10余个国家的 20多位国际代表和中国大陆200多位嘉宾出席了论坛。探讨国际铸造产业园区建设、项目总包、技术合作、商务贸易等工作的合作推进，以及对国际标准、法律、政策、文化等相关影响因素给予研究和分享。 “一带一路”倡议为沿线国家乃至全球带来新的发展机遇，铸造行业作为装备制造业的基础产业，发展前景广阔。中国铸造协会愿与沿线国家铸造组织深入开展合作，以“共商、共建、共享”为原则，整合全球铸造行业优质资源，以双边、多边合作机制为手段，推进多层次、多渠道的企业合作。进一步发挥行业协会的连接纽带和资源汇聚作用，吸纳更多国家和地区的铸造协会及其会员企业参与，实现“一带一路”沿线国家的互惠共赢。 ■

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Industry News Contents 行业新闻目录

Successful China Diecast Held in July China Diecast于7月成功举办 10 Foundry Enterprises Entered the Green Manufacturing Demonstration List 铸造行业10家企业入选工信部第一批绿色制造体系示范名单 Voxeljet China Accelerates Growth With Opening of New Facility in Shanghai voxeljet加速在中国市场的发展步伐 The 2nd “One Belt and One Road” Foundry Forum Successfully Held 第二届“一带一路”国际铸造产业合作发展论坛成功举办

FCRI (Gaoming) Industrial Park Held Opening Ceremony 金刚（高明）工业园开业典礼隆重举行

Zhaoqing Power Auto Parts Production Base Held Groundbreaking Ceremony 肇庆动力汽车铸件生产基地隆重举行动工仪式

Guangdong Hongtu Invests 60 million in the New Energy Automobile 广东鸿图拟向新能源汽车业务投资6000万元

China Sand Casting Industry Development Forum Held in Zhangwu “2017中国铸造砂产业发展论坛”在彰武隆重召开

EJ Breaks Ground on New Facility EJ新厂奠基

Eck Installs New Nobake Line; Exclusively Licenses Alloy Developed With ORNL Eck公司安装新的自硬砂生产线

Walbro Announces North American Expansion Walbro公司宣布北美扩张战略

Linamar Looking to Expand European Operations Linamar公司在欧洲寻求扩张

Tennessee Tool and Fixture to Locate First U.S. Operations in Tennessee Tennessee Tool and Fixture首个美国工厂落户田纳西州 Kurtz Holds Events for Automotive Sector in Querétaro and Monterrey KURTZ公司在克雷塔罗和蒙特雷举办汽车行业会议

Metef 2017: An Increasingly International Affair METEF 2017：日益成长的国际展会

Sakthi Portugal Opens Its Doors 萨克蒂（葡萄牙）公司打开新局面

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EJ Breaks Ground on New Facility EJ新厂奠基 EJ (Elmira, Michigan) broke ground on its new $125 million facility. The plant is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018 and will take the place of a facility in East Jordan, Michigan. The move will preserve an estimated 340 jobs in its region. “The official start of construction of the new foundry is an exciting time for our company,” said EJ president Tracy Malpass in a news release. “This project is an important milestone in the life of our family business, our community and our employees. A project like this requires the support of many individuals and groups.” ■

密歇根州埃尔迈拉的EJ公司为投资1.25亿美元的工厂举行了奠基仪式。工厂预计将于2018年秋季竣工，并将取代密歇根州东约旦的老厂。新厂的建成将为当地创造大约340个工作岗位。 “新厂的奠基是公司的重要时刻，”EJ公司董事长 Tracy Malpass在报道中表示，“该项目对我们的家族企业、社区和员工来说是一个里程碑的发展。这样的项目需要许多来自个人和团队的支持。” ■ ■

这是EJ新工厂的效果图。

This is a rendering of the new EJ facility.

Eck Installs New Nobake Line; Exclusively Licenses Alloy Developed With ORNL Eck公司安装新的自硬砂生产线 Eck Industries (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) announced the installation of a nobake molding line from Palmer Manufacturing & Supply to create additional capacity, improve ergonomics and reduce cost in large aluminum nobake castings. The molding line includes state-of-the-art programmable logic controls, powered conveyors from molding to pouring, a mass flow binder control system and a rollover capable of handling up to a 72 x 48 x 36-in. mold section. The mold line is flexible, allowing Eck to run up to eight mold boxes in the loop, with multiple part molds, mold coating and multiple core sets.

Eck Licenses Alloy Developed With ORNL Eck has also signed an exclusive license for the commercialization of a cerium-aluminum (Ce-Al) alloy co-developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) that can be used for lightweight, strong components in advanced vehicles and airplanes. The alloy, which is patent pending, was developed as part of the Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) and makes use of cerium. Creating new uses for cerium supports both domestic rare earth mining operations and the U.S. manufacturing sector.

为扩大大型铝合金铸件的产能、提高效率、降低成本，威斯康辛州马尼托瓦克的Eck工业公司宣布将安装 Palmer Manufacturing & Supply公司的自硬砂造型线。造型线包含最先进的可编程逻辑控制程序、从造型到浇注的有动力装置输送带、质量流量粘结剂控制系统和可处理72 x 48 x 36 in.铸型的翻转设备。灵活的造型线可以使Eck公司在一个生产周期中完成8个砂箱的作业，同时还有多个部件模具、造型涂料和多重砂芯套。 Eck宣布与ORNL共同研发铝合金 Eck公司还获得了与位于田纳西州的国家能源部橡树岭国家实验室共同研发铈铝合金商用开发的独家授权，该合金可用于先进车辆和飞机的轻量化、高强度铸件生产。该合金材料应用了金属铈，目前正在申请专利，是美国能源部关键材料研究院（CMI）的研发项目。开发铈

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 Eck公司还获得了与位于田纳西州的国家能源部橡树岭国家实验室共同研发铈铝合金商用开发的独家授权，该合金可用于先进车辆和飞机的轻量化、高强度铸件生产。

Eck has signed an exclusive license for the commercialization of a cerium-aluminum (Ce-Al) alloy co-developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) that can be used for lightweight, strong components in advanced vehicles and airplanes.

Scientists at ORNL, working with Eck Industries and researchers at DOE’s Ames and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, developed the Ce-Al alloy that is easy to work with, lightweight, corrosion-resistant, and stable at high temperatures, which would make it ideal for automotive, aerospace, power generation, and other applications. According to a news release, testing has shown the Ce-Al alloy is stable at 932F (500C). Withstanding higher temperatures means that engines made using the alloy can run hotter with more complete fuel combustion while being lighter in weight, which advances fuel efficiency. Eck was involved in developing and testing the alloy under a separate agreement. “There has been tremendous interest from industry due to the unique material properties and low cost of this alloy,” said David Weiss, vice president of Engineering/R&D, Eck. “This project is a template for rapid development and commercialization. Not only did we bridge the research ‘valley of death,’ we also developed a highway for communication from our customers to us to help guide the project.” ■

元素的新用途为美国稀土元素的开发和制造业提供了支持。橡树岭国家实验室的科学家与Eck工业公司及科研人员在美国能源部埃姆斯实验室和劳伦斯利弗莫尔实验室工作，研发出了易于应用、轻量化、耐磨并且高温稳定性能好的铈铝合金，从而使它成为汽车、航空航天、电力和其他领域的理想材料。据报道，试验已证明，铈铝合金在932 F (500C) 处于稳定状态。耐高温性能表明采用该合金制造的发动机的燃烧会更加完全，而且重量更轻，燃油效率更高。根据一份独立合同，Eck公司参与了合金的研发和测试。■

Walbro Announces North American Expansion Walbro公司宣布北美扩张战略 Walbro LLC (Tucson, Arizona) announced an expansion of its North American manufacturing operations with the opening of a new aluminum diecasting facility in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. The new facility, which is co-located with Walbro’s engine management plant in Los Mochis, will share management, supply chain and administrative services with the existing plant. “I am pleased to announce Walbro’s latest investment in precision diecasting and the continued expansion of our North American production operations,” said Matthew

位于亚利桑那州图森的Walbro公司宣布将扩大其北美生产基地，在墨西哥锡那罗亚州的洛斯莫奇斯新建一个铝合金压铸厂。该厂所在的位置是Walbro公司在该地的发动机管理厂，将与现有的工厂共用管理服务、供应链和行政服务等。 “我非常高兴地宣布，Walbro公司扩大精密压铸领域的投资并继续扩大北美市场，”Walbro公司CEO

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 Riddle, CEO, Walbro. “Our team was able to take advantage of over 20 years of diecasting experience from our other locations to design and install a world-class diecasting facility in Mexico. This capability allows us to serve our existing North American customers with shorter lead times and a broader range of products, while opening the door for opportunities to serve an expanded customer base.” The plant will initially manufacture flywheels for small engines in the first two installed diecasting centers. Plans are already in place to add six additional diecasting machines. The facility will employ between 60 and 70 additional workers at full capacity. Walbro supplies engine management systems for the lawn and garden, recreational and marine, outdoor power equipment, and two-wheel small engine markets. Walbro manufactures carburetors, fuel injection systems, ignition systems, pumps, valves and fuel storage and distribution systems. ■

Matthew Riddle说：“我们的团队在压铸领域拥有 20多年的生产经验，有能力在墨西哥设计和建设世界一流的压铸厂。凭借我们的经验和能力，我们可以实现更短的生产周期和更广泛的产品系列，不仅可以维护北美市场的客户，而且有机会为更多的客户提供服务。” 工厂建成后，将在第一批的2个压铸中心生产小型发动机飞轮。按计划，工厂还将增加6台压铸设备。工厂完全投产后，将新雇佣60-70名员工。 Walbro为草坪、花园修整机、娱乐设备、海洋设备、户外电力设备和2轮小型发动机市场提供发动机系统。公司还制造汽化器、燃油喷射系统、点火系统、泵阀、燃油储藏和分配系统。 ■

Linamar Looking to Expand European Operations Linamar公司在欧洲寻求扩张 Linamar Corporation (Guelph, Ontario) announced it has filed conditional offers with the Commercial Court in Paris to acquire assets of Societe Aveyronnaise de Metallurgie S.A. (Viviez, France) and F.V.M. Technologies S.A. (Villers-la-Montagne) from bankruptcy, and 100% of the outstanding shares of Alfisa Technologies, S.L.U. (Barcelona) for approximately 6 million Euros. The companies are parts of Groupe Arche S.A., a French company specialized in the design, casting, and machining of high pressure diecast (HPDC) aluminum components for the automotive industry, specializing primarily in the range of 1,400-2,000 metric tons. Total revenue is in the range of 100 million Euros with open casting capacity and floor space. Approximately 650 full-time employees and other temporary employees of FVM and SAM will be transferred to relevant Linamar subsidiaries. The company touted the importance of the move, saying the acquisitions, if completed, would represent a step forward in Linamar’s light metal casting strategy to develop further leadership in integrated design, casting, and machining of aluminum components in medium and medium-large press and component sizes. ■

位于安大略省圭尔夫的Linamar集团宣布，公司已向巴黎商事法院提出有条件要约，将收购已破产的法国维维耶的Societe Aveyronnaise de Metallurgie S.A.公司和维莱尔拉蒙塔尼的F.V.M. Technologies S.A.公司，并以近600万欧元购买位于巴塞罗那的Alfisa Technologies, S.L.U.公司 100%的股权。以上公司属于法国Arche S.A.集团公司，Arche S.A.集团公司是为汽车行业设计、铸造、加工铝合金高压压铸件的专业公司，产能1400-2000吨。公司的总收入达到1亿欧元，拥有开放的铸造能力和建筑面积。 FVM和SAM两个公司的大约650名全职员工和其他临时工将分解到Linamar公司的各个子公司。 Linamar集团非常重视这次收购，宣称收购完成将表明Linamar集团的轻金属铸造发展战略向前迈进了一步，从而建立起在大中型压铸件和组件的铝合金铸件的综合设计、铸造、机加工领域的领导地位。■

Tennessee Tool and Fixture to Locate First U.S. Operations in Tennessee Tennessee Tool and Fixture首个美国工厂落户田纳西州 Tennessee Tool and Fixture (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced the company will locate its first U.S. operations in Manchester, Tennessee. The automotive mold and casting manufacturer 14

位于加拿大安大略省多伦多市的Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司和美国田纳西州经济与社区发展部委员Bob Rolfe宣布，该公司将把首个美国公司落户于田纳西州曼彻斯特。这家汽车模具和铸

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 will invest $6.5 million in the new facility and create 60 new jobs in Coffee County, Tennessee. Tennessee Tool and Fixture makes molds and castings for automotive companies, primarily in automotive seats. Tennessee Tool and Fixture is a member of a group of tooling companies based out of Toronto with over 40 years of experience providing high quality molds and castings for the automotive industry. “Tennessee Tool and Fixture is proud to make Manchester, Tennessee in Coffee County our new home,” said Sue Beamish, owner and president, Tennessee Tool and Fixture. “Both the State of Tennessee and Coffee County have been extremely supportive throughout our search for a long-term location. Thank you to everyone for the wonderful welcome we have received. We look forward to building a strong employee team and continuing the development of our customer relationships throughout the southeastern U.S.” The new operation is Tennessee Tool and Fixture’s first U.S. facility. The company will renovate an existing building in Manchester. “I want to thank Tennessee Tool and Fixture for locating its first U.S. operations in Coffee County,” Rolfe said. “Tennessee ranks No. 1 for growth in automotive employment, and it means a great deal that Tennessee Tool and Fixture will be adding 60 new jobs to this sector. I look forward to seeing our future partnership and the company’s growth in Tennessee. ■

Tennessee Tool and Fixture (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced the company will locate its first U.S. operations in Manchester, Tennessee.

件生产企业将在新厂投入650万美元并为田纳西科菲县增加60个工作岗位。 Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司为汽车制造商提供模具和铸件，主要是汽车座椅用品。公司是多伦多地区工装模具企业组织的会员企业，在为汽车行业生产高质量的模具和铸件已有40多年的历史。 “Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司很荣幸能够来到田纳西州科菲县建厂，”公司董事长Sue Beamish 说，“在公司选址过程中，田纳西州和科菲县都给予了最大的支持。感谢大家的热情帮助。我们希望建设一支强有力的员工队伍并继续发展公司在美国西南部的客户关系。” 新工厂是Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司在美国成立的第一个公司，公司将在曼彻斯特的一家老厂基础上翻新修建。 “感谢Tennessee Tool and Fixture将第一家美国工厂落户于科菲县，”Rolfe说，“田纳西州在美国汽车雇佣市场竞争力中位居第一，而Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司的到来将为该领域增加60个工作岗位，这是非常重要的。我们希望双方将来有更好的合作，祝愿公司在田纳西州有更好的发展。” ■

位于加拿大安大略省多伦多市的 Tennessee Tool and Fixture公司和美国田纳西州经济与社区发展部委员Bob Rolfe宣布，该公司将把首个美国公司落户于田纳西州曼彻斯特。

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Successful China Diecasting Held in July China Diecasting于7月成功举办 The 12th China International Diecasting Congress & Exhibition (CID) & 2017 China Nonferrous Alloys & Special Casting Exhibition (CNF) were held July 19-21 at Shanghai New International Exhibition Center (SNIEC), China. Organized by Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (FICMES) and NürnbergMesse China, CHINA DIECASTING 2017 enjoyed its biggest success in its history. The trade fair covered two halls and gathered 323 exhibitors (compared to 295 in 2016) from 19 countries and regions, including Germany, France, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Japan, Korea, India, Iran, Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It attracted 14,256 trade visitors (compared to 12,072 in 2016) during three days. Twenty-two percent of all exhibitors came from overseas; the international participation made CHINA DIECASTING 2017 a global hotspot in the Chinese diecasting industry. The key technologies, new development and latest market trends were presented to the Chinese diecasting industry during the “2017 Development Forum on Nonferrous Alloys and Special Casting,” which took place July 16-18 in Onehome Art Hotel Shanghai. Thirty-five speakers from China and abroad brought plenty of hot topics to the “12th China International Diecasting Congress” to exchange innovative ideas with 200 attendees. Meanwhile three keynote speeches were shared at the “Future & Development–2017 Sino-Foreign Die Casting Development Forum,” which invited seven experts from leading companies and associations like NEMAK, DGS Druckguss AG, Bühler (China), Ford Motor REC (Nanjing), Anycasting Software, Foundry Planet, and University of Applied Sciences Landshut. The forum succeeded to achieve the aim of building a high-end industry platform on which international participants could share views on current development, new products and innovative systems. With 18 presentations, the “Innovative Die Casting Products & Technologies Release” was an effective platform for exhibitors to display their latest technologies and newest development. The “Best Die Casting Competition” event caught the most attention of exhibitors and visitors as expected, because it’s not only a competition, but also a platform for enterprises to present their brands and products and make new business connections. Sixty diecasting companies displayed 113 pieces of diecasting products from application fields like accessories for automobiles and motorcycles, electronics, metal for civil use, as well as mechanicalelectrical instrument and others. Gathering high-end diecasting manufacturers like Georg Fischer, NEMAK, DGS, Adolf Föhl, Alteams, Prec-cast, FAW Foundry Chengdu, CITIC Dicastal and Dalian Yaming Automotive Parts, the ”Innovative Die Casting Review” presented 18 pieces of high quality diecasting parts to professional visitors and inspired them with six technical speeches with a focus on the automobile lightweight trend. International match-making events played a valuable role at the exhibition. The “Gasgoo International Match-making” invited 10 famous buyers like Schaeffler Greater China, Toyota

2017年7月19-21日，第十二届中国国际压铸会议暨展览会和2017中国有色合金及特种铸造展览会在上海新国际博览中心成功举办。本届展会由中国机械工程学会铸造分会、纽伦堡会展（上海）有限公司主办，取得了巨大的成功。本届展会使用2个展馆，共有来自19个国家和地区的323家展商参展（2016年展商数为295家），包括德国、法国、丹麦、捷克、奥地利、意大利、英国、瑞典、西班牙、瑞士、美国、日本、韩国、印度、伊朗、泰国、中国、香港和台湾地区。3天的展期共迎来了14256名专业观众参观（2016年为12072名）。其中，国际展商占比为22%：较高的国际化水平使 CHINA DIECASTING 2017成为中国压铸行业的全球盛会之一。 “2017 中国有色合金及特种铸造发展论坛”于7 月 16—18 日在上海万和昊美艺术酒店举办，本次论坛期间举办了“第十二届中国国际压铸会议”与“2017 中外压铸产业发展研讨会”。来自国内外有色铸造及压铸领域的科研院校专家学者、知名企业的代表，为200 余名行业同仁带来了35 篇有色合金及特种铸造的技术及应用报告，报告内容涵盖有色铸造行业的新技术、新工艺、新材料、新装备，以及行业最新进展和发展趋势。同时，“2017 中外压铸产业发展研讨会”邀请了7位国际企业和协会嘉宾参加讨论，分别来自诺玛科、DGS、布勒（中国）、福特汽车工程研究（南京）有限公司、艾尼凯斯特软件、 Foundry Planet和兰茨胡特应用科技大学。论坛为国际参会代表搭建了一个交流发展现状、分享新产品和新技术的高端平台。 “创新产品及技术发布会”为展商展示新产品和新技术提供了有效的平台，共有18 家企业发布了创新产品和前沿技术。优质压铸件评选活动吸引了60 家企业报名，113 件铸件参评，产品涵盖汽车和摩托车零部件、电子、民用及机电产品等。国内外知名压铸件生产企业如GF、诺玛科、DGS、富乐、艾蒂盟斯、Prec-Cast、一汽铸造、中信戴卡、大连亚明等带来18件高端压铸件和6篇技术报告，重点关注汽车轻量化发展趋势。国际采购对接会对展会的成功举办起了重要作用。展会主办方联合盖世汽车网举办汽车铸件专场采配会，邀请舍弗勒大中华区、丰田集团、海拉集

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 Boshoku group, HELLA, Flex-N-Gate and etc. to establish business contacts with 115 suppliers. The “2017 Match-making for Moulds & Die Casting Parts” matched 37 purchasers and 75 diecasting suppliers. Through the face to face negotiation, most of the participants reached their target groups. At “the 4th Trade Fair of China Foundry Science and Technology Achievements,” five well-known universities shared 12 scientific and technological achievements, which attracted enterprises to apply the academic achievements to the actual production. The “Solutions for Moulds and Die Casting Parts” invited two experts to solve technical problems of aluminum and magnesium alloy die castings. With the help of experts, the technical participants got to learn more practical skills. For mold manufacturers, the “Mould Design @ Manufacture Outsourcing Service and Cost Accounting Sharing” had nine mold cost analyzing control experts onsite, who offered free advices referring to mold design and cost accounting. The next CHINA DIECASTING event will be held July 18-20 in 2018 covering three halls at SNIEC. ■

