Foundry Division | Vesuvius 2020 Report

Performance

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Foundry end markets declined significantly across all regions. Revenues in the Foundry Division fell 19.8% year-on-year to £412.9m in 2020, with the rate of decline broadly consistent across most regions, except in China and South America, where we significantly outperformed key end-markets.

REVENUE

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RETURN ON SALES

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TRADING PROFIT

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The Business

Our Products

The conditioning of molten metal, the nature of the mould and the way metal flows into the mould all affect the quality of the finished castings and the labour, energy and metal usage efficiency of the foundry.

Vesuvius’ products and services to foundries contribute significantly to improved product quality and yield. Foundry customers are evolving towards more sophisticated and complex castings with increased requirements for cleaner and lighter metal, resulting in a greater need for Vesuvius’ products.

Our Customers

We are also focused on expanding the cross-selling opportunities between the Advanced Refractories and Foundry business units.

Foundries utilise some of the refractory products manufactured by Advanced Refractories, which allows us to offer a complete product offering to our customers.

Foundry Casting Process

The foundry process is highly sequential and is critically dependent on consistency of product quality and productivity optimisation. Working alongside customers at their sites, our engineers provide on-site technical expertise in addition to advanced computational fluid dynamics capabilities to develop the best customised production solutions.