INDUSTRY NEWS PERSONALS Sioux City Foundry (Sioux City,


Iowa) announced a series of promo- tions. Sam Schweigert was bumped up to inside sales – South Dakota. Joel Grosenheider and Jim Mc- Clure are now the information sys- tem department’s senior program- mer analysts.Rachel Arneson was promoted to marketing coordinator. Carpenter Brothers Inc. (Me-


quon, Wisconsin) added Bill Sha- fer as technical sales representative to their Western sales regional offi ce in Eagan, Minnesota. Shafer has held technical positions with CPP and ME Global. Leah Dunlay was named project


manager of the University of Northern Iowa’s Metal Casting Center. Osborn (Richmond, Indiana)


Pam Akin and Ron Barrier OBITUARIES


announced the addition of Scott Scheider as product marketing manager for its Load Runners division of standard and custom idler rollers. Scheider is respon- sible for the design and execution


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Gary Smith died March 18,


2017. He was 71. Smith rose to the Midwest regional sales manager position over a 30-year tenure at Foseco Inc. He retired for a few years before beginning a second successful sales career at Shells Inc., a shell/coldbox core supplier, where he worked until 2017. Smith was also active in AFS. Carlyle “Crock” Eman died


March 6, 2017. He was 78 years old. He was employed with Mer- een Johnson, Dakota Foundry, and Anderson Industries from 1975-2000 but continued to work part-time until his death. On his 75th


birthday he came to pour


iron so he could say he poured in five decades. Paul Kolbeck died February


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26, 2017. He was 50. Kolbeck fi rst worked for Koch Materials Co. and Colas, which prepared him as president and owner of Ferroloy Inc. (Wichita, Kansas). Matt Voss died Feb. 24, 2017. He was 42. Voss was a journey- man patternmaker, an AFS member, and the general manager at Midfield Pattern Corporation (Walcott, Iowa) for the last eight years. He was instrumental in es- tablishing Midfield’s Department of Labor-certified Patternmaker’s Apprenticeship program, and oversaw the successful completion of his first apprentice.


of research initiatives and market analysis for the complete Load Runners product portfolio. Ron Barrier and Pam Akin have


retired from Wheelabrator Group (Lagrange, Georgia). Barrier, who was the demo lab manager, retired after 37 years at Wheelabrator. Akin was Wheelabrator’s market- ing manager and had been there for 19 years


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