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Metalcasting Student Chapter Helps Clow Celebrate Safety Recertifi cation When McWane’s Clow Valve’s Metal


Casting Facilities OSHA Voluntary Pro- tection Program committee was brain- storming ways to celebrate and recognize team members for their contributions toward achieving a fi ve year VPP STAR recertifi cation, a commemorative coin


kept coming up, similar to what team members saw at McWane’s Tyler Cou- pling’s VPP forum in Marshfi eld, Mo. VPP committee member John


Pictured is the RPM mold and cast coin.


Grahek chairs the Foundry Education Foundation (FEF)’s industrial advisory board for the University of Northern Iowa. He is familiar with student activi- ties in metal casting as well as a new Rapid Prototype Machine the univer- sity 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. T e VPP committee agreed and sent a CAD model that Clow engineer Kyle Huelsman created. Jerry T iel, UNI’s Metal Casting Center director, and metalcasting professor Dr. Scott Giese coordinated the project. T e 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 fi nished 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. 


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