CastExpo 2025

Presenting the WFO Technical Forum

April 12 – 15, 2025

Discover Tomorrow Today 

CastExpo 2025 is your chance to connect with suppliers, peers, and customers. Catch new ideas to excel at your job and improve your business. Take advantage of the heralded technical and management sessions, plus AFS Institute courses, keynote speakers, shared interest group meetings, and the AFS Hub on the exhibit floor.

WFO


World Foundry Organization (WFO) will co-locate with AFS and present the 2025 World Foundry Technical Forum in Atlanta. The WFO is the recognized center of strategic foundry knowledge at the global level, designed to develop, enhance and improve the production of metalcastings through the latest technical and sustainable industry practices. The World Foundry Technical Forum is held once every two years.

For Supplier and Foundry Exhibitors
Technical Advances on Display
▸ Exhibit at CastExpo 2025
▸ Supplier Exhibit Contracts & Information
▸ Foundry Exhibit Contracts & Information
▸ Why Suppliers Exhibit at CastExpo 2025
▸ Why Foundries Exhibit at CastExpo 2025
▸ CastExpo 2025 Sponsorships
▸ Branding Sponsorships
For Attendees
Thinkers, Doers, & Innovators
▸ Attending Metalcasting Congress
▸ Who Should Attend Metalcasting Congress?
▸ Casting Designers & Buyers
▸ Student Research Competition
▸ Pre-Show Guide (Coming Jan. 2025
About CastExpo 2025
North America's Largest Metalcasting Expo
▸ What is CastExpo?
▸ Where is CastExpo 2025?
▸ Keynote Speakers
▸ Schedule at a Glance
▸ Local Attractions
 
 
▸WHAT IS CASTEXPO?

CastExpo is a trade show and congress serving the worldwide metalcasting supply chain. Held once every three years by the American Foundry Society, this event draws thousands of foundry professionals for four days of business, networking, and knowledge-sharing. Exhibits, presentations, and featured events at CastExpo incorporate every major alloy, process, and related foundry and manufacturing topic:

▸ Advanced Process Automation▸ Advanced Robotics▸ Additive Manufacturing
▸ Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning▸ Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality▸ Big Data and Analytics
▸ Casting Conversions▸ Cybersecurity▸ Defect Elimination & Casting Quality
▸ Design Optimization & Light-Weighting▸ Energy Efficiency▸ Environment, Health & Safety
▸ Foundry Equipment: New for 2022▸ Industrial Internet of Things▸ Insurance, Financial Solutions & Consulting
▸ Machining and Finishing▸ Metallurgy & Melt Quality▸ Molds, Binders & Additives
▸ Public Policy & Regulation▸ Research Findings▸ Reshoring
▸ Sand Quality▸ Simulation▸ Supply Chain & Logistics
▸ Wearable Technologies▸ Women in Metalcasting▸ Workforce Success
▸ Young Professionals▸ And More 
 
▸WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

CastExpo attracts the full spectrum of attendees from across the industry:

  • Owners, CEOs and COOs
  • Plant Managers
  • Engineers, Maintenance Experts, Line Managers and Technicians
  • Human Resources Directors and Office Personnel
  • Casting Buyers, Designers and Specifiers
  • Sales Managers and Manufacturers Reps
  • Educators, Career Counselors and Students

They view the latest equipment, sign new deals, network and reconnect with peers as well as prospects, and learn about the latest advancements in metalcasting through technical and management sessions.

▸WHO SHOULD EXHIBIT?

Every company that serves – or aims to serve – the $50 billion metalcasting industry should exhibit at this major event. Worldwide suppliers to the foundry industry, as well as North American metalcasters, are invited to market their products and services to CastExpo’s well-qualified audience of customers and prospects.

 
▸CONVENIENT LOCATION, DYNAMIC CITY

As Georgia’s largest city and the principal trade and transportation center of the southeastern United States, Atlanta serves as the quintessential capital city of the Southeast. It is the core of an extensive metropolitan area that includes 20 counties and cities with a robust and vibrant population.

Atlanta is also home to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). It is the nation’s most traveled airport serving 275,00 passengers per day on over 2,700 flights. In fact, 80% of the U.S. population live within a two-hour flight of ATL. Atlanta is also easily accessible by car – it’s less than 1,000 miles from New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Dallas, Detroit, Ottawa, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Austin, Milwaukee, Boston, Washington, Nashville, Cleveland, New Orleans, Memphis, Charlotte, Baltimore and Kanas City.

  • Georgia World Congress Center
  • Atlanta, GA
  • April 12 – 15, 2025
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