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Lightweight Design

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Light Vehicles

Commercial Vehicles

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Off-Highway

Energy

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Industrial Applications

Learn more about our solutions for

Aerospace

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GF Casting Solutions is one of three strong divisions within the Georg Fischer corporation, a listed company that has been independent for over 200 years. The responsible use of resources has always been important to us. Today, our foundries are role models for sustainable production and and focusing on the reduction of CO emissions.

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About GF Casting Solutions

GF Casting Solutions realizes with over 4400 employees and 13 locations worldwide, innovative production technologies and multiple materials, the casting innovations of the future. In close cooperation with our customers and partners, we guarantee that our solutions are exactly matching the challenges on the market ? from the first concept over the precise realization up to the reliable validation.

With four manufacturing technologies and an in-house Research and Development team, we offer casting solutions and additive manufacturing for six different market segments. Discover our portfolio and more details about our solutions on the following pages or on .

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Production Technologies

Aluminum- and Magnesium High-Pressure Die-Casting

Precision Casting

Additive Manufacturing 3D Metal Printing Iron Sand Casting

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Research & Development

Material, process, design and validation: These are the four pillars on which our development competence is based. All these departments are interlinked, overlap and support our customers from the first development stages up to serial production. With R&D teams in Schauffhausen (Switzerland) and Suzhou (China), we work closely together with our customers worldwide and develop lightweight solutions for the automotive industry and commercial vehicles.

Development of optimized materials, processes and follow-up treatments

Expertise in stable casting processes

Product design development for cast solutions

Lightweight design optimization based on bionic principles

Reliable testing of prototypes and serial products

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Lightweight Design with Functional Integration

Shock Tower

Customer Audi

Vehicle

Audi A6/A7

Process Aluminum high-pressure die-casting

Material AlSi10MnMg

Weight 4.3 kg

Value Chain

Casting, punching, heat treatment,

grinding, machining, assembling

Your Advantage

? Low tolerances through machining of attachment points ? Through heat treatment the required crash performance is obtained ? Integration of attachment points for cables and assemblies ? Ten sheet metal parts substituted with one casting

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weight reduction

-45 %

Substitution of sheet metal

Reduced CO2 Emissions

1.3 g/km 375,000 t CO2*

*over 8 years vehicle lifetime

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Advantage in Casting

Inner Door Frame

Customer Maserati

Vehicle

Quattroporte/Ghibli

Process

Aluminum high-pressure die-casting

Material

AlMg5Si2Mn

Weight

5.5 kg

Value Chain

Casting, punching, laser cutting,

grinding, conversion coated

Your Advantage

? Integration of functions and weight reduction ? Reduction of several components

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weight reduction

-17 %

Substitution of sheet metal Lighter than its sheet metal predecessor with high integration of functions

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Light Materials

Front Cover

Customer Porsche

Vehicle

Panamera/Cayenne/Macan

Process

Magnesium high-pressure die-casting

Material

MgAl4RE4Mn

Weight

2.1 kg

Value Chain

Casting, punching,

machining, assembling

Your Advantage

? Component for engines in lightweight design ? Creep resistant magnesium alloy ? Winner IMA Award "Casting Design Automotive"

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Aluminum

Magnesium

weight reduction

-45 %

Material Know-how Front Cover in magnesium - nearly half the weight than its predecessor in aluminum

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