 Followings
are the details of top 10 metal casting producing countries:
- China- China continues to make shipping gains on the
rest of the world. However, as the country showed an improvement
of 8.9%, its rate of advancement has slowed considerably; China
boosted its shipments by 23.6% in 2004. Nevertheless, the
world's strongest casting power has more than doubled its 2000.
- U.S.- The U.S. has rebounded from lean times and
fattened its shipping totals for three consecutive years,
showing a 4.7% gain in 2005. The country is on pace to regain
the near-peak levels of 2000 in the coming year, as it is now
within 250,000 tons of those heights.
- Russia- Russia has been long absent from the annual
census, but burst back into the top ten with a 23% shipment
boost since 2000.
- Japan- Japan fell one spot in 2005 despite a 4.2%
gain, owing to the reemergence of Russia.
- India- India posted the fastest growing shipping rate
of the top-10 reporting nations, increasing their production by
more than 32%.
- Germany- Germany showed only modest gains in 2005
(2.5%), but the country maintains the most highly productive
facilities in the top-10, churning out 8,108 tons per plant last
year.
- Brazil- After jumping more than 25% in 2004, Brazil
saw another increase of 4.9% in 2005. Market share is focused
primarily on automobiles, trucks and agricultural machine parts.
- Italy- While the country increased total shipments
4.1% in 2005, Russia's reported aluminum figures supplanted
Italy as the fourth greatest producer of parts in the world.
- France- Reflecting the loss of 16 metalcasting
facilities, as well as a per plant decrease of nearly 100 tons,
France saw its productivity drop 5%.
- Korea- Predominately producing gray and ductile iron
cast components, Korea stayed the course in 2005 with a slight
increase of 2.3%.
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