2014 Issue 2
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FEATURES Ductile Iron News – Issue 2, June 2014 • 2014 Annual Mtg. Highlights The Ductile Iron Society held their spring 2014 Annual Meeting in Lethbridge, Controlling Slag Defects in GI & Alberta, Canada at the Coast Hotel & Conference Center from June 4 to 6, 2014. • DI – Alan Patrick, Matt th LaFramboise & Dave Williams On Wednesday June 4 , we started the 3 days with the DIS Research Committee 3D Printing for the DI Foundry meeting from 8am to 12 noon. There were 39 members and guests that attended • Industry – Steve Murray in person and 7 members and guests that attended by conference calling. The Is the Growth of the Ductile Iron • rest of the other 4 operating committees held their meetings from 1:00pm to Industry at Risk – George Kokos 3:00pm and the newly formed DIS MetalCasting Forum was held from 3:00pm to High Silicon Molybdenum Cast Iron With Mixed Graphite (MG) 5:00pm. At the same time the DIS Board of Directors held their meeting to • Shapes for Elevated Temper- review the past year’s financials along with approving the new budget for ature Applications – Delin Li 2014/15, and the elections of 4 new directors and 1 new Vice President. Preventing Rust and Corrosion on • Ductile Iron Using VCI Technology – Wayne Siefert The Research Committee approved and the Board of Directors gave their Machining Ductile Iron: Benefits, approval for the funds for a new research project #53 on “Reducing the Casting • Concerns and General Guidelines – Tim Heagney Skin in Ductile Iron Castings” for $18,700.00. The research will be performed by Virtual Tour of Penticton Foundry UAB in Alabama. Also we are just waiting for the final report on research project • – Chad Gentes #49 and as soon as it is complete you will find it on the DIS website. Inoculation Method Panel – Mike Galvin, Riley Kerestes, Jim • th Csonka, Joseph Keske,, Kyle On Thursday June 5 , the attendees were presented with 2 panels. One was on Rabine the continuing subject of, “back to the basics”, and this time it was on “Inoculation”. Also we had one smaller panel on “controlling Slag Defects in Gray DEPARTMENTS & Ductile Iron”. We had 5 other individual presentations and one virtual tour of • News Briefs Penticton Foundry by Chad Gentes. As we have done in the past, you can find these presentations attached to this news edition. If not available you can • Back Issues contact Jim Wood, the Executive Director at [email protected] . • DIS Home Page At the luncheon on Thursday, June 5th we held the Annual Meeting for the members who were in attendance. Patricio Gil (DIS President) of Blackhawk de Mexico Here are the notes from Patricio’s presentation; At this time i will recap the society’s activities during this past year before proceeding with the annual business meeting and the election of new officers. The Ductile Iron Marketting Group once again was out attending trade exhibitions throughout the year. They exhibited back in March at the 2014 Con/Ag show in Las Vegas, Nevada where it was reported that over 150,000 people attended. Thanks go out to the volunteers and their companies who made this a great success. They were; Vasko Popovski of Applied Process Henry Frear of Applied Process Carlos De La Graza of Blackhawk De Mexico Bob O’Rourke of Charter Dura Bar Chris Witt of Dotson Foundry Jim Wood of DIS Greg Selip of Ellwood Engineered Castings Brian Connell of Ellwood Engineered Castings Dylan Bruins of Lethbridge Iron Works Mark Mundell of Lethbridge Iron Works Vadim Pikhovich of Magma Corporation John Lewensky of Pure Power Technologies Dave Gilson of Sintercast The group of volunteers felt it was a great success and we were able to connect with design engineers as well as help out some consumers of ductile iron castings. In addition, the member services committee had our table top on display in April at the 2014 AFS CASTING CONGRESS in Schaumburg, Illinois. Our booth and the volunteers, who manned it, were very busy during the whole show. Thanks go out to Mark Beers of ASK, Jim Wood of DIS, Alan Patrick of Elyria Foundry, Patricio Gil of Blackhawk de Mexico, Alex Gyarmaty of Coorstek and other committee members and volunteers. We are striving to make our library available to the members through the website. There is now a link to the Lyle Jenkins Library under the Members Only area. These books were a collection of Art Spangler, Lyle Jenkins, P. H. Mani And Keith Millis. Also staying with the website, everyone should have now seen our new look. Thanks go to Susie for starting up the “Ask the Experts” program again and it too is under the Members Only area. Keep watch on the website periodically because you will stay in touch with up-to-date news and the calendar of events. The board approved increasing our scholarships from $2000 to $3000 each for 4 very awarding