Young foundry professionals from across the UK came together in October 2025 to attend the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers, ICME's, third ‘CastInspiration’ event. 15 young people from range of foundries were able to meet up with some of their peers from the industry to enjoy two foundry visits as well as a series of
I am extremely proud and honoured to have been elected president of the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. I look forward to working with the national officers, trustees, head office staff and members to ensure the institute continues to deliver the high standard of service our members have been accustomed to receiving. Our industry has
OLIVER STUBBS MEDAL Andrew Tagg IEng Prof MICME of John Winter & Co Ltd is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Oliver Stubbs Medal. Having wide ranging technical experience in the UK, USA and India, Andrew Tagg is a familiar face at conferences, where he is keen to impart his expertise to others for the
The WFO held its Technical Forum in Atlanta in conjunction with CastExpo 2025. The event also enabled the global foundry industry to be represented in the United States in April at the WFO Annual General Assembly held as part of this action. The biannual WFO Technical Forum is a conference supported by the WFO and
The American Foundry Society Annual Banquet presided by Angela Schmeisser and counting with a prominent audience from the American industry was the setting for the ceremony where the WFO General Secretary handed out this special recognition to Mr Denny Dotson. It was an honour for the WFO to present in the United States the 2025
Ronnie Pratt, centre, from Omega Sinto Foundry Machinery, being presented with his certificate and prize by Master Alan Hughes and ICME National President (left) Andrew Laing. The Best Apprentice Award, administered by The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers, ICME, and sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Founders’ was, this year, awarded to Ronnie Pratt. Ronnie
Pictures show, from left to right, Liam Greaves with the National ICME President , Tony Sartorius Hon FICME & National ICME President, Charlie Thomas & National ICME President. At the recent ICME Awards and Fellow’s Lunch National President Andrew Laing presented Liam Greaves, Charlie Thomas and Tony Sartorius of Alucast Ltd with their awards making
In January 2025 ICME launched its New Management Essentials Programme, the programmes is being delivered by Andy Woodall, who has over 25 years of experience in delivering high Impact Training having spent 15 years delivering training to frontline managers, all the way up to senior-level directors. The programme consists of 6 full-day in-person sessions delivered
The West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch of the ICME hosted a lecture in April from Matt Robbins of Power Capacitors Ltd. With almost 40 attendees, including several joining on-line, Matt presented his talk entitled ‘Optimise Power, Quality Optimise Production’. Power Capacitors Ltd is a supplier of electrical expertise and power quality solutions and as
At the recent ICME Awards and Fellow’s Lunch the winner of the Ironmongers Company Best Student Award (for someone from the ferrous castings industry), Bradley Abrahams, was presented with a trophy and certificate by the Master of the Ironmongers Company, Ewan Wauchope. Bradley joined West Midlands based Castings PLC in 2019 as a Technical Foundry