Ductile Iron Production Seminar Wrap Up

Rolling Meadows, IL

The spring session of the Ductile Iron Society’s Production Seminar was held at the Holiday Inn in Rolling Meadows, IL on March 18-19, 2008.  The seminar was attended by 18 individuals from different producers and associates companies.

The first day started off with Jim Csonka of Hickman, Williams & Company covering basic ductile iron metallurgy, materials and practices.

The second part of the morning was Fred Linebarger of Miller & Company covering processing, treatment methods, inoculation and handling of ductile iron.

 After lunch Fred concluded his presentation, and then Gene Muratore of Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium presented gating and risering practices.

On the second morning, Tim Dorn of Applied Process, Inc. made a presentation on quality control procedures and then ended the seminar with a summary of austemper ductile iron.

After the seminar concluded the group gave us a positive feedback on the presentations and the technical content.  We hope that other members or even non-members will take advantage and attend future seminars.

Many thanks go out to the four gentlemen and their respective companies for the donation of time in making this seminar a great success.

James Wood

Executive/Technical Director

Ductile Iron Society