November 12, :00 pm Cocktails 7:00 pm Dinner 9:00 pm Adjournment. $50 for AFS members $55 for non AFS members

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1 BRITISH COLUMBIA CHAPTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS November 2008 Chapter Newsletter Education WALTER VETTORETTI Highland Foundry Ltd th Street Surrey, BC V4N 3N6 Tel: Fax: Entertainment CRYSTAL LAMBERT Purity Casting Alloys Ltd th Avenue Surrey, BC V4N 3N9 Tel: Fax: Apprenticeship TIM OLSON Adanac Pattern Shop LTD Kingsway Avenue Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 1S6 Tel: Fax: P.R. & Publicity PETER BEIER Century Pacific Foundry Ltd th Street Surrey, BC V3W 4G1 Tel: Fax: Membership DEREK MORRISON Robar Industries LTD th Avenue Surrey, BC V3W 2X8 Tel: Fax: Sports DAVID LALONDE Inproheat Industries LTD. 680 Raymur Avenue Vancouver, BC V6A 2R1 Tel: Fax: November 12, 2008 Steel Solidification, Casting Shrinkage, Location: Time: and Yield Improvement Mr. John Outten Product Application Manager Ferrous Foundry Products FOSECO Metallurgical Inc. The Sheraton Guildford Hotel th, Surrey Directions on last page 6:00 pm Cocktails 7:00 pm Dinner 9:00 pm Adjournment Alberta Director at Large ROB DAY Norwood Foundry LTD Avenue Nisku, AB T9E 7T7 Tel: Fax: Cost: $50 for AFS members $55 for non AFS members Past Chairman ERIN ADDY Hastings Brass Foundry Ltd. 236 Clark Drive Vancouver, BC V5L 3H3 Tel: Fax: RSVP: Ray Tyers by November 5, 2008 fax:

OUR SPEAKER John Outttten Product Application Manager, Ferrous Foundry Products John graduated with a BS in Materials Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981.

2 OUR SPEAKER John Outttten Product Application Manager, Ferrous Foundry Products John graduated with a BS in Materials Engineering from Virginia Tech in From 1981 to 1994 he was employed as Foundry Engineer/ Assistant Metallurgist at Newport News Shipbuilding in the foundry division. There he helped to produce high integrity ferrous and nonferrous castings for nuclear submarines Since 1994 John has worked at FOSECO as Product application Manager for Ferrous Foundry Products, specially the feeding and filtration of steel castings and product development. John will be giving us a general discussion on freezing of steel, types of shrinkage, and the economics of improved casting yield with an example of potential cost savings and increased productivity from shop yield improvement in a Foundry. His presentation stresses the important of good average casting yield in reducing casting costs to maintain good Foundry productivity. Getting to Know Your Directors Petterr Beierr P.R. & Publicity Peter is in his 3 rd year as P.R. & Publicity Director, and has previously served on the board as Education Director. He is currently the Technical Supervisor at Century Pacific Foundry, where he has been employed for 13 years. Prior to that he worked at CAPTIN and Equity Silver Mines, where he began his foundry career pouring gold and silver bullion. He is married with two teenage kids and lives In Port Moody. AFS BC Chapter Bursary For this year, the AFS BC Chapter is providing a bursary in the amount of $500 to anyone in the industry attending post secondary education relevant to the industry or to a child of a member in good standing who is enrolled in any post secondary education program. Briefly outline you career goals, what you would do with the award and submit your application (maximum 2 pages), with your name, address, telephone number, address, and your parents name. Please attach proof of registration in a post-secondary institution. Entries are to be submitted by December 18, 2007 to Eric Hasselmann, Chairman of the AFS BC Chapter. The Board of Directors will convene and review each entrant. The winner, and their parent, will receive the award at the Apprenticeship Award Night, at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel January 15, Thank you for your support and good luck to all entrants

3 SERVICE PIN AWARDS Service Pins will be awarded to members attending the December Dinner Meeting. If you cannot attend the meeting, your pin will be mailed to you. AFS Service Pins are issued in 5 year intervals. Please forward your service pin request to: Peter Beier - Century Pacific Foundry Phone Fax peter@century-pacific.com APPRENTICESHIP CONTEST TTi iim Ol llssoonn Addaannaacc Paat tteer rnnss tit iim@aaddaannaaccppaat tteer rnn..ccoom It is time once again for the annual American Foundry Society Apprentice Molding and Patternmaking contest. Last year the British Columbia Chapter cleaned up at the regional in Portland, so let s try to get as many entrants as possible to keep this tradition going. Yes I believe this is our Apprenticeship Directors attempt to goad those of you south of the border! Please let Tim know ASAP if you have any apprentices that will be participating and he will get the pattern to you right away. Also, please let us know if there are any apprentices working at Patternshops or Foundries that are not yet members, and we will try to get them involved. As always the first place finishers in each category will go on to further glory at the AFS Northwest Regional Conference in Seattle. Please contact Tim to get application forms and arrange for drawings and patterns Quote of The Month The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone." -- Tom Peters Letters to the Editor If you have a comment or would like to pass a message to the membership, please send it to me and I will make sure it makes in to the next newsletter. Please forward all Letters to the Editor to: Ray Tyers OCL Industrial Materials Ltd. Tel: ext 304 Fax: ray@oclim.com

Wednesday November 12 Thursday December 11 Thursday January 15, 2009 Friday February 27, 2009 Thursday March 19, 2009 April 2009 May 2009 May 23 2009 Time: 6:30 PM CALENDAR OF

Location: Sheraton Guildford AFS Christmas Dinner Location: Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club Please bring your spouses to this fantastic venue for the AFS Apprenticeship Night

4 Wednesday November 12 Thursday December 11 Thursday January 15, 2009 Friday February 27, 2009 Thursday March 19, 2009 April 2009 May 2009 May Time: 6:30 PM CALENDAR OF EVENTS Steel Solidification, Castings Shrinkage and Yield Improvement John Outten, Foseco INC. Location: Sheraton Guildford AFS Christmas Dinner Location: Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club Please bring your spouses to this fantastic venue for the AFS Apprenticeship Night Location: Sheraton Guildford Hockey Night: Vancouver Giants vs. Chilliwack Bruins Location: Pacific Coliseum Northwest Regional Conference Seattle, WA Hoping to see you there!! AFS Safety Month Education session to be announced in future newsletter AFS Spring Golf Appreciation Night and Chapter AGM Corporate Members: Inproheat Industries Ltd., Lethbridge Iron Works Co. Ltd., Norwood Foundry Ltd., OCL Industrial Materials Ltd., Wesmat Supplies Ltd. Platinum Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: Adanac Patterns Robar Industries Ltd. Millbank Materials Corp. Rypac Aluminum Recycling Ltd. Full Line Specialties Midan Industries

5 Map: Sheraton Guildford

March Monday the 9th. Jeremy McLimans Technical Sales. Hickman, Williams & Company

March Monday the 9th. Jeremy McLimans Technical Sales. Hickman, Williams & Company March 2015 Monday the 9th 2015 Regional BIRMINGHAM AFS Chapter 2015 Southeast Regional at the fantastic Ross Bridge Resort on April 8th-10th is coming up fast! A great program is planned! Also, don t forget