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Our Next Presentation is:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

SME Northern Lights Chapter 370 proudly presents . . . .

Norwood Foundry
Innovation in Casting Technology
By: Kenneth (Ken) French and Mike Harper


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Since 1922 Norwood Foundry has established itself as been very well known for its diversity in producing a wide range of small, intricate castings to very large pieces. The wide range of castings made out of gray and ductile iron, aluminum, brass and bronze have always been and continue to be produced with a high standard towards quality. Norwood has been able to meet the customer driven demands in quality by investing in new technologies to meet such demands in the marketplace.

It is this technology that the speakers Kenneth (Ken) French and Mike Harper will discuss in the technical presentation. The technical presentation will detail such technologies as sand moulding and gravity die casting, as well as how true-to-pattern and dimensionally accurate castings are produced.

About our speakers:

Kenneth (Ken) French has been employed at Norwood Foundry for the past 10 years. He has recently been given more responsibility as the Casting Technologist, while still managing Norwood’s Pattern Shop. Some of his responsibilities include tooling design, customer liaison, and trouble shooting casting and process design. Ken’s approach to Manufacturing Engineering has earned him respect from Engineers in giving practical solutions to casting problems.

Mike Harper joined Norwood Foundry as Technical Manager in April of 2008. Prior to coming to Canada he worked in Europe and North America (based in the UK) as a consultant foundry engineer, as well as a teacher/trainer (for 14 years) in the field of casting and process design. During his career he has worked with several casting processes. As a result Mike has had a diverse career working on all types of castings such as aerospace, medical, military, and automotive (including Formula 1).

Date Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Location
U of A Faculty Club
11435 Saskatchewan Drive
Time

Social Hour: 5:30 – 6:00 pm
Dinner: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Presentation: 7:00 – 8:00pm

Costs Members: $30.00 First time Guests: $30.00 Guests: $40.00
Student Members: $10.00 Student Guests: $15.00

* Member pricing is always extended to members of other technical societies such as ASM, AWS, CWA, NACE, CSME, ASME, etc.

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