INDUSTRY NEWS PERSONALS Woodland/Alloy Castings Inc.,
Racine, Wis., has appointed Michael Adams the company’s new president and CEO, on August 24. Christian
Christian Debus
European office in Tuttlingen, Germany. IBC Advanced
Alloys Corp., Vancouver, has appointed Chris Huskamp as the acting president of its subsidiary, IBC Engineered Materials Corp., Wilmington, Mass. He has been the vice president of business and techni- cal development since 2014.
Chris Huskamp CALENDAR
OCTOBER 20-21 Casting Defect Analysis
AFS & THE INSTITUTE LANCASTER, PA
OCTOBER 27-29 Foundry Process Improvement
AFS & THE INSTITUTE SCHAUMBURG, IL
NOVEMBER 3-4 Casting Defect Analysis
AFS & THE INSTITUTE NEENAH, WI
Aluminum Crucible Furnace Practices AFS & THE INSTITUTE SCHAUMBURG, IL
NOVEMBER 17
NOVEMBER 18-19 Aluminum Metallurgy 201
AFS & THE INSTITUTE SCHAUMBURG, IL
NOVEMBER 19-20 FEF College Industry Conference
FOUNDRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WESTIN MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL
DECEMBER 1-2 Introduction to Metalcasting
AFS & THE INSTITUTE SCHAUMBURG, IL
DECEMBER 9-12 SFSA Technical & Operating Conference
STEEL FOUNDERS’ SOCIETY OF AMERICA CHICAGO, IL
FEBRUARY 2-3 Casting Supplier Auditing
AFS & THE INSTITUTE SOUTH PITTSBURG, TN
Debus has been appointed the new executive vice president, world- wide operations, for Camfil Air Pollution Con- trol, Jonesboro, Ark. He will work out of Camfil’s
Blast Clean-
ing Technologies (BCT), New Berlin, Wis., has announced Chris Gerlach has joined the com- pany as executive vice president and chief operations officer. BCT also announced Luke Socks will be the company’s new senior project manager. Te board of directors of Carpen-
Chris Gerlach
ter Brothers Inc., Mequon, Wis., appointed Nicholas M. Gerrits as the industrial supplies and equipment provider’s new president and CEO, effective November 1. Gerrits will be succeeding Michael Morrison, who will be retiring after five years as president and CEO. Jennifer Dickson has joined B&L In- formation Services, Bridgman, Mich., as a software support representative.
Jennifer Dickson OBITUARIES Chester Jones died Dec. 6,
2014. He was 92. A longtime AFS member, Jones worked at Domestic Castings Co., Ship- pensburg, Pa., for 50 years, retiring as the company’s general manager in 1991.
David A. Meskan died
Aug. 3, 2015. He was 84. Meskan was the president of Meskan Foundry, a fourth- generation nonferrous sand and permanent mold casting facility.
Donald
Peterson died Sept. 5, 2015. He was 87. Pe- terson spent his entire career in the metalcasting industry, pri- marily working with automotive suppliers. He was an active AFS member and received the Central Michigan chapter’s Chairman’s Award.
Donald Peterson
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