Assofond (the Italian Foundry Association, of which Fonderia Morini is a member) has published on its website a short guide on the use of the tools offered by the association on the subject of raw materials and production input. In addition to presenting the tools, the guide suggests a methodological approach to understand them and apply them in practice, so as to support member foundries in their activities and in the interaction with their customers.

The guide can be downloaded free of charge from the attachments to this article and from the official Assofond website.

What is the purpose of the Assofond guide?

The aim of the guide offered by Assofond is to provide member foundries with a map of the tools made available by the association itself to document the evolution of the main production inputs used to make a casting. Furthermore, the guide suggests a possible methodological approach to understand and apply these inputs.

The guide states that the proposed system intends to "determine a measure, as objective as possible, of the value of the casting over time, such as to configure constant profitability in real economic terms, assuming constant physical volumes and the real value of the invested capital."

The method proposed by Assofond is, in the final analysis, a starting point on which foundries and their customers can make an effective comparison.