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- Built its headquarters in Des Plaines, IL in 1954.
Now located in Schaumberg, IL.
- Created the Training & Research Institute, the
educational arm of AFS, in 1957. The T & RI became the Cast Metals
Institute in 1975.
- AFS/CMI produces more than 90 courses, seminars, and
workshops annually, on all facets of the metalcasting process.
- More than 14,000 members in 47 countries.
- A total of 53 local chapters, 17 student chapters in
U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
- Full time staff of experienced marketing, management
and metalcasting professionals.
- Annual Congress, where over 100 papers and
presentations on the latest metalcasting developments are presented
each Spring.
- CASTEXPO, first held in 1897, now held every third
year, featuring the latest in supplies, equipment, materials and
services for the industry.
- More than 100 handbooks, textbooks, and reference
books published by AFS, the world’s largest publisher of
metalcasting related materials.
- Publishes 100-150 technical papers annually.
- Over 24,000 foundrymen receive Modern Casting, the
official AFS journal.
- Eleven Technical Divisions Engineering, Aluminum,
Brass & Bronze, Molding Methods & Materials, Cast Iron,
Pattern, Melting Methods & Materials, Steel, Environmental
Control, Investment Casting and Expendable Pattern Casting.
- AFSoftware Service, a library of computer programs
for the foundry, begun in 1983.
Technical, management and environmental in-plant consulting available
using AFS/CMI staff
Information Retrieval quickly and inexpensively through the R D “Butch’
Peters Memorial Library located at AFS headquarters.
- Abstracting Service, monthly listing of the latest in
published technology through the Peters Memorial Library.
- Programmed learning courses available on 13 timely
subjects.
- AFS-sponsored fundamental applied research and the
support of its 800 person voluntary technical committee organization
marks a multi-million dollar Society contribution to the continued
advancement of cast metals technology.
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