CAEF The European Foundry Association

CAEF — the European Foundry Asso­ci­ation — is the alli­ance of 23 national foundry asso­ci­ations from 22 European coun­tries. The European Foundry Asso­ci­ation was estab­lished in 1953 and thus belongs to the pion­eers of the European uni­fic­a­tion pro­cess. The Gen­eral Sec­ret­ariat is situ­ated in Düs­sel­dorf since 1997. It is the stat­utory mis­sion of CAEF to look into any and all ques­tions that are of import­ance to the foundry industry, be they eco­nomic, tech­nical, legal, or social. At the same time, CAEF imple­ments activ­it­ies which aim at devel­op­ing national foundry indus­tries and co-ordin­at­ing their shared inter­na­tional interests.