Welcome to the
American Foundry Societies BC Chapter's Website, hosts of
the 2010
Northwest Regional Conference!
PLEASE TAKE OUR
SURVEY!
Each month the AFS - BC Chapter hosts a Technical Dinner
Meeting. We would like the upcoming year to be great
so we need to hear your thoughts!
What topics would you like to learn more about? What
would interest you?
Please take a minute to tell us your thoughts
here.
On the wall in the lobby of Galesburg
Castings Foundry in Illinois there is a framed statement
that reads:
Ask a foundryman
what he does and he might humbly say that he "melts metal
and pours it into a mold to make a castings."
...more eloquently stated:
"I am feeding and clothing the people of
the world. I am purifying and transporting the water
Man drinks. I am digging the world's coal and drilling
its oil. I am building thousands of miles of highways
and railroads, and the locomotives, trucks and automobiles
that travel over them. I make airplanes that fly
through the air and the ships that ply the seven seas.
I make the tools with which Man accomplishes his work and I
must sadly admit that I make implements of war with which
Man attempts to destroy his kind. Products of my
foundry are in the hospital delivery room, where Man is
born, in his home and at his work bench while he lives, in
the mortuary when he dies. Throughout his life, I have
bettered his standard of living to the point where the
working man of today lives in a splendor undreamed by the
kings of the middle ages. I have put Man in to orbit
around the Earth and I have sent Man safely to the Moon and
back. In the process of all these accomplishments, I
have made a positive impact on the world's environment by
recycling Man's waste and transforming it into useful
products. It is no wonder that I am proud to be a foundryman"
AMERICAN FOUNDRY SOCIETY