ICME Short Courses
ICME National & Branch Events
ICME Council & Committee Meeting
Saturday 21st June 2025– 10.30am at British Motor Museum, Gaydon. AGM & Awards and Fellows Luncheon to follow.
Tuesday 20 May 2025, ICME, Tipton Road, DY4 7UW
Thursday 3 July 2025, ICME, Tipton Road, DY4 7UW
Thursday 2 October 2025, ICME, Tipton Road, DY4 7UW
Next meeting TBC
Wednesday 14th May 2025
ICME Dinners & Social Events
ICME Annual General Meeting
Date: Saturday 21st June 2025
Time : 11.45pm Awards and Fellows Luncheon to follow
Location: British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Coventry
ICME Awards and Fellows Luncheon
Date: Saturday 21st June 2025
Time : 12.00pm
Location: British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Coventry
Industry Events
June 18th, 2025
Empa St. Gallen, Switzerland
General Assembly GVS
Organizer: Giesserei-Verband der Schweiz
July 3rd, 2025
CH-Winterthur, Switzerland
Graduation ceremony GVS
Organizer: Giesserei-Verband der Schweiz
July 16th– 18th, 2025
Shanghai New International Expo Centre, China
CHINA DIECASTING & CHINA
NONFERROUS 2025
Concurrent events: The 8th International Symposium on Nonferrous
Alloys and Special Casting Technologie
https://www.diecastexpo.cn/en/
Organizers: Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
(FICMES), National Key Laboratory of Advanced Casting Technologies
Sponsor: Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES)
Co-Organizer: Japan Keikinzoku Tsushin Al Co., Ltd.
Domestic Supporting partners: Shanghai Die Casting Technology Association,
Suzhou Die Casting Association, Ningbo Die & Mould Industry Association,
Chongqing Foundry Association, Zonzu Technology, Die-Casting Weekly, DieCasting CHINA FOUNDRY Special Casting & Nonferrous Alloys
International Supporting Partners: World Foundry Organization (WFO),
CEMAFON, International Zinc Association (IZA), Foundry-Planet, Giesserei-Praxis
Contact: Gillian Li (Ms.), Tel: +86 24 25852311-203,
Email:lmt@foundrynations.com
July 16th– 18th, 2025
Shanghai New International Expo Centre, China
The 8th International Symposium on
Nonferrous Alloys and Special Casting
Technologies
Concurrent events: CHINA DIECASTING & CHINA NONFERROUS 2025
http://wfo.foundrynations.com/en/indexzhong.php/wfo/yshy/type/3
Organizers: WFO Non-Ferrous Alloys Committee, Foundry Institution of the
Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Shenyang Research Institute of
Foundry Co. Ltd., State Key Laboratory of Light Alloy Casting Technology for
High-end Equipment
Sponsors: World Foundry Organization (WFO), Chinese Mechanical Engineering
Society (CMES), China Foundry Productivity Promotion Center
Contact: Wang yunxia (Ms.) Tel: +86-24 25855720 Email:
wangyunxia@foundrynations.com
Zhang Chunyan (Ms.) Tel: +86-24 25611880 Email: zcy@foundrynations.com
You Yi (Ms.) Tel: +86-24 25855793 Email: youyi@foundrynations.com
Email:lmt@foundrynations.com
September 9th– 10th, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Sand Casting Conference
Organizer: American Foundry Society AFS
September 17th– 18th, 2025
Schaumburg, IL, United States
Copper Alloys Workshop
Organizer: American Foundry Society AFS
September 17th– 19th, 2025
Portoroz Congress Centre, Slovenia 65th IFC Portoroz 2025 with a foundry exhibition
Organizer: Slovenian Foundrymen Society
September 18th– 20th, 2025
Istanbul, Istanbul Fair Center
9th International Aluminium Technologies,
Machinery, and Products Trade Fair.
