Complete success can be reported for the two-day Kurtz Workshop “Increasing efficiency in the foundry” held in Moscow in September, organised together with the partner companies StrikoWestofen, Mössner, Loramendi and FAT. Many of the executives from the companies involved travelled to the workshop – indicating the faith of German firms in Russia as a market for foundry equipment.
The reception of representatives of the foundry industry from Russia and the Ukraine was enormous, too. Hardly remarkable, because the involved companies image the whole casting process and realise this bandwidth in concrete projects by common appearance at the customer.
The talks on such foundry themes as smelting, casting, core removal, cutting, trimming, finishing and handling of sand cores and moulds in magnesium low-pressure casting were attentively observed. The speakers had a plethora of questions to answer in the following session. And the coffee breaks were also used for an eager exchange of ideas – prospective customers obtained information, existing customers discussed projects with colleagues and suppliers, employees of the Kurtz Ost subsidiary got to know contact partners at the customers personally.
All were in agreement that the know-how transfer from tool or machinery suppliers to foundrymen and on to the buyers of the moulded parts is extremely important. Alongside the trade fair for metallurgy, machinery, plant technology and products, LITMASH 2016 – held every July in Moscow – the first Kurtz Workshop in Russia established itself directly as an important foundry meeting point for aluminium parts. Kurtz is already planning further events to strengthen and expand the dialog with customers around the world.