Industry News

Iron and Steel

SBV Selects GateKeeper’s Devices for Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymer Containers

GateKeeper USA, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GTKP), announced today that it has executed an exclusive agreement with Smart Box Ventures LLC (SBV) wherein SBV will purchase exclusively from GateKeeper USA advanc...

PTC Alliance Announces Ratification of New Collective Bargaining Agreements

PTC Alliance, a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, fabricated parts, precision components and chrome-plated rod, announced today tha...

Beta Steel becomes NLMK Indiana

Beta Steel, a Portage (Indiana, USA) based steel mini-mill specializing in the production of hot rolled coils, today announces that it is changing its name to "NLMK Indiana" effective from July 27,2 0...

SECO WARWICK Commissions Walking Hearth Furnace for Stainless Steel Billets

SECO WARWICK Allied recently commissioned a walking hearth furnace at Chandan Steel Ltd. The furnace is used for heating stainless billets for hot piercing. The furnace is equipped with multi-zone a...

China Gerui Plans to Double Current Steel Production Capacity

China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Limited (Nasdaq: CHOP) ("China Gerui," or the "Company"), a leading niche and high value-added steel processing company that utilizes advanced technology to produc...

Aluminum

Vishay Adds New Aluminum Capacitors to its 150 CRZ Series

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today announced that its high-temperature 140 CRH and low-impedance 150 CRZ series of surface-mount aluminum capacitors have been extended with new devices tha...

JDSU to Develop New 4 kW Fiber Laser for Metal Processing

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced that it has collaborated with Amada, a leading manufacturer of machine tools for metal fabrication, to develop a new high-power 4 kilowatt (kW) fiber las...

Market Size of Aluminum Profiles Declined 37% in 2009

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f6d7fc/russian_market_of) has announced the addition of the "Russian Market of Aluminum Profiles " report to their offering. The mark...

Century Aluminum Announces Productive Meetings with United Steelworkers

Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a wholly owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX), and the United Steelworkers union announced today that the parties have had productive meetings this...

Ball Announces Acquisition of Neuman Aluminum

Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) announced today that it has acquired Neuman Aluminum, the leading North American manufacturer of aluminum slugs used to make extruded aerosol cans, beverage bottles, alumi...

Materials Science
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Economic News

Positive Earnings Reports Coming In This Morning….

Ebay & Qualcomm report positive earnings Caterpillar tops view and raises outlook 3M tops expectations and raises their outlook Royal Carribean ups 2010 outlook A.T.&T. tops view and raises forecast UPS profits soar

Economists say recovery continues, but pace slows

NEW YORK – Economists say the U.S. recovery continued during the second quarter of this year with more businesses hiring workers and fewer cutting jobs, but the pace of growth has slowed, a new survey shows. The National Association for Business Economics said its latest survey, released Monday, found 31 percent of businesses added workers [...]

Wall Street reform clears Congress

Although I’m not a fan of government intervention into our lives, the recent financial crisis in America underscores the importance of having an entity looking out for the public safety of our retirement plans and monetary system.  In this country we’ve had several financial crisis dating back to the Great Depression which started largely in [...]

May job openings dip but hiring near 2-year high

(Reuters) – Job openings slipped in May, but the hiring rate climbed to the highest level in nearly two years, government data showed on Tuesday. This accommodates for temporary census hires, but still reflects a slow and steady growth in employment.  Read the full story HERE.

Everything’s Amazing, Yet No One is Happy…

Many of you may have seen this by now…but it’s a hilarious bit by Louis C.K. on the Conan show….  Funny, but also  makes a good point.  We have a lot of good going on, yet often times we focus on what’s NOT good and dwell on it… Enjoy!

2009-2010 Chapter Officers

Chairman - Bob Merryfield

BobBob has over 35 years experience in the production of Iron and Nickel base Stainless Steel Castings. He has worked in various positions with St. Louis Steel castings, Stainless Foundry and Engineering, LaBour Pump company and Ancast, Inc. Bob served as a member of Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA) High Alloy Steering Committee. Also, he is Past Chairman of the Michiana AFS chapter. Bob holds a B.S. degree from the University of Missouri, Rolla, in Metallurgical Engineering. Bob is a Life Member of ASM. He was elected to the Notre Dame Board in 2006 for a three-year term.


Vice Chairman - Vacant

Treasurer/Webmaster - Josh Haines

JoshJosh graduated from Purdue University in 2007 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He worked as an intern at Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis, IN performing work related to heat treatment, brazing, and NUCAP preparation. Josh is currently employed as a failure analyst at the Materials Technology Center at Honeywell Aerospace.

He owns a small computer repair & web design business on the side and is working toward a Master of Science in Engineering from Purdue University with an expected graduation date of December, 2011.


Secretary - Tim Conrad

TimTim is currently a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame studying Bioengineering with a specialization in biomaterials. Time earned a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University in 2005. After graduating he worked at TP Orthodontics in LaPorte, IN as a R&D Materials Engineer researching new products for the orthodontic field. He entered graduate school full time at the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 2007. His current research interests are in creating materials that interact more favorably with the human body to promote faster healing or integration of medical implants. Tim has been a member of ASM since 2005 and currently lives at Notre Dame.