ALUEXPO 2025
Organizer: Hannover Messe Ankiros; Tudoksad as a Supporting Partner and
Exhibitor & Casting Demonstration Show
September 17th– 19th, 2025
Portoroz Congress Centre, Slovenia 65th IFC Portoroz 2025 with a foundry exhibition
Organizer: Slovenian Foundrymen Society
September 22nd– 24th, 2025
Farmington, PA, United States
Foundry Leadership Summit
Organizer: American Foundry Society AFS
October 2nd– 3rd, 2025
Palace Hotel and Chantilly Castle, France
WFO World Foundry Summit
CEOs Reshaping the Foundry Industry
The next edition of the World Foundry, Summit, an event to bring the worlds foundry leaders and CEOSs together, will
be held on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2025 in Chantilly, France. Held with the support of ATF our French member it will be another spectacular 2 days with technical and strategy-based presentations from world renowned speakers and industry legends. The most recent World Foundry Summit was held in New York in 2022, with over 100 global executives from the industry attending to learn more about the state of development, economies and technology in the cast metals sector. Delegates were able to spend time on lectures and presentations but also on networking and knowledge exchange. To see more about this valuable event visit the promotional videos from previous editions here: https://thewfo.com/world-foundry-summit
Organizer: The World Foundry Organization WFO
Confirmed sponsors: FOSECO, LAEMPE
October 7th– 8th, 2025
Green Lake, WI, United States
EHS Conference
Organizer: American Foundry Society AFS
October 9th– 12th, 2025
Kurume City Plaza, Kurume City,
Fukuoka, Japan
186th JFS Meeting
Organizer: Japan Foundry Engineering Society
October 10th– 12th, 2025
Hotel Abacus, Herceghalom, Hungary
28th Hungarian Foundry Days
Exhibition and conference
Organizers: The Association of Hungarian Foundries and the Foundry Division of
the Hungarian Mining and Metallurgical Society
October 16th– 18th, 2025
Park Royal Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
AFI NSW National Conference
Open your mind to new technologies and ideas
Organizer: Australian Foundry Institute
October 25th– 28th, 2025
Xi’an International Convention and Exhibition Center (Xi’an
ICEC), Xi’an, China
The 17th Asian Foundry Congress
https://afc.foundrynations.com/
Hosts: Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES), The
World Foundry Organization (WFO)
Organizer: Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
(FICMES)
Joint organizers: National Key Laboratory of Advanced Casting Technologies,
Shenyang Research Institute of Foundry Co., Ltd. CAM
Contact: Liu Hongchao (Mr.), Tel: +86 24 25852311-232,
Email:lhc@foundrynations.com
Lindsay Bao (Ms.) Tel: +86 24 25855720 Email: baolinlin@foundrynations.com
October 30th– 31st, 2025
Tampere, Finland
Use of Castings Seminar
Organizer: Association of Finnish Foundry Industries
November 9th– 15h, 2025
Hannover, Germany
Agritechnica
Trade Fair for agricultural machinery
Organizer: DLG – German Agricultural Society; Tudoksad and Turkish Members
exhibiting
November 11th– 12th, 2025
Avanti Hotel, Brno, Czech Republic
61st Czech Foundry Days®
Organizer: Czech Foundrymen Society
December 12th, 2025
Premier Hotel, Krakow, Poland
Polish Foundryman’s Day 2025
Organizer: Polish Foundrymen’s Association
2025
National Competitions and Call for Papers WFO 3rd Foundry Young Researchers and Early Career Professionals Conference
The WFO would like to invite universities, research institutes and companies in the global foundry industry to promote the participation of their young professionals in this exciting global competition to identify the most promising young foundry individuals in the world. During 2025 the WFO countries will celebrate national competitions to identify the most promising young professionals in these countries, who will then take part in an online event competing with
their international counterparts. The call for papers for the online stage will be closed in the last part of 2025. The accepted authors will compete in the WFO online event in 2026 and the best 10 out of this will compete in person in the Word Foundry Congress in Turkey in 2026, where the 3 most
promising global authors will be selected.
https://thewfo.com/
Organizer: WFO