Keough of Applied Process Wins Dual Recognition for Industry Services
 
John R. (Chip) Keough, PE, President/CEO of Applied Process, Inc., has been awarded two metal industry honors. First, the American Foundrymen’s Society has granted him its Wm. J. Grede Award "for major contributions in the field of management, marketing and education, which have resulted in expanding the effective use of metal castings."
 
In Keough’s second award, the ASM International (a metals and materials society) has made him a Fellow of the organization for his contribution to the commercialization of the Austempered Ductile Iron Process.
 
Mr. Keough has a two-award tradition; he was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977 with Bachelors Degrees in both Mechanical and Materials/Metallurgical Engineering. He is a Registered Professional Engineer who has authored numerous papers, co-authored one book, written and edited chapters in many more and given scores of technical presentations in classes on foundry and heat treating related subjects. He holds six heat treating or foundry-related patents.
 
Mr. Keough’s company Applied Process Inc., specializes in a high-tech heat-treating process known as Austempering. The company has operations in Livonia, Michigan; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; and Elizabethtown, Kentucky; as well as licensees in Australia and England.

 
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