style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; padding: 0px; line-height: 16px;">“Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process.”
Casting products are used in most of manufacturing industry segments in some form or the other. Automobile industry is one of the key end user of the castings market due to its wide applications in manufacturing parts like engine parts, suspension, brakes, steering etc., and the most common forms of castings used are iron, steel, aluminum, and magnesium. It is estimated that about 50% of the castings are used for the automotive and heavy equipment industry.
