Foundry Research Institute was established in 1946 as a leading research and development centre of the foundry sector in Poland. With attention focussed on problems of a reconstruction of the national foundry industry, first, and on a modernisation of this industry, next, during more than sixty years of its activity the Institute can boast many successful and original solutions in the field of new materials, foundry technologies, control and measuring apparatus, machines and equipment.
In the late seventies, owing to cooperation with UNIDO, the Foundry Research Institute became an important and well-known in the world training centre for foundry staff from the developing countries.
Today, the Institute is a research and development centre operating according to the rules of modern market policy, rendering services to the foundry industry, to other sectors of the industry, and to numerous institutions, offices and foreign partners.
In the countries of Africa and Asia, the Institute representatives acting as UNIDO experts and specialists were participating in the start up and commissioning of new foundries .
The mission of the Institute is to create new energy-saving and environment-friendly technologies and materials and undertake complex and interdisciplinary tasks in various branches of the industry.
The services offered by the Institute cover all forms of research and implementation activity from planning and foredesign up to implementation and economic analysis of the obtained results.
The activities of the Institute cover a broad spectrum of various problems from the field of foundry engineering, including basic and applied research, the development of new foundry materials and technologies, and expertises offered by the staff of high-skilled experts.
The organisation structure of the Institute reflects the scope of its activity.
The achievements in science and technique are best seen in the following areas of activity:
- cast materials,
- cast structures,
- melting process,
- mould and core manufacture and reclamation of moulding sands,
- special techniques of casting manufacture,
- alloy solidification and cooling,
- simulation of foundry processes,
- services offered by Complex of Research Laboratories accredited by Polish Centre for Accreditation,
- casting design,
- problems of ecology and sozology,
- computer-aided design of castings,
- expert systems.
Foundry Research Institute maintains vast contacts with foreign institutes and enterprises, mainly in the field of scientific and technical exchange and joint execution of research projects.
Foundry Research Institute is member of numerous international organisations.
The basic research work is supported by activities in the field of foundry standardisation, scientific information, publications and training held for the foundry staff. |
