BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:39@afstwincities.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T163000 DTSTAMP:20220315T221219Z URL:https://afstwincities.org/events/bonded-sand-seminar/ SUMMARY:Bonded Sand Seminar DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\n\n\n\nThe AFS Twin Cities Chapter presents a virtu al “Bonded Sand Seminar” on March 22nd from 12:15pm - 4:30 p.m. Presen ters for the seminar will discuss sand additives\, updates on the cold box process\, binder ratio differences in Phenolic Urethane Systems\, and fer ro alloy markets. The four hour window will also include the question and answer opportunities and breaks between presenters. The virtual seminar is free to AFS members\, thanks to generous donations from Badger Mining Cor poration\, Midwest Metal Products\, and Carley Foundry.\n\n \n\nSeminar S chedule:\n\n12:15pm - Sign into Virtual Meeting\n\n12:30pm - Ken Sanchez\, Chesapeake Specialty Products\, Inc. - "Sand Additives to Replace Special ty Sands"\n\n1:30pm - Doug Desmit\, ASK Chemicals - "Latest Updates on the Cold Box Process"\n\n2:30pm - Dan Herbst\, Carpenter Brothers - "Ferro Al loy Markets"\n\n3:30pm - Aaron Kaboff\, HA International - "Binder Ration Differences in Phenolic Urethane Systems"\n\nAbout the Speakers...\n\n Ken neth Sanchez is President of Chesapeake Specialty Products\, Inc. (“CSP ”)\, a USA based international manufacturer of specialty sand additives\ , iron\, and steel products for the foundry\, industrial construction\, an d agriculture industries. Ken is also President of Chesapeake of Korea\, I nc.\, (“COK”) a subsidiary of CSP\, and sits on Boards of Directors fo r both CSP and COK. He sits on the Executive Board of the Regional Manufac turing Institute\, as Treasurer\, and has been appointed to the MD/DC Dist rict Export council by the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce. Rec ently\, CSP was awarded the “E-Award” by the Commerce Department for o utstanding contribution to the Export Expansion Program of America. Ken is also a member of several committees for the American Foundry Society. Sin ce joining CSP in 2006\, Ken has increased the global footprint of CSP\, s igning multinational distributors and customers. CSP has expanded its Nort h American footprint with customers now throughout Asia\, Australia\, Cent ral America\, Europe\, and South America. Ken helped to establish the Asia n manufacturing facility in Korea and developed a local customer base for their foundry products which uses innovative technology. Throughout this t ime\, CSP established worldwide manufacturing standards and practices and created high customer satisfaction levels by improving delivery times\, ma nufacturing processes\, and product quality levels. Before coming to CSP\, Ken excelled during a twenty-year career in the telecommunications indust ry. Prior to joining CSP\, he was Director of Sales for national communica tion giants MCI and then Sprint/Nextel\, both in the Commercial Markets gr oups. In these roles\, Ken was responsible for the sales divisions tasked with retention and growth of commercial accounts. He was  instrumental in growing MCI’s data markets. While positioned as Director of Sales and M arketing of the Internet MCI division\, Ken frequently presented new techn ologies as guest lecturer at local Maryland universities and trade shows. Ken holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The University of Ma ryland.\n\n Doug Desmit\, Technical Service Manager at ASK Chemicals\, has 47 years of expericence in the foundry industry: ASK Chemicals Technical Service Manager NA and Technical Product Manager\, Cold Box Core Shop Mana ger and Technical Engineer\, Ashland Chemical Technical Service Representa tive\, Foundry Superintendent\, Core Lube Technical Sales and Service Repr esentative\, Shalco Systems\, and Engineering Draftsman. Doug will talk ab out the “Latest Updates for the Cold Box Process.”\n\nRegister below b y Monday\, March 21st 6:00pm. A link to sign on to the online meeting plat form will be emailed to the registrants on Tuesday morning.\n\nClick here to view newsletter.\n\n\n\n \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR