A Zabala Uriarte, R Suarez Creo y J Izaga Maguregi, Azterlan Metallurgical Research and Foundry Centre, Durango, Spain.

This paper won the World Foundrymen Organization’s Best Paper Award at the World Foundry Congress, held in Chennai, India in February 2008.  It is published with the kind permission of the WFO and the Institute of Indian Foundrymen.

Torsten Sjögren from Daros Piston Rings AB, says that it is well known that the strength and deformation characteristics of cast iron depend to a great extent on the morphology and fraction of graphite it contains.

This article is published with permission of the Swedish Foundry Magazine GJUTERIET (The Foundry).

Jonathan Pugh, laboratory manager at Bodycote Materials Testing (NDT Division) gives an overview of non-destructive testing, designed as a refresher for those in the industry and a checklist for new recruits.

Expectations run high before any world event and certainly before a World Foundry Congress. In the two years since the last congress in Harrogate in the UK, the anticipation had grown for the WFC 2008, not least because of its location in Chennai, India – being hailed by many in the region as the developing automotive hub of Asia.