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Morels Named Manufacturing Exec of Year by Seattle Business Morel Industries’ Chair-


man/President Stephen Morel and Vice President Mark Morel were named the Manu- facturing Executive of the Year for small firms by Seattle Business magazine. Seattle Business honored 20 of the top manufacturers in the state at the Washington Manufacturing Awards on April 25. In a letter distrib- uted at the event, Washington Governor Jay Inslee stressed the importance of the state’s manufacturing sector. “The manufacturing indus-


try employs nearly 9 percent of our state’s workforce,”


PERSONALS Brokk AB,


Monroe, Wash., has added James “Cat” Catalanotto to its U.S. sales team.


Hunter Foundry


Machinery Corp., Schaumburg, Ill., has named John Katsan- tonis as its marketing communications manager.


James Catalanotto Wheelabrator


Plus, LaGrange, Ga., promoted Brian Cappallo to U.S. sales and service manager.


Brian Cappallo


he wrote, “providing good, family-wage jobs. This is a diverse industry, and your skill and innovation will continue to play a key role in our eco- nomic recovery and long-term success.” Morel Industries special-


Stephen and Mark Morel added nobake molding to its expanded casting facilities in Seattle.


izes in aluminum, copper-base and iron castings. The Morel brothers were recognized for returning to the metalcasting business with the opening of a new, larger facility in Seattle, surviving the recession, adopt- ing a new nobake molding process, and reclaiming cus- tomers from their previously- sold business.


OBITUARIES Dr. Kent Peaslee, Rolla, Mo., died


May 17, 2013. He was 56. Peaslee was the F. Kenneth Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology and Curators’ Teaching Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Missouri Univ. of Sci- ence and Technology. He served as the


2012-2013 president of the Association for Iron & Steel Tech- nology (AIST) and was a member of the AIST executive com- mittee since 2007. He served as the chair of the AIST Founda- tion University & Industry Relations Roundtable from 2005-2011. Peaslee also was a member of the American Foundry Society, and the American Society of Engineering Educators. Peaslee joined the Missouri S&T faculty as an assistant professor in 1994 and eventually named a Cura- tors’ Teaching Professor in 2006. He became the university’s first Iverson Chair in 2007. In 2007, he received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to teaching, Peaslee worked for 13 years in a variety of technical and management positions in the steel industry.


Kent Peaslee Joseph E. “Mickey” Garrity, Te


Villages, Fla., died April 24, 2013. He was 79. Garrity was retired president/ CEO of Richmond Casting Co., Richmond, Ind. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956 and


received a bachelor of science degree from Ohio State Univ. He began his career as a general foreman for General Motors’ brake division before joining Kuhns Bros Foundry as a sales manager. In 1975, he went to work for Ductile Iron Co. of America as vice president of sales. In 1982 he was appointed executive vice presi- dent of Dayton Casting Co., which operated several metalcasting facili- ties, including Richmond Casting. Garrity became president/CEO of Richmond Casting in 1987. Gar- rity was a member of AFS, the Steel Founders’ Society of America and the Ductile Iron Society. He served as a director of the Indiana Cast Metals Association from 1996-98 and vice president in 1998. In 2000, Garrity received the AFS Keating Founders’ Freedom Award.


David M. Kraklau, St. Joseph,


Mich., died April 28, 2013. He was 71. Kraklau graduated from West- ern Michigan Univ., after which we joined his father at Advance Prod- ucts Corp., eventually becoming president of the supplier of metal- casting and diecasting automation equipment and products.


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