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The St. Marys Foundry has won the Casting of the Year Award at the American Foundry Society’s 2024 Metalcasting Congress held in April. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in the foundry industry and is among the most sought-after awards.

For the second year in a row, a UWM engineering undergraduate earned first prize at a national competition showcasing original metalcasting research. Carol Martinez, a senior in materials science & engineering, took the top prize at the International Journal of Metal-Casting’s Foundry Education Foundation Student Research Competition.

Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced 78 organizations have written in support of his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s worker classification rule that threatens the gig economy and jeopardizes the ability of 27 million Americans to work as independent contractors.

Congratulations to doctoral student

Dakota Carter, a sophomore from Fort Wayne, majoring in mechanical engineering at Trine University, recently won the Sinto-AFS Future Leadership of Metalcasting Scholarship.

Opening Friday, January 16, “Patterns of Meaning: The Art of Industry by Cory Bonnet” features salvaged pieces that are monuments to industry created from glass, ceramics and other materials. These massive objects honor the innovators and workers that built our modern world.   

"Spotlight on the Modern Metalcasting Industry" features footage from Trine University's metalcasting and foundry labs, located in the university's Bock center for innovation.

In 1996, to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Foundry Society, the West Philadelphia Bronze Company cast a 2,097-pound replica of the bell. The replica — which is not cracked — now hangs in the lobby of the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center at Penn State Behrend.

One hundred and thirty-one manufacturing organizations penned a letter to the White House pleading with President Biden's administration to curb the overwhelming amount of federal regulations costing manufacturing companies thousands at levels unseen from any prior administrations.