National Foundry Technology Network (NFTN)

Visit: www.nftn.co.za

National Foundry Technology Network
Tel: +27 12 841 2017
Email: nftn@csir.co.za

The NFTN is a national industry support programme, hosted and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, on behalf of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic).

Support and services to industry have varied slightly over the past 12 years, but the overall mandate of the NFTN remains unchanged – to manage, coordinate and facilitate growth and transformation in the casting industry through focused interventions designed to support improved foundry competitiveness, the industrialisation of new technologies and products.

Currently, the NFTN has set four focus areas, or strategic objectives to guide its activities and projects:

1. Support sector and firm efficiencies and compliance to ensure sector sustainability.
2. Encourage localisation and robust supply chains to increase market access.
3. Facilitate the establishment and delivery of effective, relevant sector skills development interventions.
4. Develop and support the latest local technologies through relevant and focused research and development.

Whilst a good deal of research has been done into the needs of the sector, it is critical to get the foundry sector itself more involved, and the NFTN has thus set an additional focus area for the next two years, namely: to build mutually beneficial and productive relationships, through awareness-raising and stakeholder engagement.

For more information on possible support or involvement, visit www.nftn.co.za or email nftn@csir.co.za