The situation on the market forces companies, including foundries, to change their production processes for the production of more and more demanding castings, ensuring higher and higher customer requirements and meeting environmental requirements. These changes go hand in hand with the new idea which is Industry 4.0.
Therefore, the next conference accompanying the Polish Foundryman’s Day 2021 entitled “The Foundry of the Future “ was devoted to the latest Technologies, Materials and Machines to improve the process, gain a competitive advantage and meet the ever-increasing market demands.
Papers will be presented by Polish and foreign authors – representatives of industry and research and development units. The conference was conducted in Polish and English (simultaneous translation).
This year’s Polish Foundryman’s Day was joined with the 85th anniversary of the Polish Foundrymen’s Association.
Due to the epidemic situation, the conference was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Chief Sanitary Inspector and taking into account the applicable regulations. The conference was a hybrid event. During the event, papers were presented by Polish and foreign authors – representatives of industry and research and development units. The conference was conducted in Polish and English.
Many guests took part in the official part of the celebration:
JOSE JAVIER GONZALES – Elect General Secretary of the World Foundry Organization
MIRIAM JAN BLAZIC – President of the Slovenian Foundrymen Society
JUHANI ORKAS – General Secretary of the Association of Finnish Foundry Industry
ANDRZEJ RYBA – President of the Foundry Chamber of Commerce
RAFAŁ DAŃKO – Vice-rector of AGH
MARCIN GÓRNY – Dean of the Faculty of Foundry Engineering AGH
MACIEJ ASŁANOWICZ – Honorary President of Polish Foundrymen’s Association
JOANNA KUCHARSKA – Director of the MTP Products Group
ANNA LEMAŃSKA-KRAMER – Director of ITM Industry Europe
PIOTR PAWELEC – Project Director of the Metal Fair
Unfortunately, the epidemiological situation made it impossible for some guests to participate directly in the ceremony and therefore their participation was possible remotely:
EWA MAŃKIEWICZ CUDNY – President of the Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations NOT
ANDREW TURNER – General Secretary of the World Foundry Organization
CARSTEN KUHLGATZA – Member of the Supervisory Board of HA Group and President of the World Foundry Organization in 2022-2024
THOMAS FRITSCH – CEO of the Foundry Planet Portal
ION ALEXANDRU BACANU – Global Product Director HA Group and Vice President of Romanian Foundry Technical Association
ZBIGNIEW RONDUDA – President of Odlewnie Polskie SA
WOJCIECH DROŻDŻ – Deputy Director for Commercialization Łukasiewicz Research Network – Kraków Institute of Technology
During the official part of the National Foundry Day, an award was awarded in the Cast of the Year competition – 2020 edition. The award went to Odlewnia Silum Sp. z o.o., in the light-alloy pressure casting category, for car front zone strut for the Mercedes Benz AMG. The award was funded by the Poznań International Fair.
Diplomas were awarded to new STOP Supporting Members, including Cast Metal Andrzej Fidler, “CHEMAR” SA, Diamant Metallplastic Polska, SKB Drive Tech SA, Veolia Water Technologies Sp. z o.o.
In the conference part, 9 papers were presented, including two remotely. List of papers in the Program tab.