团、Flex-N-Gate等10家知名汽车铸件采购商与115 名供应商进行对接洽谈。2017 压铸模具及压铸件跨国采购大会共邀请37 家采购商和75家压铸件供应商到场。通过本次面对面的采购对接会，大部分采购商找到了意向客户。“第四届中国铸造科技成果交易洽谈会”上，共计5所高校和科研单位在展会现场的科技成果洽谈区进行了科技成果展示和发布。2 位压铸行业资深专家莅临本次压铸专家门诊，为铝镁合金压铸件的技术问题进行现场答疑。“模具设计制造外包服务与成本核算分享会”共有9名专家在现场为企业进行模具成本控制及模具设计分析。下一届CHINA DIECASTING将于2018年7月18-20 日举办，展示面积扩大为3个展馆。 ■

Kurtz Holds Events for Automotive Sector in Querétaro and Monterrey KURTZ公司在克雷塔罗和蒙特雷举办汽车行业会议 For many years, Kurtz Ersa has been a turnkey supplier for complete foundry solutions. Together with its partners FAT, Loramendi, StrikoWestofen and Mössner, Kurtz helps its customers achieve high reliability and huge productivity increases with high quality. In order to share the unique experiences resulting from these long-term business relationships this May, the partners organized two workshops in Mexico. Goals of the workshop in Querétaro and Monterrey were to establish new contacts, network with current customers, and present new technologies and services. As the agenda has been mainly designed for participants from the automotive sector, many in Mexico-located automotive companies sent their management and employees from R&D, planning and purchasing to the workshops. Nevertheless, some potential buyers from other industries did register, too, and took home valuable information–especially during small group works and plenty of time for individual talks. The major topic in both locations included customized solutions for turnkey projects for chassis, structural and power-train part castings. In this, main process steps are sand preparation, core manufacturing, melting, casting, automated handling of casting processes and pre-processing. Many prospective buyers took the opportunity to hold intensive discussions about how to improve efficiency in their casting processes of complex cast parts. Having a very well developed foundry industry, Mexico is one of the most important markets for Kurtz Foundry Machines. For the production of suspension parts and engine blocks, the low pressure casting process is becoming increasingly important, especially in connection with sand cores. The main focus of the workshop was how to produce such parts in the future and how Kurtz can support the customer as a general contractor. ■

多年以来，Kurtz Ersa公司为铸造行业提供了“交钥匙”的服务和解决方案。公司与合作伙伴 FAT、Loramendi、StrikoWestofen和Mössner一起帮助其客户实现了产品的可靠性、高产能和高质量。为了与客户分享经验，公司联合合作伙伴于今年5月在墨西哥克雷塔罗和蒙特雷举办了两场研讨会，目的是建立新的客户联系、增强与现有的客户互动，展示新技术和新服务。由于研讨会主要针对汽车行业，很多墨西哥本地汽车企业的管理层、以及研发、计划和采购部门的员工参加了会议。此外，一些其他行业的潜在买家也参加了会议，获得了很多有价值的信息，尤其是通过小规模的讨论和交流环节。两场会议的主要议题是底盘、结构件和动力总成件“ 交钥匙”工程的定制解决方案。其中的主要工艺是铸造环节的型砂准备、砂芯生产、熔炼、浇注、自动装卸和预处理。很多潜在买家借此机会集中讨论了如何提高复杂铸件的生产效率。墨西哥拥有发达的铸造产业，是Kurtz公司非常重要的市场。低压铸造工艺对于悬挂部件和发动机缸体的生产变得越来越重要，尤其是与砂芯有关的生产。本次研讨会主要关注今后如何生产这样的铸件，以及Kurtz公司作为供应商应提供什么支持。■

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Metef 2017: An Increasingly International Affair METEF 2017：日益成长的国际展会 The Metef Expo of Customized Technology for the Aluminum, Foundry Castings & Innovative Metals Industry, a benchmark event for the sector in Italy, took place in Verona June 21-24, 2017, drew over 400 exhibitors and over 10,000 visitors. There was a 25% increase in the number of foreign operators and visitors from the last Metef, and commercial delegations from countries with solid industrial traditions, such as the United States, Germany, Austria, Russia, and by markets where technical and production capacity is developing fast, such as India, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Mexico, played a leading role. The attendance of primary metal producers was notable and included HYDRO (Europe), the Gulf ’s EGA and top management of the Gulf Aluminium Council, RUSAL (Russia), India with VEDANTA, and Iran. Metef 2017 highlighted the inversion in trend of the entire industry—aluminum and innovative metals, casting foundry, diecasting, extrusion, and rolling—by enhancing trends particularly favorable for development, especially in very dynamic transversal macro-areas, such as automotive, aerospace, and digitalization. “It is clear that in many of the sectors of the chain that Metef represents, confidence has returned. In a few years we have seen many transformations in metal foundries, aluminum machining, and digitization of companies. This edition of Metef recorded significant positive trends, reflected in the companies’ enthusiasm, the quality of the exhibits, the level of collateral events, and the substantial rise of visitors—especially foreigners—who visited the event,” said Mario Conserva, President of Metef. Innovation is the leading theme for a show that for 20 years has been a witness to the excellence of the aluminum world and of the connected manufacturing industry. Companies which won the Metef Innovation Prize this year are the essence of an industry that has been able to change and adapt in just a few years and return to the top of global rankings; these companies do not consider Industry 4.0 to be a little slogan but a great objective which has been achieved. Over 400 quality exhibitors were joined by a framework of side-events rich in contents and so tightly packed with appointments that it would be impossible to mention them all. Worth remembering for their international relevance are the panel on the future of aluminum by Assomet-Centroal and AFFG, the Opening Conference by the FARO Club regarding the automotive industry, the Aluminium 2000-Iceb Congress, and the Italy-India Forum on trade between the two countries. ■

The Metef Expo of Customized Technology for the Aluminum, Foundry Castings & Innovative Metals Industry, a benchmark event for the sector in Italy, took place in Verona June 21-24, 2017, drew over 400 exhibitors and over 10,000 visitors.

被誉为意大利行业标杆展览会的意大利国际铸造及铝工业展（Metef Expo）于2017年6月21-24日在意大利维罗纳举办，共有400多家展商及10000多名观众参加。国际观众数比上届提高25%，其中，来自工业发达国家的代表团包括美国、德国、奥地利、俄罗斯，还有技术和产能发展快速的国家代表团，包括印度、伊朗、伊拉克、波兰、捷克、斯洛文尼亚、匈牙利、塞尔维亚、乌克兰、墨西哥等。参会的主要知名企业包括欧洲的HYDRO，海湾地区的EGA和海湾铝工业委员会的高层，俄罗斯的RUSAL 公司，印度的VEDANTA公司以及伊朗公司。 Metef 2017展示了包括铝工业、新金属材料、铸造、压铸、挤压、轧制等行业的发展趋势，尤其是汽车、航空航天和数字化领域的发展趋势。 Metef展览公司董事长Mario Conserva说：“显然，我们可以通过Metef看出铸造业已恢复了信心。在仅仅几年的时间内，铸造行业、铝加工业和企业的数字化水平已经发生了很大的变化。本届Metef通过展商参与度、展品质量、同期活动水平以及观众数量（尤其是国际观众）的显著增长显示出积极的行业发展趋势。” 对于一个已有20年历史的行业展会来说，创新始终是主题，Metef见证了铝工业和铸造行业的发展成就。获得 Metef创新奖的企业有能力在较短时间内改变和适应行业发展要求，并重新位居世界前列；这些企业并不是仅仅把工业4.0当成是一句口号，而是作为企业的发展目标。 400多家展商参加了内容丰富、安排紧凑的多场同期活动。其中，国际参与度较高的有由Assomet-Centroal 和AFFG组织的未来铝工业发展研讨会、关注汽车行业发展的FARO Club公司主办的开幕大会、铝工业2000-Iceb 大会，以及意大利-印度商贸洽谈会等。

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被誉为意大利行业标杆展览会的意大利国际铸造及铝工业展（Metef Expo）于2017年6月21-24日在意大利维罗纳举办，共有 400多家展商及10000多名观众参加。

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10 Foundry Enterprises Entered the Green Manufacturing Demonstration List 铸造行业10家企业入选工信部第一批绿色制造体系示范名单 According to the Notice on Green Manufacturing System Construction of General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Notice to recommend the first Batch Demonstration List of the Green Manufacturing System Construction, China Foundry Association has organized and recommended some foundry enterprises to apply for the demonstration. KOCEL Group, CITIC DICASTAL, SQ Group, TIANRUN CRANKSHAFT, Mingzhi Technology, Shaanxi FAST, Shandong Himile, LEO Group, Yunnei Group enters into the green plant demonstration list, and Weichai Holding Group enters in the green supply chain management demonstration list. Foundry enterprises selected in the demonstration list of green manufacturing system is the national recognition to the green development of foundry industry. The foundry industry should take this opportunity to develop in the environmental-friendly and sustainable way. ■

根据《工业和信息化部办公厅关于开展绿色制造体系建设的通知》、《关于请推荐第一批绿色制造体系建设示范名单的通知》要求，经中国铸造协会对行业内企业进行积极组织、推荐，近日工信部对首批绿色制造体系示范企业名单进行公示。共享集团、中信戴卡、济南圣泉、天润曲轴、苏州明志、陕西法士特、山东豪迈、利欧集团、昆明云内等9家企业入选绿色工厂公示名单，潍柴动力入选绿色供应链管理示范企业公示名单。多家企业入选首批绿色制造体系示范名单，是国家对铸造行业绿色发展的高度认可。希望以此次评选活动为契机，铸造行业有更多企业关注绿色发展、推动铸造行业走绿色、环保、可持续发展道路。 ■

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Voxeljet China Accelerates Growth With Opening of New Facility in Shanghai voxeljet加速在中国市场的发展步伐 Voxeljet is expanding its subsidiary in China by building a new service and office facility to meet the high demand for 3-D printing in Asia. The new voxeljet China (VXCN) facility will be located in Foho High-Tech zones of Wujiang District, Suzhou City, within the greater Shanghai area. The laying of the foundation stone took place on May 16, 2017. The completion of the new facility is projected for the end of this year or the beginning of 2018. The new facility will be the new main 3-D printing service center for Asia and also contain office space for administrative management. The new facility occupies an area of approx. 5,500 sq.m while the total building area is more than 7,000 sq.m. Currently, three printing systems are installed at voxeljet China. Both material sets, sand and PMMA (plastic), are currently offered, and the printing capacity will be expanded significantly over the next quarters. “We are happy to grow,” said Tianshi Jin, Managing Director voxeljet China. “Once the new facility is completed, further 3D printing systems will be installed in the service center to meet the high interest and need for on-demand part production in China.” ■

The new voxeljet China (VXCN) facility will be located in Foho High-Tech zones of Wujiang District, Suzhou City, within the greater Shanghai area.

为了满足亚洲市场3D打印的需求，voxeljet公司扩建了其在中国的服务中心和子公司。新建的voxeljet中国公司（VXCN）位于苏州市吴江汾湖高新产业区。工厂的奠基仪式于2017年5 月16日举行，新工厂预计将于今年年底或2018年年初竣工。新工厂将成为公司在亚洲的主要3D打印服务中心，并且设有行政管理办公室。新工厂占地约 5500平方米，总建筑面积超过7000平方米。目前，voxeljet中国公司已安装了3台打印设备，可以提供两种材料的打印服务——砂型和聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯，未来几个月，公司的打印能力将继续提升。 voxeljet中国公司总经理金天拾说：“我们为此感到非常高兴，新厂竣工后，我们将安装更多的3D 打印系统，满足中国市场的3D打印需求。”

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新建的voxeljet中国公司（VXCN）位于苏州市吴江汾湖高新产业区，位于大上海经济圈内。

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The 2nd “One Belt and One Road” Foundry Forum Successfully Held 第二届“一带一路”国际铸造产业合作发展论坛成功举办 With the theme of “Joint Innovation and Win-win Cooperation,” the 2nd Belt and Road Foundry Industry Forum on Cooperation and Development is revolved around the exchanges of experiences on foundry industrial policies, sustainable development and capacity cooperation among countries along the “Belt and Road”. It is sponsored by China Foundry Association, and co-organized by the Peoples’ Government of Hancheng Municipality, Foundry Committee of Belt and Road Industrial and Commercial Alliance and the Belt and Road Committee of China Foundry Association. More than 200 people from the government, enterprises, international foundry organizations and media attended this forum. Government officials attending the forum include Mr. Li Yikai, the Head of Planning Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Vice President of China Machinery Industry Federation and the Standing Vice President of China Foundry Association Mr. Zhang Libo, the Executive Vice President of China Machinery Industry Federation Mr. Song Xiaogang, the Associate Counsel of Shaanxi Industry and Information Department Mr. Li Zhaoli, the chief supervisor of CFA and the National Innovation Center for the Intelligent Foundry Industry, the Chairman of KOCEL Group Mr. Peng Fan, Deputy Mayor of Hancheng City Mr. Sun Changhong and other officials from Hancheng government. The international guests came

以“携手创新、合作共赢”为主题，重点围绕“一带一路”沿线国家铸造产业政策、可持续发展和产能合作进行经验交流。由中国铸造协会主办，韩城市人民政府、“一带一路”工商协会联盟铸造业工作委员会、中国铸造协会“一带一路”工作委员会承办的“第二届‘ 一带一路’国际铸造产业合作发展论坛”于9月1日在陕西韩城隆重开幕。工业和信息化部规划司区域处处长李毅锴，中国机械工业联合会副会长、中国铸造协会常务副会长张立波，中国机械工业联合会执行副会长宋晓刚，陕西省工信厅副巡视员李昭利，中国铸造协会监事长、国家智能铸造产业创新中心董事长、宁夏共享集团股份有限公司董事长、十九大党代表彭凡，中国工业经济联合会企业社会责任促进中心主任、中国工业企业社会责任研究智库秘书长王晓光，韩城市人民政府副市长孙长虹，韩城市人大常委会党组成员王新龙，韩城市政协副主席党福勤等领导、企业代表以及来自德国、日本、比利时、蒙古、巴基斯坦、土耳其、俄罗斯、越南、英国等10余个国家的20多位国际代表逾200位嘉宾出席了论坛。此次论坛由中国铸造协会副秘书长高巍主持。张立波代表主办方向大会致欢迎辞。他表示，在首

The 2nd “One Belt and One Road” foundry forum was held.

第二届“一带一路”铸造论坛举行。

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 from 10 countries including Germany, Japan, Belgium, Mongolia, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, Vietnam and England. The forum was hosted by the Vice Secretary General of CFA Mr. Gao Wei. Mr. Zhang Libo made a welcome speech on behalf of the organizers. He said that since the first Belt and Road forum held last year, China Foundry Association has carried out a series of programs from international foundry park construction, general contract, technology cooperation and business trade cooperation. With more and more enterprises participating in the Belt and Road initiative, a second session of Belt and Road Forum was being held. “There are several highlights of this forum,” Mr. Zhang Libo said, “the international participation improves and the representatives are in high level, and it adds training as well as match-making programs to this forum which provide access for attended enterprises to know more about the international policies, laws, standards, and also provide a platform for them to talk about the further cooperation.” “The foundry industry capacity cooperation along ‘Belt and Road’ is not a problem of capacity transfer. What the Chinese foundry industry faces now will also be the problems that other developing countries meet in the future. ” Mr. Zhang Libo said, “In this respect, we should develop in the green and intelligent way and take the advantages of Internet + Foundry to promote the industrial park construction along Belt and Road.” He also said, during the promotion of Belt and Road cooperation, there must be a lot of difficulties, and helping enterprises to solve these problems will be the main task of China Foundry Association. In Mr. Li Yikai’s speech, he thought highly of the forum on behalf of the planning division of the Ministry of Industry and Information. He introduced the work that the Ministry has carried out in promoting the Belt and Road initiative. He also emphasizes that the Chinese manufacturing industry is facing great opportunities and challenges in “going out,” such as the complex global investment and changing business environment, most of Chinese enterprises are in lack of proprietary intellectual property rights and brand influence, as well as interaction and synergy. He pointed out enterprises should grasp the opportunity and respond actively to the difficulties of “going out”. On one hand, we should revolve around the mainline of making China become a power nation of manufacturing industry from a large nation, integrating both domestic development and opening up, accelerating the introducing and absorbing the overseas technology and experiences; on the other hand, China should increase the comprehensive service guarantee ability. One of the other highlights of this forum is there are two agreements signed, one between China Foundry Association and Pakistan Foundry Association, which is helpful to strengthen the cooperation and communication between China and Pakistan; and the other agree24

届论坛开展至今的一年中，中国铸造协会“一带一路”工作委员会结合自身实际，从国际铸造园区建设、项目总包、技术合作、商务贸易等多维度开展工作，与“一带一路”沿线国家展开了紧密的合作。一年后的今天，在我国铸造全行业纷纷响应国家“一带一路”倡议，积极开展相关工作之际，第二届“一带一路”国际铸造产业合作发展论坛应运召开。 “此次论坛有几个亮点。”张立波介绍道，“与会嘉宾层次高，参会的国际嘉宾相较上届更多，论坛还根据企业诉求，针对性组织了国际标准、法律、政策等方面的培训。同时，主办方还分国别组织了项目对接活动，为与会人员搭建合作平台。” “铸造业‘一带一路’国际产能合作，并不是简单的产能转移，随着时间的推移，我国铸造业目前遇到的困难，也会出现在‘一带一路’的发展中国家。” 张立波强调，“所以我们在项目的合作中也应该秉持绿色、智能的理念，发挥互联网+铸造的思维与优势，推进与沿线国家铸造工业园合作建设。” “一带一路”推进过程中，一定会遇到很多困难，努力为企业解决这些问题也将会是中国铸造协会今后工作的方向。最后，李毅锴带来了工信部规划司对论坛的赞赏和支持。他在讲话中首先介绍了工信部在国家推进“一带一路”建设中所做的工作，并表示，我国制造业“ 走出去”迎来了巨大机遇，但同时也面临诸多挑战，诸如全球投资贸易环境复杂多变、我国多数企业缺乏自主知识产权和品牌影响力、多数企业“走出去”缺乏联动和协同等。他指出，要紧抓机遇，积极应对、妥善解决“走出去”的困难和问题，一方面，要注重围绕推动中国制造由大变强这一主线，统筹国内发展与对外开放，加快引进和吸收国际先进技术和经验；另一方面，要注重进一步提高综合服务保障能力。本次论坛的亮点还有中国铸造协会与巴基斯坦铸造协会、比利时Albert&Geiger公司签署战略合作协议。与巴基斯坦铸造协会的合作将进一步加深双方在铸造装备方面的合作与交流，与比利时 Albert&Geiger公司的合作将有助于今后铸造企业赴欧盟地区发展时获得法律、政策等方面的咨询服务。

主题报告： “一带一路”沿线国家可持续发展综合评价研究中国工业经济联合会工业企业社会责任研究智库

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 ment between China Foundry Association and Albert & Geiger which will provide consultation services of law and regulations for foundry enterprises entering the EU.

Keynote reports: Sustainable Development Evaluation Research of Countries Along the Belt and Road Mr. Wang Xiaoguang, the Secretary General of Enterprise Social Responsibility Research Think-tank of China Federation of Industrial Economics, introduced the six aspects in carrying out Belt and Road initiative: the significance of sustainable development, the fivedimension model of sustainable development evaluation, sustainable development indicators system, the evaluation methods, the sustainable development evaluation of countries along Belt and Road, as well as countermeasures and suggestions.

秘书长王晓光博士围绕“一带一路”建设中可持续发展的重要性、可持续发展评价的五维模型、“一带一路”沿线国家可持续发展指标体系、可持续发展的评估方法、“一带一路”沿线国家可持续发展评价以及相关的对策与建议六个方面对报告进行了讲解。

装备制造业协同推进“一带一路”建设中国机械工业联合会执行副会长宋晓刚表示，“ 走出去”是我国经济发展进入新常态机械工业转型升级的需要，而我国机械工业也已具备“走出去”的条件。在“走出去”的过程中，企业也面临着诸多挑战。宋晓刚认为，机械工业企业应“抱团”，协同“ 走出去”以应对各种风险和挑战，他也对此提出了众多指导性意见。同时，行业协会也应在推进“一带一

Equipment Manufacturing Industry to Promote the Construction of Belt and Road

路”建设过程中发挥应有的作用。

Mr. Song Xiaogang, Vice President of China Machinery Industry Federation, said “going out” is the need of Chinese machinery industry to transform and upgrade in the period of Chinese economy entering a new normal, and Chinese enterprises have been equipped to “going out”. He pointed that the machinery industry should go out in the collective and synergy way in order to deal with various risks and challenges. He also encouraged the industry association to play its role.

