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Alabama) announced that Jack Yu has been named chief representative of Vulcan China and Asia sales director. Yu has four years of experience in the metalcasting plant setting and 14 years of sales and marketing experience in the foundry equipment and casting
materials fi eld. Vulcan also announced that Joshua Schaff er has been named sales engineer to its engineering/ capitol equipment lines. His position will entail developing and maintaining metalcasting solutions while foster- ing relationships with customers both
domestically and internationally. Ransom & Randolph (Maumee,
Ohio) announced it has appointed Stefan Frank as European regional sales manager. Frank will be responsi- ble for providing customers with sales and product support for the ceramic shell and industrial mold product lines, serving customers throughout the European Union, excluding Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Katharine Morgan has begun serv-
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ing as president of ASTM Interna- tional (Norfolk, Virginia). Morgan will lead a team that supports thousands of members, customers, partners, and other stakeholders worldwide. She succeeds James A. T omas, who served in the role for 25 years. “I am thrilled and humbled to serve as president of an organization that has played such a foundational role in meeting societal needs for over a century,” Morgan said. Brajendra Mishra, who serves as Kenneth G. Merriam Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been named director of the university’s Metal Processing Institute. Mishra, who joined WPI in April 2015 as associate director of MPI and director of the MPI’s Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, will succeed Diran Apelian.
OBITUARIES
Will Putnik died December 28, 2016. He was 87. Putnik was a former president of the AFS Western New York chapter. He worked for General Motors for over 35 years and served in various capacities at the Saginaw Gray Iron Plant, Tonawan- da Metal Casting Plant and the Tonawa- nda Engine Plant, where he served as the general superintendent. Maurice C. “Benny” Heater died December 22, 2016. He was 82. Heater worked for Weatherly Casting (Weatherly, Pennsylvania) and Eff ort Foundry (Bath, Pennsylvania) as a sales engineer before forming his own company. He also received an honorary life membership from the Lehigh Valley Foundrymen’s Association.
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