AFS NEWS
AFS NEWS AFS/FEF Announce Student “
Technology Contest Winners AFS, in conjunction with the Foundry Educational
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Kevin Evers President St. Louis Precision Casting
Katie Matticks (far right), AFS technical & information services coordi- nator, is joined by student technology contest winners.
AFS Submits Comments to Tax
Reform Working Group In April, AFS provided comments outlining the metal-
casting industry’s tax policy priorities to the House Ways and Means Committee Tax Reform Working Group on manufacturing. As the U.S. moves forward on comprehensive tax reform,
AFS commented, “It is important to have parity. T e Con- gress needs to lower the tax rates for all manufacturers, no matter if they are organized as a C Corporation, S Corpora- tion, Partnership or other pass-through entity . . . Metalcast- ers have signifi cant capital equipment requirements. T is is where tax deductions and credits come in as a critical tool to reduce their eff ective tax rates.” In the Senate, the Finance Committee is formulating tax
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reform discussion drafts and has released four tax reform option papers, including one related to energy. Metalcasters interested in sharing their opinions on tax reform can visit
www.TaxReform.gov.
Foundation (FEF), honored winners of the 2013 Student Technology Contest at the AFS Central Indiana Chapter meeting on April 16. Derrick Myers, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.,
was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from FEF and an AFS Merit Award for his undergraduate project, “Breaking Up Coral-like Eutectic Silicon in Hypoeutectic Al-Si Alloys.” Corey Vian, Purdue University, was named the 2013 gradu- ate winner for his project, “Bubble Formation and Motion During Solidifi cation.” Vian was awarded $1,500 from FEF and an AFS Merit Award. Myers and Vian will have their papers published in the
2014 Winter issue of the International Journal of Metalcasting. Honorable mentions in the contest include Larry
Glosch and Jonathan Giove, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., for their paper “Shell V-Process,” and Dimitrios Kotsakis, Mohawk College, Ontario, Canada, for his paper “Feasibility of Investment Cast RF (Radio- frequency) Load Housing with Integral Silicon Carbide (SiC) Absorber Element.”
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