Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers! With this volume, we begin the 85th year of our Przegląd Odlewnictwa. Following optimistic forecasts with which we ended the not-so-easy year 2021, we enter the year 2022 with high hopes. This is not encouraged, however, by the analyses of the news arriving from all over the world. We are still facing the pandemic and the mutating virus causing COVID-19 which, although milder, tends to spread much faster. In Poland, we are experiencing growing inflation in prices of everyday goods... read more