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 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…

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…

Find casting advice, conversations and more on CastingConnection

CastingConnection, an open forum initiated by AFS four years ago, is an outstanding individual member benefit available to all individual AFS members. 

The open forum serves two purposes: it provides members with wonderful discussion context in which individual members may solicit…

Experience powerful metalcasting relationships at summit

The Foundry Leadership Summit (formerly the Foundry Leadership Conference) brings metalcasting industry leaders together for the best in networking, facilitated discussions, and presentations for a unique annual experience.

“I’ve always felt it’s one of the premier events that we have…

It's time to advocate for metalcasting

With hundreds of new lawmakers and congressional staff on Capitol Hill, it’s time to stand together as an industry. 

At the AFS Government Affairs Fly-In, June 11-12 in Washington, D.C., attendees will hear from policy experts, meet with lawmakers, and call for commonsense policies…

Wisconsin Chapter looks toward tomorrow at Regional

In its 81st year, the AFS Wisconsin Regional kicked off with AFS President Jean Bye (Dotson Iron Castings) announcing the direction of AFS and the success of the metalcasting industry.

The Wisconsin Chapter’s Vice President and 2019 Regional Chair, Mike Kamin (Carpenter Brothers Inc.),…

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…