Each year since 1973, NADCA has sponsored its International Die Casting Design Competition to showcase outstanding die cast designs while acknowledging the continuous contribution die casters provide to the manufacturing industry.
Submitted castings are reviewed by a panel of independent judges from which winners are selected. Categories are grouped by material and include aluminum, zinc and magnesium. For each category, a die casting is evaluated based on ingenuity of casting and product design, overall quality, cost savings and contribution to expanding the market for die casting.
This year, NADCA honored its International Die Casting Design Competition award winners at the Die Casting Congress & Tabletop in Columbus, OH. The eight winners also had their castings displayed in the exhibitor hall for the 2011 Tabletop.
“Once again competition continued to be strong in the magnesium over half a pound category this year” said NADCA project engineer Alex Monroe. “The competition also saw entries with applications in the commercial truck market. These examples seem to indicate an expanding market for die castings being driven by innovative uses of die casting technologies.”
NADCA wishes to thank all the die casters who submitted their entries in the 2011 competition, while congratulating the winners. Please click an image on the right to see a full profile of each die casting competition winner.
