SIFE is the Spanish national Forging Industry association, headquartered in Bilbao, to provide very specific services to their forging companies members. Our mission is to be the connecting hub between the forging companies and representing all their interests before external organisations: customers, suppliers, public bodies, R&D organisations, other associations, etc. And at the same time, to facilitate and give support to forging companies that are members in the path to management excellence and world-class manufacturing. Members active collaboration allows SIFE to help them to develop forging industry, giving and co-ordinating technical information distribution, standardisation issues, technical training, new technology implementation, showing capacities of forging processes and their applications, and, last but not least, new market development.