Meeting The Challenge Jack Ziemba, Aristo-Cast
At the age of 16, Jack Ziemba started work at Eutectic Engineering, which was a start up investment casting company owned by 2 uncles and a 3rd partner, as a truck driver. Jack worked in every aspect of investment casting, from wax to dip to melting. He eventually became plant manager at age 23 of a operation employing approximately 35 people. Jack left Eutectic in 1968 to try his hand at injection mold making. While in the mold making trade he owned and operated Dry Cleaners along with his wife.
In 1976, Jack formed Omni Mold, constructing injection tools for the investment casting industry.
In 1979, he sold Omni to Valeron Corp and ran a division of Valeron
in Colorado Springs CO. Jack was involved in investment casting and Isostatic pressed powered metal parts. He then returned to Michigan in 1982, returned to Eutectic and eventually became V.P. before leaving in 1994 to purchase 50 % of D & N castings in Romeo MI. Jack incorporated Aristo-Cast in 1995 with his partners until 2008 at which time he and his wife bought out the partners. Currently CEO of Aristo-Cast, a frequent recipient of awards from the Investment Casting Institute, American Foundry Society and recently the International Magnesium association which recognized their accomplishments in the Rapid Prototyping and production casting arenas.
2020 winner of the “Innovator of the year” from the AFS for
the P.I.C.S. process, Member of American Foundry Society, Investment Casting Institute, SME and SAE,NFFS Inductee Investment Casting Institute Hall of Honor and Recipient of DINO from AMUG.
Development of Ni Based Superalloy with High Temperature Strength, Low Density & Excellent Castability for Turbine Wheel Yoshiki Kumagai, Daido Steel Co., Ltd.
Yoshiki KUMAGAI graduated in Department
of Metallurgy and Ceramics Science, Graduate School of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2016 he has been working for Daido Steel Co., Ltd. as a research
engineer and been involved in developing
heat resistant alloys for internal combustion engines of automobiles.
Wireless Sensors for Investment Casting Shell Data Acquisition
Nathaniel Bryant, University of Northern Iowa
Nathaniel Bryant is an Assistant Project Manager at the University of Northern Iowa Foundry 4.0 & Metal Casting Centers. In 2019, Nate earned his M.S. in Technology from the University of Northern Iowa, where he graduated as an FEF scholar. Nate is an active
member of several industry committees and currently serves as chair of the AFS Additive Manufacturing Testing & Specifications Committee. His published works pertain mostly to the application of advanced manufacturing technology for metal casting.
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