CID&CNF, CHINA DIECASTING & CHINA NONFERROUS, is Asia’s leading trade fair for the diecasting and nonferrous casting industry, held in Shanghai. It brings the whole production chain under one roof — raw and auxiliary materials, melting, casting, automation and peripherals, moulds, post-processing and CNC finishing, inspection and environmental technology — and sets the finished castings beside the buyers who use them.

Materials, processes and applications make up the show. Automotive and aerospace light-weighting keeps pushing precision forming of light alloys to the centre of product design: aluminium diecasting is spreading from body structural parts into battery housings, while magnesium alloys — lighter still, but constrained by corrosion and creep performance — are moving into volume applications. Smart manufacturing, low-carbon production and mould innovation run through the fair.