wfo_casting_2023commodityReputable compilationAuthoritative

WFO Census of World Casting Production

World Foundry Organization / Modern Casting

world metal castings ~113.1 Mt (2021 data, published Jan 2023)

Source

How it's published

Feed (what to expect)

Free census PDF; re-vendor the world total each edition.

Cadence: annual census (lagged)
Access: free (thewfo.com PDF)
Format: curated one-row CSV (world kt castings)
Licence: WFO/Modern Casting free census, cited with attribution
Vintage: 2023
Upstream: https://thewfo.com/knowledge-base/

Quirks

Census lags ~2 years (2021 data in the 2023 publication) - the driver year is pinned to the data year, not the publication year.

Demand-side DRIVER lane (DeploymentRecord only): casting tonnage x kg-graphite/t = the foundry graphite lane (share-calibrated coefficient, circularity surfaced on the proxy).

Reconciliation

Role in the canonical graph

Authority tier: Reputable compilation
Provenance: Authoritative
Canonicality: tier 1
Primary for: —
Contributes IDs: —
Name-block matching: trusted
Reconcile profile: default (tier 1)

Schema

What it feeds & emits

Feeds (axes)

Demand

Record kinds

DeploymentRecord

Identifier schemes

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