INDUSTRY NEWS
Metalcasting Students Help Clow Celebrate Safety Achievement
When McWane’s Clow Valve Metal Casting Facilities’ OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) committee was brainstorming ways to celebrate and recognize team members for their contributions toward achieving a five
year VPP STAR recertification, a commemorative coin kept coming up, similar to what team members saw at McWane’s Tyler Coupling’s VPP forum
Pictured are the RPM mold and cast coin.
in Marshfield, Mo. VPP committee member John
Grahek chairs the Foundry Education Foundation (FEF)’s industrial advi- sory board for the Univ. of Northern Iowa. He is familiar with student activities in metalcasting as well as a new rapid prototype machine the university just purchased to make sand molds. “What a great way to give the students a challenging project and help Clow out with our celebration,” he said. Te VPP committee agreed and sent a CAD model that Clow engineer Kyle Huelsman created. Jerry Tiel, UNI’s Metal Casting Center director, and metalcasting professor Dr. Scott Giese coordinated the project. Te students took the drawing, created a CAD model for an eight-impression mold and started production. Clow supplied lead-free alloy and the students made molds, poured and finished them, casting more than 150 commemorative coins. In appreciation for a job well done,
Clow will help sponsor the student chapter’s attendance at the AFS Casting Congress in April.
NEWSCAST Castool Tooling Systems, a division
of Exco Technologies Ltd. in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada, and Gurtnellen, Swit- zerland-based Schmelzmetall AG have agreed to expand the promotion and sales of one another’s products. Castool designs and manufactures tooling systems for di- ecasting machines and extrusion presses. Schmelzmetall produces performance copper alloys for diecasting. Castool will add Schmelzmetall products to its supply and distribution channels throughout the American and Asian markets, and Schmelzmetall will promote and market Castool’s products throughout Europe. Te companies introduced this new part- nership at Euroguss 2014.
14 | MODERN CASTING February 2014
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