Table 3: Casting processes used in selected modern art foundries worldwide

Table 3
Table 3
Casting processes used in selected modern art foundries worldwide
Country France UK Germany Italy USA Cameroon Burkina Faso Mali South Africa India Nepal Thailand Cambodia China
Foundry name (and/or location) Fonderie de Coubertin (St Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, Ile de France) Fonderie Susse (Arcueil, Ile de France) Andrew Lacey Pangolin Royal College of Art (London) Hermann Noack (Berlin) Strassacker (near Stuttgart) Lauchammer (near Dresden) Fonderia Del Chiaro (Pietrasanta, Tuscany) Fonderia Mariani (Pietrasanta, Tuscany) Fonderia Battaglia (Milan) Modern Art Foundry (Astoria, NY) Shindoni (Tesuque, NM) (Bamenda) (Ouagadougou) (Bamako) Dionysus Sculpture Works (Pretoria) (Swamimilai)   (Thonburi) (Chiang Mai) Brass worker village (Ubon) Buranathai Buddha Image Factory (Pitsanulok) Bangkok Noi Foundry (Bangkok) It Sopheap foundry (Siem Reap) Tongling Xinjiuding Bronze Culture Industry Co., Ltd. (铜陵新九鼎铜文化有限公司 | Tongling City, Anhui Province) Various factories (Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and other provinces, e.g., Yuda Group, Shanxi province; Aerosun Corporation, Jiangsu province)
Source Dubos, pers. comm. 2020; ; Lacey, pers. comm. 2020 Lacey, pers. comm. 2020 Welter, pers. comm. 2020; ; Kreutner, pers. comm. 2020 Welter, pers. comm. 2020; Morigi, pers. comm. 2020 Morigi, pers. comm. 2020 Morigi, pers. comm. 2020 Bassett, pers. comm. 2020 w/ Jeffrey Spring Lacey, pers. comm. 2020 Nolene Gerber, pers. comm. w/ Bewer 2021 ; It Sopheap, pers. comm. Strahan, pers. comm. w/ Bewer 2021 Haiping Lian, pers. comm. w/ Bewer 2021
direct lost wax x x x x x x x   x x x x x x x x       x x x x x x    
direct wax slab     x x     x   x x x             x x                
slush molding x x x x x   x x x x x x x       x x   x       x x x x
indirect wax slab x x     x   x   x x x                                
indirect wax painting x x x x x x x x x x x x x                            
lasagna                                                      
cut-back core x                                                    
other processes x x   x x x x x                             x x     x
    x