Investment Castings Suppliers

Investment castings suppliers are located in almost every country of the world. These are foundries that supply the investment casting, precision casting and lost wax casting needs of the world. Despite the fact that there are so many suppliers of investment castings, the fact is that there are really just four countries or regions that dominate investment casting sales worldwide: North America, Europe, China and Asia.

Surprisingly, the distribution of investment casting foundries does not break along those same lines. Instead China has 61% of the foundries to be found in the world; 22% for the Asia/Pacific, 9% for the America, 7% for Europe and finally Africa with 1% of the world’s foundries.

In Global Investment Casting Sales figures for 2006 showed total world sales of 8.6B, with North America dominating the market but with a falling share. Europe demonstrated a real growth in sales which was led by a strong aerospace performance. By 2006 China had overtaken Europe in market shares, with the total Asian sales of 34% of the world total.

As the graph shows above, that although in 2006 North America had the next to last number of foundries they dominated the world in sales for investment casting suppliers. On the other hand China with almost 2/3rds of the world foundries had just over half as many sales as the North America.

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