The largest international metallurgical and foundry industry exhibition in scale and influence.

The German Metal Foundry Exhibition GIFA is held by the world-renowned Messe Düsseldorf, held every four years. It is currently the world's leading international metallurgical casting industry exhibition in terms of scale and influence.​​

Extensive exhibition scope: The exhibition scope is wide, basically covering all kinds of products in the metal casting industry. There are four main themes: foundry and castings, metallurgy exhibition area and heat treatment exhibition area. Including die-casting equipment; smelting equipment; various cold-chamber/hot-chamber die-casting machines, refractory and industrial ceramic raw materials and processing equipment, heat treatment production lines, process control instruments, etc.​​

Large scale of exhibition: The last exhibition attracted 942 exhibitors from all over the world, the number of visitors exceeded 48,000, and the exhibition area reached 47,698 square meters, which fully proved the status of the top professional exhibition in the field. Compared to previous editions, the percentage of international visitors rose again: more than 54% of visitors came from abroad, such as India, Italy, France, Austria and the United States.​​

Strong organizer: Messe Düsseldorf has 40 years of experience in organizing international exhibitions and has an impressive record of successfully holding more than 4,000 exhibitions around the world. The exhibitions held by the company cover the fields of material technology, automation technology, packaging and processing, print media and communications, medicine and health, trade services, fashion, leisure, health and cosmetics, as well as other types of exhibitions. 

Market analysis  

Germany is one of the most economically developed countries in the world, and its economic aggregate ranks third in the world after the United States and Japan. According to data released by the German Federal Statistical Office, boosted by factors such as increased domestic consumption and investment, and a boom in the export industry, the German economy has maintained steady growth, with an annual GDP growth rate of 3%. Germany is the most populous country in the EU with 81 million people and is the third largest market in the world. According to Eurostat statistics, from January to August 2017, the import and export volume of German goods was 1,687.49 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.6% over the same period of the previous year (the same below). Among them, the export was 934.11 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.5%; the import was 753.38 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.0%. The trade surplus was US$180.74 billion, down 3.7%. In August, the import and export of German goods was 219.77 billion US dollars, an increase of 13.6%. Among them, the export was 121.95 billion US dollars, an increase of 13.2%; the import was 97.82 billion US dollars, an increase of 14.1%. The trade surplus was US$24.13 billion, an increase of 9.8%. From January to August, Germany's trade surplus with China was US$9.32 billion, an increase of 130.4%. As of August, China was Germany's third largest export destination and second largest source of imports. The main commodities imported by Germany from China are mechanical and electrical products, textiles and raw materials, furniture, toys and miscellaneous products. Participating in this exhibition can more directly understand the development of German and world products and the specific needs of the market, which is conducive to improving the technical content of products, adjusting and improving The structure of the product lays the foundation for the production of high-quality products, and also guides the direction for improving the export and ensuring the normal export. 

Last year's review

Exhibition area: 47,698 square meters

Number of exhibitors: 942 exhibitors

Number of viewers: 48,783 people

Industry analysis of visitors: more than 50% of the visitors have decision-making power in the enterprise; 30% of the visitors are from the steel and foundry fields; 17% are from the metal processing industry; 13% are from the mechanical engineering industry. 

Range of exhibition   

1. Die-casting equipment; smelting equipment; various cold-chamber/hot-chamber die-casting machines (aluminum, zinc, copper, magnesium alloy die-casting machines); various hydraulic presses, peripheral equipment and accessories of hydraulic presses; differential pressure casting coatings; investment casting; precision Casting (special alloys and waxes); die casting moulds; process control and squeeze casting; low pressure casting; gravity metal casting; centrifugal casting; continuous casting; shell casting; lost foam casting.​​

2. Sand processing equipment; falling sand equipment; molding core making equipment; shot blasting cleaning and strengthening equipment; metal mold casting equipment; smelting and casting equipment; investment mold equipment; conveying equipment; testing equipment; aging treatment equipment; coating equipment; Core drying equipment; special casting equipment;

3. Forging equipment; die forging equipment; free forging equipment; extrusion, rotary forming, cutting, bending and twisting forming equipment; mechanical press; automatic forging press; hydraulic press; automatic forming equipment; general forming equipment; forging hammer; forging machine; Shearing machine; Bending correction machine; Uncoiling and leveling equipment for coil material; Riveting machine; Other forging equipment and accessories; Industrial furnaces and energy-saving technologies for forging; Forging automation control equipment.​​

4. Metallurgical equipment: metallurgical product processing technology and equipment (smelting equipment, continuous casting equipment, continuous rolling equipment, pickling equipment, drawing equipment, rolling equipment, etc.);

5. Auxiliary materials for metallurgical process: carbon materials, carbon material production technology and equipment, various metallurgical carbon materials, graphite electrodes; refractory materials and industrial ceramic raw materials and processing equipment, production and processing technology and equipment, various refractory materials products, industrial Ceramics; metal anti-corrosion coatings, metallurgical chemicals;

6. Heat treatment furnace: atmosphere furnace, carburizing furnace, gas nitriding furnace, austenite isothermal quenching furnace, aluminum alloy solution aging furnace, brazing furnace, pressure welding furnace, drying furnace; plasma infiltration heat treatment equipment, etc.;

7. Heat treatment production line: annealing, normalizing, quenching, quenching and tempering, induction heat treatment, chemical heat treatment, ion plating and other production lines;

8. Process control instrumentation, mechatronics control technology, intelligent information management technology: various process control software, thermocouple, temperature controller, atmosphere control instrument, flow meter, sensor (oxygen probe, hydrogen probe), infrared measurement temperature device, etc.​​

9. Cast steel, cast iron, non-ferrous alloy castings, wear-resistant castings (precision casting, pressure casting, lost foam casting, centrifugal casting, low pressure casting, etc.).