Calderys welcomes its first foundry service center in Sweden for emerging industry needs

Calderys has opened a new Foundry Service Center in Mariestad, a strategic location in the Nordic region, to offer faster solutions and greater flexibility to its Foundry customers.

The center was inaugurated in the presence of major Swedish foundry customers, elected officials, and local stakeholders in response to the increasing demand for outsourced refractory services in Sweden.

The new center will provide integrated services to customers in Sweden and Scandinavia, including prefabrication for ladles, runners, and coreless induction furnaces. Calderys will also offer on-site installation of press pour furnaces and dry-out operations, as well as practical training on customer sites.

The construction of the center involved 15 companies and 60 people, most of them from the Mariestad region and neighbouring cities. The center meets the highest safety and technical standards and includes a dedicated team of experts from various sites across the Group.

Outsourcing these services will help customers free up their own equipment in production, reduce CO2 emissions, and improve work ergonomics for installation.

The Senior Vice President of EMEA, Calderys, Aurélien Cadars, commented: "I'm very proud of the work done by our teams to deliver this new Foundry Service Center. Thanks to this new facility, we will be able to respond to our Nordic foundry customers' requests in a shorter time with tailor-made and turnkey solutions, including design, engineering, supervision and installation. I'm confident that this new set-up will strengthen our long-term partnership with our key Swedish and Scandinavian customers and help them improve the reliability of their operations. The local team played a key role in this project, and I would like to thank them all for their dedication and support."

The Calderys Foundry Vice President for the EMEA region, Harald Zender, specified: "We wanted to have our tools, equipment and people closer to our Swedish customers to fulfil increasing demands more efficiently. Therefore, we have strategically positioned ourselves in a key foundry area, close to 70% of our main clients. The new premises encompass a total surface of 1,500m2, and there are also possibilities for future development of our business.”