Turkish Metal Casting Industry - EuroGuss
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SPECIAL ISSUE<br />
TÜDÖKSAD <strong>Turkish</strong><br />
Foundry Association in Brief<br />
<strong>Turkish</strong> Foundry Association (TÜDÖKSAD) is founded in 1976 by leading foundry industrialists<br />
and companies with the aim of providing support to enhance the economic progress of the<br />
metal casting industry and assisting its member companies to effectively manage all production<br />
operations and profitably market their products and services.<br />
TÜDÖKSAD is a non-governmental<br />
organization with voluntary membership,<br />
which represents the leading<br />
firms, industrialists and managers<br />
of the foundry business.<br />
Our Association, covering all of the<br />
largest foundries and most of the<br />
SMEs as our members, have 137<br />
member foundries and 52 associate<br />
members.<br />
<strong>Turkish</strong> foundry sector is actively<br />
represented by TÜDÖKSAD in national<br />
and international platforms.<br />
TÜDÖKSAD promotes the interests<br />
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of the metal casting industry in front<br />
of the related executive branches<br />
of the government. TÜDOKSAD<br />
members are actively participating<br />
to sectional committees and decision<br />
making bodies in national chambers<br />
of commerce and industry,<br />
hence contributing to the shaping<br />
of the national policies and priorities<br />
a"ecting the foundry industry.<br />
TÜDÖKSAD is a member of the<br />
World Foundry Organization (WFO)<br />
since 1989 and became a member<br />
of The European Foundry Association<br />
(CAEF), the organization union<br />
of the European foundry industry, in<br />
2007. TÜDOKSAD supports the biannual<br />
Ankiros, Annofer, TurkCast<br />
and Aluexpo fairs.<br />
138 Member Foundries & 58 Associate<br />
Supplier Members<br />
Iron Foundries / 71<br />
Steel Foundries / 45<br />
Non Ferrous Foundries / 22<br />
HPDC Foundries / 36<br />
Investment <strong>Casting</strong> Foundries / 8<br />
Associate Supplier Members / 58<br />
TURKCAST Special Issue