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teven D. Carr, managing director and head of the Investor Relations practice for Dresner Corporate Services, Inc., a strategic communications and business development agency, will speak on Corporate Reputation Management in a Digital Age at the American Foundry Society (AFS) 2018 Marketing and Sales Conference.

A young employee of AFS Corporate Member General Motors "mentors a local all-girls FIRST Robotics team and volunteers at science festivals with the American Foundry Society’s Foundry in a Box demonstrations."

At AFS Corporate Member Lodge, "shift managers and other management-level employees undergo metallurgical training through the American Foundry Society to help them better understand the science behind the company’s products."

The American Foundry Society Casting Competition consisted of each team making a small-scale version of the Vulcan statue located in Birmingham and a technical presentation of their work.

“Ohio is home to more foundries than any other state, which makes it a prime location for Metalcasting Congress,” said AFS CEO Doug Kurkul.

AFS is bringing its annual meeting and industry showcase to Cleveland for the first time in more than 40 years.

With help from local industry, Watertown High School's manufacturing courses are getting a makeover for the 2018-19 school year.

You normally wouldn't let your kids pour molten metal or operate a heavy crane, but the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota is letting kids do all those things, and more!

I wish that time permitted us to write more often about the good work done by various groups to improve workplace safety and management. Notable examples include AGC–National and numerous state AGC-Chapters, the National Safety Council, State safety summits or “Governors Safety Conferences,” such as those in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and Indiana; TAUC, NBWA, American Foundry Society, American Poultry Association, and many others.