Industry Awards Presented at CastExpo’10 During CastExpo’10, the American Foundry
Society (AFS) awarded the Thomas W. Pang- born Gold Medal to Sergio Gallo (retired), Tek- sid S.p.A., Torino, Italy, for his achievements in directing research and development of new metallurgical processes for iron and aluminum castings used in the automotive industry. Gallo joined automotive company Fiat
in 1953 as a metallurgist at its research and control center. Throughout his career he served as technical manager of Teksid S.p.A. (the new name of the metallurgical group of Fiat), general manager of Teksid Aluminum and chairman of the Teksid-Fiat Group. During his tenure with the company, Gallo developed or improved new alloys and processes that the company put into production. As Teksid built new metalcasting facilities across the globe, Gallo helped in planning and engineer- ing the production systems and organized the training of local personnel. AFS gave its Award of Scientifi c Merit to Roy Lobenhofer,
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Lobenhofer Consulting Inc., Mt. Prospect, Ill., for a career marked by his ability to convert complicated technical metallurgical issues to a pragmatic level of understanding and for assisting small casting facilities in using computer programming for problem solving and process control. Lobenhofer worked as a metallurgist for a handful of metalcasting facili- ties before serving as the associate technical director and then vice president of technology for AFS. In 1988, he began consulting work for his own company. Ian Kay, Hot Metal Technology LLC, Munde-
Sergio Gallo
lein, Ill., received an AFS service citation for his dedication to education and his service as an ambassador for the Cast Metals Institute (CMI), AFS and the metalcasting industry.
Norris Luther, Luther & Associates, Tucson, Ariz., received an
AFS service citation for 55 years of professional contributions to the metalcasting industry. Peter Reich, Reich Companies, Trussville, Ala., earned an
AFS service citation for his service to AFS, the Birmingham District AFS Chapter, Alabama Cast Metals Association and the metalcasting industry. AFS also awarded a Service Citation to Harley Scoggins,
Texas Cast Metals Institute, Ft. Worth, Texas, for his contribu- tions to the AFS Texas Chapter, the Foundry Education Foun- dation and the Texas Cast Metals Association. AFS recognized the efforts of Ken
Williams, Arena-fl ow LLC, Albuquerque, N.M., and Jerry Barendreght, General Mo- tors, Detroit, on the AFS research project “Operator Interface Logic Development for Lost Foam Process Modeling” with the AFS Applied Research Award. The research project was sponsored by the AFS Lost Foam Div. 11. The AFS Ray H. Witt Award, which
recognizes the authors of an AFS manage- ment or marketing paper that exhibits the greatest probability of favorably impacting the metalcasting industry, was awarded this year to Michael Swartzlander, Cast Strategies, Dublin, Ohio, and David Hays, Ashland Performance Materials, Dublin, for their paper, “The Coming Boom in North American Casting Demand from Renewable Energy Applications” (07-099). The Howard F. Taylor Award is pre-
sented to the technical paper with the longest lasting impact on the industry. This year, the award was given to Ricardo Aristizabal, Claudia Silva and Paula Perez, Univ. of Antioquia, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia, Vladimir Stanek, Czech Acad- emy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic, and Seymour Katz, S. Katz Associates, West Bloomfi eld, Mich., for their papers, “Studies of a Quenched Cupola Part I, II and III” (09-103, 09-104 and 09-105).
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