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SPEAKER Roundup
How It’s Made: School of Fish Art Casting
Erich Knoespel is a project coordinator and the additive technologies specialist at Artcast, Inc., a family-run fine art foundry in Georgetown, Ontario. Erich has been around the art and foundry industries for his entire life, but he has been working full time at the foundry since 2013. Erich took the ICI industry certification course back in 2014 successfully receiving a light grey polo shirt. Erich’s role in the foundry has grown
Erich Knoespel Artcast, Inc.
Advanced Analysis Techniques of Surface Tension of Materials to Improve Coating Performance of Investment Casting Wax
Gavin is the group technical director of REMET®, with responsibility of Quality, R&D and New Product Development. Gavin earned his PhD entitled “Shell Improvements for the Investment Casting of Orthopaedic Implants” from the University of Birmingham in 2016. He
has gained over 5 years investment casting experience as a process and materials engineer within a medical device foundry before joining Remet in 2016. He is currently studying for a Masters in Management with the Open University.
Gavin Dooley REMET UK, Ltd.
A Comprehensive Analysis of Viscosity Measurements
Sam Duncan is the Product & Application Engineer for Ransom & Randolph in the ceramic shell division. In this role, he provides technical support to foundries so that they can improve and streamline their processes in order to achieve their desired results. He started with R&R after graduating from Penn State University
Sam Duncan Ransom & Randolph 12 ❘ September 2019 ®
in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering. With only a year in the industry under his belt, he is still learning about the ins and outs of investment casting, but aims to improve with each challenge that comes his way.
out of a passion for experimentation which has been an asset when working with artists and suppliers looking to explore the use of additive technologies for casting. Using digital sculpting and design applications, Erich designed the ICI casting contest medallion which Artcast has won two of to date for the fine-art category of the annual ICI Casting Contest.
October 27-30, 2019 St. Louis, MO
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