During his visit to Australia, Mr. Alper Dayioglu (Turk), general manager of Qingdao aidia engineering technology co., LTD., a member of One Belt And One Road working committee of China casting association entrusted by China casting association, visited Alan cook, President of Australian casting association in Melbourne on June 12, 2018.

During the meeting, ambrose introduced the situation of China and Turkey casting industry in 2017 to President cook, and then exchanged information about Australia casting industry and learned about the development of the industry.

Mr. Cook has worked for 23 years in various departments such as foundry manufacturing and quality management at ford's auto plant in Australia.He said the main areas of Australia's foundry industry are eastern Australia, including Victoria, new south wales and Queensland.The small number of foundries has dwindled in recent years, and the ford plant where Mr Cook worked closed in 2016.In 2017, local Australian car brand horton and other factories producing cars in Australia were shut down.At present, Australian car brands are all foreign, totally dependent on imports.Mr Cook argues that high production costs and the local market is too small to support the local industry's capacity are the main reasons for the phenomenon, with demand far lower than production resulting in extra manufacturing costs.

The castings produced by the Australian foundry are grey iron, ductile iron, steel and aluminum alloy, as well as a small amount of copper alloy.Mainly used in agriculture, mining, defense industry.The following is a brief information about the important companies engaged in production in these three industries:

AWBell and Bradken are two factories that supply casting to the U.S. defense industry.AWBell's expertise in high strength, thin walled precision aluminum casting is world class.Bradken has been supplying cast iron to the north American market for years.

WhiteIndustries, NorthernIronand Brass and Weir, the company mainly produces agricultural use castings such as pump housing, impeller, drive component or valve components.

Keech is the representative of a prominent Australian foundry that supplies castings to the global mining industry.

Due to the limited size of the Australian market, most of Australia's foundries have a very diverse customer base in many industries, including the aforementioned defence, agriculture and mining, as well as the production of railway, automobile and industrial castings.

Ambrose asked Mr. Cook about the availability of casting machinery, casting materials and refractories in Australia.Mr. Cook said that Australian casting equipment and raw materials are sold in the market after being imported by local agents of major European and American brands.

It was also learned that the Australian national casting conference was held in Queensland from October 12 to 14, 2018. Mr. Cook sincerely invited the China casting association to participate.After discussing the Australian casting situation, ambrose introduced the general situation of Turkey and China casting industry.And told Qingdao aidia engineering technology, the IDEAL MODEL company operating in Turkey in the global business situation, production of products and services provided.Mr. Cook and other Australian casting association members were invited to visit the Shanghai and Beijing international casting exhibitions held by the China casting association and the ANKIROS/TURKCAST international casting exhibition held every two years in Turkey.

The talks were quite positive and friendly.Although the Australian foundry market is small, there are still relatively stable, operating for many years of well-known foundry.Australia's distance from the rest of the world makes it unfavourable for Australian foundries to serve the global market, but this disadvantage drives stringent requirements for casting quality and innovation so that Australian foundries can compete in the global market.Furthermore, this disadvantage can also be seen as an opportunity for Chinese and Turkish companies to be able to support the supply of high-quality castings, casting machinery and materials.