9th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2011

Co-sponsor:National Technical Committee 54 on Foundry of Standardization Administration of China

Organizer: (SC)

Supporting Media: FOUNDRY, China Foundry ( English Edition ),Special Casting & Nonferrous Alloys, Modern Cast Iron,China Foundry Machinery & Technology,Research Studies on Foundry Equipment,Foundry Trade Journal,Foundry-Planet, Casting Area, TMS, Ask-chemicals, Foundry Gate, MMR, ME-METALS, KCI, CFN…..

Conference Purpose is to establisha communication and trading platform for global casting purchasers and Chinese casting suppliers.

Seminar: opportunities are provided for the buyers tomake purchasing explanations, and the suppliers to hold products promotion seminars.

Attention: only open to the suppliers and purchasers registered in advance, while not being available for ordinary visitors.

Conference Review

The 7th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2010 was held successfully at Regency Hotel Qingdao, China on Sep 16th 2010. It has attracted more than 260 representatives home and abroad. Among them, there are lots of World Top 500 companies such as Alstom, linder forklift, Ingersoll-Rand, Atalas Corpco, Franklin, Danieli etc. And there are more than 50 global purchasers from over ten different countries, including American,Canada,Germany,UK, Italy, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, from India, Danieli, Linder forklift, Eley coperation have held special purchasing presentations. They have made an introduction of their purchasing products, the requirements for casting materials and casting techinques, annual purchasing amount, and the way to enter the supply chain in the purchasing presentation.

More than 150 casting suppliers from the enterprises of self-owned foundry plants participate in the 7th FSC Conference . Among them, representatives from Shanghai No.1 Machine Tool Foundry (SuZhou) , have made the products presentations, which have drawn the most attention from purchasers, as they have made an introduction of the company, its speciality, the blueprint of the company’s future, etc. during the presentations. Besides, some suppliers have brought casting samples of various materials, which have a strong appeal to the purchasers for visiting and negociating with them.

In the afternoon, the conference tables were set up for the purchasers and suppliers to have a free talk with each other. Most purchasers had found their potential suppliers and they had made an appointment to visit the suppliers’ factories after the conference

Conference Characteristics

Ø Specialty:Focusing on castings;

Ø Internationalism: The buyers are mainly from North America, West Europe, Japan, Korea, as well as domestic manufacturers requiring large procurement etc. Most of the suppliers have their own factories in China mainland.

Ø Targeted service:At the request of buyers, SC will invite appropriate suppliers or assigned suppliers, and assist buyers forming business partnerships with suppliers before the conference

Ø Reliability: All the information on suppliers and buyers will be strictly examined by SC

Ø Feasibility of trade agreements:Purchase discussion, purchase explanation and the products promotion conference will help facilitate an understanding between buyers and suppliers, the goal of the trade agreement will then be realized

Ø Interactivity: SC will assist you in operating casting transaction with the aim of creating a purchasing platform both online and offline. Apart from having collected over 2800 Chinese casting suppliers’ information on their scope of business, orientation of products, standard authentication, casting technology, manufacturing capacity and annual output, etc., our online platform – also contains all the detailed information regarding purchasing blueprint/drawing papers, manufacturing requirements and contact information of transnational casting purchasers to promote online trading for both the suppliers and purchasers