China News Service, Deyang, October 26 (Wang Liwen, Yang Yong) “Deyang has a strong manufacturing foundation and strong industrial strength. It is constantly expanding the international market to provide high-quality products to the world.” The 75th World Foundry opened in Deyang, Sichuan on the 26th. At the meeting, Jose Javier Gonzalez, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the World Foundry Organization (WFO), praised that China is constantly opening up space to develop the foundry industry, and its production level and order volume are at the top Global leader.
From the 25th to the 30th, the 75th World Foundry Conference hosted by WFO was held in Deyang, with the theme of “Developing Foundry Industry”. About 1,500 industry experts, scholars and business representatives from more than 30 countries and regions around the world had in-depth dialogues focusing on casting science and technology, casting engineering applications, casting talent training and other fields, and shared research results and advanced technologies.
Lou Yanchun, Chairman of the WFO Executive Committee, pointed out that the global foundry industry is now moving rapidly towards digitalization, intelligence and greening. Integrated development based on casting technological progress is a win-win development for all parties. Among them, high-quality and high-level talents are the leaders, and young talents will inject new momentum and vitality into the development of the global foundry industry.
“China is the world's largest casting producer and a huge casting consumer market. The annual output of castings is about 55 million tons, accounting for nearly 50% of the global total.” Ding Wenjiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, hopes that colleagues from all over the world will take this opportunity to enter China. Suppliers and industry service organizations in all aspects of the foundry industry chain conduct on-site inspections and exchanges to jointly make greater contributions to the development and progress of the global foundry industry.
As an enterprise with extreme manufacturing capabilities in the world's major technical equipment field, Erzhong (Deyang) Heavy Equipment Co., Ltd. has recently developed key core casting and forging products such as the super large runner center body of the world's largest single-machine capacity 500MW impulse turbine. Liu Yu, the person in charge, said frankly that the company has cooperated with Siemens, Skoda, Mitsubishi and other brands in recent years, and this year it has made overseas expansion and promotion a key goal. He hopes to learn about the latest trends in the industry and expand international business by attending the conference, and bring China's major equipment manufacturing and services to the world.
Against the background of changes in the world's environmental protection landscape, Xie Huasheng, chairman of the organizing committee of the 75th World Foundry Conference, said that how to further promote technological progress in the foundry industry and build industry supply chains, innovation chains and talent chains are issues facing the industry. At present, China is consolidating its industrial foundation, optimizing top-level design, and strengthening international cooperation to continuously enhance the confidence and determination of foundry workers in scientific and technological innovation, thereby contributing “Chinese power” to the development of the global foundry industry. (over)