18th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2016 was successfully held in Shanghai

The 18th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2016, China Casting Exporting Conference and China Foundry Conference were successfully held at Shanghai Everbright Int’l Hotel during April 20-21. Organized by Suppliers China Co., Ltd., and co-sponsored by National Technical Committee 54 on Foundry of Standardization Administration of China, the event was aimed at building a procurement negotiation, market analysis, technical communication platform for foundry industry. The conference attracted more than 600 delegates at home and abroad.

At the backdrop of weak demand for castings, FSC prepared an academic activity based on the demand of China casting export enterprises during the 18th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference, invited industry senior experts, multinational buyers, and casting production enterprises to make a report from the point of "export of casting". China Procurement Center of Multinational Group -- Sulzer purchasing manager Mr. Su Dayong made a report about "Supplier Development Process for Multinational Groups".

Ms. Emma Kombrinkof from Latin America Markets, LLC did a specific report on “Latin America Casting Exporting Situation and Market Development Suggestions", hoping to help domestic enterprises explore Latin America market.

Mr. Birger Vinck from German Vinck Agency for Consulting and Trading (VACT) shared his ideas from marketing, procurement and technology about successful casting procurement and foundry new trends. To meet Chinese foundries demand, he also introduced the trend and development of German casting industry, the differences between Chinese and German foundries, the internationalization of Chinese foundries and investment.

The China Foundry Conference made a communication about the new material, new technology, new process, new equipment on the foundry industry. It included three lectures on “new technology, new process,” seven lectures of “new material, new equipment,” and one lecture promoting the foundry“four-new” communication.

There were over 90 international purchasing companies in the conference. Delegates from Eaton Corporation, ZF Drivetech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Compass Technical Services, Inc., Ferrotech Menard, Inc., and Paragon Metals Inc. made speeches to introduce their procurement programs. FSC had invited more than 340 foundries from home and abroad to meet the purchasers. Suppliers from Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd. Foundry Branch and Toyo KM JS Co., Ltd. made speeches of introducing their main products and company power.

The negotiation session that followed in the afternoon was purchaser-focused. FSC organized appointed negotiation zone and free negotiation zone, which also was separated into ferrous metal zone and non-ferrous metal zone. FSC started business-match service three months before conference, which helped save time for both suppliers and buyers during conference.

FSC has expressed intentions to build a communication platform and a casting-experts team apart from offering details on casting suppliers and purchasers to contribute towards China’s casting upgrading and sustainable development.