Shifting gears for 2009

摘要

It is our pleasure to once again bring you our Annual Metal Casting magazine with its overview of the Asia Pacific metal casting industry at the present time and its likely position in 2009. Within the last year it's hard for all of us to accept that the USA's shocking financial performance, beginning in August, 2007 morphed into a serious virus and infected the western world's financial systems to the extent that it has effectively dampened and reduced the expected world's economic growth for the next year and possibly beyond.