students. This past fiscal year we gained four new members. GENERAL MOTORS DEFIANCE OHIO (RESEARCH PATRON) PRODUCTORA DE HIERRO MALEABLE S.A. (FOUNDRY MEMBER-MEXICO) DITEMSA (ASSOCIATE MEMBER-MEXICO) CDB PROJECTS SERVICES LLC (ASSOCIATE MEMBER) During this past year we held two general meetings. The first one was our Annual Meeting held in Indianapolis, Indiana in conjunction with a tour of Pure Power Technologies plant (formerly Navistar) in Indianapolis with 143 attending including 20 guests. The second meeting held last fall, was the 5th Keith Millis Symposium in Nashville, TN. The attendance for that meeting was 218 including 26 guests. Thanks to the AFS for co-sponsoring this symposium. Also a special thanks go out to those corporate sponsors who donated $1000 each to help offset the costs of the reception & banquet. The Ductile Iron Society did hold a Production Seminar on February 11 & 12, 2014 at the Hilton Garden Inn at O’hare Airport in Chicago. The attendance was 30 for this seminar. We were very delighted to see so many people register. Thanks go out to our very special instructors, Kathy Hayrynen of Applied Process, Gene Muratore, DIS consultant and Don Craig of Selee Corporation. Also in march 2014 we lost a very good friend of the DIS. Fred Linebarger was a past director of the society, long time member of the DIS Research Committee and also a long time instructor at the DIS production seminar. We will all miss his humor and wit during future seminars. Also, I want to thank all of those that contributed to our “Hot Topics” publications and those who wrote articles for the “Ductile Iron News”. Four Keith D. Millis Scholarships were awarded at the 2013 FEF College Industry Conference held on November 15 & 16, 2013 at the Westin Hotel in Chicago. I would like to thank John Keough of Applied Process and Gary Gigante of Waupaca Foundry for selecting this year’s students. They were Erica Hill of The University of Northern Iowa, Steve Miller of The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Connor Montgomery of The University of Wisconsin – Platteville and Matthew Wason of The University Of Northern Iowa. Each student received $3000. Once again this year’s CIC Conference is in November at the Westin Downtown Chicago and we will again hand out $12,000 in scholarships to 4 deserving students. Your society continues to make a donation to the Keith Millis scholarship fund every year so it will continue to grow. This past year we made a one-time donation of $20,000 and reached another goal of Chromium in donations to the fund. This $20,000 came as a result of the proceeds from the Keith Millis Symposium. AFS also donated $20,000 to their fund from the same Keith Millis Symposium. Jim Wood attended this past year’s conference. We also had a table top booth for the industry information session where we distributed the “Doing It Spheroidal” T-shirts. Thanks go out to Kathy Hayrynen & Chip Keough of Applied Process who donated their time to help out at the table top. Also we would like to thank those members who sponsored these T-shirts. They are Ask Chemicals, Applied Process, Allied Mineral Products, Buck Company, Bremen Castings, Blackhawk De Mexico, Dotson Iron Castings, Dura-Bar, Foseco, Globe Metallurgical, Green Packaging, Hitachi Metals Automotive Components, Hickman Williams & Company, Lethbridge Iron Works, Magma Foundry Technologies, and Waupaca Foundry. Also I should mention the hard work by your University Relations Committee members. Thanks go out to Bill Sorensen and Pam Lechner for their invitation to attend this important conference. The Research Committee met three times during the past year. We completed one project in January 2014. It was #48 and was “Evaluation Of Normalizing Heat Treatment To Develop Improved Properties In Heavy Section Pearlitic Iron” by Rick Gundlach of Element Materials Technology. Also we are just waiting on the final report from #49 and it was “Analysis of Pearlitic Ductile Iron With Enhanced Mechanical Properties”. The Research Committee awarded two new projects, #51 – “Fatigue Resistance Of Weld Repaired Ductile Iron Castings” to Edison Welding Institute in Columbus, Ohio and #52 – “Evaluation Of The Influence Of Barium, Silicon And Inoculation In Counteracting The Effects Of Increased Manganese Levels On Varying Section Thickness Of Ferritic Ductile Iron” to Joyworks in Ann Arbor, MI and Element Materials Technology in Wixom, MI. This was a total of $77,000 of new research work. The Research Committee is looking for approval on 1 new project for the 2014/2015 budget year for $18,700 on “Reducing The Casting Skin In Ductile Iron Castings” by the University of Alabama. Thanks go out to Anhua Yu of HMAC for volunteering to be our Chairman of the Research Committee for the last 3 years and we welcome Brandon Reneau of Caterpillar as the new Chairman.