“天时、地利、人和”——韩城铸造工业园助力“一带一路”国际产能合作

Hancheng Foundry Industrial Park to Support the "Belt and Road" Capacity Cooperation Mr. Ding Hui, Chairman of Hancheng Foundry Industrial Park, introduced the Belt and Road programs being carried out in Shaanxi. Hancheng has played an important and effective role in response to the Belt and Road initiative, with the hundred people’s forum has been held, and the leaders’ office for promoting Belt and Road initiative has been founded which provides agent services for clearance, export subsidy and freight subsidy of the local exports, making contributions to the Belt and Road construction. Hancheng has advantages in economic location, population and transportation. In the end, he made a comprehensive introduction of the Hancheng High-end Foundry Industrial Park and invited the foundry companies to invest in Hancheng.

rasp the Opportunity of Belt and Road Initiative G and Speed Up the Realization to be a Foundry Power Nation Ms. Fan Qi, Exec. Vice President of China Foundry Association, introduced the foundry industry’s situation of countries along Belt and Road, with casting data of 14 countries including India, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, South Africa, the United States, Germany and Japan and comparison with China. She also introduced the work has been carried out and the services can be provided by

韩城高端铸造产业园董事长丁辉首先对“一带一路”倡议的基本情况、陕西省内“一带一路”的推进情况作了介绍。在对“一带一路”倡议的响应上，韩城市扮演了一个积极和高效的角色——举行“一带一路”百人论坛，成立了推进“一带一路”建设工作领导小组办公室，为韩城本地产品出口提供报关、出口补助、运费补助等手续实行全程代办业务等动作为推进“一带一路”建设贡献了力量。能够扮演这样的角色，韩城也有着包括经济区位、人口、交通等多项优势。最后，他从政策助力、规划定位、园区理念、功能与配套、综合服务中心等方面全方位地介绍了韩城高端铸造产业园的情况，同时，他也诚挚发出邀请，欢迎与会代表及其他铸造企业来韩投资、发展。

把握一带一路发展机遇加速实现铸造强国梦中国铸造协会执行副会长范琦介绍了“一带一路” 沿线铸造业概况，还详细包括了印度、巴基斯坦、俄罗斯、泰国、南非、美国、德国、日本等在内的14个国家的铸造产量统计，并与中国进行了对比。她还对中国铸造业如何顺势发展发表了看法，并在最后介绍了中国铸造协会可以提供的支持。

标准和认证认可助力一带一路产能合作中国合格评定国家认可委员会处长曹实主要介绍了国家“一带一路”认证认可政策及CNAS国际互认、国

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家标准化改革及CNAS方法确认相关内容。

tandard, Certification & Accreditation Support the S "Belt and Road" Industrial Capacity Cooperation

本地化服务助力”一带一路“项目落地欧盟

Mr. Cao Shi, Section Chief of China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment introduced the Certification & Accreditation policies and CNAS international mutual accreditation, the national standardization reform and CNAS method confirmation, etc.

The Belt and Road: A Chance for Removing Regulatory Obstacles to China-EU Trade and Investment The Government Affair Counselor of Alber & Geiger Mr. Steivan Defilla explained the main business of Albert & Geiger, major changes and future prospects under EU framework conditions, how to receive support and provide assistance for Chinese companies to enter the EU.

dvanced Technology Improves the Foundry A Industry along Belt and Road Mr. Wei Baohua, Senior Vice President of Norican Group Asia Pacific, said the Chinese manufacturing has the strength and conditions to “going out.”The Belt and Road initiative provides a new approach for the transfer of domestic overcapacity and will help the manufacturing industry’s transform and upgrade. The advanced foundry technology will fully improve the manufacturing because foundry industry is the basis of manufacturing. The integrated foundry solution is the key to improve the overall manufacturing industry. Norican Group is able to provide great technology support to foundry industry. After the keynote reports, there were two dialogues around the topics of “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” In the “Silk Road Economic Belt” dialogue, the representatives exchanged views on the practice of Belt and Road programs including China-Mongolia foundry industry cooperation practice and Russian cooperation project, the media’s service and role, and discussed how to deal with the obstacles to go out. In the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” dialogue, the Pakistan representative introduced the situations of Pakistan’s foundry industry and the training school. The Turkey representative also introduced the Turkey foundry industry’s development. And the Chinese expert in Standardization Mr. Qiang Yi introduced how standardization can play its role with the Belt and Road initiative. On Sep. 2, the international match making program was held and it provided a face to face opportunity for attendees to talk with the Pakistan, Mongolian and Turkey experts and receive more information of industrial policies and cooperation projects. ■

Alber & Geiger 公司政府事务特别顾问德斯文（Steivan Defilla）以“欧盟框架体系的主要变化和未来展望（Major changes and future prospects of EU framework conditions）”为题，讲解了 Albert&Geiger公司的主要服务项目，欧盟法律体系下的主要变化和未来展望，企业要如何发声才能够获得支持等内容，为中国企业“走出去”向欧盟地区发展提供了帮助。

先进技术提升“一带一路”铸造水平诺瑞肯集团亚太区高级副总裁魏宝华表示，我国装备制造业已经具备“走出去”的实力和条件，“一带一路”倡议的提出，为消化国内产能过剩提供新途径，同时将有力促进我国装备制造业在内的产业转型升级。先进的铸造技术可以全面提升“一带一路” 制造业水平，铸造技术是装备制造业的基石，高铁、工程机械、汽车各行各业均离不开铸造，整体铸造解决方案的输出是提升整体制造水平的关键。诺瑞肯集团在先进铸造技术这方面可以为铸造业同行提供很大支持。精彩的报告分享过后，现场还围绕“丝绸之路经济带”及“21世纪海上丝绸之路”的主题进行了两场对话活动。参会代表分别介绍了中蒙双方铸造业合作的机会、俄罗斯莫斯科地区卡卢卡“一带一路”项目、如何帮助铸造企业在全球范围内开展业务提供媒体方面的服务、在欧盟地区开展项目如何避免贸易壁垒等精彩内容。巴基斯坦和土耳其参会代表分别介绍了巴基斯坦铸造业及Infinity培训学校基本情况、土耳其铸造业的基本情况，原中机生产力促进中心、中汽认证中心主任、中国标准化专家强毅介绍了标准化如何助推“一带一路”工作发展等内容。 9月2日，论坛迎来了备受关注的“国际项目对接”活动，还专设了巴基斯坦、蒙古和土耳其三大洽谈对接专场，为与会代表提供了和三国行业资深专家一对一交流机会，以便更加充分了解该国产业政策及项目资讯。 ■

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FCRI (Gaoming) Industrial Park Held Opening Ceremony 金刚（高明）工业园开业典礼隆重举行 FCRI Ceramics Research Institute Co.,Ltd., FCRI (Gaoming) Industrial Park held an opening ceremony in Gaoming , Foshan. About 200 people took part in the ceremony. It was built in March 2017 over the course of five months. The ceramic filter and magnetic material were put into trial production in succession. Nowadays it is in normal operation and has achieved production and marketing success. FCRI (Gaoming) Industrial Park carries the task of adjusting the industrial structure and raising the new business growth point, and has made new designs in production planning, equipment automation, process technology, production process, quality control and other areas. With a high level of automated equipment and advanced process technology, the annual output for magnetic material is 2,000 tons, also leaving development spaces in the future. With more than ten years of research and development, the FCRI ceramic foam filter has high refractoriness, good filtration effect and high filtration efficiency with unique three dimensional structures and 80-90 % open cell rate. Besides its use for melting metal filtration at high temperature, it can also be applied in gas treatment at high temperature, carrier of catalyzer, solid thermal exchange and special filling for chemical industry. ■

2017年9月3日，佛山市陶瓷研究所股份有限公司金刚（高明）工业园开业典礼隆重举行，高明区杨和镇党政主要领导、公司合作伙伴、公司中高层管理人员及金刚（高明）工业园员工近200人参与了开业盛典，共同见证了这一激动人心的时刻。金刚（高明）工业园于2017年3月开工建设，历时 5个月，多孔陶瓷、高性能磁性材料生产线相继试产，目前工业园生产运营正常，实现了产销两旺。金刚（高明）工业园承载着公司调整产业结构，培育新业务增长点的重任，在产能规划、设备自动化、工艺技术、生产流程、质量控制等方面都进行了全新的精心设计，设备自动化水平高，工艺技术先进，拥有年产多孔陶瓷5000 立方米、年产高性能磁性材料2000吨的生产能力，并预留了未来发展空间。金刚（高明）工业园主要产品——金刚牌泡沫陶瓷过滤器,经过10多年不断发展与改进，其耐火度高、过滤效果好、过滤效率高，具有独特的三维连通曲孔网状骨架结构和80-90%开口通孔率。该产品除了用于高温熔融金属过滤外，还适用于高温烟气处理、催化剂载体、固体热交换器和特种填料等领域。

FCRI Ceramics Research Institute Co.,Ltd., FCRI (Gaoming) Industrial Park held an opening ceremony in Gaoming , Foshan.

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FCRI陶瓷研究所有限公司FCRI（高明）工业园区在佛山高明举行开幕式。

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Zhaoqing Power Auto Parts Production Base Held Groundbreaking Ceremony 肇庆动力汽车铸件生产基地隆重举行动工仪式 Guangdong ZhaoQing Power Foundry (Holding) Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its “Core parts production base for automobile and new energy auto automobile” in Guangdong Zhaoqing (Dawang) National High-tech Zone on Aug. 3. The total investment is estimated at 1 billion RMB, with a construction area of 117,000 square meters. The project is expected to be completed in five years and the first phase is scheduled to put into trial production in January 2019. Upon completion and acceptance in 2021, it will build an investment forming production base of automobile and new energy automobile core parts with annual capacity of 52,000 tons, which are digital, intelligent and green. The annual turnover will reach 1.5 billion RMB and generate 130 million of tax revenue. Based on the gravity casting and low-pressure casting technologies, the company will further focus on the research of lightweight, high-strength aluminum auto parts including engine cylinder head, chassis and rear bracket which have excellent comprehensive mechanical property, as well as core parts in new energy automobile. ■

8月3日，肇庆动力“汽车及新能源汽车核心零部件生产基地项目”的动工仪式在广东肇庆（大旺）国家高新区项目建设工地开始隆重举行。这次的生产基地项目计划总投资10亿元，共占地250亩，总建筑面积是11.7万平方米，项目的计划建设期五年，预计2019年1月份首期工程建成试产，2021全面竣工验收。项目建成之后，预计将形成年产5.2万吨、数字化、智能化、绿色化的汽车及新能源汽车核心零部件精密成形生产基地，将实现年营业收入15亿元、创税1.3亿元。通过项目建设，依托公司现有的重力铸造以及低压铸造技术，公司未来要着力开发轻量化、高强度铝合金汽车发动机缸盖、底盘结构件、后桥支架等综合力学性能优越的汽车关键零部件，以及新能源汽车主要关键零部件。 ■

Guangdong Hongtu Invests 60 million in the New Energy Automobile 广东鸿图拟向新能源汽车业务投资6000万元 Guangdong Hongtu Technology (Holdings) Co., Ltd., a wellknown aluminum diecasting company in the automobile industry has approved a 60 million yuan investment plan for the purchase of large scale diecasting machines and heat treatment facilities, which will be directed to the new energy automobile projects in order to meet the increasing need of new energy auto business and the supporting requirements of customers as well as improve the company’s competitiveness. According to the company, the new investment will be implemented by its wholly-owned subsidiary Guangdong Hongtu (Nantong) Diecasting Co., Ltd.. The main products include aluminum structural parts like inner door frames, A/B/C columns, battery’s outside housing, rear side member, shock absorption tower for new energy automobile. Nantong Hongtu Diecasting was founded in Jan. 2011, located in Tongzhou economic development zone, Nantong, Jiangsu province, and it is the second production base of Guangdong Hongtu. ■

近日，国内知名汽车铝合金压铸企业——广东鸿图科技股份有限公司（“广东鸿图”）通过公司新能源汽车产品项目计划，拟投资6000万元用于购置大型压铸、热处理等生产设备，满足新能源汽车业务的增长和客户的配套供应需求，提升公司竞争力。广东鸿图还表示，该新能源汽车产品项目由全资子公司广东鸿图南通压铸有限公司负责实施，项目主要生产新能源汽车的车门内框架、A/B/C柱、电池包外壳体、后纵梁、减震塔等铝合金压铸结构件产品。南通鸿图成立于2011年1月，位于江苏南通市通州经济开发区，系广东鸿图的第二个压铸生产基地。目前，南通子公司已成为广东鸿图的最重要生产基地之一。 ■

China Sand Casting Industry Development Forum Held in Zhangwu “2017中国铸造砂产业发展论坛”在彰武隆重召开 China Sand Casting Industry Development Forum 2017 was held on Aug. 18-19, Zhangwu County, Fuxin, Liaoning Province, sponsored by China Foundry Association and the People’s Government of Fuxin Municipality. The forum aims to build a 28

2017年8月18~19日，“2017中国铸造砂产业发展论坛”在辽宁省阜新市彰武县召开，论坛由中国铸造协会、阜新市人民政府主办，以期共同探讨产业发展趋

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INDUSTRY NEWS/行業新聞 platform for the casting sand industry to exchange views on the development trend and latest technology. The forum is supported by the government to build a platform for the sand casting industry to extend its industry chain, improve industry level and realize win-win cooperation, with natural silica sand, advanced artificial sand in Zhangwu and 3-D printing technology as the medium of the forum. “The high-level forum opens a new chapter for the sand casting industry base in Zhangwu and even in China.” The Vice President of China Machinery Industry Federation and the Standing Vice President of China Foundry Association Mr. Zhang Libo said, even though Zhangwu casting silica sand industry base begins construction late but it stands on the high position and develops quickly. After sufficient demonstration of China Foundry Association and many experts, Zhangwu has improved its sand industry innovation level and developed 5 series, more than 20 types of casting sand. The casting production of Zhangwu accounts for 10% of the whole country. Now, Zhangwu has established the growing mode of orderly mining, protective utilization and synergy development. On Aug. 19, the opening ceremony of the Silica Sand Trading Center in China was launched in Zhangwu. Zhangwu County has the natural aeolian sand resource with a future reserve of 3 billion tons, enjoying an important position in Northeast China and in the country. Zhangwu has made clear about its development direction in the casting silica sand industry and was awarded as the National Casting Silica Sand Base by China Foundry Association in 2016. Zhangwu has invested 160million RMB for the construction of silica sand logistics base, and also invested 1 million RMB in Liaoning medium small and micro-sized enterprises innovation base to build an offline exhibition hall and cooperate with e-commerce platform to open the on-line trading. ■

势，交流技术、互通信息，从而探索硅砂产业的发展之路和发展模式，构建和谐发展环境。本届论坛重点以彰武自然硅砂资源及先进的人造砂、3D打印砂技术为媒介，由政府出资为企业搭建交流平台，以硅砂产业为基础延伸产业链条，提升产业水平，同时通过技术交流、合作发展，实现共赢。中国机械工业联合会副会长、中国铸造协会常务副会长张立波致开幕辞：“本次论坛规格之高、规模之大，开创了彰武乃至全国各铸造硅砂产业基地发展历史的先河。”张立波表示，尽管彰武硅砂较全国硅砂产业基地起步晚，但起点高、发展快，经过中国铸造协会和相关专家的充分论证，彰武县提升了符合县情的砂产业创新发展之路，确定了沙工业、沙农业、沙旅游、沙保健的四大发展领域尤其铸造用砂已开发了5个系列、20多个品种，占全国铸造用砂总量的10%左右，彰武逐步明确和形成了有序开采、保护性利用、一二三产融合协同发展的沙产业发展思路。 8月19日，“中国硅砂交易中心揭牌仪式”在彰武县隆重举行。彰武县拥有辽宁省唯一的天然风积沙资源，远景储量在30亿吨以上，在东北地区乃至全国有着重要的地位。彰武县在硅砂产业的发展上有着明确的发展思路，于2016年获得了中国铸造协会授予的“中国铸造用硅砂产业基地”称号。为了更好地服务企业，彰武县投资了1.6亿元建设硅砂物流基地，还在辽宁省中小微企业创新基地投资百万，建设了线下展厅，并与电商平台合作，开通了线上交易功能。 ■

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New Melting at Fonderie Laperle The Canadian municipal castings manufacturer swapped in two electric furnaces and built a new melting department to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and add flexibility. shannon wetzel, managing editor

Laperle铸造公司新建熔炼车间加拿大市政铸件生产商，新建了熔炼车间，更换了两台感应电炉以提高效率和灵活性，减少排放。主编：Shannon Wetzel

urrounded by green fields and a mile from St. Lawrence River tributary Richelieu River in the small Quebecois town of Saint-Ours, Fonderie Laperle carries on a tradition started in the 19th century, but its melting department is a strictly 21st century operation.

The new melting department at Fonderie Laperle uses two induction furnaces so one can be used for pouring while the other is charging.

aperle铸造公司四周绿地环绕，圣劳伦斯河的支流黎塞留河距这个魁北克小镇Saint-Ours一英里，公司的铸造业务始于19世纪，但其熔炼工部

严格按21世纪的标准作业。公司的产品为井盖铸件，由于商品的市场化，井盖业

Laperle铸造公司的新熔炼车间使用2台感应电炉，当一台出金属液时另一台可以加料。

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Laperle铸造公司主要为加拿大东部生产市政铸铁件，例如井盖和配套框架。

Fonderie Laperle casts iron municipal components, such as manhole covers and frames, for eastern Canada.

The plant makes manhole castings—a somewhat commoditized market segment that has largely moved to overseas, lower-cost countries. It ships only to eastern Canada, yet the 80-employee Fonderie Laperle persists. The provincial government of Quebec and parent company Bibby Ste-Croix (a McWane Corp. entity) saw the value of locally made municipal castings and in 2016, the metalcasting facility underwent a $5.5 million improvement project, which included a new melt deck and equipment, at a time when finding similar iron plants in Quebec is becoming increasingly rare. “Not many foundries are left in this area,” said Tom Leonard, president, Bibby Ste-Croix and Fonderie Laperle. “Laperle is successful because there is a large demand in Canada for names on manhole covers. When a municipality wants a name or text on the cover, quality from overseas becomes an issue.” Laperle makes custom castings well, with cosmetic details that cities use to portray their community’s identity. The foundry does more than make a pretty casting, though. It has developed new systems for manholes that lead to better installation, longer service life and safer road conditions. “Bibby Ste-Croix works closely with the municipalities and engineering community to develop newer and safer road castings,” Leonard said. “We are always innovating to find better solutions.”

Municipal Innovation A round cast iron disk and a frame to go around it sounds simple. But it must withstand the fluctuating conditions of the surrounding pavement due to the expansion and contraction of ground water. This fluctuation eventually will cause cracks in the pavement. Once too many cracks appear, the manhole needs to be replaced and repairs must be made to the road. With the autostable, less cracking means fewer repairs.

务在很大程度上已转移到海外成本较低的国家。工厂虽只在加拿大东部供货，却仍有80位员工坚守在Laperle 铸造公司。2016年，公司发现在魁北克类似的铸铁工厂越来越少，魁北克省政府和其母公司毕比·圣克鲁瓦公司（麦克韦恩集团旗下企业）预见到本地市政铸件的价值。于是，公司开展了550万美元投资的改造项目，其中包括新的熔炼车间和设备。 “当地已经没有多少铸造厂了，”毕比·圣克鲁瓦公司和Laperle铸造公司董事长汤姆·伦纳德说，“Laperle 公司之所以取得成功是因为加拿大对在井盖上铸上名字有大量的需求。当市政部门想在井盖上铸上名字等文字时，海外的生产质量就成了问题。” Laperle铸造公司的定制铸件，外观细节出色，城市可利用它来描绘社区的特点。但是，公司不仅仅是做漂亮的铸件，还为井盖铸件开发了新的系统，使井盖的安装更容易、使用寿命更长，道路更安全。毕比·圣克鲁瓦密切配合市政和工程部门开发出更新、更安全的道路铸件，”伦纳德说，“我们一直在通过创新寻找更好的解决方案。”

市政铸件创新生产一个圆形铸铁盘以及围绕它的框架，听起来是件简单的事。但是，由于地下水的膨胀和收缩，它必须能承受周围路面的起伏情况。这种波动最终会引起路面产生裂缝。一旦出现了太多的裂缝，井盖就需要更换，同时必须对道路进行养护。路面保持自动平稳，裂纹越少意味着更少的维修。 “我们已经推出了新的井盖铸件，具有不同的设计

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Laperle铸造公司表示，安装了自稳定井盖（左图）后，井盖框架结构可以随车流和冻裂作用影响的路面水平的变化而变化。交通承重量在道路表面水平分散，不会直接影响到路面以下的结构，传统的安装方式（右图）则会受到影响。

According to Fonderie Laperle, with the autostable manhole installation (left), the frame responds to the changes in level caused by traffic and frost action. Traffic weight is distributed horizontally at the road surface and not transferred directly to the structure beneath, as is the case with conventional installation (right).

