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INDUSTRY FACES


Facility President Chris Norch Helps Lead Casting Lobby Chris Norch, president of Denison


Industries, Denison, Texas, recently helped lead a delegation of the Texas Cast Metals Association to meet Governor Rick Perry and other state officials with one goal in mind—en- sure the government knows what’s going on in the metalcasting industry. It wasn’t Norch’s first rodeo. In addition to being chairman


of the Texas Cast Metals Associa- tion, Norch also chairs the American Foundry Society’s Government Affairs committee. Working with the Met- alcaster’s Alliance for Government Affairs, Washington, D.C., Norch and other committee members make frequent trips to the nation’s capital to lobby legislators and administra- tors. Te committee recently spent time working with lawmakers on the dormant Employee Free Choice Act; now, it is shifting its focus to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s jurisdiction over greenhouse gases. “We educate [Congress]. We tell them who we are, what our carbon footprint is and what we do in the supply chain,” Norch said. “Sometimes, they for-


PERSONALS


Tom Corbett has signed an agree- ment to provide technical consulting services to OmniSource Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., through his consult- ing firm T. Corbett and Associates, Strongsville, Ohio.


W Abrasives, Le Cheylas, France, has appointed Bill Koshut managing director of North American opera- tions. He replaces Tierry Georges, who has been moved to managing director of Asian operations.


Cleveland Vibrator Co., Cleve-


land, has promoted Michael Valore to the position of chief executive officer and Glen Roberts to president. Craig Macklin has been made vice president of strategic development.


Pradeep Rohatgi , Univ. of


Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was named the 2010 Society of Automotive Engineers Fellow Award winner.


Chris Norch (sixth from right) helped lead a delegation to meet Texas Governor Rick Perry.


get the second and third tier suppliers. A lot of them don’t know what [metalcast- ing facilities] are, even on a broad scale. We teach them about legislative impact and make them acknowledge us.” As president of Denison Indus-


tries, Norch has found working with the government can be beneficial on a smaller scale, as well. Te relation- ships he’s established have helped his company obtain government supply


OBITUARIES Joseph Dakan,


Elkins, W.Va., died May 15, 2010. He was 89. Dakan was president and general manager of Kelly Foundry and Machine Co., Elkins, W.Va., which produces molds for the bottle mak- ing industry. Dakan, an avid cutting horse rider and trainer, worked for Kelly Foundry for 60 years begin- ning in 1950. According to local news reports, he began work at the company as a shipping clerk and later became company treasurer. Dakan bought a controlling interest in the metalcast- ing facility in 1984 and helped run it until the time of his death. Dakan was a longtime member of the American Foundry Society (AFS).


Joseph Dakan Vincent Danega, Hesperia, Calif.,


died Jan. 21. He was 59. A longtime member of AFS and the North Amer- ican Die Casting Association, Danega began his career in the metalcasting industry in 1976 as a field service en- gineer for induction melting furnaces. He traveled extensively with two leading induction furnace companies in service and sales positions, taking up residence in both the Philippines and Taiwan. In 1991, Danega joined Termtronix Corp., Adelanto, Calif., as its first field salesperson. Operating from his home office in Connecticut, he helped expand the company’s sales reach and in 1994 relocated to Califor- nia to become vice president of sales, a position in which he served until 2009. Danega directed the training of the company’s sales and service force and established factory direct regional positions worldwide.


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contracts and secure funding to con- duct research on behalf of the industry. “Te time we spend working with


government is as valuable as or more valuable than making a sales call,” Norch said. Prior to coming to Denison Indus-


tries six years ago, Norch spent more than 20 years working for Oil City Iron Works, Corsicana, Texas, a company his family has owned since 1964.


Photo by Jill Dunkel


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