R&D Portfolio
The Metal Casting Industries of the Future strategy was designed to foster government-industry partnerships in the economically imperative, energy-intensive U.S. metal casting industry. This strategy has fostered metal casting industry partnership and provided an impetus for the industry to develop long-term visions and roadmaps.
The Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) has provided cost-shared funding to selected R&D projects that address industry-defined priorities as well as national goals for energy and the environment in three main areas: Materials Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, and Environmental Technologies.
This successful government-industry partnership has now evolved to a point where it is focusing on high-impact research to make revolutionary improvements in the energy efficiency of the metal casting processes. ITP developed a balanced portfolio that focuses on two parallel and intimately related pathways: Advanced Melting Technology and Innovative Casting Process.