“We’ve introduced new castings and different ways of designing the manholes and their installation,” said Mathieu Frechette, plant manager, Fonderie Laperle. “We make castings that float with the asphalt.” Fonderie Laperle’s floating manhole (also called autostable) was the result of many discussions with municipalities. It’s a thicker, deeper frame that withstands asphalt chipping away around the manhole without it moving too much and cracking. “If you install a standard manhole frame and cover, after a year, you’ll see a crack,” Leonard said. “With autostable, a year later, you won’t see a single crack. It costs 60-70% more, but you don’t have to replace it.” Fonderie Laperle also works with municipalities to customize the installations to accommodate the water levels at specific locations. “We perform testing for how much water will enter the storm grate and then customize the pattern with the best fit for that water flow,” Frechette said. Further innovations include bicycle-safe storm drains and grates, heavy duty castings for concrete highways and airports, and new designs for water captation to bring more water down a storm drain during a heavy downpour. “Fonderie Laperle is here because of our quality and traceability,” Leonard said. “Any municipality can come in here.

Flexibility in the Melt Department Fonderie Laperle began in the late 1800s and changed ownership a few times over the years. More recently, in 1987 it was sold to Bibby Ste-Croix. When Bibby was later acquired by McWane, Fonderie Laperle was part of the deal. As a McWane company, the Saint-Ours metalcasting facility is outside the standard water and sewer pipe product line of its parent, but McWane has shown willingness to invest long term in its Canadian and Quebec plants. And if Fonderie Laperle, which was melting iron with a coal-fueled cupola furnace, wanted a long-term future it needed to become more energy efficient, both from a cost and emissions standpoint. 32

和安装方式，”Laperle铸造公司工厂经理Mathieu Frechette说，“我们制造的铸件能够随沥青路面起伏。” Laperle铸造公司能够随路面起伏（也被称为自动平稳）的井盖是与市政当局多次讨论后的研究成果。铸件更厚、框架结构更深，能够承受沥青小碎块在井盖周围，不会造成井盖太多的移动和开裂。伦纳德说：“如果安装了标准的井盖结构和井盖，一年后你就会发现裂缝。但是安装自平稳井盖，不会产生裂缝。它的成本高出60-70 %，但不需要更换。” Laperle铸造公司还与市政当局共同定制安装装置，满足特定位置水位的要求。 “我们针对多少雨水会进入格栅进行了测试，然后根据雨水量定制了最适合的装置，”弗雷谢特说。接下来，我们还将研发新型的保障自行车安全通过的下水道和格栅，混凝土公路和机场的重型铸件，以及可以在暴雨天气收集更多雨水的集水装置。 “Laperle铸造公司靠质量和可追溯性求生存，”伦纳德说，“我们可以生产所有的市政铸件。”

熔炼工部的灵活性 Laperle铸造公司始建于18世纪末，期间改变过几次所有权。最近的一次是公司于1987年被毕比·圣克鲁瓦公司收购。后来毕比公司被麦克韦恩集团收购，Laperle铸造公司也是交易的一部分。作为麦克韦恩集团旗下公司，位于Saint-Ours小镇的 Laperle铸造公司的产品不属于其标准化的供排水管产品线，但麦克韦恩集团表明愿意长期投资其加拿大和魁北克的工厂。如果Laperle铸造公司希望保持长远的发展，无论从成本和污染物排放的角度，都需要对仍然用焦炭燃料的冲天炉熔炼方式作出调整，以提高能效。

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“We started playing with the numbers of our melting costs (at Fonderie Laperle). We were buying coke from the U.S. and operating on one shift,” Frechette said. “We determined it would be more economical to use induction furnaces.” As part of the effort to reach KYOTO air emissions targets, a program out of Quebec provided $2.2 million to Fonderie Laperle to subsidize the change from coke to electric to meet clean air targets. Bibby and McWane invested an additional $3.3 million. The $5.5 million covered the addition of a new building that houses the new induction furnaces, charging area, and transfer car. The improvements reduce emissions but also increase the plant’s efficiency of manufacturing and reduced the cost of equipment maintenance. Fonderie Laperle, which employs 80 when operating at capacity, had been running one cupola furnace melting 8 tons per hour in one shift. By switching to two induction furnaces melting 6 tons per hour, the plant has more flexibility. “We can start and stop, go to two shifts, or use overtime,” Leonard said. “We didn’t increase our perhour capacity, but we increased our availability and the quality of our iron.” Although it is a learning process switching from cupola to electric melting, Fonderie Laperle is able to rely on help from the team at Bibby Ste-Croix, which is two hours down the St. Lawrence River and has been operating induction melting for years. The new melting department also sets Fonderie Laperle up for the next step in its evolution—the

An automated transfer car carries a recently filled crucible from the furnace to the molding line for pouring.

“我们开始考虑并计算Laperle铸造公司的熔炼成本。我们从美国购买焦炭并实行单班作业。”弗雷谢特说，“我们确定使用感应炉会更经济。” 为了达到《京都议定书》空气污染物排放目标，魁北克政府为Laperle铸造公司提供220万美元，用于补贴其从使用焦炭变为使用电炉熔炼，以满足清洁空气的目标。毕比公司和麦克韦恩集团追加330 万美元投资。 550万美元投资用于建设新的厂房、购买新的感应炉、加料系统和转运车。这些改造减少了排放、也提高了工厂的生产效率，降低了设备的维护成本。原来，Laperle铸造公司满负荷生产时共有80位员工作业，采用单班制，一台冲天炉的产能为8吨/小时。更换为熔炼能力为6吨/小时的两台感应电炉后，生产的灵活性更大。 “我们可以随时启动和停止作业，采用两班制或者加班生产。”伦纳德说，“虽然没有提高每小时的熔炼能力，但我们提升了作业的灵活性和铸件质量。” 虽然从冲天炉作业改为电炉熔炼需要一个学习的过程，Laperle铸造公司能够获得毕比·圣克鲁瓦团队的帮助，毕比•圣克鲁瓦公司已经有多年的感应电炉熔炼经验。毕比•圣克鲁瓦公司位于圣·劳伦斯河下游，距离Laperle铸造公司有2小时车程。 Laperle铸造公司新的熔炼工部还设立了下一步发

自动转运车将刚刚充满的浇包从熔炼炉运到即将浇注的造型线。

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Fonderie Laperle invested in a new building addition to house its charging area (right), melt deck (above) and transfer car.

Laperle铸造公司投资修建新的厂房，新增装料区（右）、熔炼工作台（上）和搬运车。

incorporation of ductile iron, which it expects to begin pouring in late 2017 or early 2018. “We have demand for ductile iron, but we could never do it with a single cupola furnace,” Leonard said. “Ductile iron is a more stable microstructure. Without a holding furnace, we didn’t have the opportunity to put in any additions. Now we can. And we can produce a more even quality of iron.” The new investment in the melting department and support of McWane and Bibby, along with the demand for quality municipal castings domestically sourced, makes Leonard confident in the future of Fonderie Laperle and the employees who work there. “These are high-paying, skilled-labor jobs,” Leonard said. “We want to keep the foundry going and keep Canada working. It’s a middle-class job. There’s nothing more middle class than a foundry worker.” ■ 34

展目标，即增加球墨铸铁件生产，预计将于2017年底或2018年初投产。伦纳德说：“公司有球墨铸铁件的生产需求，但却不能采用冲天炉来完成。球墨铸铁的微观结构更稳定。如果没有保温炉，我们就没有机会添加任何添加剂。现在我们可以做到了，而且可以生产出质量更好的产品。” 熔炼工部的新投资、麦克韦恩集团和毕比公司的支持，以及国内对高质量市政铸件的需求，使伦纳德和 Laperle铸造公司的员工对公司的未来充满信心。 “这些都是高薪、熟练技术的岗位。”伦纳德说，“ 我们希望Laperle铸造公司能够继续发展下去，并为加拿大注入发展活力。这是一份中产阶级的工作。没有比成为铸造工人更好的中产阶级工作了。” ■

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Assessing the Root Cause of Metalcasting Injuries Unsafe acts are seldom the root cause of industrial injuries, and a deeper analysis of potential underlying causes is needed. ted j. schorn, enkei america inc. (columbus, indiana)

铸造工伤事故根本原因的评估其实不安全的行为不一定是工伤事故的根本原因，因此，深入分析潜在的根本原因十分必要。美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市，Enkei 美国公司Ted J. Schorn

he metalcasting industry continues to be challenged with higher injury rates than other manufacturing sectors, and this has been true for many years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, foundry injury rates have been and continue to be much more than those for all private manufacturing (Figs. 1-2). This continuing disparity in injury rates should create a strong motivation to focus on injury prevention and the institution of measures designed to reduce foundry injury rates and the human suffering that these rates represent. In a search for the cause of industrial injuries, it is common to cite the highly influential and groundbreaking work of pioneering safety scientist Herbert William Heinrich. Heinrich’s work, Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientif ic Approach, first published in 1931, would become the foundation for safety science over at least the next 50 years. Five editions of the book were published by McGraw Hill, the latest in 1980. Heinrich’s work, while not in print today, continues to influence the thinking of modern safety professionals and plant managers. His work is often remembered for two fundamental concepts: the ratio of causation of injuries between unsafe acts and unsafe conditions and his accident pyramid, expressing a statistical likelihood of

铸

造行业继续面临着工伤事故率比其他制造业高的挑战，多年来一直如此。根据美国劳工部的统计，与其他私营制造业行业相比，铸

造业的工伤事故率一直较高而且在持续增长。工伤事故率持续增长，使铸造行业产生巨大的动力去关注预防工伤事故和制定旨在降低工伤事故率的措施、以及减少工伤给人们带来的痛苦。在寻找工伤事故的原因时，经常引用具有开创性的安全科学家赫伯特威廉·海因里希极具影响力和开创性的著作。海因里希的著作《工业事故预防》首次发表于1931 年，并且至少在接下来的50年成为安全科学研究的基础。这本书的5个版本均由麦格劳希尔出版社出版，最新的版本是1980版。如今，海因里希的著作虽然没有再版，但仍在影响着现代安全专家和工厂经理。他的著作被人们总结为两个基本概念：不安全行为和不安全状态引起工伤事故的比例及伤亡事故金字塔，对轻伤事故到重大事故进行了数据统计。海因里希的观点是：预防事故应着眼于人的因素，并

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Fig 2. The diagram shows the incident rate for days away and restricted time (DART) using the standard formula found in Table SNR05 of BLS.

minor safety events to major events. Heinrich’s own view was accident prevention should focus on man failures and employ psychological methodologies to reduce industrial injuries. Heinrich wrote, “In the occurrence of accidental injury, it is apparent that man failure is the heart of the problem; equally apparent is the conclusion that methods of control must be directed toward man failure.” The perspective that human error, arising from the person and ultimately the ancestral and social baggage that a person brings with them to work, is the proper focus and cause of industrial injury was not limited to Heinrich. As generations of safety professionals and

采用心理学方法减少工伤事故。海因里希写道：“很显然，在意外发生的工伤事故中，人为因素是问题的核心；同样明显的结论是，控制方法必须指向人为失误。” 人们自身的性格缺陷主要是遗传和社会背景造成，是工伤事故的原因之一，需要给予适当关注，这一观点不仅仅只被海因里希认同。随着一代又一代的安全专家和生产管理人员的学习，它已经成为个人和有影响力的组织的信念。

A WORD ABOUT BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY PROGRAMS Many implemented behavior-based safety programs (BBS) have been recognized as effective, both short- and long-term. Why? BBS programs generally contain four critical elements. First, a deliberate effort is made to identify and categorize the critical behaviors necessary for safe work. Second, data is gathered regarding the frequency of unsafe behaviors through observation. This permits a focus on the high frequency, higher risk behaviors. Third, management encourages, though direct communication and incentives of various kinds, two-way feedback on the causes of at-risk behaviors. Fourth, continuous improvement activities are promoted by management and implemented in the workplace to address the barriers to safe behaviors. Properly conceived BBS programs do not cease their root cause investigations at the point of identifying the worker’s unsafe behavior. They instead see worker behavior as the springboard for a deeper investigation as to cause. So, BBS programs, while focused initially on worker behavior, are committed to tracing that behavior to sources in a properly safety engineered workplace or to a culture that either supports or erodes proper worker behavior. Effective BBS programs have significant management presence and look beyond the behavior and implement root cause corrective action. Where BBS programs fail to initiate long term improvement in safety performance is when they are aimed at behavioral modification only, either through peer pressure or other reward/punishment schemes. ■

关于基于行为的安全计划的解释很多基于行为的安全计划（BBS）会产生长期或短期的效果。这是为什么呢？一般情况下，BBS计划包含4个关键因素。首先，认真地对安全工作必需的关键行为进行区别和分类。第二，通过监测，对不安全行为发生的频率进行数据收集。其中，主要关注发生频率高和具有较高危险性的行为。第三，管理层通过直接沟通方式和各种激励政策鼓励员工对危险行为进行双向反馈。第四，管理层持续推动行为的改善和在工作中的落实，为安全行为扫除障碍。设计合理的BBS计划不会在即将确定工人安全行为时停止其根本原因的调查。相反地，它们将工人的行为看作是进一步调查根本原因的跳板。因此，最初以工人行为为中心的BBS计划，最终目的是跟踪适宜的安全工作场所的行为，或者支持或侵蚀正确的工人行为的文化因素。有效的BBS计划非常重视管理层的作用，并且超出确定安全行为，针对根本原因采取纠正措施。当BBS计划只关注行为的修正时，无论是给予同辈压力或采取其他奖惩机制，长期的安全绩效改善计划都会失败。

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Fig 3. Heinrich’s “Domino theory of accident causation” expressed in a why-why analysis.

manufacturing managers were taught this concept, it has found its way into the belief system of individuals and influential organizations.

Why Human Error Is Not a Root Cause Human acts are involved in a majority of metalcasting injuries. Seldom is it true that a worker, properly engaged in their duties, is suddenly and without his/her own action injured by their environment. The question is whether the actions of the worker are the root cause of such injury. To assist in making this distinction Heinrich’s dominoes can be examined using a common quality problem solving tool of why-why analysis (Fig. 3). With an examination of Heinrich’s theory via whywhy analysis, it is clear why Heinrich recommends various psychological and awareness strategies to the correction of industrial accidents. He recognizes he cannot address the true root cause (in his view) of the background of the employee, their upbringing and socialization prior to coming to work for a company, so he must attack the problem at the next level up: the employee himself. But the tacit assumption in Heinrich’s view is the prevailing influence on employee behavior is already established prior to their hire, external to the organization and that this influence is largely a detriment to good safety performance. This ignores the massive amount of current research on the significant correlation between

人为失误为什么不是根本原因大多数铸造工伤事故与人的行为有关。当工人恰当地开展自己的工作时，如果不是因为自己的行为而在工作环境中突然受伤，往往是不真实的。问题是工人的行为是否是造成工伤事故的根本原因。为了帮助区分这一点，可以用常见的解决质量问题的工具“Why-Why”分析法验证海因里希的多米诺骨牌理论。通过对海因里希理论的分析，我们可以清楚地看到为什么海因里希建议采用各种心理和意识策略来纠正工伤事故。他认识到，他无法真正了解员工在公司上班前的背景、成长和社会环境，因此他必须在另一层面解决这个问题：雇员本人。海因里希的假设是，对员工行为的普遍影响在他们被雇佣之前就已经建立了，组织外部的影响很大，这种影响很大程度上损害了良好的安全绩效。当前大量关于组织文化与组织安全绩效之间显著相关性的研究忽略了这一点。海因里希将员工行为与其生活的社会环境和遗传联系起来，也忽略了直接或间接影响员工行为的管理选择所带来的结构性影响。组织文化可以被定义为员工对特定的战略重点的

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an organization’s culture and the safety performance of that organization. Heinrich’s link between employee act and past social environment and ancestry also ignores the structural influences that exist through management choices that directly or indirectly influence worker behavior. These two alternate answers to the final “why” in Figure 3 are illustrated in Figure 4. Organizational culture can be defined as the shared perceptions among employees concerning the procedures, practices and kinds of behaviors that get rewarded and supported with regard to a specific strategic focus. These shared perceptions are driven by contributing factors such as: • Leadership values and consistency of action. • Supervisory communication and follow up. • Reward systems. • Measurement systems. • Processes for investigation, communication and closure of incidents. The practical experience of many foundries has supported the link between safety climate/culture and the safety performance of their organizations and specifically the safety-oriented behaviors of individual employees. From the perspective of a quality engineer, the analysis of the root cause of a human behavior looks for

共同看法，得到奖励和支持的流程、做法以及各种行为。这些共同的看法是由以下因素推动的，例如： • 领导价值观和行动一致性。 • 沟通与追踪的监督。 • 奖励制度。 • 测量系统。 • 调查、通报和结束事件的程序。许多铸造厂的实践经验支持了安全氛围/文化与组织的安全绩效之间的关系，特别是雇员个人的安全行为。从质量工程师的角度出发，分析人的行为的根本原因需要寻找环境中可能导致工人行为的具体结构因素。从根本上说，工人的行动或工人本身从来不是任何问题的根源，因为管理者是工人绩效的决定性因素。一些结构要素可以影响工人的安全行为，包括环境、工艺布局、操作方法、有效过程时间（理论或实

Fig 4. The diagram revises the why-why analysis based on Heinrich’s “Domino theory” and provides two alternatives for the root causes of unsafe acts.

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specific structural elements in the environment that may lead to the worker’s actions. This follows from the fundamental orientation that the worker’s actions—or the worker himself—is never the root cause of any problem since management is responsible for the decisive factors in worker performance. Several structural elements can influence worker safety behavior, including the environment, process layout, documented method, available process time (perceived or actual), tools provided to the worker and type and nature of the personal protective equipment (PPE) provided.

际）、提供给工人的工具以及个人防护装备（PPE）

Environment

在安全风险的地方有明显的警示标识。

The physical environment, specifically temperature, humidity and air quality have a direct impact on worker fatigue, which leads to compensation strategies as workers cope with the environmental stress. Fatigue also has been demonstrated to lead to a reduction in vigilance. Vigilance is a necessary part of worker safety to ensure safety checklists for example, are used in job preparation, various safety protocols are engaged prior to work and conditions are observed that might signal a safety risk.

的类型和性质。

环境物理环境，特别是温度、湿度和空气质量直接影响到工人的疲劳程度，可作为工人应对环境压力时的补偿策略。疲劳已被证明能降低警惕性。警惕是工人安全的必要组成部分，例如，在作业准备中必须有安全检查清单，在作业之前签订各种安全协议，在可能存

工艺布置人机工程学安全与工艺布局所要求的工人的物理操作有关。例如工作表、工具和材料的相对高度、这些物体的相对间距和位置以及过程中所涉及的重量和力。工作场所的这些物理特性也有助于早期发现疲劳的出现和警惕性的衰退。工艺布局也可能导致工伤或

Process Layout

事故，而表面上的分析可能归咎于工人的疏忽或其他

Ergonomic safety is related to the physical manipulations required of the worker by the process layout. Examples include the relative heights of work tables, tools and materials, the relative spacing and positions of these objects, and the weights and forces involved in the process. These physical characteristics of the workplace also contribute to the fatigue and vigilance decay noted earlier. Process layout also can lead to an injury or accident that on a superficial analysis might be attributed to worker inattentiveness or other character trait. For example, at one jobsite, the scrap tub at an inspection station was located across an aisle with heavy fork truck traffic. Workers were required to turn around, carry the scrap part to the scrap bin and then return. This process required extreme vigilance to avoid the traffic on the aisle. This was an accident waiting to happen that could not be blamed on worker inattention and no amount of warning or signage could compensate for the lack of safety oversight and poor planning in the layout.

因素特征。

Documented Method Workers generally follow documented instructions and training provided to them. Including appropriate safety precautions and describing a safe and practical method in the instructions will reduce the frequency of problems resulting from these operations. However, when metalcasting operations do not subject their work instructions to a safety-specific review and do not create instructions that accurately represent the real world, safety performance problems will result. Impractical or wrong instructions lead workers to improvise and establish non-standard work practices that can often be detrimental to safety. Work instructions written primar-

例如，在某车间，检测站的废料桶位于重型叉车通道的交叉口。工人被要求在此掉头，把废料运到垃圾箱，然后返回。这一过程需要高度警惕，以避免影响通道上的通行。这是可能出现事故的地方，不能归咎于工人的疏忽；再多的警告或标识也不能弥补安全监督的缺乏和糟糕的布局。

操作方法通常，工人会遵循作业指导书和培训内容。适当的安全预防措施和在说明书中描述安全和实用的方法将减少这些操作引起的问题的频率。然而，在铸造操作中，如果作业指导不接受特定的安全审查以及作业指导不能反映真实情况时，那么，将产生安全操作问题。不实用或错误的指示会导致工人临时制定和建立不规范的工作方法，这些做法往往对安全有害。主要由质量观点（而不是安全）或未经工人和/或安全专业人员审查的工作指令，可能是铸造事故和受伤的原因。这些看起来可能完全是因为工人做出了错误的决定，但却是可以通过足够的规划和指导来避免的。

加工时间工人的有效过程时间是他/她所处环境中的结构元

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ily from a quality perspective (not safety) or not reviewed by workers and/or a safety professional can be the cause of foundry accidents and injuries. These may look like purely worker decision errors, but could have been prevented by adequate planning and instruction.

