

Of the 5000+ foundries, only one third or even less have International Quality Accreditation and have the expertise that the clients from Germany, UK, France, US and other countries demand.
BEST IRON CASTING FOUNDRY EXPORTER UPGRADE
Indian foundries should be energy efficient and upgrade their work force. China is the most important threat to India as far as castings are concerned, simply due to cheap labour. Most of the foundry players in India are small or medium, and only a few quality conscious castings manufacturers have taken efforts to invest and upgrade their technological facilities. Iron casting is widely used in OEM’s, Electrical utilities, steel mills, mining and construction.Foundries in India need to invest and increase production capacity. Suppliers of iron casting and machined iron casting from India and China offer warehousing facilities in major location in USA, Germany so as to serve locally including major cities like California where some of its major industries include agriculture, oil, mining to name a few where both iron casting and machined iron casting is used widely. Typically a company sends a CAD solid model of the design to the United States, Germany, for pattern design. The European automotive industry has also had success using casting. In the past 10 years, the amount of iron used in a typical north American family vehicle has plummeted 86lbs in the year 2001. Since cast irons are used in a more wide variety of industries, the automotive and heavy equipment sectors tend to be the primary end users of the materials, making products such as brake disks in mass quantities and large pumps in short production runs, respectively. Machined iron casting and iron casting are widely used in Automotive industry, Industrial pump industry, Industrial valve industry, general engineering industry.

Production costs in India from the US view point are now lower than china although transportation is slightly higher but the net result is that the landed cost is lower. The cost of high metal scrap and pig iron and the strong Euro continue to reduce the profit of metal casters, in Germany which has also made them look out for low cost casting suppliers from India and China. Studies have also shown that in USA and Europe even with a multimillion dollar investment in the foundry, the cost of Chinese and Indian supply of iron casting was 30-50% cheaper than doing them in-house.

Calmet is one of the leading Suppliers who supply cast iron and machined cast iron in both India and China at a lower price without compromising on the quality. Hence companies in the USA, Germany and rest of the Europe choose to buy from India although their favorite destinations include China as well. Since the manpower costs and the material costs are lower in India the prices of cast iron are at a lower price. One stop-shop-solutions consolidate and simplify the sourcing and procurement process of customers and reduce overall time and cost for the development and production of components as well as the related logistics expenses. The real time inventory tracking system helps to track the movement of casting parts for local delivery at the customer place. The customers for iron casting and machined iron casting has got the flexibility to determine the frequency of shipping either daily, weekly or even monthly. Calmet is also one of the low cost casting suppliers both in India and China. This include vendor consultation, inventory management and quality control. Calmet is one of the most successful companies able to stock goods at its local warehouse and hence provide just in time delivery for its customers in the Europe and North America. Very few companies in the casting and iron casting market have been successful with Just in time delivery. Calmet has been supplying to customers in North America and Europe as we purchase iron castings and machined iron castings from low cost manufacturers both in India and China. The process involve managing of order with local warehousing facility and will ensure a just in time delivery. One Stop complete global supply chain would basically mean that companies take care of delivery of goods to the customer right from the initial stage when the request for quotation is made till the final stage of delivery of order.
