The 2010 AFS Northwest Regional Conference will be held May 13-15 at the Hilton Whistler Resort & Spa, Whistler, B.C., Canada. The focus of this regional conference is to help shape your facility’s future. It will include presentations on:
- Clean Lean and Mean,” Michael Aughtman, Vulcan Engineering; Birmingham, Ala.
- Cast and Shakeout, Gene Muratore, Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, Des Plaines, Ill.
- Building and Sustaining a Winning Team, Chris Norch, Denison Industries; Denison, Texas.
- North American Metalcasting: Competing Globally?, Alfred Spada, AFS, Schaumburg, Ill.
- Strong Markets Ahead!, Raymond Monroe, Steel Founders’ Society of America, Crystal Lake, Ill.
- ADI Conversions for Fun and Profit, John Keough, Applied Process, Livonia, Mich.
- Ecomission: Advances in Foundry Binder Technology, Doug Trinowski, HA International, Westmont, Ill.
For more information or to register for this conference, contact Barry Spence, conference chairman, at 800/663-2869 or visit www.afsbc.ca/2010conference.
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The third installment of the AFS Global Technology Series, Heat Treatment Theory and Practice, will be held May 26-27 at AFS Headquarters, Schaumburg, Ill. Two hands-on workshops will be held concurrently—one each for ferrous and nonferrous participants. The workshops are intended to provide an understanding of the basic principles of thermal treatment as well as best heat treating practices for ferrous and nonferrous castings.
Important elements in the ferrous session will include thermal treatment (normalizing, stress relieving, annealing, austempering), surface hardening methods, auditing heat treating sources, differences in heat treating iron and steel castings, and applications of heat treated cast irons and competitive materials. The nonferrous session will cover increasing tensile strength, maximizing elongation, which aluminum alloys meet strength requirements without heat treating, minimizing distortion, improving hardness and machining performance, and discovering the optimum heat treat cycle for each alloy or component geometry.
Both workshops will include roundtable discussions. Attendees are encouraged to bring heat treating questions, problems and concerns for discussion and problem solving.
"Thermal treatment is a critical manufacturing and metallurgical process that can improve the properties, service perfomance and functionality of many cast components. This workshop will help foundries, suppliers, casting designers and buyers gain a better understanding of heat treatment so they can optimize the process, improve energy efficiency and increase the value for each casting," said Tom Prucha, AFS vice president of technology.
To view the ferrous brochure, click here. For a look at the nonferrous brochure, click here.
For more information, contact Prucha at 800/537-4237 x264 or
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Many energy related presentations will be given at CastExpo to help you cut costs and reduce your facility's carbon footprint. Key presenations include: "How to Implement an Energy Conservation Program in Your Facility," James Schifo, Kermadia, Inc., "Energy Matters, The Effect of Energy Costs on Profitability," Robert Eppich, Eppich Technologies and "Energy Efficient Melting, Transportation and Holding in Aluminum Casting Operations," Mark Osborne, General Motors Powertrain, Edward Eckert, Mike Kinosz, Apogee Technology, Inc., Ray Petersen, Aleris International.
CastExpo'10 will be held March 20-23 at the Orange County Convention Center South Hall, Orlando, Fla. To register for the show, click here.
Join AFS today, register for CastExpo today ... and save! A special membership rate applies, for a very limited time. For more information, contact Leo Baran, AFS director of membership services, at
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With the future of the Western Canadian metalcasting industry in mind, the AFS British Columbia Chapter has developed a scholarship program to encourage and support students interested in following a career path to the industry. The focus of this scholarship is to encourage students to continue their goal of becoming metalcasting technicians and/or engineers.
The scholarship, valued at $500 is available to engineering and geosciences students. Scholarship selection will be based on academic standing, professional or community involvement, a written statement and the student's current resume.
For more information or to apply for this scholarship, contact Crystal Lambert, AFS British Columbia Chapter, at
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