EUROGUSS 2018

•••2••• Messewelten Attractive supporting programme Euroguss 2018 fully booked – Entire die casting supply chain in Nuremburg “Many exhibitors have chosen to have larger stands than they did at the last event,” says Christo- pher Boss, Exhibition Director at NürnbergMesse. “Naturally, all the market leaders will be out in force again, but we also have new exhibitors on board. Every last square metre of the three exhibi- tion halls has been booked, so we are absolutely full. This shows just how important die casting is for lightweight construction.” More than half of Euroguss ex- hibitors are international. After Germany, the biggest exhibiting nation is Italy, followed by Turkey, Switzerland, Austria and Spain. Around 38 per cent of the exhibi- tors are die casting foundries. The remaining exhibitors will be show- casing die casting technology like machines, peripheral equipment, furnaces, moulds, metals, alloys, release agents and operating ma- terials. There will also be displays covering the after-treatment of castings, hardening and surface technology, quality management, control and drive technology, rap- id prototyping and software. The trade visitors to Euroguss are mainly decision-makers and us- ers from the automotive industry, machine and plant engineering companies, mould making spe- cialists, the electronics industry, energy and medical technology and die casting foundries. Die Casting Congress In 2018, the International German Die Casting Congress, which is very popular with trade fair visi- tors, will take place in the directly adjacent and easily accessible NCC Ost Congress Center. Presenta- tions on the latest industry issues and developments will be the fo- cus at the established three-day event. The presentations will be simultaneously translated into English for the benefit of all inter- national visitors. The congress is hosted by the Association of Ger- man Die Casting Foundries (VDD) within the German Foundry Asso- ciation (BDG). Participation in the congress is included in the trade fair admission price. Special workshops For the first time, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) is of- fering three special workshops on 15 January. They will cover the fol- lowing topics: Hybrid casting for automotive construction; Simula- tion in foundry technology; and IT security in the foundry sector. On 16 January workshop partici- pants will get the opportunity to take part free of charge in exclu- sive guided tours about Euroguss including a visit to the exhibition. The separate pavilion for the key topic of finishing technology, which successfully premiered two years ago, will be featured once again in 2018. The after-treatment and coating of functional and heavy duty castings is an impor- tant issue for casting foundries. Appropriate machines and pro- cessing technologies help to give the surfaces of cast products a high-quality appearance and may involve treatments like deburr- ing, grinding, polishing, coating or finishing. The finishing pavilion in Hall 6, Stand 6-333 will show- case companies that offer ma- chining and surface finishing of lightweight metals. Once again, there will be plenty of excitement during the opening ceremony for Euroguss on the Monday evening of 16 January 2018, when the win- ners of the three competitions for aluminium, zinc and (for the first time) magnesium die cast- ing will be announced. The host associations use these awards to recognise especially outstanding die cast parts. Their objective is also to make the public aware of the wide range of applications for aluminium, zinc and magnesium materials and their special proper- ties. The awards will be presented during the opening ceremony. A detailed presentation about the winning products will be held dur- ing the International German Die Casting Congress. Die casting sector on growth course According to the Association of German Die Casting Foundries (VDD), most German die casting foundries were able to increase their sales and production vol- umes in 2016 and 2017. In the first half of 2017, aluminium die cast- ing was up 7.1 per cent to 338,000 metric tons, zinc die casting was up 10.7 per cent to 32,000 metric tons, and magnesium die casting rose by 1.5 per cent to 9,100 met- ric tons. On the client side, the automotive market is playing an increasingly dominant role, ac- counting for roughly 70 per cent in the meantime. The remaining 30 per cent of die cast production is distributed over a large number of different customer segments. A separate pavilion for the key topic of finishing tech- nology is located in Hall 6, Stand 6-333. Photo: NuernbergMesse / Frank Boxler Euroguss shows how important die casting is for lightweight construction, stresses Exhibition Director Christopher Boss. Photo: NuernbergMesse / Frank Boxler Continued from page 1