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Ductile Iron News-Issue 2, November 2011 WOW!!! What a great turn out, with 130 registrations, to our Fall Ductile Iron Society Technical and Operating meeting held in historical Gettysburg, PA. The first day was busy with committee meetings. We held our Research Meeting in the morning with a record 35 members in attendance. Even in the afternoon we had more than normal turnout for the operating committees. The DIS Board of Directors meeting was held at 3:00 pm and adjourned at 5:00 pm. If any of you out there that are members of the DIS would like to join, please check out our committee structure on the website and contact Jim Wood at jwood@ductile.org. The day concluded with an excellent reception in the evening. On the second day, the attendees were presented with 10 quality talks. John Lewensky (Pure Power Technologies - Navistar) and chairman of the DIMG (Ductile Iron Marketing Group) and Jim Wood (DIS Executive Director) started off the day with a presentation on our first ever trade show booth and display at this year's Railroad Interchange in Minneapolis, MN. You can find that presentation with the other technical presentations through the links on the left hand side of the DI News website.
The day ended with our reception and banquet which was officiated by our DIS President, Scott Gledhill of ThyssenKrupp Waupaca. DIS PRESIDENT SCOTT GLEDHILL Scott introduced a few guests that were invited to attend. They were Sam Harrell, Louis Vihtelic, and Jeff Cochran of Virginia Castings (Division of Cadillac Castings) and Jeff Schutz of R.H. Sheppard Foundry. Scott then welcomed Donsco, Incorporated back as a member of the DIS and introduced 9 attendees from Donsco to our meeting. They were; Bill
Blechschmidt
Lizeth Medina Grede Holdings, LLC Berlin Division
TREVOR BEACH & SCOTT GLEDHILL Brewton Division Other new members that were introduced;
Scott then introduced our Chairman of our DIS College & University Relations Committee, Jim Csonka to introduce our guest students in attendance for this meeting. JIM CSONKA Jim introduced Joe Hsieh of Drexel University and Dean Zawistowski of Kent State University. Both gentlemen presented what their respected programs are about and their own work experience to date. Both are looking for full time employment in the Spring 2012. Their resumes are available in the Features Tab in the links on the left hand side. JOE HSIEH (L) & DEAN ZAWISTOWSKI (R) Thanks to Gene Muratore of Rio Tinto and Kathy Hayrynen of Applied Process for being our morning and afternoon technical chairpersons. Both were asked by Scott to present each of our speakers with a DIS token of appreciation for presenting at our technical session. Next, Scott introduced Bill Juergens of T B Woods Foundry to give the group a short presentation on the history of the foundry (Click to view presentation) and what the group would see the next day on their tour. BILL JUERGENS Thanks to not only Bill, but Lew Crist (Belted Drives Business Unit Manager) Svetlana Dodik-Pelja (Technical Director) and many other folks who helped the tour through the foundry.
TB WOOD'S FOUNDRY TOUR PICTURES This wrapped up the evening festivities and Scott closed with a reminder about our Spring 2012 Annual Meeting in Muskegon, MI with a tour of CWC Textron. For more information, please visit the DIS website. Make sure you connect to the link on the left side of the home page under Bulletin Board and not only will you find information on the Spring 2012 meeting but future DIS meetings. Also coming soon, will be a new Member Services software program called NetForum, accessible from the DIS Website that will have many new features. Just to name a few are registering and paying for meetings, individual member and company search and finding out information on DIS committee activities. Jim Wood |
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