素。有效过程时间受机器运行的周期、工作的整体速

Process Time

可能根本没有为规定的安全作业留出足够的时间。

The time available to the worker is a structural element in his/her environment. This time may be dictated by the machine cycle time, the overall pace of work or other constraints. Fast pacing leads to fatigue and compensation techniques where safe work practices may be compromised deliberately to keep up, get a scheduled break on time, etc. Fast pacing may simply not leave adequate time for the specified safe work practice to be carried out. The worker’s perception of available time is dictated by a number of signals from the work environment, including: • The rate at which other workers are progressing. • Implicit or explicit messages from supervision that a faster rate or greater work output is needed to satisfy customer demand or some target of performance. • Bonus programs that reward higher worker output regardless of what might be physically appropriate for ergonomic or physical safety.

度或其他限制因素影响。快节奏的工作会导致疲劳，安全工作方法的补偿方式可能会被有意妥协于保持工作进度，例如定期安排休息时间。快节奏的工作强度工人对可用时间的感知是由工作环境中的许多信号决定的，包括：

其他工人作业的速度来自管理层的明示或暗示，需要更快的速度或更大的工作输出来满足客户的需求或某些性能指标。奖励方案，奖励更高的人工产出，而不管是否能符合人体工程学或人身安全。

工具为了提高工作效率，通常铸造厂都会给员工提供工具，提高工人完成任务的能力。与作业指导书相比，不完善的计划或需要检修的工具导致各种临时的决策，无法保证工作拥有最大的安全性。 “不按作业指导书操作”可能是造成工业事故的

Tools Generally, tools are provided in the foundry to increase the efficiency of the work and improve the capability of the worker to perform the task. In a comparable way to work instructions, poorly planned or reviewed tools can lead to a variety of impromptu decisions on the part of workers that do not optimize safety. “Failure to follow instructions” is perhaps the most frequent attribution to cause of industrial accidents. This statement is clearly pointing to a human failure—the worker himself is responsible. A few examples in the tool category help illustrate the need to dig deeper than blaming the worker. A worker in a cleaning room received burns on his fingers from contact with a hot casting. The worker had defeated the protection of his right hand by cutting off the fingers of his glove. Upon investigation, it was discovered the actuator switch for a tool he was required to use had a guard that had inadequate clearance for a gloved finger. The worker had compensated for the poorly designed tool by cutting the glove’s fingers off, permitting him to use the tool as intended. A worker in the melt shop fell and was injured during fluxing and dross-off of an aluminum holding furnace. Investigation revealed he had been issued a drossing tool that had a relatively short handle, creating substantial heat burden on the worker. The melt shop employees had welded an extension to the handle to allow the worker to be farther away from the melt. This had broken suddenly during operation resulting in a fall and fracture. A worker in a rework area was struck by an overhead 40

最常见的原因。这句话显然指的是人为故障，是工人自己的责任。而有一些使用工具的例子有助于说明更深入挖掘事故原因的必要性，而不是责备工人。有位工人在清理车间时接触到灼热的铸件，烧伤了手指。因为这位工人剪去了手套的手指部分，从而使右手没有防护。经调查发现，他的工具开关上有个防护装置，带上手套后间隙不足，无法打开。这位工人通过去掉手套的手指部分来补偿工具设计的不足，使他能方便地使用工具。熔炼车间铝合金保温炉的操作工在出炉和扒渣作业时跌倒受伤。调查表明，他一直使用的扒渣工具手柄相对较短，在作业时经受大量热辐射。熔化车间的工人们在工具上焊接了延长手柄，使工人能远离熔体。在操作过程中手柄突然断裂，导致工人跌倒骨折。返工区的工人被头顶固定装置掉落的东西击中，头部需要缝针。原因是工人为了降低被绊倒的危险，把连接在装备上的过长的软管和电缆裹在工作站上面的固定装置上，而不是让它们挡在路上。固定电缆和软管的夹具因疲劳最终脱落，它在坠落时

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fixture and required stitches to his head. The worker, to reduce the trip hazard from the excessively long hose/cable connections to his tool, had wrapped them around a fixture on his work station to get them out of the way. Fatigue on the fixture from the cabling and hoses finally overcame the fixture attachment and it struck the worker while falling. In each of these cases, a poorly reviewed tool was provided to the worker. The worker, faced with the dilemma of his desire to do the job well while still using the deficient tool, made the situation work until the safety risk and probability caught up. Only with the most superficial of analyses can these cases be designated as worker-caused injuries.

Personal Protective Equipment Management is responsible to provide appropriate personal protective equipment to workers. Workers are required to wear this equipment and failure to do so is normally attributed as a worker responsibility. Yet management also has an obligation to make the PPE fit properly and be wearable for the duration required, instruct on proper fitment and sizing, and provide accommodation in the job routine for the limitations and constraints associated with PPE use. Injuries where PPE was not worn must be investigated beyond the simple observation that proper PPE was not worn. Workers must be able to do the task (repetitively) with the PPE in place; it must work as required and not entail other problems that drive workers to compensate. For example, poorly designed or ill-fitting eye wear leading to fogging or unstable fit with head gear will only be periodically worn (or perhaps completely ignored) by workers.

Harm in the Belief of Human Error Causality of Injury Failure to identify and address the root cause of any problem means the problem will recur. Just as clipping the top off a dandelion growing in a garden will only have a short-term effect, so too problems that are addressed only at a symptomatic level will happen again. Tragically, recurrence of the problems in a foundry is tallied in a human cost, not just time wasted weeding again. Recurrence of safety problems wastes valuable people resources by implementing programs that are ineffective, misguided and sedative in their effect, meaning short term improvements often result from a focus on safety performance and operator attention and vigilance will increase temporarily. This leads the organization into the false belief that this improvement is sustainable and early results will continue long term. Often this experience leads organizations to try another program with similar emphasis thinking it was a flaw in the implementation or the particular character of the individual program that caused initial results to fade rather than rethinking the premise behind such programs.

击中了工人。在以上的各个案例中，工伤产生的原因都是由于企业给工人提供了未经认真检验的工具。工人面临着希望做好工作但使用有缺陷工具的困境，使得状况一直持续到安全风险出现并且达到了发生的概率。只有在最缺乏深度的分析下，这些情况才能被认定为人为造成的工伤事故。

个人防护装备管理人员有责任向工人提供适用的个人防护装备。工人作业时必须穿戴防护装备，而不这样做通常被认为是工人的责任。然而，管理层也有义务使个人防护装备符合要求，即在需要时可穿戴，并指导进行适当的改进和完善尺寸，并在工作流程中明确与个人防护装备使用相关的限制和约束条件。因未穿戴个人防护装备引起的工伤事故必须进行调查，而不是简单地观察是否穿戴了适用的个人防护装备。工人穿戴防护装备后必须能够完成（重复性）工作；它必须按要求工作，而不会带来其他问题，迫使工人弥补过失。例如，设计不良或大小不合适的护目镜会起雾或与头盔不匹配，工人只会选择偶尔佩戴这样的护目镜（或者完全被忽略）。

人为失误认定工伤事故的危害没有找到和解决问题的根本原因就意味着这个问题会再次发生。就像修剪花园里的蒲公英的顶部一样，只会产生短期效应，所以只根据表面现象解决问题、问题会再次发生。可悲的是，铸造厂安全问题的复发是以人力成本计算的，而不仅仅是浪费时间。安全问题反复出现，但是应对的方法无效或误导、或没起到缓解效果，浪费了宝贵的人力资源，这意味着短期的改进往往源于对安全行为的关注，操作员的注意力和警惕性会暂时提高。这导致组织错误地认为，这种改进是可持续的，而且初见的成效能长期持续下去。通常情况下，这种经验会导致组织在其他项目中尝试采用类似的办法，认为安全问题是执行过程中的缺陷或单个步骤的特性，从而导致最初的结果失效，而不是重新考虑这些过程背后的前提。除此之外，认为工人本身是预防工伤事故的主要焦点，将纠正责任从管理层转移到工人身上。从而

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Beyond recurrence, belief that the workers themselves are the primary focus in preventing injury shifts responsibility for correction from management to the worker. This permits management to evade its true responsibility, namely to provide that which their workers need to be safe and successful. Executive management has a stewardship responsibility for the people they employ, not just for their company reputations and their capital investments. If top management views safety performance as the one area where their actions are ultimately ineffective because it relies on the “ancestry and social environment” workers bring into the workplace ala Heinrich, then the most powerful change agent in the building has been effectively negated. When problems are not effectively addressed by hard work and sincere effort, or when problems appear out of effective reach, a frustration and belief forms that not all injuries can be prevented. If a widespread belief is held that workers themselves are diligent and precise about their work or are careless and lazy, then it follows that the key attribute of safety performance depends on a character attribute that cannot be filtered by the hourly hiring process. Belief that some people are just “injury prone” leads to employment practices that tend to seek those individuals who have had frequent first aid or recordable injuries and remove them from the team. This is logical if one believes worker behavior can only be demonstrated in practice and that unsafe behavior results largely from the worker himself. These beliefs when widespread harm a true evaluation of the root cause of injuries. They also lead to a focus on a “compliance to regulations” mentality that follows the law but goes no farther because results beyond that rely on worker attitudes rather than a cultural or structural element in the foundry environment. Heinrich’s idea that worker behaviors are part of the chain of cause and effect leading to workplace injuries was largely correct but did not go far enough and left safety practitioners with the notion that prevention of injury requires the right kind of worker. These ideas persist with harmful consequences for organizations and individuals in the metalcasting industry and in the manufacturing sector as a whole. As the foundry industry searches for improvement in its safety performance going forward, it must look beyond behavior and the social and cultural backgrounds of its workers to the company cultural and environmental elements of the workplace. Management must lead the effort, authorizing it by personal presence and practical support, such that the root causes of unsafe behaviors are addressed. ■ This article is based on Paper 17-069 originally presented at the 121st Metalcasting Congress in Milwaukee in April 2017.

允许管理层逃避其真正责任，即保证工人人身安全和安全生产的责任。行政管理人员对他们雇用的员工有管理责任，而不仅仅是他们的公司声誉和资本投资。根据海因里希理论，工人将“遗传和社会环境”因素带入工作，如果高层管理者认为安全绩效是公司行为最终无效的领域之一，那么这个体系中最强大的变革者就被有效地否定了。当问题不是通过切实的认真研究得以有效解决，或者当问题不属于有效解决的范围时，挫折和错误的理念就会形成，也就是并不是所有的工伤事故都可以预防。如果人们普遍认为，工人们的工作态度分为勤勉和精确，还有粗心和懒惰，那么就会由此断定，安全性能的关键因素取决于人的性格特点，而这是不能在按小时计算的招聘过程中筛选的。如果认为有些人是“容易发生工伤”的类型，这会导致招聘人员倾向于找到那些经常接受急救护理或有工伤事故记录的人，并将他们从应聘人员中排除。如果人们认为工人的行为只能在实践中证明，不安全行为的结果主要来自工人本人，这是合乎逻辑的。如果这些观念被普遍接受时，势必会对工伤事故根本原因的评估体系产生危害。而且，还将导致企业将重点放在“遵守法规”的思想上，仅限于遵守法律但不会再进一步思考，因为除此之外，产生工伤的结果依赖于工人的态度，而不是铸造环境中的文化或结构因素。海因里希认为，工人的行为是导致工作场所工伤事故因果关系链的一部分，这在很大程度上是正确的，但并没有完全说明问题，而且使安全管理人员认为工伤事故的预防需要合适的工人。这些想法对铸造行业和整个制造业的组织和个人产生了危害性的后果。随着铸造业在改善其安全性能方面的进步，它必须超越工人的行为及其社会文化背景，应该去了解公司工作场所的文化和环境因素。管理层必须发挥领导作用，通过现场考察和实际支持来评估问题，以找到不安全行为的根源。 ■ 本文来源于首次发表于2017年4月在密尔沃基举办的第 121届铸造大会上的17-069号论文。

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A New Way to Design for Light Weight The lattice-like design of an aerospace seat frame removes unnecessary material while meeting load requirements and saving the aircraft industry millions. shannon wetzel, managing editor

轻量化设计的新途径这种类似航天飞机座椅框架的网格设计，在满足负载要求的同时，节省了不必要的材料，为航空工业节省了数百万美元。主编： Shannon Wetzel

passenger aircraft seat frame is a structural component uniquely designed for each aircraft configuration. Typically, they are constructed from a single billet. But was there a better way to manufacture that could also reduce costs? Autodesk, a leader in 3-D design and engineering software, had been developing a different way of designing using generative design software, which automates design options

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机座椅框架是为每架飞机特别设计的结构部件。传统上，它们是由整块坯料加工而成。但是是否有更好的制造方法可以降

低成本呢？ Autodesk公司是三维设计和工程软件领域的领导者，一直致力于开发一种不同的设计方法，即使用生成

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Autodesk calculates the cast magnesium seat frame could save airlines millions of dollars in fuel savings.

据Autodesk公司测算，镁合金座椅将为航空公司节省上百万美元的燃油消费。

based on specific criteria such as weight and strength to perfect and speed up the design process. The company’s research led to a unique lattice-like structure, and they contacted Aristo-Cast (Almont, Michigan), an investment caster with experience in prototyping and magnesium, to help carry out the design for an aerospace seat frame. Through collaboration and sound casting principles, Aristo-Cast delivered final castings in four weeks that reduced weight by more than half compared to other lightweight frames on the market. Because of the benefits to the end-user and potential for casting growth in other applications for lightweighting, the aerospace seat frame has been named Casting of the Year by AFS and Metal Casting Design & Purchasing magazine. Using the generatively designed model, Autodesk sought to take out as much material as possible without affecting the strength requirements needed. The result was a much lighter seat frame with material located only were needed. The new shape was a perfect fit for investment casting. “The casting design showcases the ability to change lattice thicknesses to add strength where it is required,” noted one judge in the casting competition. “This concept can be used to tie sections of a casting together where strength is not so critical to reduce weight.” Autodesk originally started developing its generative design software for 3-D printing of direct-to-metal parts. But metal printing is constrained by size, and the

性设计软件，根据特定的标准（如重量和强度）自动设

计选项，以完善和加快设计进程。这家公司研究开发出独特的格状结构，他们联系了密歇根州阿尔蒙特市的 Aristo铸造公司，一家在成型和镁合金领域富有经验的精密铸造企业，帮助开展航空座椅框架设计。通过合作以及适用的铸造工艺，Aristo铸造公司用 4周时间交付最终铸件，相比市场上的其他轻量化框架，至少减重一半以上。由于给最终用户创造利益，以及铸件轻量化在其他领域应用的潜在增长，航空座椅框架被美国铸造协会和《铸件设计与采购》杂志评为年度最佳铸件。使用生成性设计模型，Autodesk公司试图在不影响强度要求的同时尽可能的减少材料使用。最终得到仅使用必须材料的更轻的座椅框架。新的外形非常适合精密铸造。 “铸件的设计展示了在需要时改变框架厚度以增加强度的能力。”铸件评比中一位评审人提到，“对强度要求不那么严格时，可以采用这个方法，把铸件的某些部分连接在一起以减轻重量。” Autodesk公司最初开发3D打印直接生成金属零件的生成性设计软件。但是金属打印受到尺寸的限制，

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Through collaboration and sound casting principles, AristoCast delivered ﬁnal castings in four weeks that reduced weight by more than half compared to other lightweight frames on the market.

team began considering how to use the model for other manufacturing methods. Metalcasting was a natural choice because additive technology can be used to make the patterns and tooling. To gain interest from aerospace and automotive customers, Autodesk sought to make samples of parts produced in the generatively-designed lattice structure and calculate the potential savings, which led to Aristo-Cast. “I had been researching the casting space for a little over a year and it became clear Aristo-Cast was a pretty unique operation and experience with the level of complexity we were interested in,” said Andreas Bastian, principal research scientist for Autodesk. “They work with magnesium, which was very interesting to us because it is about 35% lighter than aluminum and can’t yet be printed, so that was an added value.” Aristo-Cast is one of fewer than 10 investment casting facilities in the world that regularly casts magnesium.

通过合作以及适用的铸造工艺，Aristo铸造公司用4周时间交付最终铸件，相比市场上的其他轻量化框架，至少减重一半以上。

研究小组开始考虑如何将该模型用于其他制造方法。铸造是自然的选择，因为增材制造技术可以用来制造铸型和模具。为了引起航空航天和汽车行业客户的兴趣，Autodesk公司努力寻找能够应用生成性设计生产零件样品的企业，设计框架结构并计算潜在节省的材料，最终找到Aristo铸造公司。 “过去的一年多，我一直在研究铸件结构，显然，Aristo铸造公司的作业非常独特，而且有让我们满意的生产复杂铸件的经验，”Autodesk公司首席研究科学家安德烈亚斯·巴斯蒂安说，“他们有镁合金的生产经验，镁比铝轻约35%，而且目前还不能打印，具有附加值，我们对此非常感兴趣。” Aristo铸造公司是世界上不到10家从事镁合金精密铸

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Although the lattice structure in aluminum will also achieve weight and costs savings, creating it in magnesium multiplies the savings significantly. “Autodesk was looking for samples and we have learned a lot throughout the years about how to gate magnesium versus aluminum,” said Paul Leonard, vice president, Aristo-Cast. “Right away the gating for the seat frame worked.” Traditionally, aerospace seat frames are made from aluminum using a few different techniques. “The lightest ones currently on the market are CNC machined from a solid billet, meaning there is a lot of material wasted,” Harris said. “Some are cast or made from an assembly and cost less, but they are heavier.” The size of the seat frame was too large for a metal printing buildbox, so this was a chance to see how the approach would work for 3-D printing patterns for metalcasting. Aristo-Cast has two 3-D printing machines with build boxes each large enough to print 30 of the seat frame patterns at a time. With 60 patterns printed at a time, Aristo-Cast can provide not just samples but production volumes, as well. “Investment casting is bringing the best of both current techniques and giving us the high performance and light weight we’re looking for while only using the material we need,” said Andy Harris, a design consultant for Autodesk’s DMG group. “It enables the scale of production when a few thousand parts are needed and allows the strength of additive manufacturing to be applied to investment casting.” After designing the seat frame, Autodesk provided the files to Aristo-Cast, which made some adjustments to the design in order to optimize it for the investment casting process:“The initial design was so thin in areas we couldn’t print the patterns,” Leonard said. “So we had to add thickness to certain sections.” After the minor adjustment, Aristo-Cast successfully cast the unique seat frame. Autodesk calculates that the weight reduction of the magnesium frame would achieve annual fuel savings of 63 tons for an Airbus A380 that holds 615 seats. Based on current costs for jet fuel, average annual savings per aircraft could be $103,324 and life of service savings (20 years) would be over $2 million per plane. A fleet of 100 aircrafts would achieve annual fuel savings of more than $206 million. “There is a huge amount of excitement around these high-performance structures with metal printing, but we see an interesting opportunity for foundry markets to engage in using 3-D techniques for making patterns and molds,” Bastian said. “It shows we can realize the same value from direct metal printing with a technology like metalcasting that is very well understood, very familiar, and offers a huge portfolio of materials that in many cases are already qualified for aerospace. The foundry industry is in an exciting spot to capitalize on the advanced design technologies to realize tremendous value very quickly.” ■ 46

造的公司之一。虽然铝合金格状结构件也能达到减重和降低成本的目的，但使用镁合金，重量和成本的降低会实现倍增。 “Autodesk公司正在寻找样件，我们正好在镁合金和铝合金铸造方面有多年的经验。”Aristo铸造公司副总裁保罗·伦纳德说，“于是，公司马上开始座椅框架的铸造。” 传统上，航空航天飞机座椅框架采用几种不同的工艺，由铝合金制造。 “目前市场上最轻的座椅框架是数控机床加工实心坯料制成的，这意味着大量材料的浪费。”哈里斯说，“ 而有些是由组装而成的，成本较低，但重量较大。” 座椅框架的尺寸对金属打印设备而言太大，所以这是个尝试3D打印铸型的机会。Aristo铸造公司有两台 3D打印设备，每台设备的尺寸足够一次性打印30个座椅框架铸型。同时可打印60个铸型，Aristo铸造公司不仅能够提供样品，而且可以量产。 “精密铸造工艺不仅采用了当前最好的技术，而且产品具备我们正在寻找的性能好、重量轻的特点，并且节省使用材料，”Autodesk公司设计管理团队的设计顾问安迪·哈里斯说，“它能够满足几千个零件生产规模的需要，并且可以将增材制造技术的优势应用于精密铸造。” 座椅框架的设计完成后，Autodesk公司把方案提交给Aristo铸造公司，Aristo铸造公司对方案做了一些调整，优化了精密铸造的工艺过程：“最初的设计方案某些地方太薄，无法打印出铸型。”伦纳德说，“所以我们必须增加这些部分的厚度。” 轻微的调整后，Aristo铸造公司成功地铸造出独特的座椅框架。据Autodesk公司测算，对于有615个座椅的空客 A380客机，使用镁合金框架减重后每年将节省63吨的燃油。根据目前喷气式飞机燃油的成本，每架飞机平均年节省费用为103324美元，每架飞机在使用期限（按 20年计算）内将节约超过200万美元。拥有100架飞机的机队每年可节省燃油费用超过2亿600万美元。 “尽管有大量的令人兴奋的金属打印高性能结构件的案例，但我们注意到铸造行业采用3D打印技术生产铸型和模具有巨大的商机，”巴斯蒂安说，“这表明除了直接金属打印外，我们可以通过像铸造一样容易理解和熟悉的技术实现与金属打印同等的价值，而且可以使用多种材料的组合，在许多情况下这些材料已经成功应用于航空航天。目前，铸造行业正处于一个令人振奋的发展时期，可以利用先进的设计工艺快速产生巨大的价值。■

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Interview With Patricio Gil, CEO of Blackhawk Mexico and New President of AFS 对Blackhawk（墨西哥）公司CEO及新任美国铸造协会会长Patricio Gil的访谈

ongratulations on your new position of AFS president! Being that you are originally from Mexico, how did you first get involved with the AFS and how did this evolve into becoming AFS president? AFS is a North American organization so even though we are located in Mexico, AFS is always our best reference for technical information, congress, courses, exposition, etc. I started working in the foundry industry 32 years ago and my first contact with the AFS was as a visitor to an AFS CastExpo approximately 20 years ago. Then in 2004 I was invited by the Ductile Iron Society as a speaker at a congress in Philadelphia, and my presentation was a Cost Comparison of Producing Castings in Mexico vs the U.S. After that initial participation in a congress in the U.S. I received more invitations to talk at different AFS congresses, and one day in 2008 I received an invitation to join the Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) Board of Directors. FEF is a very important organization linked to AFS where I met some of the key executives leading the foundry industry in the USA. After that, I received an invitation to join the AFS Board of Directors from 2009-2014 and after that I was appointed as 2nd Vice President in 2015 to be AFS President for 2017–2018.

