text: ASK Chemicals is one of the largest suppliers of complete solutions and tailor-made consultation services for the foundry industry. The core of our company’s activity involves manufacturing all foundry consumables required for the production chain as well as providing optimum technical services in order to perfectly adapt our products to the processes on the customer’s premises.
  Our wide product range contains binders for all core manufacturing processes, coatings, additives, feeders, filters, release agents, metallurgical products including inoculants, Mg treatment wires, inoculation wires and pre-alloys for iron casting. Core production and prototype development as well as a wide range of simulation services round off what the company has to offer.
  Our second business field is “Resins & specialized products” which offers niche solutions for high-quality applications in the fields of paints and coatings, fertilizer coating and manufacturing friction pads and composites. Our almost 30 years of experience in the market and our in-depth knowledge of the field of binder technology are of particular benefit to us here.
  Our experienced foundry specialists at ASK Chemicals are engineers and qualified experts from the foundry, metallurgy, chemicals, mechanical engineering or pattern making areas.
  Together with our Technical Sales department, our Application department is the link between the foundry, the ASK Chemicals specialists on site and the customer’s R&D departments. It is important for us to always work hand-in-hand with our customers in developing successful solutions for the increasingly complex requirements regarding quality, cost efficiency, productivity and environmental friendliness.
  We develop our products for foundry requirements in dedicated research and development centers in Europe, North America and Asia. Customer-specific applications and trend-setting product innovations are developed effectively and quickly here. This allows ASK Chemicals to offer its customers tailor-made technological solutions in response to complex problems. Examples of these technologies include challenging binder systems or innovative high-tech coatings, additives or special filters.
  Thanks to our global network, complemented by a local presence on site, our customers benefit from the rapid access to the complete technological expertise of ASK Chemicals in its entirety. Our promise “We advance your casting!” applies for all countries here. In keeping with this, we offer our customers access to trend-setting technologies, first-class quality, safety and continuity for their production requirements at all times.
  The challenges facing the global foundry market are mainly to be found in energy and resource efficiency as well as the reduction of emissions. As one of the leading suppliers for the foundry industry, ASK Chemicals therefore systematically develops solutions for environmentally and employee-friendly applications that also increase efficiency along the entire production process.