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MEETINGS
The Annual meeting of the Ductile Iron
Society will be held on June 13, 14, 15, 2001 at the Waterloo Motor
Inn in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with a visit to WesCast, Wingham,
Ontario.
The next Research Committee Meeting
will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting in Waterloo.
It is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. at the Waterloo Inn.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Matt
Liptak has joined Buck
Company, Inc. as Manager of Quality Assurance.
Former
DIS Vice President, Robert Bigge, has assumed the position of
Technical Director at ICRI.
Grede
Foundries, Inc. has named Randy
Priem, as Vice President of Operations of its Iron Mountain
foundry in Kingsford, Michigan.
Ashland
Specialty Chemical Company
has named Randy C. Helmick, plant manager for its Cleveland
West, Ohio, operations. Dana
R. Cooper, has been named plant manager of the companies Cleveland
East, Ohio, operations.
Intermet
Corporation announced that Terry
C. Graessle is joining the Company as Vice President of Sales and
Marketing. Graessle will
also be a member of the Corporate Operating Committee.
Climax
Research Services has
announced the following appointments: Amadee Roy, Technical
Consultant; Allison Nolting, Mechanical Testing Supervisor; Charles
K. Deak, Technical Consultant.
DISA
Industries, has named Ronald
A. Mutch, Vice President & General Manager of the Holly, MI
facility.
Tecpro
Corporation, has announced
the following: Charles F. Wright, President; John R. Cameli,
Vice President.
Magma
Foundry Technologies, Inc.
has appointed Matt Proske, Project Engineer and Winston
Sequeira, Applications Manager.
BUSINESS
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin (May 29, 2001) - Grede Foundries, Inc. of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, is proud to announce that its Greenwood, South Carolina
foundry received its ISO 14001 certification in May. ISO 14001
is an international environmental standard. Grede's efforts in
building its environmental management system received praise from NSF-ISR,
the third-party auditor that recommended Greenwood for certification.
Troy,
MI (May 17, 2001) - INTERMET Corporation Executive Vice
President of Technical Services Dr. Gary Ruff received the 2001 Ray H.
Witt Award Tuesday, May 15, at the Advanced Casting Research Center
Spring Meeting held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester,
Mass.
Chicago
(May 7, 2001) - Governor George H. Ryan Awarded Superior Graphite
Co. with a Technology Challenge Grant as one of eighteen Illinois
businesses, universities and research centers that are on the cutting
edge of 21st Century technology.
The
Technology Challenge Grant is designed to fund science and technology
projects, partnerships between universities and industry, high-tech
commercialization projects, transfer projects and infrastructure
improvements. The program is administered through the Illinois
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA).
The
Foundry Products Division of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company
has developed and introduced the MAGNAset no-bake binder, answering
the foundry industry’s call for improved productivity, better
castings and lower costs, while also meeting increasingly stringent
environmental regulations.
Wescast
Industries, Inc. has been
awarded a number of business contracts by several major automobile
manufacturers, including General Motors, Nissan and Jaguar.
The product produced will be machined exhaust manifolds.
Inductotherm
Corporation has acquired HI
T.E.Q., Inc. of Miamisburg, OH.
Ward
Manufacturing Inc. (Hitachi
Metals America, Ltd.) has reached a 5-year information-technology
services agreement with Perot Systems Corporation of Dallas, Texas.
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