OREANDA-NEWS. September 20, 2011. The X Russian Foundrymen Conference and “Casting 2011” International Exhibition which are being held in Kazan on these days.

The conference was organized by the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Russian Foundrymen Association (RFA), the Tatarstan Regional Department of RFA, and OJSC “Kazan Motor Production Association”, with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Over 600 leading specialists in the field of foundry from Russia and foreign countries met at the international forum. More than 40 companies introduced their expositions at the exhibition: namely, casting producers, suppliers of equipment for casting production and technological material manufacturers.

The delegation from KAMAZ-Metallurgy was one of the largest ones there. Over 20 specialists participated in the conference and exhibition. Together with Vladimir Abramov, General Director of KAMAZ-Metallurgy OJSC, the leading technologists of the enterprise presented the latest developments in the sphere of casting production. Their reports touched upon the most promising and vital areas of the company’s activities like the use of up-to-date equipment for casting production, peculiarities of technological materials application, finishing of castings, the use of IT-solutions for casting process modeling.

The enterprise presented its products at the exhibition stand: iron, steel castings, and also non-ferrous castings and hot forgings. All products visually demonstrated state-of-the-art capabilities of KAMAZ’s metallurgical unit.

Excursions for the participants of the forum to the plants of the Republic of Tatarstan were the final event of the conference and exhibition. KAMAZ-Metallurgy OJSC was one of these plants. The guests were shown production facilities of the iron casting production building of the company.