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喜您当选美国铸造协会会长。您来自于墨西哥，您是如何认识美国铸造协会并当选美国铸造协会会长的？

我在铸造行业已经工作了32年，我与美国铸造协

会的第一次接触是20年前我作为观众参观了美国铸造协会主办的铸造展CastExpo。 2004年，我受球墨铸铁学会的邀请，在宾夕法尼亚州费城的一次会议上做了演讲，演讲题目是：墨西哥与美国铸件生产的成本对比。自首次参加美国会议之后，我接到了美国铸造协会更多的参会邀请，2008年的一天，我接到了铸造行业教育基金会(FEF)董事会的邀请。FEF是美国铸造协会的一个重要机构，在那里，我认识了美国铸造行业一些知名的企业管理者。之后，我收到了加入美国铸造协会董事会（20092014年）的邀请；并且在2015年被任命为第二副会长，2017-2018年期间的会长。

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What does this new position mean for you personally, and what would you like to see accomplished during your time as AFS president? The AFS was founded in 1896, 121 years ago; and I have the enormous privilege to be the first president who is not a citizen of the U.S. Since I was invited to join the AFS Board of Directors back in 2009, I felt very excited with the opportunity because I was the first Mexican ever to be invited to join the Board of Directors, so as you can imagine, being assigned AFS President is a great responsibility and honor for me and very important achievement in my professional career. These are some of the main challenges I would like to see accomplished or at least moving towards them during my term: • Continue offering support and guidance to universities and research labs regarding the needs of the foundry industry so they may align their research resources accordingly. • Develop tools and material to support the new generations of foundry people so we may continue developing and attracting technical talent for our industry. • Permanent voice and presence with the government trying to influence new regulations regarding environment and safety with the intention to avoid unfair competition with other regions of the world who may export to North America. • Work together with other North American technical associations related to the foundry industry in order to make a more efficient use of our resources and the time and talent of all the people involved. • See other Mexicans participating and contributing to AFS so the opportunity for more Mexicans on the Board of Directors and eventually another Mexican president continues.

During times of political uncertainty, how do you think American foundries will develop in the Trump era? I believe the main challenges for the foundry industry currently are how to attract and retain talent, how to remain competitive, how to influence overregulation from government and how to fulfill current regulation. One of the main problems with governments is the uncertainty because if we do not see a clear and consistent message it is difficult to anticipate actions and almost impossible to define long term strategies. I believe President Trump is more a businessman than a politician so I believe he will promote and support manufacturing and it will be good for the foundry industry. I believe he will not do anything that may harm the foundry industry.

How do you judge the chances for additive manufacturing in the U.S? I think additive manufacturing is a great technology, still underutilized for the foundries and casting users but it will put an increasing pressure to reduce the life cycle of products. For several decades the foundry industry in general plays a very passive role in terms of casting design. Foundries produced castings based on designs, drawings and specifications provided by customers so the possibility for the foundries to participate and improve casting designs was very limited 48

作为美国铸造协会的会长，对您意味着什么，您将有什么计划？美国铸造协会成立于1896年，已有121年的历史。我非常荣幸成为第一位非美国籍的会长。自2009年我受邀加入美国铸造协会董事会之后，我为自己成为第一个加入董事会的墨西哥人而激动不已；你可以想象，成为美国铸造协会的会长对我来说代表着责任与荣誉，是我个人职业生涯中的一个重要成就。以下是我在任期内即将面临的挑战或工作目标： • 继续为大学和科研机构实验室提供铸造行业方面的支持和帮助，使他们能够充分利用自己的科研资源。 • 为新一代铸造人研发工具和新材料，帮助铸造行业培养和吸引技术人才。 • 为了避免与世界其他地区出口北美企业的不公平竞争，与政府部门密切沟通，制定和修改环保和安全法规。 • 与北美地区其他铸造相关的技术协会合作，有效利用各种资源，包括人才资源等。 • 重视墨西哥参与美国铸造协会的活动，从而使更多的墨西哥人能够加入美国铸造协会董事会，最终产生第二位墨西哥人会长。

目前，国际政治局势不稳定，您认为美国铸造企业在特朗普政府时期将如何发展？我认为铸造行业目前面临的主要挑战是如何吸引和留人才，如何保持企业的竞争力，如何影响政府的过度管理以及如何落实现有的规定。政府的一个主要问题是其稳定性，因为如果没有清晰和一贯的政策，企业就很难采取行动并制定长期的发展战略。我认为，特朗普总统作为一个政治家，他更是一位成功的商人，所以我相信他将会促进和支持制造业的发展，这将有利于铸造行业。我相信他不会采取任何对铸造行业不利的措施。

您是如何看待增材制造业在美国的发展机遇的？我认为增材制造是一项重大技术，但在铸造企业中尚未推广，它将对缩短产品的生产周期有很大的帮助。近几十年，铸造行业在铸件设计方面发展滞后。铸造企业根据客户提供的设计方案、草图和产品规格来生产铸件，铸件用户和铸造企业基本没有沟通，因

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because the link between the casting user and the foundry almost does not exist. Additive manufacturing is allowing customers and foundries to see casting prototypes and models before big pattern investment is done so users and foundries may work together to improve casting designs and also provide more versions to customers for specific applications. This technology is increasing the variety of products in the market and as a consequence is reducing the production volumes per piece because now we have much more options and versions of products. As we all know, “each new solution brings new problems,” so this new technology implies for a given foundry to increase the number of patterns to keep the same level of volume and to develop design, machining and testing skills to be able to make proposals to customers. No passive foundries anymore. The foundry of the future needs to be near the customer offering casting design solutions and high flexibility in terms of volumes, materials and value added operations.

What is the future of E-mobility in America and what does that mean for the American Foundry? I believe E-mobility is a world trend so we will continue see a steady growth on the market share for electric vehicles in America as well in the rest of the world. Electric vehicles are eliminating or dramatically modifying some traditional subsystems of the vehicles such as the engine, transmission and drive train but at the same time is creating opportunities for new type of components and materials used on the new vehicles. E-mobility is creating opportunities for light materials such as nonferrous alloys as well as new lighter materials currently being developed using nanotechnology. AFS plays a key role among the users, the foundries and the research centers.

How has the foundry industry in Mexico developed, and what do you think the future holds for this industry in your country? One of the most important markets for metal castings are the automotive and commercial vehicle industries and those industries are growing a lot in Mexico over the last years and the expectations for the coming years are also very positive. Additionally, Mexico has free trade agreements with more than 40 countries plus its great geographic location and availability of people and resources. All of these combined help a lot to consider Mexico as the right place to export to other world regions. As a consequence, a lot of companies are building production plants in Mexico and foundries are not the exception; since foundries are growing and increasing capacity the level of technology installed in the main Mexican foundries is technically updated and very competitive. One of the main challenges the Mexican foundries are facing is the development of skilled people and specialized talent because demand for good people is high. One additional challenge is the environmental control because regulation is more difficult every time as it is in the rest of the industrialized countries. ■

此，铸造企业参与和改善铸件设计的机会很少。增材制造技术使客户和铸造企业在批量生产之前就能看到铸件原型和模型，因此，用户和铸造企业可以通过合作改良铸件设计，并为客户提供更多具体应用领域的设计方案。这项技术增加了铸件产品的多样性，因此，有了更多的产品选择，使每种产品的生产数量减少。众所周知：“每个解决方案会产生出新的问题”。对于铸造企业来说，这项新技术的应用意味着要增加铸件模型的种类以保证产量，而且要研发设计、机加工和检测技术，为客户提供建议。今后将不存在被动服务的铸造企业了。铸造企业需要接近客户，了解他们的需求，为客户提供铸件设计以及产量、材质和附加值方面的高度灵活性的方案。

您对美国电动汽车的未来有什么看法，对美国铸造行业将产生什么影响？我认为，电动汽车在全世界是发展的趋势，其市场占有率在美国和世界其他地区都将稳步提高。电动汽车正在取消或改变传统汽车子系统的零部件，例如发动机、变速器和传动系统，但同时，电动汽车也为新型零部件和材料的应用提供了巨大商机。电动汽车为有色合金及采用纳米技术的轻量化材料的应用提供了商机。美国铸造协会在用户、铸造企业和科研机构的合作中起着关键作用。

墨西哥铸造行业的发展现状如何？您认为未来将如何发展？铸造行业最重要的用户是汽车及商用车行业，在过去的几年，这些行业在墨西哥取得了快速发展，我们对未来几年的发展非常乐观。此外，墨西哥与40多个国家签订了自由贸易协议，而且地理位置优越、人力资源和自然资源丰富。这些优势条件有助于墨西哥成为世界的出口口岸。因此，很多企业在墨西哥建立了工厂，铸造企业也不例外。由于铸造企业在不断发展，产能不断提高，墨西哥大多数铸造企业的技术水平得到了升级，极具市场竞争力。随着工人素质的要求不断提高，墨西哥铸造企业面临的一个主要挑战是技术工人和专业人才的培养。此外，由于工业化国家的环保要求非常高，墨西哥还面临着环境治理的挑战。 ■

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Product News Table of Contents 产品新闻目录 MOLD, CORE & SAND PREPARATION

MELTING, POURING & HEAT TREATMENT

The All-Rounder for All Casting Materials: ExOne’s Cold Hardening Phenol 全能的铸造粘结剂：ExOne公司的冷固化苯酚

Inoculation and Higher Potency Alloys 孕育剂和更高效的合金

Magnesium Pressure Diecasting in Trend 镁合金压铸的发展趋势 Yizumi India Factory Delivers the First Injection Molding Machine to Customer 伊之密印度工厂第一台注塑机顺利交付客户

PLANT ENGINEERING Jinan MECH Valve Invests in Stereoscopic Warehouse 济南迈克阀门的立体仓库投资过亿元

SOFTWARE

CLEANING & FINISHING Cleaning Exhaust Air, Saving Energy Costs 清洁排放，节约能源

Automotive Parts Manufacturer Saves Time, Cost, With Testing and Optimization Software 51 测试和优化软件降低汽车零部件企业生产周期和成本

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Automotive Parts Manufacturer Saves Time, Cost With Testing and Optimization Software 测试和优化软件降低汽车零部件企业生产周期和成本 U-SHIN is a global automotive parts manufacturer specializing in automotive system appliances and mechatronics. Its main product line includes lock sets, electronic steering column locks, climate control panels, door latches, keyless entry, door handles, switches, power closure systems and rear access modules. U-Shin’s expertise ranges from mechanical machinery design to electronic engineering and software, offering full support from development and design of various parts and systems to manufacturing. Many of the automotive parts and accessories U-Shin produces are manufactured with zamak, an alloy with a base metal of zinc. “Approximately 10 tons of zamak per day are produced from U-Shin’s zamak foundry which is one of the largest foundry locations in Europe,” said Ahmed El Abidi, CAE Manager and Senior Expert of U-Shin. U-Shin is a worldwide leader in performing high pressure diecasting with zamak. With the challenge of outputting more than 100 tools per year, U-Shin recognizes that optimizing these tools as well as the design and manufacturing process not only reduces time and cost, but is also a key factor in providing its customers with the reliable solutions they expect and demand in the automotive industry. Understanding the flow and material characteristics of zamak is crucial in producing a quality part. Being able to simulate, observe and have better insight of this material is one of the many benefits U-Shin has seen by implementing solidThinking Click2Cast casting simulation software. “By using Click2Cast, we are able to better understand the flow of zamak and identify the causes and location of porosity,” said El Abidi. With the extensive material database that Click2Cast offers, companies like U-Shin can simulate the casting process for various parts under a

U-Shin是一家全球汽车零部件生产企业，专为汽车和机械电子行业提供产品。公司的主要产品包括锁具、电子转向柱锁、温控面板、门锁、无钥匙门锁、门把手、开关、电力关闭系统和后视模块。U-SHIN 公司的专业技术包含机械设计、电子工程和软件，为制造业各种产品的研发和设计提供全面支持。 U-Shin公司生产的很多汽车零部件和配件使用 zamak锌基压铸合金，是一种以锌为基础的合金材料。 U-Shin公司高级专家及CAE 经理Ahmed EL ABIDI说：“U-Shin的zamak锌基压铸合金铸造厂是欧洲最大的铸造厂之一，每天大约生产10吨锌基压铸合金”。U-Shin公司是压铸领域锌基压铸合金的世界领导者。面对每年需要制造超过100套模具的挑战，U-Shin认识到，优化模具生产及其设计和生产工艺，不仅能够减少生产时间和成本，也是为汽车行业的客户提供他们所需要的可靠解决方案的关键因素。了解zamak锌基压铸合金的工艺流程和材料特性对生产出高质量的铸件非常重要。U-Shin公司使用 Click2Cast铸造模拟软件后，发现能够模拟、观察及更好地分析合金材料是该软件的优势之一。 Ahmed说：“通过Click2Cast软件，我们可以更好地了解zamak锌基压铸合金的工艺流程并识别孔

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product news/產品新聞 variety of stresses. One of U-Shin’s most recent projects involved analyzing the failure of an automotive dead lock pin and redesigning the part based on the simulation results in Click2Cast. The point of failure in the dead lock pin occurred during the vibration test. “While performing the vibration test, the movement of the slider was blocked by the zamak body which resulted in the pin not receiving the proper amount of shocks until breakage,” said El Abidi. After running a simulation in Click2Cast and an experimental test, it was clear the area of breakage occurred where porosity appeared in the casting simulation. “Once we were able to identify this point of failure, we could then redesign the part and remove all porosity from the critical zone.” U-Shin continues to employ Click2Cast on several automotive projects. By utilizing Click2Cast, U-Shin can better anticipate, modify and improve a design which allows the company to supply the quality and robustness that its customers demand in their parts. “In regards to future projects, U-Shin plans to work with the Click2Cast team to further explore and develop other functionalities of the tool such as adaptive mesh, stress calculation and thermal optimization,” El Abidi said. “We have seen significant time and cost savings while using Click2Cast: €5,000-10,000 and three weeks for actual trials vs. €500-600 and one day of simulations in Click2Cast.” ■

隙产生的原因和位置。”在Click2Cast庞大的材料数据库的支撑下，使U-Shin这样的公司能够模拟不同压力状态下的铸造工艺。U-Shin公司最近开展的一个项目是分析损坏的汽车锁销的失效原因并根据 Click2Cast的模拟结果重新设计部件。通过振动试验找出坏锁销的失效位置。 U-Shin公司继续在其他几个汽车零部件项目中使用了Click2Cast软件。在Click2Cast的帮助下，U-Shin公司能够更好地预知、修改并完善设计方案，使公司生产的产品满足客户对于质量和稳定性的要求。 “关于今后的项目，U-Shin公司计划与Click2Cast工作团队继续合作，进一步研究和开发软件的用途，例如适应性网格、应力计算、热应力优化，”Ahmed说。“使用了Click2Cast软件后，我们已经发现生产时间和成本显著减少：从目前的 3周和5000-10000欧元降低到1天和500-600欧元。” ■

Inoculation and Higher Potency Alloys 孕育剂和更高效的合金 The growth and diversity of iron casting in the Asian markets has led many foundries to re-examine their inoculation processes. New iron grades demand new process solutions, growth in production stretches the availability of good quality melting stock, and end users require higher specifications. Traditionally, the Asian market has used calcium/barium based inoculants and these are widely available, albeit of hugely variable quality. However, their low potency leaves them unsuited to many applications in this changing market.

亚洲地区铸铁行业的发展和多样性，使很多铸造企业重新审查孕育工艺。铸铁新的等级要求有新的工艺方法、产量的增加要求更多高质量金属液，而最终用户对技术性能要求更高。传统上，亚洲市场使用以钙/钡为基础的孕育剂，虽然质量有差别，却非常容易购买。但是，材料的低效使它们并不适用于不断变化的市场中的很多领域。铸造业的挑战，诸如灰铁和球铁控制缩松，铸件轻量化的同时薄壁且强度更高，

With the incidence of chunky graphite becoming more of a concern, a new rare-earth free high potency inoculant is now being launched.

随着大块石墨的发生率越来越受到关注，目前正在推出一种新的无稀土高效能孕育剂。

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product news/產品新聞 Challenges such as shrinkage control in both gray and ductile iron, producing higher strengths in thinner section lighter weight castings, and matrix structure all offer the opportunity for an examination of the inoculants available today. In gray irons, strontium containing inoculants, such as Superseed, are globally used at low addition rates to prevent shrink, while giving excellent type A graphite structures. Variants on Superseed inoculant are marketed for foundries operating at low sulphur levels. In ductile iron where the properties are controlled by the matrix, good nodule number, shape and ferrite promotion are pre-requisites to obtaining the right mechanical results. A number of medium and high potency inoculants, such as Alinoc and Ultraseed Ce inoculants have been designed to meet these needs, the former being a powerful ferrite promoting inoculant and the latter designed for more difficultto-inoculate low base nucleation irons. With the incidence of chunky graphite becoming more of a concern, a new rare-earth free high potency inoculant is now being launched. Known as Ultraseed Zr, this alloy has been formulated to add back the key constituents necessary for inoculation, sulphur and oxygen during the formation of the nuclei whilst being RE free, and having the ability to generate new nuclei during solidification, the tendency towards chunky is reduced. ■ For more information on new inoculation technologies, visit www.elkem.com/foundry.

以及矩阵结构，都为目前审查孕育剂可用性提供了机会和条件。对于灰铁件，可使用含有锶的孕育剂，例如，全球都在使用的Superseed孕育剂仅需少量添加就可以起到预防缩松的作用，同时，还可以使铸件呈现A型石墨。为铸造企业着想，Superseed孕育剂系列的很多产品含硫量低。在性能由矩阵结构控制的球墨铸铁中，石墨数量、形状和铁素体比例是获得良好力学性能的先决条件。一些中等和高效能的孕育剂，例如Alinoc和Ultraseed Ce可以满足这些要求，Alinoc是强大的促进形成铁素体的孕育剂，Ultraseed Ce可用于更难孕育的成核基础低的铸件。为了防止大片石墨产生，新的不含稀土元素的高效能孕育剂已经研发成功。Ultraseed Zr合金材料成为支持孕育剂的关键成分，形核成过程中不与硫和氧反应，而且不含稀土元素，因此，在凝固过程中可以产生新的核，从而，降低了大片石墨产生的可能性。关于更多新的孕育技术，请访问网站www.elkem. com/foundry。

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The All-Rounder for All Casting Materials: ExOne’s Cold Hardening Phenol 全能的铸造粘结剂：ExOne公司的冷固化苯酚 Last year, Freiberg, Germany-based ACTech and Gersthofen, Germany-based ExOne made it their objective to put a new binder system based on cold hardening phenol (CHP) through rigorous testing and work together on its further development. With its long-standing experience in rapid prototyping for the production of cast parts, ACTech was the ideal partner for ExOne for the first installation of a 3-D printer with the CHP binder system in spring 2016. One year later, both companies are impressed by the results, as CHP offers significant advantages compared to other binder systems.

