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After a two-year hiatus, the AFS Executive Salary Survey is once again available to the metalcasting industry. This important report includes responses from 127 metalcasting facilities in the U.S. and Canada.
Now more than ever, metalcasters need all the resources available to assist in navigating this uncertain economic landscape. The 2009 Executive Salary Survey will help you navigate this landscape. It also will provide your company with valuable information including foundry-specific compensation for 28 executive-level positions, ranging from chairman-of-the-board to salesperson. Data is broken down by ferrous and nonferrous facilities, gross sales and region. Salaries reported include annual bonus compensation (if applicable). Total salary and percentage of increase are compared from 1998 to 2008.
The survey is available in print and online forms and can be purchased online at www.afsinc.org/HRES09DL (.pdf version), www.afsinc.org/HRES09PR (print version), or by contacting AFS customer service at 800/537-4237. The survey can be purchased at the following prices:
Participating AFS Corporate Members – Complimentary .pdf, $25 (print version)
Participating Personal AFS Members/Non-Members - $125 (.pdf), $150 (print version)
Non-Participating AFS Corporate Members - $300 (.pdf), $325 (print version)
Non-Participating AFS Personal Members - $450 (.pdf), $475 (print version)
List Price - $600 (.pdf), $625 (print version)
For more information, contact AFS customer service at 800/537-4237.
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AFS has set up a Twitter account for the upcoming Art Casting Conference, which will be held Nov. 12-13 at the Four Points by Sheraton, Tempe, Az. To tweet your thoughts on the event, visit www.twitter.com/artcasting.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages —up to 140 characters—known as tweets.
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Are you responsible for environmental compliance or the health and safety of your metalcasting facility? Need to stay in tune with regulatory compliance issues? If so, consider participating in the AFS Div. 10 Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) committees.
Div. 10 includes 5 committees, 3 of which are open to all metalcasters and others involved in the metalcasting industry and 2 available by nomination only. The Div. 10 EH&S committees include:
- 10-A Executive Committee (by nomination only);
- 10-B Programs & Paper Committee (by nomination only);
- 10-E Air Quality Committee;
- 10-F Water Quality & Waste Disposal Committee;
- 10-Q Safety & Health Committee.
Meetings are typically held in March, June, September & December at AFS headquarters, Schaumburg, Ill. For more information, or to join any of the EHS committees, contact Fred Kohloff at
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or 800/537-4237 x 230.
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The American Foundry Society (AFS) has issued a call for papers to be presented at the new Casting Design & Purchasing sessions to be held at CastExpo’10 and the 114th Metalcasting Congress, March 19-23, 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Submission is open to technical papers and presentations covering all areas related to metal casting design and purchasing, including: how to design, process and material basics, process and material advancements, computer-based modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, casting conversions, identifying suppliers and supply chain management.
The Casting Design & Purchasing sessions are being held in conjunction with the new Cast in North America pavilion during CastExpo’10. The Cast in North America pavilion is an opportunity for metalcasters (foundries and diecasters) to exhibit their capabilities to their customers—buyers and designers—from across the globe.
Abstracts for papers at the Casting Design & Purchasing sessions are due by October 15th with complete manuscripts due by December 1. Offer and abstract form, paper number assignment, author guide and paper template are all available at the Metalcasting Congress website at http://papers.afsinc.org/.
If you are interested in exhibiting at the Cast In North America pavilion as part of CastExpo’10, visit www.castexpo.com for more information or contact Expo Productions at 262/367-5500.
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Effective September 21, AFS has updated its privacy policy. This updated policy includes alerting its members to changes in the way that their personally identifiable information may be used, and that AFS will not sell, distribute, or disclose its members' personally identifiable information to third-party advertisers.
Review the AFS Privacy Policy
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