AFS Institute Introduces Free "Metalcasting Facility Safety" Module for Every Employee at Member Companies
The AFS Institute, the education arm of the American Foundry Society, today announced the availability of a newly revised and updated Foundry E-learning module on "Metalcasting Facility Safety." The Institute is offering the module at no charge to every employee at all 1,125 AFS-Member companies.
Read moreAFS Institute partners with NoRedesign to provide training for casting design engineers
Design engineers can improve their castings and cut costs with a program from NoRedesign.com offered in partnership with the American Foundry Society Institute.
NoRedesign and the AFS Institute will provide 32 instructional videos from leading metalcasting expert Mike Gwyn, who…
AFS releases updated Safety Data Sheets
The American Foundry Society is helping metalcasters stay compliant with the Hazard Communication Standard by publishing new Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for a variety of alloys.
SDSs will be on sale for 10% off through April 30, 2019, and they may be purchased at CastExpo for the same…
AFS President Bye wins STEP Ahead Award
American Foundry Society President Jean Bye (Dotson Iron Castings, Mankato, Minnesota) has been announced as a winner of the STEP Ahead Award from The Manufacturing Institute.
Lizeth Medina Balliet, left, and Jean Bye pose with their STEP Ahead Awards April 11 in Washington, D.C.STEP…
Host a congressional visit at your foundry this spring
Metalcasters have significant opportunities in the next few weeks to educate congressional lawmakers about the importance of the industry.
These opportunities are Congressional recesses, April 15-27 and May 27-31, when representatives and senators are back in their states and districts,…
AFS research seeks to improve steel casting quality
Ongoing AFS-sponsored research seeks to address costly inclusion defects that plague steel casting production by exploring how various gating designs affect filling conditions and casting quality.
Principal investigator Laura Bartlett and her team at Missouri University of Science and…
Benchmark your business — Take an additive manufacturing survey
How well has the foundry industry adopted 3D printing technologies? How many foundries are currently using additive manufacturing? Are you ahead or lagging behind your peers?
AFS is assisting the University of Northern Iowa in collecting data to better understand how metalcasters have…
AFS recognized by FEF for corporate support
The American Foundry Society is proud to have been recognized with an award from the Foundry Educational Foundation for its corporate support of FEF.
AFS recently achieved the Chromium Level of FEF’s corporate giving program. AFS is committed to backing FEF’s mission of providing…
Karl Rove to keynote AFS Government Affairs Fly-In
Political strategist and former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 AFS Government Affairs Fly-In, June 11-12 in Washington, D.C.
Rove is widely credited with winning two presidential elections for George W. Bush. During his keynote, he…
Column: Great stories to tell
By Doug Kurkul, AFS CEO
Every day, nearly 200,000 people go to work in America’s foundries, producing the complex engineered parts that are essential to modern life. From this economic activity – which constitutes a $33 billion industry – emerge countless great stories. One of the roles…
See the future of metalcasting at CastExpo
Six-thousand people. More than 400 exhibitors. Dozens of technical and management sessions. A show floor measuring 106,000 square feet. And it’s all happening in one place: CastExpo 2019, April 27-30, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
As North America’s largest…