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INDUSTRY NEWS Personals Graeme Luxford, managing direc-


tor of Nissan Casting Australia Pty. Ltd., Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, was recognized as a finalist for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Manufacturers Monthly Endeavor Awards in May.


Richmond Casting Co. Inc., Rich-


mond, Ind., has promoted Ray Gregory from plant manager to vice president of operations.


Jake Hamid has


been appointed to the position of chief operating officer of Ip- sen Inc., Rockford, Ill.


OmniSource Corp., Jake Hamid


Fort Wayne, Ind., has announced several additions to its staff. Tim Bernstein has joined the company


as Southern Indiana division manager, Shane Smith is the new Northern In- diana division manager, Stan Davis is plant manager at the Smithfield, N.C., location, and Larry Kraynik has joined the company’s nonferrous division. MC


Obituaries Ken McKibben, Defiance, Ohio,


died May 16. He was 74. McKibben earned a degree in industrial engineer- ing from the General Motors Institute, Flint, Mich. He went on to work for the GM metalcasting facility in Defiance until the early 1970s, when he started the consulting firm DAMPCO, also in Defiance. McKibben also worked at the General Electric metalcasting plant in Erie, Pa., the Isaac Corp., Defiance,


Cast Metal Industries /SSK Engineering and ATD Engineering and Machine Co., Augres, Mich. McKibben was a longtime member of the American Foundry Society.


Richard Bauer, Palm Beach, Fla., died


May 21. He was 85. Bauer began his ca- reer in the metalcasting supply industry in 1951. In the 1960s, he founded East- ern Alloys Inc., Maybrook, N.Y. He also co-founded and served as chairman of Service Aluminum Corp., Ellicott City, Md. He was co-founder and a former director, treasurer and president of the Independent Zinc Alloyers Association, and a former director of the American Die Casting Institute. In 1982, Bauer won the North American Die Casting Association’s Doehler Award, and in 1997, he received the association’s Gullo and Treiber Award.


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