Direct De-Packing Cores printed with CHP are sufficiently stable after printing and can be removed from the print bed without any issues. Unlike hot-hardening phenol (HHP), no heat treatment before unpacking must be performed with the CHP process. The component hardens at room temperature and reaches sufficient strength for removal within a few hours.

Easy Finishing Additionally, the sand slides off effortlessly because the unprinted sand does not migrate with the core during the CHP process, by contrast to the furan process. Cleaning the components is therefore much easier compared to other binder systems.

去年，位于德国弗莱贝格的ACTech公司和位于德国格斯特霍芬的ExOne公司合作并通过严格的试验，开发出以冷固化苯酚（CHP）为基础的新型粘结剂材料。ACTech公司在铸件快速成型领域有丰富的生产经验，成为ExOne公司的理想合作伙伴，并于2016年春季安装了冷固化苯酚系统的3D打印设备。一年之后，双方看到了满意的结果，CHP与其他粘结剂系统相比具有明显的优势。直接取芯使用冷固化苯酚打印的砂芯足够稳定，并且可以轻松地从打印床上取出。与热固化苯酚（HHP）不同，使用冷固化苯酚，在砂芯取出之前不需要进行热处理。部件可以在室温下固化，并在几个小时内达到可以取出的强度。容易清理此外，与呋喃工艺相比，在冷固化苯酚工艺中，打印中未使用的砂子不会随砂芯移动，砂子可以毫不费力地滑落下来。

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product news/產品新聞 Thermal Post-Processing for Higher Strength

热处理后高强度

After all sand cores have been removed from the print bed, they can be hardened in an oven at 145° to increase or stabilize their strength. The shortened drying process with CHP binders ensures that more geometrically sophisticated sand cores now can be prepared for casting more quickly. This holds true for almost all casting materials. “By acquiring the CHP S-Print system from ExOne, we were able to integrate outstanding 3-D printing capabilities directly into our company and meet the needs of our customers even more effectively,” said Norbert Demarczyk, production manager, ACTech. “In general, 3-D printing has enhanced the quality of our designs, processes and products, in addition to ensuring improved flexibility and production optimization. Another key advantage is the increased process reliability due to the use of fewer individual components. One of the special features of the CHP process is that gas development during casting is considerably lower compared to furan parts, which results in fewer gas-related defects in the cast product. The higher heat resistance also reduces vein formation in high-temperature casting. All of these are important factors that provide us with excellent feedback after the test phase and allow us to be very optimistic for the future. The partnership with ExOne makes it possible for us to organize our production in the best manner for future growth, and we are already thinking about how we can continue to use ExOne’s 3-D printing technology and expand it with other machines at our site.” ■

所有的砂芯从打印床上取出后，需要在145℃的烤

Cores printed with CHP are sufficiently stable after printing and can be removed from the print bed without any issues.

箱中固化，从而增强或稳定强度。使用冷固化苯酚缩短了干燥过程，使许多几何形状更复杂的砂芯可以用于铸造。而且，适用于大部分铸造材料。 “采用了ExOne公司的冷固化苯酚砂型打印设备，公司能够直接利用出色的3D打印能力，更有效地满足客户需求，”ACTech公司生产经理Norbert Demarczyk 说：“总之，3D打印技术提高了设计、工艺水平和产品质量，保证了更好的灵活性和最优化生产。” 由于减少的单独组件数量，工艺的可靠性提高是另一个主要优点。冷固化苯酚工艺的特点之一是铸造过程中产生的气体比呋喃工艺少很多，因此，很少产生与气体相关的铸件缺陷。较强的耐热性也可以减少脉纹在高温环境中的形成。这些重要信息是试验后得出的积极反馈，同时，也使我们对未来保持乐观。与ExOne公司的合作使我们能够以最佳的生产方式迎接未来的发展，而且，我们已经开始考虑如何继续利用ExOne公司的3D打印技术优势，与公司的其他设备结合发挥作用。 ■

使用冷固化苯酚打印的砂芯非常稳定，打印后易于从打印床上取出。

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Cleaning Exhaust Air, Saving Energy Costs 清洁排放、节约能源 Various climate change arrangements over recent decades have repeatedly shown that it is fundamentally difficult to achieve a reduction in pollutant emissions. This is why in times of climate change, a future-oriented energy consciousness is necessary more than ever. Under a future-oriented energy consciousness should be understood a right rating of the energy consumption potential measured by the total benefit. Only those who know how much energy they consume and those who create transparency in energy costs can save energy accordingly and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. A false sense of energy, as well as environmental awareness when it comes to exhaust air purification, can be damaging. Some managers either try not to invest into an exhaust air filtration system or they try to keep the investment low by purchasing unsuitable filter elements, which create more costs in the end. Large amounts of exhaust air cause a high energy consumption of the ventilation systems as well as considerable heating costs in the winter. Unsuitable filter elements like mechanical filters do not reduce the energy consumption remarkably, do not have a highly separation efficiency and need frequent investments for filter exchanges. However, alternative technologies not only clean the exhaust air, but also reduces energy costs and carbon dioxide emissions. The energy savings then result in amortization times of less than 2 years. KMA Umwelttechnik is specialized on exhaust air filtration systems for diecasting machines. With the customized KMA extraction hood at each diecasting machine, the exhaust air is captured right at the emission source. By not allowing fumes to get dispersed in the hall, a nonessential increase of the exhaust air volume, which needs to be purified, is avoided because a high air volume always means high energy consumption. Each

近几十年以来的气候变化已经反复证明，治理环境污染是一项艰巨的任务。然而，拥有未来发展观的能源意识显得比以往更加重要。未来发展观的能源意识可以理解为按总效益衡量的恰当的能源消耗。企业只有了解消耗多少能源并清晰掌握能源消耗成本，才能降低二氧化碳排放量。错误的能源及环保意识对治理废气排放问题是不利的。有些企业管理者不愿购买废气过滤设备，或者不愿投资太多而购买了不适合的过滤设备，结果成本反而增加了更多。大量的废气使企业冬季通风系统的能源消耗及供热成本增多。不适宜的过滤系统，例如机械过滤，不会明显减少能源消耗、分离效率不高，而且还需经常更换滤芯。一项新的技术不仅可以清洁废气，还可以降低能源成本和二氧化碳排放。企业的能源节约可以使2年内收回投资。客明环境公司专门为压铸机研发废气过滤系统。在压铸机上安装了客明环境公司的定制排气罩后，废气可以在排出口收集起来。由于产生的废气不会扩散在室内，避免大部分不必要的空气的净化，因为需要净化的废气越多意味着能源消耗越多。每台压铸机还配备了非集中的紧凑型过滤系统。过滤单元的静电除尘器，

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高能效的客明环境空气净化设备的投资回报周期短，大部分少于 2年。

product news/產品新聞 diecasting machine is also equipped with one decentralized compact filter system. The filter units are electrostatic precipitators, which ensure highly effective separations of smoke, dust, and fine mist whilst using little energy. Unsuitable filter types can quickly clog and become ineffective, leading to excessive costs associated with filter replacement and disposal. However, changing the electrostatic filter cells is not necessary and they never obstruct the air flow through the exhaust system. The electrostatic filter is an economical and durable filter medium for many applications. Because of the highly separation efficiency of the electrostatic precipitator the purified exhaust air can be led back into the production hall. So, at the same time, this method avoids heating costs during the winter period, because the transported air to outdoors must not be replaced with the same amount of cold air from outside, which needs to be heated up first. These facts decrease the company´s operation costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. An interesting aspect about modern solutions for air purification is the energy efficiency. Air treatment systems with a disadvantageous layout can cause enormous running costs. A modern solution, however, can help to reduce the energy consumption and operating costs significantly, permitting a short payback period on air filtration installations. ■

可以使用很少的能源保证烟、尘和细水雾的分离。不合适的过滤设备很快会因堵塞而停止工作，从而产生更多过滤设备更换和处理的成本。但是，静电过滤器单元不是必须更换的，它们不会阻碍排气系统的气流。静电过滤器是经济耐用的过滤装置，用途广泛。由于静电滤尘器的分离效率高，净化后的气流可以导回生产单元。同时，这种方法避免空气排出到室外，不会被外界等量的冷空气所取代，由于冷空气还需预热，因而这种方法可以节省冬季的供热成本。这些因素使公司降低了经营成本和二氧化碳排放。先进空气净化解决方案的一个重要方面是能效。空气处理系统的不合理布局可能产生大量的运营成本。但是，现代的解决方案有助于显著降低能耗和经营成本，还能在短期内收回安装空气净化设备的投资。

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Magnesium Pressure Diecasting in Trend 镁合金压铸的发展趋势 The EUROGUSS 2018 – International Trade Fair for Die Casting will show innovative solutions for the production and application of diecast components. Many metallic objects are produced by pressure diecasting. One of those metals which are ideally suited for this process is magnesium. The demand is growing with the automotive industry and its continuous demand for lightweight construction acting as a driver of innovation. Other industries whose products are in demand for a low weight and a favorable strength weight ratio also are boosting the demand.

Advantageous Characteristics Magnesium has a specific density of 1.74 g/cm³ and is therefore one-third lighter than aluminum with 2.75 g/cm³. Pure magnesium, however, is relatively soft. In order to use it as a construction material, it is alloyed with elements like aluminum, zinc, manganese and silicon. Depending on the composition, the tensile strength of these alloys is between 200 to 310 MPa being therefore in a range which is typical for aluminum alloys. The same can be said of the strength to weight ratio. Furthermore, magnesium alloys demonstrate favorable elongation and impact strength values, the damping characteristics and the electromagnetic shielding are very good. Magnesium materials are easy to process and can be completely recycled. When processing magnesium materials, however, it has to be considered that magnesium in melted and pulverized form exhibits with oxygen a strong exothermal reaction. This can cause explosion-like deflagrations. The surface of a magnesium melt has therefore to be protected against the air by a protective gas atmosphere. 58

压铸工艺可以生产很多金属产品，其中，一种理想的金属材料是镁。随着汽车工业的发展及轻量化的创新驱动，镁合金的需求不断增长。其他行业的产品对于轻量化、优越的强度和重量比的要求，也助推了镁合金的需求。

优势特点镁的密度为1.74 g/cm³，重量比铝（密度为 2.75 g/cm³）轻三分之一。但是，纯镁比较软。为了将镁用于结构材料，需要将镁与铝、锌、锰和硅混合为合金材料。根据不同的成分构成，这些合金的拉伸强度在200-310MPa之间，正好处于铝合金的强度范围，同样还有强度和重量比。此外，镁合金还显示出优越的延伸率和冲击强度值，良好的阻尼特性和电磁屏蔽性能。镁易于加工并可完全回收利用。但是，在镁的加工处理中，应考虑镁在熔化和粉状时由于接触到氧气会产生强烈的放热反应，从而产生爆炸式的爆燃。因此，镁熔化物的表面应得到气体层保护，与空气隔离。在加工镁合金

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product news/產品新聞 Also when machining magnesium parts certain protective measures are necessary.

Magnesium Pressure Diecasting Magnesium melts at 650C, and a very thin fluid and lightweight. Therefore, magnesium materials are ideally suited to be shaped by pressure diecasting. As the thinbodied melt fills the mold quickly, short cycle times and therefore high productivity is possible. The castings can be designed thin-walled. “However, magnesium pressure diecasting requires a particular knowledge,” said Hartmut Fischer, managing director of the STIHL Magnesium Druckguss Prüm-Weinsheim company. “In order to take maximum advantage of the material properties it is necessary to ‘think in terms of magnesium.’” This begins with the design of the castings. Consequently, the company succeeded to replace an aluminum protective cover for a gasoline-driven angle grinder by a completely redesigned magnesium part made by pressure diecasting. The cover was originally made from an aluminum sheet and weighing 1,040 g, the new cover weighs only 690 grams, a weight reduction of 34%. Simultaneously, the manufacturing costs could be halved. Hartmut Fischer, whose company is among the leading magnesium pressure diecasting foundries throughout Europe, sees even more application potential for magnesium pressure diecasting because: “Wherever weight is important there is an increasing pressure to reduce weight.” This is the case with electrically powered vehicles, for example. The weight increase caused by the batteries could be reduced by components made by magnesium pressure diecasting, for example the battery cover. The industry could open up further potential through new magnesium alloys which withstand higher operating temperatures and offer an improved creep resistance which is very important for screw connections. The trends also include the combination of different lightweight materials. Parts made from magnesium are combined with plastics or composite materials by casting or gluing in order that the advantageous properties of all involved materials can be exploited to an optimal extent.

Applications Typical parts made of magnesium pressure diecasting which are used in the automotive industry are gear box housings, housings for electronic components, supporting structures of instrument panels, components of seats, steering wheels, rims, door reinforcements, tailgates and chassis components. Also housings for mobile phones and flat screens as well as crankcases and covers for handheld tools for forestry and garden such as chainsaws, brush cutters, hedge trimmers, angle grinders and drilling machines are made of magnesium pressure diecasting. An insight into the state-of-the-art in pressure die casting and suggestions as to how diecasting foundries can strengthen and expand their market position will be provided at the EUROGUSS 2018-International Trade Fair for Die Casting: Technology, Processes, Products in Nuremberg, Germany, January 16-18, 2018. ■

部件时，也有必要采取相应的保护措施。

镁合金压铸镁的熔点为650℃，镁熔液非常薄且轻。因此，镁合金是压铸工艺的理想材料。稀薄的金属液能够很快充满铸型，生产周期缩短、生产力高。铸件也能设计为薄壁铸件。STIHL Magnesium Druckguss Prüm-Weinsheim公司总经理Hartmut Fischer说：“镁合金压铸工艺需要专业知识和技能，为了充分利用镁合金材料特性的优势，有必要‘从镁的角度考虑问题’” 。这就需要从铸件的设计开始。最终，公司成功用全新设计的镁合金压铸件代替了汽油驱动角磨机原来使用的铝合金保护罩。该保护罩最先由铝片制成，重量为1040g，新保护罩重量仅为690g，重量减轻了34%。同时，生产成本是原来的一半。Hartmut Fischer的公司是欧洲镁合金压铸领域的领先企业，他对镁合金压铸的应用充满信心：“铸件的重量是非常重要的，轻量化的需求将不断增加。” 电动汽车行业也是如此。电动汽车的电池增加了汽车重量，轻量化的镁合金汽车零部件可以降低汽车重量，例如电池壳。新的镁合金耐高温、抗蠕变性能力强，这些特性对螺纹接口很重要，因此，镁合金行业的发展潜力巨大。这一发展趋势还包括不同轻质材料的结合。镁合金制成的零部件通过铸造或粘合将塑料或复合材料结合在一起，所有的材料特性可以得到充分利用。

应用镁合金压铸工艺生产的汽车零部件产品主要有齿轮箱壳体、电子组件壳体、仪表盘支撑结构、座椅框架、方向盘、轮毂、车门加固件、后挡板、底盘组件等。此外，手机和平板电脑外壳、园林设备手持工具的曲轴箱和壳体，例如链锯、割草机、绿篱机、角磨机和钻孔机也采用了镁合金压铸工艺。 EUROGUSS 2018将于2018年1月16-18日在德国纽伦堡举办，将展示最先进的压铸技术、工艺和产品，并探讨如何增强和扩大压铸企业的市场地位和影响力。 ■

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Jinan MECH Valve Invests in Stereoscopic Warehouse 济南迈克阀门的立体仓库投资过亿元 Jinan MECH Valve Technology Co., Ltd. is the whollyowned subsidiary of Jinan Meide Casting Co. Ltd., which is specialized in the production and sale of casting pipe fittings. As a labor-intensive manufacturing company, MECH Valve has become the industry epitome and representative in the construction of automated production and logistics. Early in 2011, the parent company Meide Casting decided to invest 650 million yuan for the reconstruction and upgrade of every process and developed the complete flow automated production and logistics system independently, including casting, pouring, intelligent stereoscopic warehouse and EMS track. As for logistics construction, MECH has used traveling cranes, forklifts, and belt conveyors to realize the shifts of different processes. The new technology park adopts automated cable logistics including shuttle vehicle, stocker, suspension selfpropelled trolley, etc. Since 2012, MECH Valve has carried out two-phase construction of its stereoscopic warehouse. The stereoscopic warehouse and logistics system are applied to the storage of raw material, semi-finished products and finished products. It is one of the most complicated automated logistic systems in China with leading technology in the world. Automated storage and management can be implemented. MECH Valve cooperated with Hefei Gen-song Automation Technology in the planning of the complete production process of the new plant, with this stereoscopic warehouse as its center. The whole process not only includes the automated storage system, and also the delivery systems of material and finished products. The EMS transport system developed independently by Gen-song has been put into use. ■

MECH’s stereoscopic warehouse designed by Gen-song.

济南迈克阀门科技有限公司是济南玫德铸造有限公司的全资子公司，济南玫德专注于铸造管件生产和销售。作为一家劳动密集的传统制造企业，迈克阀门对于自动化生产及自动化物流的建设成为行业的缩影和代表。 2011年，玫德下定决心，投资6.5亿元，全面梳理了各环节生产工序，进行流程再造，自主研发了涵盖铸造、浇铸、智能立体仓库和EMS轨道等在内的全流程自动化生产物流系统。在物流建设方面，迈克阀门近几年开始大量采用行车、叉车、皮带机等机械化运输方式来实现产品工序交转，新型科技园的物流采用穿梭车、堆垛机、悬挂自行小车等全自动有轨物流设备，不仅自动化，而且智能化。 2012年开始，迈克阀门的立体仓库总计打造了两期。该立体仓库及物流系统用于迈克阀门的原材料、半成品及成品的存储。采用世界先进水平的自动化物流仓储设备，实现自动存储和自动化管理，是当前国内最为复杂的自动化物流系统之一。井松为其规划设计了整个新厂区的生产流程，将立体仓库设计为整个厂区的中心。整套系统不仅包含了自动化仓储系统，还涉及生产线的物料配送和产成品输送环节，并应用了井松自主研发的EMS（空中悬挂小车）输送系统。 ■

井松为迈克阀门设计的立体仓库硬件设施

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Yizumi India Factory Delivers the First Injection Molding Machine to Customer 伊之密印度工厂第一台注塑机顺利交付客户 At the end of June 2017, UN650A5, the first injection molding machine manufactured by Yizumi India factory, was successfully delivered to customer for production of daily necessities. In view of customer’s production environment and the demand in Indian market, Yizumi’s business and technical teams earlier had conducted a great deal of market and technical research in India and made customized improvement on this machine. Less than a month after officially going into operation, Yizumi India factory has received batch orders from different customers and switched into high gear for production. The Indian factory, whose full name is Yizumi Precision Machinery (India) Private Limited, was jointly invested and set up by the Yizumi and Varadan Ramesh who has over 20 years of experience in Indian injection molding industry. The new business was officially registered on August 4, 2016 and put into operation in June this year. It is located in Ahmedabad of Gujarat, India and covers an area of 8,775 square meters. To gain more popularity of HPM in Indian market and further develop the local market, Yizumi uses the dual-brand logo “YIZUMI-HPM” in India. Unlike HPM North America Corporation which operates on the basis of localization, Yizumi’s Indian factory integrates Chinese management philosophy and

Exterior of India factory

2017年6月底，伊之密印度工厂第一台注塑机—— UN650A5顺利交付客户，用于生产日常生活用品。针对客户的生产环境以及印度市场的需求，伊之密业务人员及技术团队前期在印度做了大量市场及技术调研，对这台机器做了定制化的改善。正式投产不到一个月，伊之密印度工厂已接到来自不同客户的批量订单，目前印度工厂的生产任务仍在紧锣密鼓地进行中。印度工厂全称伊之密精密机械（印度）有限公司，由伊之密与在印度注塑行业有超过20年经验的Varadan Ramesh共同投资设立，于2016年8月4日完成注册，今年6月份正式投产，厂址位于印度古吉拉特邦的阿尔迈德巴德市，占地面积8775m2。为巩固HPM在印度市场的知名度并进一步开拓市场，伊之密在印度采用了双品牌标识YIZUMI-HPM。区别于在北美HPM生产基地的本土化运营，伊之密印度工厂实行中印融合管理，将已有的管理理念和方法与印度文化相结合，以创新思维经营管理伊之密印

