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find place, evidently since we did not have benchmarks our
forecasts were very cautious. Next time will be better, it is
clear that we were not pleased not to be able to accommodate
everyone. I would like to stress the quality of participants,
that included more than 50 large aluminium and
magnesium foundries from 18 different countries, as well
as Italians and Europeans there were very important players
coming from Japan, China, India, the USA, Mexico, Canada
and Russia”.
Howdidyour,andStarAlliance’s,interest
forthisprojectcomeintobeing?Suchevents
normally derive from professionals in the
technical communications industry
or research and development institutions.
Conventions and seminars on aluminium
and cars have been on the increase for some
years now, nevertheless you succeeded
in creating a program of speeches that was
at the same time concise and exhaustive,
with important themes, very well-known
speakers with great experience in this
sector, but above all a keen focus on the
concrete theme of light alloy foundries
tosolvetechnicallytherequirements
of increased lightness and absolute reliability
achieved using structural casts.
The world went through great changes during the past 10
years nowadays in order to be competitive it is necessary
tobeeverywhereandwiththerightinstruments,wedid
not improvise as congress organizers but we simply listed
itemsthatwethoughtwouldhavebeenmostinterestingto
highlightforthefutureofourworkandweidentifiedthe
persons who could provide the correct answers, to us and
to the industry we are part of. We exploited the advantage
of not having any restrictions in the definition of the program
other than the quest for clear answers, besides we
know perfectly which strategic, technical or commercial
issues needed to be tackled so as to analyse them in depth
fromvariousstandpoints;forthisreasonwechoseeighteen
speakers representing the different elements of the
industry, from car makers to parts and components manufacturers,
to producers of alloys and semi-finished goods
whorepresentthestarsofthesupplychainofaluminium
andmagnesiumparts,comingfromleadingcompaniesof
our specific business. I would like to mention such car makersasBMW,Daimler,FAW,FCA,JLRandTESLA,aswellas
therepresentativesoflightalloyfoundries,extrudedand
rolled aluminium goods manufacturers and finally suppliers
of foundry materials and equipment. Just a few words on
Foundry Star Alliance, we are a group of leading companies
in their specific field of activity, Idra, CoStamp, Fondarex,
I.E.C.I, Støtek and Wollin, who decided to cooperate
and combine efforts, with the aim of better supporting the
L’automotive spinge avanti le leghe
leggere e la pressocolata
Il successo del forum “Advanced Light Material Application
in the Automotive Industries” conferma il momento positivo
per gli impieghi automotive dell’alluminio. Intervista
a Riccardo Ferrario, General Manager di Idra
Fonderia-Pressocolata
Alla conclusione del primo Forum Internazionale “Advanced
LightMaterialApplicationintheAutomotiveIndustries”,tenutoaBrescianeigiorni1-2Marzo2016e
promossodaIdra
GroupconisuoipartnerdiFoundryStarAlliance,chiediamo
aRiccardoFerrario,DirettoreGeneralediIdraGroupedideatore
della manifestazione, un commento a caldo su questo
eventochehariscossograndesuccessosiaperlapartecipazionesiaperlaricchezzadeicontenuti.
“Siamo lieti di aver realizzato un’iniziativa che ha trovato
un grande apprezzamento tra tutti coloro che hanno potuto
seguirla, avevamo pianificato in sicurezza gli invitatialForumperunlimitemassimodi150partecipanti,edil
plafond è stato raggiunto con estrema facilità. Ci spiace
perchiavrebbevolutoessercimachenonnehaavutola
possibilità, evidentemente non avendo punti di riferimento
avevamo fatto delle previsioni molto prudenti. Sarà per
la prossima volta, è chiaro che per noi non è stato piacevolenonpoterospitaretutti.Vogliosottolineareperaltrola
qualità della partecipazione: avevamo più di 50 grandi fonderiedialluminioemagnesioprovenientida18diversipaesi,
oltre agli italiani ed agli europei c’erano importantissimi
operatoriprovenientidaGiappone,Cina,India,USA,Messico,CanadaeRussia”.
Comeèmaturatol’interessevostroediStarAlliance
perunprogettodelgenere,chesolitamentenasce
da professionisti della comunicazione tecnica
o istituzioni di ricerca e sviluppo? Si moltiplicano
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