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A F S
The American Foundry Society, the largest and most active Association in the world with active chapters throughout America. The 2005 Technical Forum was hosted by the AFS in conjunction with their tri annual Cast Expo in St Louis. Exec. Vice Pres. Jerry Call President Paul Mikkola. (more details)

A T F
Association Technique de Fonderie prduces the monthly journal Homme et Fonderie and is run by M. Olivier CONNAN. The current President is Gerard LEBON. (more details)

A T T R
ATTR-Romanian Foundry Technical Association Executive Secretary Dr Ion Alexandru BACANU Mob Ph 0040745 371 462 Current Chairman Julian Riposan Mob Ph 0040722 208 115. (more details)

CANACINTRA
Camara Nacional De La Industria De Transformacion is the largest commercial body in Mexico supporting all businesses involved with the processing of metals. Canacintra has excellent links with the cast metals and related industries and works to support and promote this vital industrial sector in Mexico. (more details)

Croatian Foundry Society
Hvratsko Udruzenje Za Ljevarstvo is the technicaol association for the Croatia and is governed under the Presidency of Mile Galic. (more details)

Czech Foundrymen Society
The Czech Foundrymens Society has Frantisek Urbanek as Secretary and Mr. Ing. Jan Slajs as President. It is famous for the annual technical conference Foundry Days. (more details)

D S F c/o Vald Birn
Danmarks stoberitekniske Forening represents the Danish foundry industry on all technical issues under the secretariat of Wily Olsen. The President is currently Jens Otto Damborg. DSF produces the monthly journal Stobereit under the editorial control of Vigo Haastrup. (more details)

E F S
The Egyptian Foundrymen Society is represented by the Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute and the principle contacts are Dre Eng Mohamed Mahmoud Mourad and Prof Adel Nofal (more details)

F I C M E S
FICMES Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (FICMES) , founded in 1962, is the largest national academic society in foundry field in China. FICMES successfully held the 61st World Foundry Congress and China Foundex '1995, and FICMES is to host the 69th World Foundry Congress in 2010. Secretary Professor Su Shifang President Professor Li Xinya. (more details)

Finnish Foundry Technical Ass'n
Finnish Foundry Technical Association takes on the role of representing the Finnish foundry industry, the General Secretary is Olavi Piha and the current President is Erkki Karvonen. (more details)

G V S
Giesserei-Verband der Schweiz is the Swiss Association representing all aspects of the Swiss Foundry Industry. The current President is Peter Hagen and the Secretary is Dr. Alex Mojon (more details)

GFMS
Georgian Foundrymen and Material Scientists Society (GFMS) Chairman: Mr. Archil Barbakadze (more details)

I C M E
The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers is the United Kingdom's Professional Institute for all people working in the cast metals and related industries. The ICME produces a monthly Journal " Foundry Trade Journal" and is a licensed body of the Engineering Council. (more details)

IIF
The Institute of Indian Foundrymen based in Kolkata is the technical support agency for all foundries in the Indian continent.

At the 57th Annual General Meeting of the Institute held on 26th Sept. 2008 in Kolkata, the following have been elected as

"NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS".

Mr Ravi Sehgal, President

Mr Jagat Shah, Vice President

Mr Surendra Verma, Hon Secretary

Mr Bhaskar Balachandran, Hon Treasurer

Mr. C. Dasgupta, is the Executive Director of this Institute.

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Instituto de Fundición TABIRA
Instituto de Fundicion TABIRA is the recently formed institute to represent the technical elements of the Spanish foundry industry. Governed by a board made up of leading industrialists from foundries, foundry suppliers and cast component customers along with technical centres and foundry professionals it is a proactive and highly productive organisation working for the exchange of KNOWLEDGE in foundry. The Secretary is Xabier Gonzalez and the current President is Jose M. Urteaga. (more details)

J F S
The Japan Foundry Engineering Society. Secretary Masahiko Noguchi Current President Kikuo Katou. (more details)

K F S
The Korean Foundrymen's Society. Secretary Young-Keun Lee Current President Tae-Woon Nam. (more details)

N S F
Norges stoperitekniske Forening - Norwegian Foundry Technical Association - represents the Norwegian foundry industry on all technical issues under the secretariat of Jorgen Vogt Thinn. The President is currently Trond Rykhus. NSF produces the monthly journal Stoperitidende under the editorial control of Arne Nordmark. (more details)

O M B K E
Orszagos Magyar Banyaszati es Kohaszati Egyesulet is the Hungarian member with Mr K. Katko as secretary and Dr J Sohajda as the current President. (more details)

Pakistan Foundry Association
The Pakistan Foundry Association has been established with the vision to provide a platform for the growth of the foundry industry by improving skills and up-grading technology, in particular for the small to medium sized foundries in Pakistan. Formed in 2003 the PFA has Sikander Mustafa Khan as President, Asim Qadri as General Secretary and is managed by a small and enthusiastic executive committee. Mr Ather Rauf is the PFA coordinator. (more details)

Serbian Foundrymen's Society
The Serbian Foundrymens Society is newly regenerated and under the Presidency of Prof Dr Srdjan V. Markovich is working to promote the Serbian Foundry Industry (more details)

SFA
Svenska Gjuteriforeningen- Swedish Foundry Association Secretary Mats Holmgren Current President Lars Johansson. (more details)

Slovenian Foundrymen Society
Drustvo Livarjev Slovenije or the Slovenian Foundrymens Society's Secretary is MSc. Martin Debelak you can contact him on drustvo.livarjev@siol.net   The current President is Mrs Mirjam Jan-Blazic M.Sc
email mirjam.jan-blazic@siol.net (more details)

T F A
Foundrymen's Association of Turkey. Secretary Kubilay Dal President Dr Can Akbasoglu The Turkish Association hosted the World Foundry Congress in 2004 in the delightful city of Istanbul in September. The Chairman of the Organising Committee Yaylali Gunay of Doktas Foundries was delighted with the outcome of the planning celebrating the 5000 year history of castings. The event was a resounding success and received the highest rating from the executives given in recent years. (more details)

The STOP
Polish Foundrymen's Association Secretary T. Franaszek Current President Prof Dr Jozef Suchy. Professor Suchy is currently the Treasurer of the WFO and sits on the Executive committee making an active and valuable contribution to the affairs of the Association. (more details)

V D G
Verein Deutscher Giessereifachleute is the German foundry society and the biggest and most proactive group in Europe. The VDG is world renowned and operates under the control of Dr Ing Gotthard Wolf and the current President is Dipl Ing Hans Dieter Honsel. (more details)

V S G
Verein Slowakischer Giessereifachleute Secretary L Sprirkova Current President Ing Dusan Satur. (more details)

VOG
Verein Osterreichischer Giessereifachleute is the Austrian Technical association. The current President is Michael Zimmerman and the Secretary is Erich Nechtelberger (more details)
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