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Glidewell Specialties Foundry Celebrates 50th


Engineering Student Develops Corrosion Mobile App


Glidewell Specialties Foundry produces castings that range from 300 to 30,000 lbs. in gray iron and 300 to 28,000 lbs. in ductile iron.


Gray and ductile iron casting


producer Glidewell Specialties Foundry recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in business. Aaron S. Glidewell founded


the company in 1962, serving local Birmingham, Ala., steel mills and railroad wheel manufacturers. By the early 1970s, the company was


shipping steel castings all over the eastern U.S. Presently sited in Calera, Ala.,


the company currently serves large valve manufacturers, among other sectors. Ongoing upgrades have culminated in an expansion in 2010, which included a mechanized molding line. 


University of Toronto engineer- ing student Jason Tam has devel- oped an iPhone app, “Corrosion,” which provides corrosion terminolo- gies, formulae and benchmarking data. Professor Steven Thorpe put the challenge to his MSE 315 Environmental Degradation of Materials students.


T e app sells for $0.99 in the


iTunes app store and all proceeds go to the George B. Craig Scholarship, an in-course award designated for an academically high performing upper- year Materials Engineering student with demonstrated fi nancial need. T e app includes a glossary of more than 300 technical corrosion engineer- ing terms, a list of constants, such as the Boltzmann constant, reference elec- trodes and schematics. Virtual corro- sion experiments include an exploration of crevice corrosion on the Titanic. “T is new application changes the


way we access reference information in the corrosion science and engineering fi eld,” T orpe said. An Android ver- sion is in the works. 


10 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Mar/Apr 2013


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