News Amafond

Nantong Jiangzhong Photoelectricity Co., Ltd. (“Jiangzhong”) has officially launched its latest project: installing an Italpresse Gauss TF5700 High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) machine. Held on 1st February 2021 at the company’s base in Jiangsu Province, China, the project launch ceremony follows the contract signed at the end of 2020.

With its huge 3500 x 3500mm platens, the TF5700’s closing force of 5700 tons making it the ideal solution for large part p [ ..]

Production defects in the Steering Housing? Save costs through safe controls with Imago

Imago Srl operates in the quality control sector through industrial visions systems.
In particular, we realize machines for product control and management of production lines for the Die Casting, Drawing, Thermoforming and Biomedical sectors.

In the field of vision systems for die casting, our compan [ ..]

Küttner Savelli S.r.l. recently changed its legal company name, coming back to the original one Savelli Technologies S.r.l. (SAVELLI for common use) due to the new corporate structure which sees the German partner Küttner Holding GmbH & Co. KG holding 50% of its shares and the newly established Savelli Holding S.r.l. holding the other 50% of shares.
As a result of thi [ ..]

At the end of 2019, the terms of office of Dr Ioannis Ioannidis (CEO of Frech Group and Chairman of VDMA Foundry Machinery Association) as CEMAFON President and Piero Starita (Member of the Board of Directors Laviosa Chimica Mineraria and Honorary President of AMAFOND) as Vice President ended. The Presidency was marked by CEMAFON's new orientation towards future topics such as digitisation and interface standards.

On November 06, 2020

Italpresse Gauss’ quality, health and safety, and environmental management systems have been independently evaluated and certified to the latest ISO standards as part of the Company ongoing commitment to excellence.

In addition to the renewal of its ISO 9001:2015 certification, a dedicated team composed by Italpresse Gauss’ Lean & Quality, Operations, Environmental & Health & Safety, and technical documentation specialists, worked hard over the past month [ ..]

LPM Group, already present in China, Germany and USA, grows in North America, directly and through its Californian subsidiary, LPM North America Inc., LPM SPA has acquired 100% of the share capital of the company FATA ALUMINUM LLC, based in Michigan, which in turn fully controls the Mexican company FATA ALUMINUM FOUNDRY SYSTEMS SA de C.V. of Mexico City and with plant in Saltillo (Coahuila).
LPM ha also acquired certain intellectual property rights from MRB Aluminium LLC.
LPM SPA [ ..]

During the 74th Ordinary Assembly of Amafond, elections were held for the renewal of the Executive Committee for the 2020-2021 period: Riccardo Ferrario was elected new President of Amafond. He is the General Manager of Idra Group of Travagliato (Brescia area). 

The following people were elected as Vice Presidents for the Product Group: Luca Casella (Director - Sipag Bisalta Spa) and Angelo Vezzuli  [ ..]

In times like the current one, in which the Covid-19 pandemic requires rigorous hygiene protocols for people and for the work environments and tools used by operators, Baraldi has decided to adopt a range of sanitizing products for industrial environments, for clothing and for the hands of operators, with the aim of providing an additional service to our customers.

The B-TECH SANITIZER line includes all the products necessary for the protocols required sanitization o [ ..]

As the president of Amafond, an Italian foundry supplier’s association which involves approximately 100 manufacturers of essential equipment and auxiliary products for the industry, I am proud to represent Italy’s ferrous and non-ferrous metal foundries. 

Our industry employs no fewer than 6500 workers and our global turnover is more than 1.5 billion Euros, 75% of which is a [ ..]