SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TO REPLACE FOUNDRY BINDERS BASED ON PHENOL
Binding materials in foundry production, being complex in chemical composition complexes consisting of potentially dangerous substances, determine not only the sanitary and hygienic working conditions in foundries, but also are responsible for the quality characteristics of the environmental condition of the entire production. Especially dangerous are the phenolic-based binders, on which the vast majority of modern technological processes of casting production work. This determines the urgency of the problem of finding alternative solutions - binding materials that would provide the technically necessary level of casting quality, would be environmentally friendly materials, at a relatively low cost.