2009 - PACE Award Winner Alcoa What: Aluminum Vacuum Die Casting (AVDC) Process Judge's Citation: The quest for better performance from much lighter parts and systems is a major automotive theme today ...

According to Modern Casting magazine’s annual survey (www.moderncasting.com), world production of metal castings was expected to exceed 100 million metric tons in 2007, the latest year for which good ...

The automotive industry has high hopes for the potential of large-scale casting, or megacasting technology. But the adoption of high-pressure die castings to replace assemblages of stamped parts ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

The continuous casting process is a fundamental operation in modern steel production, whereby molten metal is solidified into semi-finished billets, blooms or slabs. Optimisation of the associated ...