Thursday Spetember 16, 2010 - CHAPTER MEETING
Location: Diplomat West
Topic: Induction Furnace - Operation and Benefits

Speaker: David C. Williams

ASI International Ltd, Columbus Ohio

Biography of David C. William

ASI International, Ltd

• 32 years experience in the foundry industry;

• Currently as Vice President of Technology for ASI International,

• 21 years as Manager Product Services, Staff Metallurgist, a technical service support position for Allied Mineral Products, in non-ferrous and ferrous metal applications
  

• 6 years as a process metallurgist in 2 different steel foundries including Lebanon Steel Foundry and National Castings/Midland Ross, Cicero, Illinois
  

• Graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1978, with a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering
  

• An active member of the AFS for 30 years. He has served on the AFS 8D channel furnace committee for and the 8C coreless committee for over 20 years.
  

• Active Instructor for the AFS Cast Metals Institute for 23 years.

• Active author/ presenter of refractory-related and metallurgical-related topics for the AFS, the ACerS, the AIME/ISS, the Ductile Iron Society, and GIFA conferences. Some Examples are Contamination in Copper melts, Removing Aluminum dross in Induction Melt, Channel clogging in Ductile Iron.

• Numerous publications in Modern Castings, AFS Transactions, Foundry Management and Technology, AIME/ISS publications