AFS Announces 2025 Government Affairs Fly-In Featuring Stephen Moore as Luncheon Speaker
SCHAUMBURG, IL, - On June 10–11, leaders from across the $50 billion metalcasting industry will gather in Washington, D.C., for the American Foundry Society’s annual Government Affairs Fly-In, where they will engage with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for the critical role metalcasters play in the U.S. economy.
Read moreDeadlines Extended for Affordable Care Act’s 2015 Information Reporting Requirements
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued Notice 2016-4, which extends the deadlines for the 2015 information reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
ACA includes new information reporting requirements under IRC sections 6055 and 6056…
House Passes Bill To Eliminate Burdensome Rules
The House approved an AFS supported measure on Jan. 7 requiring retrospective reviews of federal regulations to eliminate burdensome rules and preventing new regulations from being enacted without repeal of an existing regulation. The measure, Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are…
AFS Supported Regulatory Reform Bill Approved by House
On January 6, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act (H.R. 712) by a vote of 244 – 173. The AFS supported bill would require greater judicial and public scrutiny for “sue-and-settle” deals reached by federal agencies as…
AFS Finalizes CEO Transition Plan
New AFS CEO Doug Kurkul
The American Foundry Society (AFS) is pleased to announce it has hired Doug Kurkul to be its new CEO effective May 1, following a period of transition with current CEO Jerry Call. In 2015, Call announced he would be retiring on June 30, 2016.
“We…
Omen USA to Place First North American Facility in Indiana
Omen USA, Kibboutz Hatzor, Israel, is planning to place its first North American facility in Richmond, Indiana. According to a press release, up to 100 jobs will be created by 2019.
Omen USA is a subsidiary of Omen Casting Group and at first will invest $16 million to renovate a 76,000-sq…
AFS Joins Legal Challenge to Ozone Regulation
A group of business associations, including the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently filed a petition for review to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule that significantly lowered the primary ozone National Ambient Air…
Deadline Extended to Feb. 17 for Annual Casting Competition
AFS and Metal Casting Design & Purchasing magazine are seeking entries to the 2016 Casting Competition. The competition is your chance to show the engineering and purchasing community what a metal casting can accomplish.
This year’s Casting of the Year will receive a free year’s…
St. Croix Castings Honored
St. Croix Castings, Inc., Woodville, Wisconsin, has been named the 2015 “Small Business of the Year” by the St. Croix (Wisconsin) County Economic Development Corp. St. Croix Castings sells aluminum castings in both sand and permanent molds.
"St. Croix Castings is well-regarded as a foundry…
Taurus 80 Opening Illinois Diecasting Operation
Taurus 80, Torino, Italy, is setting up its first U.S.-based facility, Taurus Die Casting LLC, in Rockford, Illinois.
The zinc die caster is hiring 37 full-time workers and will invest $6.4 million into a 44,000-sq.-ft. facility. Taurus 80 manufactures zinc diecast parts and employs 268…
Hillary Clinton Visits UNI Metal Casting Center
On Dec. 9, 2015, former First Lady and current Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton visited the University of Northern Iowa Metal Casting Center at the Cedar Valley, Iowa TechWorks campus in Waterloo, Iowa. There, she saw the University of Northern Iowa’s Additive Manufacturing…