Our next meeting is January 17, 2013
Canmet Foundry in Operation!
The January 17th AFS Technical Meeting will be focusing on Iron and Steel opportunities, including a comprehensive tour of the now ‘fully operational’ Canmet Foundry Lab, complete with valuable resources from the Archie McCoy Lab, formerly located at Mohawk College.
The afternoon program, starting at 3pm sharp includes:
- A Tour of the Foundry Lab, including demonstrations.
- Information on how you can access the Mohawk/Canmet relationship to provide employee training on-site or on-line.
- Input on how you can access funding to investigate your Research and Development concerns.
- Dr. Selcuk Kuyucak will share his findings on how, using a method of measuring Quenching Efficiency as a process control, you can ensure quality castings are obtained, as porosity defects are eliminated.
- Dr. Delin Li will present Industrial Examples of foundry process improvement, cast iron, and stainless steel development, through step-type methods, and design of experiment approaches. Current steel projects at Canmet will be reported.
Here’s the Schedule!
3:00 – Meet at Canmet RM 105
3:00 – 4:00 – Tour of the CANMET foundry
4:15 – 5:15 – Seminars by Dr. Kuyucak and Dr. Li.
5:15 – 5:30 – Discussion / wrap up
5:30 – Dinner at Kelsey”s $20 per person for a great feast of wings, fries, pizza and other Pub Grub!
Please Register before this event at afsontario@bell.net
We regret that the previously advertised ‘Cast Differently’ Seminar has had to be postponed due to a scheduling conflict. We are hoping to be able to arrange another date soon.
Steel Casting Research in CanmetMATERIALS
Dr. Selçuk Kuyucak
Research Scientist, CanmetMATERIALS
This presentation will cover Canmet research on porosity and embrittlement in steel castings. Gas-related porosity forms a few mm below the surface, whereas shrinkage porosity tends to form in the interior of a casting. The major sources of gas uptake are from returns and the melting operation. Also, air aspiration and/or entrainment may take place during pouring.
Steels are often fast-cooled from a high temperature to avoid the formation of embrittling equilibrium phases. Intergranular carbides or nitrides are examples. Intergranular carbides in austenitic manganese steels form at a maximum rate at 600°C, and the harmful “thick” carbides start forming after about a minute at this temperature. A method of measuring quenching efficiency will be outlined as a process control tool to ensure satisfactory castings are obtained.
Dr. Selçuk Kuyucak is a research scientist with Canmet since 1990. His work related to porosity in steel castings, feeding distances, stainless steels, austenitic manganese steel and high alloy white irons. He obtained his PhD from McGill University, Montreal.
Applications of Improvement Techniques in Foundry and Alloy Development
Dr. Delin Li
Research Scientist, CanmetMATERIALS
In this presentation, structured problem solving and improvement techniques are introduced such as step-type methods, concentration map, and DOE (design of experiments). Industrial examples include foundry process improvement, cast iron and stainless steel development. Current steel casting projects are briefly reported.
Dr. Delin Li joined Canmet as a Research Scientist in 2012. Dr. Li obtained his PhD from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian in China and has extensive research and industrial experience. He had spent some of his time as research fellow in Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, Germany”s Aerospace Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center NASA in USA. He also worked in Xian Aircraft and Wescast Industries.
November Scholarship Auction
Live Auction
The culmination of lots of hard work by our Auction Committee made this evening a great success with everyone in attendance enjoying the fun and games. There was some spirited bidding, especially in the Live Auction. Thanks to Joe Decarvalho for the great job as auctioneer.
The Silent Auction, Live Auction, Raffle, 50-50, and the ‘Deck o’ Cards’ Game raised a total of $6500. This money goes to our Scholarship Fund to help deserving students enrolled in foundry related courses in Ontario Universities and Colleges. The scholarships will be awarded during our Scholarship Night March 21, 2013 at the Waterfront Centre in Hamilton. Everyone is invited to attend.
The Auction Committee would like to thank all the companies who donated to our auction and helped make it a success.
AFS Ontario Chapter; Alcast; Alloy Castings; Alumco; Anderson Ferrum; Ancast Industries; Artcast; Asbury Wilkinson; Bell & MacKenzie; Beltech Engineering; Brad Bowman; Cambridge Brass; Canalytical; Carrier Vibrating; Craft Cast Engineering; Custom Aluminum; Dominion Pattern Works; Duke Electric; Elkem Metals; Esco Ltd.; Fairmont Minterals; Gascho; Goodfellow Lumber; Handy Systems; Hickman Williams; Inductotherm; Ingot Metals; Johnson Matthey; Joseph Haulage; Lake Foundries; Loaded Concepts; Matthew Bronze; Meteor Foundry; McLean Foundry; Mohawk College; Molten Metallurgy; Opta Minerals; Peninsula Alloy; Precise Casting Inc.; Raptor Mining; Ramsden Industries; Rand Alloys; Riverside Brass; Ryerson University; Ruskcast; Smelko Foundry Products; St. Catharines Pattern; Steve’s Castings; Tallman Bronze; Taps; Tiffany Metal; Tottle Electric; Vesuvius; Vinbon; Vulkan Blast; Water Store; Wells Foundry; Whiting Equipment; Willow Valley Golf Club; Whytek Marketing
We were able to enjoy the tunes of "Night Class"
Thanks to our MC Tim Smelko
YOUR ELECTRONIC INGATE
Note: As long as we have your correct email address you should get your copy of the Ingate. If you or if anyone you know who is a paid up member of the Ontario Chapter did not receive their issue of the Ingate please contact us at afsontario@bell.net
INGATE SUPPORTERS
The Board of the AFS Ontario Chapter would like to thank all who have supported us in the past by their business card ads and hope you will continue with your support in the coming year. If you have not yet sent us your business card and would like to advertise in the Ingate (and also on our website) please contact us at afsontario@bell.net. Please note the funds donated from advertising go towards scholarships for students interested in our industry. If you see errors or have changes to make with your ad, please contact us so we can correct it.
AFS ONTARIO CHAPTER LIBRARY
The AFS library has an excellent collection of the latest editions of our industries literature and foundry information. The AFS resource base is the most comprehensive collection of foundry information in the world. In addition to books, video and CD’s are also available. Remember, you get the best price available when you purchase or order through the chapter library.
ROSTER CORRECTIONS
We ask that you check your membership roster for errors. Please note that the information in the roster is detail we receive from AFS headquarters in Chicago. We can assist with any corrections by contacting our Membership Chairman, Vince Skinner and he will forward to the Chicago office. You can email Vince with your changes at vskinner@penalloy.com
AFS ONTARIO WEB SITE
We have a new look and new features on our web site. By checking our site you can keep abreast of what is happening with our chapter. It also allows you to quickly access our sponsors’ web sites. As always we are open to your suggestions for improvements both with our web site and the Ingate. You can send your comments to afsontario@bell.net
INDUSTRY CALENDAR
January 24, 2013
. AFS Detroit Chapter Management Night
February 20, 2013
. AFS Southeastern Regional Conference
February 26 – 28, 2013
. Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) HOUSTEX
February 28 – March 1, 2013
. AFS Wisconsin Regional Conference
CMI Course Schedule
** For more information please visit www.afsinc.org and click on “Cast Metals Institute”. The Cast Metals Institute provides intensive, specialized education for metal casters by metal casters. Since its beginning in 1957, CMI has presented over 3,000 courses to 65,000 participants representing nearly 5,000 individual companies – dramatic evidence of the acceptance of CMI as a vital contributor in the continuing development of foundry personnel.
