The Excellent Foundry Paper Awards are presented annually by Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (FICMES), and this year the final evaluation activity of the 13th “FOSECO Cup” for Excellent Foundry Papers (2010) was carried out in Xining City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China between July 20-24, 2011.
    As usual, the entries were those papers published in various journals during 2010 including Foundry, China Foundry, Special Casting & Nonferrous Alloys, Modern Cast Iron, Foundry Technology, Foundry Equipment and Technology, China Foundry Machinery & Technology and Foundry Engineering, and those published in the proceedings of academic congresses organized by FICMES, each of the technical committees of FICMES, or all the provincial or municipal foundry societies in the year of 2010.