AFS’ top award, the William H.
McFadden Gold Medal, was awarded this year to Paul Cervellero, owner of Induction Melting and Holding Sys- tems LLC, Feasterville-Trevose, Pa., for his leadership in developing induction melting technology through AFS and the Cast Metals Institute (CMI). AFS also gave Awards of Scien-
tific Merit to Iulian Riposan, profes- sor, Politehnica Univ. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Ralph Showman, senior staff metallurgist, ASK Chemi- cals, Dublin, Ohio, and David Weiss, vice president of sales and engineering, Eck Industries, Manitowoc, Wis. AFS Service Citations were given to Greg- ory Miskinis, director of research and process development, TyssenKrupp Waupaca, Waupaca, Wis., Raymond Monroe, executive vice president, Steel Founders’ Society of America, Crystal Lake, Ill., and Sandy Salisbury- Linton, CFO/co-owner, Tonkawa Foundry Inc., Tonkawa, Okla. Wayne Rasmussen, consultant and
part-time CMI instructor, earned the Michael J. Trzecinski CMI Award.
Hoyt Lecture: Stop Pouring, Start Casting
On April 20, John Campbell, emeri-
tus professor, Univ. of Birmingham, U.K., delivered this year’s honorary Hoyt Memorial lecture, “Stop Pouring, Start Casting,” in which he presented gating and feeding methods he argued would reduce the turbulence of pouring and allow the industry to significantly improve casting quality.
Cast Iron Honorary Lecture Torbjorn Skaland, Elkem Foundry
Div., Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Nor- way, delivered the Cast Iron Honorary Lecture, “Inoculation—Facts & Fic- tion” (12-128) on April 18. Te presentation touched on fac-
tors affecting the interactions between inoculant and molten metal in form- ing nucleation sites for graphite.
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Molding Methods & Materials Silver Anniversary Paper
James Archibald and Jorg Kroker, ASK Chemicals LP, Dublin, Ohio, delivered the Molding Methods and Materials Silver Anniversary paper, “High Efficiency Cold Box Process- es—Technology Focused on Business Goals.” (12-001). Te paper, presented on April 18
at this year’s Metalcasting Congress, highlighted the advancements in binder chemistry, sand flow modeling and un- derstanding of the coldbox blowing and curing process in the past 25 years.
Applied Research Award AFS awarded Kumar Sadayappan,
CANMET-MTL, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, its Applied Research Award for the research project “Investigation of Cracking of Copper-Bismuth Al-
loys.” Te project was sponsored by the AFS Copper Alloy Div. 3.
Taylor and Witt Awards The Ray H. Witt Management
Award, which recognizes the au- thor of an AFS management or marketing-oriented paper exhibiting the greatest probability of favorably impacting the metalcasting industry, was presented to Geoffrey Sigworth, Foseco, Cleveland, for his paper “Un- derstanding Quality in Aluminum Castings” (11-013). Te Howard F. Taylor Award for the
technical paper with the longest lasting impact on the metalcasting industry was presented to Mitchell Patterson and Gerard Tiel, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, for their paper, “Replacement of Phenol-Formalde- hyde in Urethane Binders” (11-117).
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