How It Is Made – Ceramic Shell Raw Materials Produced by the Fusion Process Michael Weissenbacher, IMERYS
Michael Weissenbacher studied mineralogy
at the University of Innsbruck and finished with a Magister degree in applied mineralogy in 2010. In 2011 he started his professional career by joining the company Imerys. From 2011 to 2017 he was working as a research engineer on refractory projects concerning bricks, castables and sand casting. After these 6 years he became responsible for the research and development for sand casting and investment casting applications.
Since January 2020 Michael became technical support manager for refractories. In this role he is responsible for the technical support in the field of investment casting. He is based in Villach, Austria, and thus has a direct connection to the ITC (Imerys Technology Center) where the Imerys S&T department for investment casting ceramics is located.
Casting Industry Megatrends Diran Apelian, University of California, Irvine
Diran Apelian is Distinguished Professor of MSE at the University of California, Irvine, Director of the Advanced Casting Research Center.
He is also Provost Emeritus and Founding Director of the Metal Processing Institute at WPI, Worcester, Mass. He received his B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Drexel University in 1968 and his doctorate in materials science and engineering from MIT
in 1972. Apelian is a Fellow of TMS, ASM, and APMI; he
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the European Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He is past president of TMS, and also of ASM Educational Foundation.
With his colleagues and students, he has founded 6 companies: Materials Strategies; Battery Resourcers; Melt Cognition; Kinetic Batteries, Solvus Ventures, and Solvus Global.
A Scabbing Defect Investigation Using ICI Process Control Andy Bomberger, Tech Cast LLC
Andy Bomberger joined Tech Cast in 1997 and has worked as a Product and Process Engineer before being promoted to Engineering Manager in 2007. As Engineering Manager, Andy is charged with the responsibilities of all engineering operations and related functions. Andy maintains a constant surveillance over the design and manufacturing of the day-to-day configurations as well as material requirements
of the process for the purpose of ensuring functionality, quality and controlling cost. Andy graduated from Penn State University with a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and earned his MBA from Lebanon Valley College. Andy is an active member of the Investment Casting Institute Process Control course instruction team.
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