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Ductile
Iron News – Issue 1, 2009
Dick McMinn (L) and Mike Galvin For those who attended
the tour we were all given a gift manufactured by the foundry which included
ductile iron, bronze and aluminum all fused together.
Did anyone figure out how they did it?
Thanks again to Buck Company for their generous hospitality.
The Board of Directors
held their meeting on Wednesday June 3 from 3pm till 5:30pm. The Board approved another $29,500 in funding for two new Research
Projects for the fiscal year 2009/10. In
2009 the Ductile Iron Society completed two Research Projects #42 and # 43.
Project #44 is still ongoing and should be completed by the end of
2009. The final report will be
available in early 2010. More
information is available on the DIS Website at www.ductile.org
under the DIS Member Area, Research Activity in Progress. The Board also approved the Spring 2010 meeting to be held in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with planned tours of Robar Industries,
Ltd. and Century Pacific Foundry Ltd. The
Fall 2010 meeting is planned for Cleveland, Ohio with the emphasis on “Heavy
Section Castings Symposium.” The Board approved
$8000 to be handed out in four-$2000 scholarships to be presented at the
Foundry Education Foundation (FEF) Conference in Chicago at the Drake Hotel in
November 2009. Also the Board
approved revised by-laws for the Society which has not been updated in over 20
years. The Society recognized and would like to thank the following retiring Board members for their dedicated service over the last three years; Don Craig of Selee
Corporation The Board approved the
appointments of three new incoming directors as of July 1, 2009 serving for
three years. They are, J. B. Brown of Bremen
Castings DIS
President
Joe Farrar Here is a recap of that
presentation. “The past year has
been one that we have not seen in many years.
I am sure I don’t need to review all that has happened with you
foundrymen since we are all affected by what is happening with our economy.
This has also hit the Ductile Iron Society.
Your Society has done everything this past year to contain spending and
costs associated with running the Society.
The Board of Directors approved last June 2008 a small increase in
dues, since they had not changed in over 10 years.
This increase will help fund future Research Projects.
The Society will end the 2008/09 fiscal year in the black.
However, the Society has lost a few members since we last met in Las
Vegas. This has not only affected
the Foundry Producers but also our Associate Members.
We also hope that many of our dropped members will return to the DIS
after this economy turns around. During this past year
we have made some significant changes in the management of your society.
The Ductile Iron Society continues to work closer with the Iron Casting
Research Institute. Susie Lambert
has now been our administrator for just about two years.
Bruce Blatzer continues to assist during our meetings and Bob Bigge
continues to play an active role on our Research Committee.
Four Keith D. Millis
scholarships were awarded at the 2008 Foundry Education Foundation Conference
held on November 21, 2008 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
They went to Joel Deibler of Penn State, Nathaniel James of the
University of Northern Iowa, Kurt McCluskey of the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville,
and Steven Williams of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Each student received $2500. Congratulations
to our four students from the DIS.” Also John (Chip)
Keough, Chairman of the University Relations Committee, gave a short summary on a
program they are working on. The
Committee is going to produce T-Shirts for students planning on attending this
year’s FEF Conference.
John solicited DIS
members to donate a small amount of money, in exchange for their company logo printed on the back, to help cover the production cost.
He also announced to the members that they were searching for a caption
for the front of the shirt. He
challenged the group to be creative and think up a great caption and it would
be finalized at the banquet that evening. The Society would like
to acknowledge the following new members since our last meeting in Las Vegas.
They are Seneca Foundry and Kirk McCullough from Webster City, Iowa
Please make a note on
your calendar that our Fall 2009 meeting will be held at the Radisson Inn –
Sharon in West Middlesex, PA on September 30 – October 2 with a tour of
Hodge Foundry in Greenville, PA. For
more information, please visit the DIS website at www.ductile.org
and click on the “DIS/ICRI Fall 2009 joint meeting”. See you all in
September! James
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