CastExpo'10 News

Metalcasting Technology Theater
to Include President's Session, Economic Forum
The new Metalcasting Technology Theater at CastExpo'10 will include several presentations that will help increase your productivity and profitability, including an Economic Forum discussing the current and future status of the metalcasting industry, the presentation "Energy Matters: The Effect of Energy Cost on Profitability," and the AFS President's Session.

The theater will be located on the CastExpo exhibit floor, will complement the annual Metalcasting Congress sessions and will be open to all attendees.

CastExpo'10 will be held March 20-23 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. To register for the show, visit www.castexpo.com.

Join AFS today, register for CastExpo … and save!  A special membership rate applies, for a very limited time.  For more information, contact Leo Baran, AFS director of  membership services, at lbaran@afsinc.org.

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AFS Signs MOA with U.S. Automotive Materials Partnership, Includes USAMP Data in CADS
AFS announces the signing of a memorandum of agreement with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC (USAMP) making the data contained in USAMP's Automotive Lightweight Materials database available to AFS for inclusion in the AFS online database Casting Alloy Data Search (CADS).
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H. H. Harris Scholarship
Application Deadline Approaching
Established for the purpose of providing scholarships and other forms of educational aid to students and professionals in the metalcasting industry, the H.H. Harris Foundation will be awarding scholarships again this year. The deadline for this year's applications is April 30.
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U.S. Congress to Focus on Job Legislation
With a renewed emphasis on job creation by both the U.S. Congress and Obama administration, U.S. Senate lawmakers are planning to bring a series of jobs bill to the floor by early March. Some of the provisions that are currently being discussed and of interest to the metalcasting industry include payroll tax break for employers hiring new workers, renewal of several expiring tax credits, including the research and development credits, and $6 billion worth of timely, targeted relief for private pension funds that suffered heavy losses in recent years.
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OSHA Releases Company Workplace
Injury and Illness Information via Online Database
Under the administration’s commitment to make injury and illness data more accessible, OSHA is now making available the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 in a searchable online database.
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OSHA Seeks Budget Increase for FY11,
Looking to Add 60 New Investigators
OSHA requested $573 million for fiscal 2011, a $14.5 million increase over the agency’s 2010 budget. The increase would allow OSHA to add 60 investigators and enforcement staff members in 2011, for a total enforcement staff of 1,752 people.
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Report Proposes Strategies to
Create Manufacturing Jobs
As U.S. manufacturers and the metalcasting industry continue to struggle to recover from the recession, a new report titled Manufacturing Resurgence, A Must for U.S. Prosperity written by economists Joel Popkin and Kathryn Kobe, finds that manufacturing fuels economic prosperity but requires pro-growth policies to create jobs and remain globally competitive. The report was released in January by the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council of Manufacturing Associations.
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Introduction to Metallurgy
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Introduction to
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