AFS to Bestow Highest Honors to Gold Medalists, Scientific Merit, and Service Citation Recipients at CastExpo 2025
At the 2025 CastExpo in Atlanta, five distinguished leaders will be honored by the American Foundry Society (AFS) for their outstanding contributions to the metalcasting industry. The Peter L. Simpson Gold Medal and William H. McFadden Gold Medal will be awarded at the annual banquet on Sunday, April 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m. The Scientific Merit and Service Citation Awards presentation will take place at the Volunteer Leadership Awards Luncheon, Sunday, April 13, 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Visit afsinc.org for more details.
Read moreAFS research seeks to improve steel casting quality
Ongoing AFS-sponsored research seeks to address costly inclusion defects that plague steel casting production by exploring how various gating designs affect filling conditions and casting quality.
Principal investigator Laura Bartlett and her team at Missouri University of Science and…
Benchmark your business — Take an additive manufacturing survey
How well has the foundry industry adopted 3D printing technologies? How many foundries are currently using additive manufacturing? Are you ahead or lagging behind your peers?
AFS is assisting the University of Northern Iowa in collecting data to better understand how metalcasters have…
AFS recognized by FEF for corporate support
The American Foundry Society is proud to have been recognized with an award from the Foundry Educational Foundation for its corporate support of FEF.
AFS recently achieved the Chromium Level of FEF’s corporate giving program. AFS is committed to backing FEF’s mission of providing…
Karl Rove to keynote AFS Government Affairs Fly-In
Political strategist and former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 AFS Government Affairs Fly-In, June 11-12 in Washington, D.C.
Rove is widely credited with winning two presidential elections for George W. Bush. During his keynote, he…
Column: Great stories to tell
By Doug Kurkul, AFS CEO
Every day, nearly 200,000 people go to work in America’s foundries, producing the complex engineered parts that are essential to modern life. From this economic activity – which constitutes a $33 billion industry – emerge countless great stories. One of the roles…
See the future of metalcasting at CastExpo
Six-thousand people. More than 400 exhibitors. Dozens of technical and management sessions. A show floor measuring 106,000 square feet. And it’s all happening in one place: CastExpo 2019, April 27-30, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
As North America’s largest…
AFS committees are recruiting new members
If you’ve ever considered joining an AFS committee – or even if this is the first time you’ve given it some thought – now is a great time to get involved.
AFS committees, especially technical committees, are currently looking for new volunteers. Committee involvement is a rewarding…
Corporate Member senior VP speaks to House committee
James M. Proctor II, senior vice president and general counsel for AFS Corporate Member McWane Inc. (Birmingham, Alabama), testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Feb. 26.
The special hearing was on "Examining How Federal Infrastructure…
AFS names award-winners to be honored at CastExpo
AFS will honor five people for their contributions to metalcasting with awards at CastExpo 2019 and the 123rd Metalcasting Congress.
Von L. Richards is the winner of the 2019 Thomas W. Pangborn Gold Medal, the highest honor awarded by AFS. A professor emeritus of materials science at…
Find casting advice, conversations and more on CastingConnection
CastingConnection, an open forum initiated by AFS four years ago, is an outstanding individual member benefit available to all individual AFS members.
The open forum serves two purposes: it provides members with wonderful discussion context in which individual members may solicit…