Eisenwerk Brühl GmbH specializes in the mass production of cylinder crankcases made of cast iron for the automobile market. With its 1,600 employees, the foundry produces five million cylinder crankcases annually at its Brühl location. With its highly automated foundry and its technologically refined manufacturing processes for lightweight construc- tion and thin-wall casting, the company ranks among the leading suppliers of cylinder crankcases for the global automotive industry. However, the continual demand by automobile manufacturers for increasingly complex and thin-walled castings requires suppliers to constantly devise new, innovative and technologically more sophisticated concepts Case Study In an interview with our editorial staff, Ralph Wegener, CEO of Eisenwerk Brühl Gmb

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