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2011 AGM and Ladies Appreciation Night Recap
The 2011 AGM and
Ladies night at the Fort Langley Winery was agreat success
and fun was had by all. A brief thank you and
congratulations was had for Jim Coulman and Derek Morrison
for all their hard work and assistance to the AFS over the
years.
Brian Palm is joining the board as Education
and Membership director and with popular demand Tim Olson is
back as Apprenticeship director. We look forward to seeing
great contributions from these two in the future.
Everyone enjoyed an
amazing chocolate and wine tasting session. Peter Beier
helped by demonstrating how to properly and efficiently open
a bottle of wine while Krassii Kayriamov demonstrated how to
properly taste and enjoy a piece of chocolate.
The night ended with everyone taking home a
free bottle of wine of their choice.
The board would like to thank everyone for
attending and making this a great event!
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March Technical Speaker Recap—
Advamcements
in
Monitoring and
Treating
Molten
Aluminum
Brian Began was an excellent guest speaker keeping us
entertained for the afternoon covering the following topics:
*Common
Practices
*Oxide Control – Fluxing
*Recent Advancements – Fluxing, granular vs powder
*Hydrogen Control – Rotary Degassing
*The Need for Automation
During the talk Brian discussed a Flux Case Study.
The experiment utilized a ladle on a scale with 2000
lbs of metal poured into it.
This process was repeated a few times, once with no
flux and the remaining pours with flux.
Here
are the results:
-No flux had a 40 lbs loss of metal (2%)
-GR6512 flux had a 9 lbs loss of metal (0.46%)
-Flux A had a 20 lbs loss of metal
(1%)
Thank you to everyone who came out to make this event a
success!
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Save the Date
for the 2011 NWR Conference!
March 31 - April 1st
at The Hilton
in beautiful downtown
Portland, Oregon
http://www.afsnwregional.com/
For more information please contact
Contact:
Beth Knipple by phone (503) 226-6506 or email
beth@bridgetowncores.com
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The fall
Penticton Golf Tournament was again a great success with
some beautiful weather and great company!
There were many highs to the day - one being Crystal finally
lost her slice to become a straight shooter
but the main highlight had to be the brazen black bear
enjoying his deer buffet at hole #16 for everyone to enjoy.
Some maybe enjoyed a little too close... Casey.
PRIZE WINNERS:
Low Gross - Men: Jim O'Neill, Penticton
Foundry
Low Net - Men: Craig Chamberlain, OCL
Industrial Materials
Low Gross - Women: Crystal Lambert, Purity
Casting Alloys
Low Net - Women: Michele Dyson, Robar
Industries
Longest Drive - Men: Paul Dhiman, Dhiman
Industries
Longest Drive - Women: Crystal Lambert,
Purity Casting Alloys
Closest to the Pin: Paul Dhiman, Dhiman
Industries
Longest Putt:
Ray Tyres, OCL Industrial Materials
Most Honest Golfer:
Brian Bendig, Penticton Foundry
We would like to extend a big
thank you to everyone that came out to our golf tournament
in Penticton this past weekend. By all indications a great
time was had by all!
A special thank you to Twin Lakes Golf
Course, and their Golf Pro Greg Pidlaski, for an excellent
round of golf! We couldn't have asked for better conditions
(except they might want to slow down those greens a touch!).
Thank you to Liana Wall and the Days Inn, Penticton, for
their hospitality and great service at our Wine and Cheese
Reception and Awards Dinner. And thank you to Elaine Gowing
of Divine Valley Wine Tours for her fabulous wine tour!
Another big thank you goes to Penticton
Foundry and all their staff for their help to organize this
tournament, and for their support for the Wine and Cheese
Reception.
Finally,
thank you to all our sponsors for providing our trophies and
prizes:
Adanac Pattern Shop
Alpine Non-Ferrous Foundry of Canada
Century Pacific Foundry
Dhiman Industries
Fluidtech Hydraulics
Highland Foundry
Inproheat Industries
Palmer Manufacturing
Purity Casting
Alloys Ltd.
Robar Industries
Rypac Aluminum Recycling
Terminal City Iron Works
We look forward to
bringing our golf tournament back to Penticton in a couple
years!
In the mean time, stay tuned to future
newsletters for information on next year's golf tournaments!
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meet our october speaker
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Eugene C. (Gene) Muratore
Gene obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in
Metallurgy from Case
Western Reserve University in
Cleveland,
Ohio in 1970. Gene was an
FEF Scholar under Prof Jack Wallace. Gene
spent the first ten years of his career at General
Motors’
Defiance,
Ohio foundry in various
capacities of gray and ductile iron melting and
metallurgy. This foundry produced 4000 tons of
liquid iron per day, producing automotive blocks,
heads, crankshafts, brake calipers and steering
knuckles. Gene then moved to
Texas where he worked as the Chief
Melter and Metallurgist for American International
Manufacturing in Fort Worth. After
six years, Gene moved to
Lufkin,
Texas to become the Chief
Metallurgist for Texas Foundries.
Gene has been the Senior Foundry Metallurgist for
Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium America since
1991. As such, Gene is responsible for
technical service to the United States,
Canada,
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He serves on seven
AFS technical committees, is a member of the Ductile
Iron Society’s Research Committee, Marketing
Committee, Board Member and is a member of the Chicago chapter of the
AFS. He has received the CMI Director’s Award
and the AFS Service Citation. Gene was also
honored with the Ductile Iron Society’s Annual Award
in 2006.
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The
AFS BC Chapter is headed back to
Penticton
for a wonderful weekend of golf and wine.
Our tournament will take place at Twin Lakes Golf
Course and our Wine & Cheese Reception and Dinner will both
be held at the Days Inn.
In
addition to our usual 18 holes of golf, we are adding some
exciting new activities.
These include a
WINE TOUR on
Saturday Sept. 11th, as well as
mountain biking
and rock climbing
on Friday Sept. 10th.
We will also have a few tee times available for a
warm up round of golf on the Friday.
Find more information about these exciting activities
at the end of this notice.
Everyone
registered is invited to a Wine & Cheese Reception at the
Days Inn on Friday, September 10th, from 6:30 to
8:00 PM.
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AFS Northwest Regional Update
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The AFS Northwest Regional was a hit again this year
with Barry Spence in the Chair position.
Here is a great thank you letter from Joanne
& Bob Anderson:
Dear Barry & Cheryl,
Just wanted to let you and your committee know what
a great job you did for the NW Regional Conference.
You have set the bar very high for future
conferences.
Cheryl you were a great hostess to all the ladies
and made everyone feel very welcome.
I know what a difficult task it is and you
are a “Rock Star”.
To
both of you – it’s great to have you both involved
(the Next Generation) and I know Dennis is very
proud.
Again, thanks for a great location, fun activities,
and good times.
Fondly,
Joanne & Bob Anderson
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