印度工厂外观

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product news/產品新聞 methods with Indian culture, operating with innovative ideas. To support and facilitate multi-national operations and management, Yizumi’s Chinese headquarters and Indian factory exchange employees for learning and training. In addition, Yizumi has planned to organize language skill training for technical workers and engineers in batch to enhance their transnational communication ability. This year, the main work of Yizumi’s Indian factory is to establish a quality management system according to standard operation procedures, to develop spare part suppliers, to build sales and service network, to seek improvement while maintaining stability and to provide efficient service for customers. “We plan to produce 100 to 150 machines this year and we don’t want to move forward too fast. We should firstly ensure that our products, though made in India, are of the same quality as those manufactured in our Chinese headquarters.” said James Zhang, Yizumi Deputy Managing Director and General Manager of Yizumi Injection Molding Machine Division. In response to the demand in Indian market, Yizumi’s Indian factory will focus on manufacturing 650 tons and smaller SM series and A5 series injection molding machines at early stage and then gradually set about engineering of largetonnage two-platen machines. The machines characterized by energy saving, high efficiency and stability will be positioned as medium to high-end products in Indian market. Zhang said, “The Indian factory will meet the needs for injection molding machines in the Indian market. Besides, a die casting machine overhaul platform will be built in the Indian factory to support the local overhaul work.” ■

度工厂。为支持和促进跨国运营和管理，伊之密中

The first UN650A5 injection molding machine produced by Yizumi India factory

印度工厂第一台UN650 A5注塑机

国总部和印度工厂会互派人员进行学习和培训。同时，为提升技术工程师的跨国交流能力，伊之密已经制定相关计划分批对工程技术人员进行语言技能培训。伊之密印度工厂今年的主要工作是按照标准作业流程，建立品质管理体系，开发零部件供应商，搭建营销服务网络，稳中求进，为客户提供高效服务。伊之密董事副总经理兼注塑机事业部总经理张涛表示，“今年的产量计划是100到150台，我们不想走得太快，现在要以体系和制度保证，即使是异地生产，产品的性能和质量都与中国总部制造的产品保持相同的水准。” 针对印度市场的需求，伊之密印度工厂前期计划以生产650吨及以下的中小吨位SM和A5机型为主，逐步向大型两板机机器进行延伸，产品以节能、高效率、稳定的特点定位为印度市场的中高端产品。张涛说，“伊之密印度工厂将支撑整个印度市场对注塑机的需求，我们要把在全球其他市场的成功经验复制到印度去。此外，印度工厂还将建立压铸机大修平台，支持印度市场压铸机的大修工作。” ■

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The Swing in the Automotive Industry Requires New Thinking and A Wider Choice of Technologies vanessa ashworth, vice president marketing communications, norican group talking with foundry-planet´s editor-in-chief, thomas fritsch

汽车工业的发展需要新思路和更广泛的技术选择铸造星球总编托马斯·弗里奇采访诺瑞肯集团营销与传播副总裁凡妮莎·阿什沃思 DISA, Wheelabrator, Italpresse Gauss, and StrikoWestofen are under the umbrella of the Norican Group. This is a clear acknowledgment for the foundry industry and the variety of materials and processes. How do you view the development in sand mould and light metal cast in the next 10 years? The automotive industry is the significant driver for key developments in sand molding and light metal diecasting. Within this industry, vehicle “light-weighting” is the dominant trend today to reduce CO2 emissions and create greater fuel efficiency. As a direct result of light-weighting, we expect that our customers will increase aluminum content within each car. Based on reports produced by the automotive industry itself, we would expect to see a 7-8% growth in the use of aluminum per car produced overall. According to Ducker Worldwide, aluminum will account for 19% of the material mix of a car by 2025. Our addition of aluminum parts formation technologies (melting, holding and dosing furnaces and high pressure, gravity and low pressure diecasting technologies) is a direct result of this swing. It is a way to provide our customers with a wider choice of technologies to serve their end customers’ requirements. In addition to light-weighting, we are seeing other structural trends in our customers’ markets: • Ongoing consolidation of small foundries. We continue to see a shift from manual gray iron operations to highpressure, automated molding lines. We introduced the new DISA C3 automated vertical molding lines last year specifically to help smaller foundries make this technology transition. • Larger global companies demanding increased local presence. Our customers continue to demand higher level of service support for their facilities. In response to this requirement, suppliers (ourselves included) need to rethink how they prioritize their investments. Our approach, which has been further enhanced by the addition of the well-recognized and respected technology products 64

迪砂、维尔贝莱特、意特佩雷斯、高斯和史杰克西已正式归于诺瑞肯集团旗下，这是对铸造行业及各种材质和工艺的清晰认识。您如何看待未来10年砂型铸造和轻金属铸造行业的发展？汽车行业是砂型铸造和轻合金压铸发展的重要推动力。汽车“轻量化”是当今行业发展的主要趋势，将减少二氧化碳排放，创造更高的燃油效率。作为轻量化的直接结果，我们预计我们的客户将提升每辆车内铝合金零部件的比例。根据汽车工业的报告，我们预计每辆汽车铝合金的使用量将增长 7%至8%。据达科市场咨询公司的数据，到2025年，每辆汽车铝合金使用量将占全部材料的19%。我们新增铝合金零部件成型技术（熔炼、保温和定量炉以及高压、重力和低压压铸技术）正是应对这种趋势的直接措施。我们要为客户提供更广泛的技术选择，保证他们能够满足最终客户的需求。除轻量化趋势外，我们还注意到客户市场的其他结构性趋势： • 中小铸型造厂持续发展。我们不断看到企业从原来的手工造型生产灰铸铁件转变为用高压压铸或自动造型线生产铸件。我们去年新推出的DISA C3自动造型线就是为了帮助小铸造厂实现技术转型。 • 全球性的大公司要求增加本地化服务。我们的客户继续要求对设备提供更高水平的服务支持。为了满足这一要求，供应商（包括我们自己）需要重新考虑如何优先安排他们的投资。我们的方法始终是为本地客户提供售后零部件和服务，而且这一能力已经通过引入公认的、受人尊敬的包括意特佩雷斯、高斯和史杰克西的技术和产品得到进一步增强。通过向现有的本地

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of Italpresse Gauss and StrikoWestofen, has always been to deliver the aftermarket parts and service regionally. By adding more technology to the existing regional structure, we can provide assurances to our customers that no matter which technology platform they choose to use, we will always be there to support their choice, no matter where they operate. • A need for continuous innovation: To ensure their own sustainability, our customers must continually bring new innovations to the market. They must constantly seek out innovative ways in which to reduce their costs per produced part while increasing production speeds. This requires business partners with both broad and deep technical experience. Suppliers who can help a customer (regardless of the metal being used) continuously improve their operation, while supplying world-class local support will be much sought after. It is with this in mind that the Norican Group has evolved the way it has. • Urbanization and global labour shortage: Our customers, whether they use green sand molding or aluminum diecasting technologies, are facing an unparalleled labour force challenge. The rise of the global information age has fundamentally changed the way the upcoming labor force views employment opportunities. Working in basic production environments is not at the top of the younger generations’ wish list for employment. Furthermore, there is a clear and undeniable trend towards urbanization that stands in sharp contrast to the predominately rural coordinates of the world’s manufacturing locations. The shift from manual to automated production helps here, as does the development of knowledge-based solutions to augment the mechanical operations of the installed equipment. We can support our customers by making the traditional parts formation industries more “tech savvy,” more intelligent to appeal to the younger generation of workers.

化构架中增加更多技术选项，我们可以向客户保证，无论他们在哪里，无论他们选择使用哪一个技术平台，我们将始终支持他们的选择。 • 需要持续创新：为了确保自身的可持续性，我们的客户必须不断地为市场带来创新。他们必须不断寻求创新工艺，降低生产成本、同时提高劳动生产率。这需要他们的业务伙伴具有全面和深入的技术经验。供应商可以帮助客户（无论产品是什么材质）不断提升他们的生产运营，同时，提供世界一流的本地化支持将受到追捧。因此，诺瑞肯集团已经采取应对措施。 • 城市化和全球劳动力短缺：我们的客户，无论是使用粘土湿型砂铸造还是铝合金压铸技术，都面临着空前的劳动力短缺的挑战。全球信息时代的兴起，从根本上改变了即将出现的劳动力看待就业机会的方式。在基础制造业行业工作并不是年轻一代就业的的首选。此外，城市化进程已是现实且不可避免，与世界制造业地理位置主要处于村镇形成鲜明对比。从手工到自动化生产的转变有助于改变现状，同样还有以知识为导向的解决方案将提升已安装设备的机械操作方式。我们可以通过将传统零件成型行业变得更加“技术化”、更智能化来吸引年轻一代加入到客户的公司。 • 新兴产业结构的变化：与我们所有客户的行业相关的是不断增长的信息化带来的机会，以提高现有的生产效率（“工业4.0”），以及日益可行的3D金属打印技术。

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• Emerging industry structural changes: Cutting across all our customers’ industries are the emerging opportunities arising from the increasing use of information to increase existing manufacturing productivity (“Industry 4.0”), and the increasingly viable 3-D metal printing technology. The new brand portfolio makes Norican the largest supplier of foundry machinery worldwide. To what extent will Norican retain their traditionally strong brand and cultural characteristics in the future? Norican has always and will continue to focus its technical innovation on the customers’ requirements. Our brands are the means with which we communicate this innovation to very specific customer segments. Therefore, it is not about us and our brands – it is about the customer. We want to provide our customers with a great customer experience, no matter who they are interacting with within our Group. We believe that doing this will make it easier for the customer to do business with us. What our customers value from us is our ability to provide quality, reliable products, our ability to support their operations locally in a manner that improves their profitability. This is not complicated. Optimizing this simple equation, though, is at the heart of everything we do. What does that mean for our customers? In Norican, they are getting a global industry view. The breadth and depth of our combined technical offering, combined with our deep knowledge of local operating conditions, allows us to provide unique operational insight for all our customers, regardless of the industries they are in. We aim to be a valued partner for our customers as they seek to upgrade their existing technologies, move into new technologies or establish footholds in geographic markets that they have not previously served. In terms of cultural differences, how central will communication be on various issues, target groups and markets? And how will customers benefit? As a global company, Norican uses a two-pronged approach for “making our value visible” to our customers. First, we listen to the needs of our customers. Our strategic regions provide a consistent “voice of the customer” (VOC) framework for this. This VOC defines our internal operating requirements for everything we do (innovation, customer service, order fulfilment, etc.). At the same time, our global product groups (parts formation, parts preparation, parts finishing) are developing technical responses to the innovation requirements, as well thinking about “over the horizon” issues which may affect our customers (like 3D printing, Industry 4.0). The global product groups drive the growth in the technology we offer and are responsible for industryfocused brand messaging (features and benefits, specifications, etc.). Our strategic regions control the regional application of that message (to accommodate 66

新的品牌组合，使诺瑞肯成为全球最大的铸造设备的供应商。今后，诺瑞肯将如何保持并扩大强大的传统品牌影响力和文化特征？诺瑞肯一直并将继续关注客户对于其技术创新的要求。我们的品牌是我们将这种创新传达给特定客户群体的工具。因此，它不仅是关于我们的品牌，也是关于客户的。我们希望为我们的客户提供卓越的客户体验，无论他们与我们集团内的哪一个员工进行沟通。我们相信这样做会使客户与我们做生意变得更容易。我们的客户从我们这里获取的价值包括：a）我们有能力提供高质量、可靠的产品；b）我们有能力支持他们在当地的业务；c）提高他们的盈利能力。这并不复杂。但是，优化这个简单的方程式是我们做每件事的核心。在诺瑞肯，我们正在建立全球产业观。这对我们的客户意味着什么？我们的联合技术提供的广度和深度，加上我们对当地业务条件的深刻了解，使我们能够为我们所有的客户提供独特的可操作的洞察力，无论他们从事什么行业。我们的目标是成为我们客户有价值的合作伙伴，无论他们要寻找现有技术的升级方案，引入新的技术或在新的市场立足。沟通将发挥怎样的作用？客户将如何受益？作为全球化的公司，诺瑞肯集团采用双管齐下的方法使我们的客户能够“对我们的价值可见”。首先，我们倾听客户的需求。我们各个战略区域提供一致的“客户声音”（VOC）框架。这个VOC定义了我们所有业务的内部操作要求（创新、客户服务、订单履行等）。与此同时，我们的全球产品团队（零件形成，零件准备，零件完成）正在根据创新的要求开发技术，以及思考“即将来临”的问题，可能对我们的客户产生影响（如3D打印，工业4.0）。全球产品团队推动了我们技术的增长，并负责以行业为中心的品牌信息传递（功能和优点、规格等）。我们的战略区域负责控制这些产品在本区域应用（适应本地客户和语言的细微差别），并向当地市场提供诺瑞肯集团所有的产品介绍。过去10年来，交流方式发生了巨大的变化。我们必须在某种程度上与我们所有客户是可以沟通的——客户来自所有部门和地区。然而，每个用户体验都必须对其特定的个体有意义，而不是对基础广泛的通用受众。我们必须建立个人关系，这种关系应该是有意义的和持久的-。

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local customers and language nuances) to provide the local marketplace with an overview of all that Norican has to offer. In the age of foundry 4.0, research and development is even more important. With the strengths of the group, how will your brands benefit from this? It is not the brands that are looking for benefit per se, but the customer. As a company, we need to stay ahead of their requirements in this regard. We need to lead the field and be the foundry expert our customers demand. It is the only way we will help our customers remain sustainable. As mentioned earlier, there are two emerging opportunities within our customers’ industries: Industry 4.0 and 3D metal printing. For us to serve our customers better, we need to be aware of these emerging technologies and take a view of the best way to support our customers into the future. Overall, Foundry 4.0 or Industry 4.0 efforts are a huge opportunity for our customers. Being able to dramatically increase their throughput using less time and at a lower cost will appeal to everyone. Norican is in a unique position to provide a solution for this due to the nature of our end-to-end technical process view at a customer site. We have team members currently working on various aspects of a comprehensive offer that will allow a customer to connect disparate unit operations seamlessly with each other. Furthermore, we are looking into digital tools that will increase our customers’ profitability through the use of artificial intelligence, predictive and preventative maintenance analytics, product throughput statistics, energy optimization, and so on. Industry 4.0 solutions will provide our customers with a potential answer to the changing labor force demographics. For example, we already offer remote monitoring services to iron foundry customers. This helps them augment already stretched employees with real-time application support. We see this as just the first step in a broader industry solution. Finally, we envision a world where our AI solutions will learn and continue to learn from a wide array of operating events, and different sequences of events, to drive predictive actions – like changing parts, or adapting programmes to avoid breakages and downtime. We feel that this will also drive innovation for ourselves and our customers as it helps identify key improvement opportunities. It is this ability to provide unique insight that will become the predominant determining factor when choosing a partner in the future. And we are planning for this today. The benefits of a standardized Industry 4.0 solution for our customers is enormous. Even small improvements of 1% increased throughput can make the difference between staying in business or being pushed aside

在铸造4.0时代，研发变得更为重要。凭借集团的优势，各个品牌将如何受益？不是品牌本身在寻找利益，而是为客户创造利益。作为企业，我们需要领先于客户的要求。我们要成为铸造领域的领导者，成为客户需求的铸造专家。这是我们帮助客户保持可持续性发展的唯一途径。如前所述，在我们客户的行业中有两个新的机会：工业4.0和3D金属打印技术。为了更好地为我们的客户服务，我们需要关注并了解这些新兴技术，并着眼于找出支持我们的客户走向未来的最佳途径。总体而言，铸造4.0或工业4.0的尝试对我们的客户孕育着巨大的机会。能够以较少的时间和更低的成本显著提高产能将吸引所有人的关注。诺瑞肯集团在这方面的解决方案独占优势，可以在客户现场进行端到端的技术支持。我们的团队成员目前正在综合各方面工作，使客户能够无缝地连接不同的单元。此外，我们正在研究数字工具，通过使用人工智能、预测性和预防性维护分析、产品产量统计、能源优化等来提高客户的盈利能力。工业4.0的解决方案将为我们的客户提供应对不断变化的劳动力人口统计数据的潜在方案。例如，我们已经为铸铁客户提供远程监控服务。这有助于他们利用实时应用程序支持来补充已经捉襟见肘的员工。我们认为这只是更广泛的行业解决方案的第一步。最后，我们设想，在未来的世界，我们的人工智能解决方案将了解并持续了解各种不同的生产作业、作业的顺序，从而采取预测性的行动——例如更换部件，或调整程序避免设备损坏和停机。我们认为，这也将推动我们和客户的创新，因为它有助于识别关键的改进机会。正是这种能力提供了独特的洞察力，将成为未来选择合作伙伴时的主要决定因素。我们目前正着手开展工作。工业4.0标准化解决方案对我们客户的好处是巨大的。即使提高1%的产量，也可以对企业产生很大的影响，新技术的到来使企业继续在行业中发展或被推到一边。工业4.0的时代正在我们身边迅速发展，我们必须保持前进的步伐，以确保客户的成功。直到现在，诺瑞肯集团还没有在国际性的展览和会议上统一展示。集团预计何时能够展示合并后的企业

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by the flow of technology. The world of Industry 4.0 is rapidly growing around us, and we must maintain the pace to ensure our customers’ success. Up until now, the extent of the Norican family hasn’t been readily recognizable or openly advertised at trade fairs and events. When is the group expected to become involved in the combined corporate identity and when is reform at the management level expected to take place? We have never really pushed the Norican name - our customers have historically recognized us through our heritage technology brands. But now with so many brands under one roof we need to rethink this approach. Our focus has to be on the customer, and what he/ she needs, as Norican, we have a wide range of technologies and solutions to choose from – to provide that “complete foundry” support. A key part of the value proposition we provide to our customers is our local sales & service organization. We clearly cannot have a local sales & service organization operating under four different brand names (not to mention any additional names we may pick up through future acquisitions). We therefore concluded that we actually need to “brand” the local sales & service organisations separately from the technology brands to communicate the essence of this unique and local value proposition. The “Norican Group” brand, therefore, is being introduced and positioned as a portfolio of worldclass technologies being delivered and supported locally. At the same time, we will continue to promote technology portfolio brands, while linking them to the overall Norican family. Our branded technologies (DISA, Italpresse Gauss, StrikoWestofen and Wheelabrator) are the anchor for our business. We will continue to invest in their message of innovation while we build up our customers’ perception of the value we are delivering through our local sales and service offices. As importantly, we will explicitly link them together with a new tagline of “A Norican Technology.” This ties all our technologies to our sales and service regions with a simply understood message for the customer. In short, we will be more visible as Norican Group in the future. You will begin to see us roll out our new branding approach later this summer at various tradeshows throughout the world, with a goal of having our combined branding in place across all communication platforms (website, tradeshows, email addresses, signage, stationery letterhead, etc.) by the end of the year. This is an exciting year for us and our customers as we increase both the breadth and depth of our technology offer while strengthening our local product support capability. ■

形象，何时进行管理层的改革？我们从来没有真正推广诺瑞肯的名称——我们的客户一直认可我们合并前的不同的技术品牌。但现在有这么多品牌在同一旗下，我们需要重新考虑这种推广方式。我们的重点是客户以及他们的需求，诺瑞肯集团拥有广泛的技术和解决方案可以选择——提供“完整的铸造”支持方案。我们向客户提供的价值主张的核心是我们本地化的销售与服务。我们显然不可能组建在4种不同品牌下运作的本地销售和服务组织（更别提我们将来可能获得的其他品牌）。因此，我们的结论是，我们实际上需要的“品牌”是本地化的销售与服务组织，将技术品牌与此分开，以传达这一独特价值和本地化服务价值主张的精髓。因此，“诺瑞肯集团”的品牌将定位为世界一流的技术交付和本地化支持。同时，我们将继续推动技术品牌组合，将他们纳入诺瑞肯的大家庭中。我们的技术品牌（迪砂、意特佩雷斯、高斯，史杰克西与维尔贝莱特）是我们业务的依靠。我们将继续推广他们的创新信息，同时通过我们当地的销售和服务办公室得到客户对我们所提供的价值的认可。重要的是，我们将明确地把新的口号“诺瑞肯技术”和它们联系在一起。这将使我们所有的技术与销售和服务区域联系起来，并为客户提供简单明了的信息。总之，未来我们将更加突出诺瑞肯集团。从今年夏天开始，在世界各地的很多展览会上，你将开始看到我们新的品牌推广方式，目标是在所有交流平台（网站、展览会、电子邮件、标识、文具信笺等等）推出我们的联合品牌。对于我们和我们的客户来说，这是激动人心的一年，因为我们在增强本地产品支持能力的同时，提高了技术提供的广度和深度。 ■

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