245 Casting of metals

This group includes activities of foundries employing different casting processes to produce castings with all ferrous and non-ferrous metal alloys. Subsequent trimming or descaling of the castings might be included, but without any further processing.

This group includes the manufacture of castings used in various industries.

This group excludes:

• manufacture of products obtained by production processes other than from castings (e.g. as forged, pressed, drawn and stamped parts, rolled rings or powder metallurgy products), see division 25
• manufacture of finished products by further processing of castings, e.g.:
• boilers and radiators, see 252100
• cast household items, anchors, ships’ propellers and bells, see 259900