INDUSTRY NEWS
Inductotherm Founder Passes Away at 92 Henry M. “Hank” Rowan died Dec.
9, 2015. He was 92 years old. Rowan was the founder and chairman of Inductotherm Group, Rancocas, N.J., a leading manufacturer of melting, thermal processing and production systems for the metalcasting industry. Since the company’s founding in 1953, Inductotherm Group has grown to include more than 40 companies and 3,500 employees in 20 nations. Rowan entered the business in 1954 when he and his wife, Betty, built their first furnace in their backyard. In the ensuing decades, the company grew to become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of induction melting furnaces. Rowan continued to innovate, developing the toroidal, a self-stabilized frequency tripler; introduc- ing the first commercially viable all solid-state induction power inverter; and pioneering the concept of high-power density batch melting. Rowan was awarded six patents in his 60-plus years in the melting industry. Rowan’s inno- vative developments helped establish less expensive and
more efficient methods of melting metal, while making the metalcasting industry safer, more productive and more technologically advanced. In 1992, Rowan made a $100 mil-
Henry M. “Hank” Rowan
lion donation to Greensboro State Col- lege, which became Rowan College and later Rowan University. Te gift was at the time the largest ever given to a pub- lic college or university in the history of higher education. In 2014, Rowan donated $15 million to Rowan Univer- sity’s College of Engineering. Addi- tionally, he had supported the Foundry Educational Foundation by establishing the Henry M. Rowan Family Founda- tion Endowment that funds scholar- ships and provides discretionary funds for the schools certified by FEF.
Rowan was honored by those in the metalcasting industry
throughout his career. His awards include the 1995 AFS Wil- liam J. Grede Award, the Distinguished Service Award from the Consulting Engineers Council of New Jersey, the William Hunt Eisenman Award-Philadelphia Chapter ASM International, and acceptance into the National Academy of Engineering.
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