BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:40@afstwincities.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220412T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220412T190000 DTSTAMP:20220422T132732Z URL:https://afstwincities.org/events/grede-st-cloud-foundry-tour/ SUMMARY:In Case You Missed It... Grede St. Cloud Foundry Tour DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nIn Case You Missed It... The April 12th Grede St. Cloud Foundry Tour was well-attended and brought in several special guests. At left\, L to R: John Haas\, Grede Plant Manager\, Steve Burch\, AFS TC Chai r\, Mike Lenahan\, BMC\, AFS Past President\, and Greg Kramer\, AFS Direct or of Environment\, Health\, and Safety. Pictured top right is John Haas\, Joy Clifford\, AFS TC Secretary/Treasurer\, and Steve Burch. Bottom right \, Steve presents speaker gift to John Haas. Tom Peterson from Grede won t he 50/50 raffle and donated it to the AFS TC Scholarship Fund.\n\n\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\nAFS Twin Cities Chapter travels to St. Cloud to tour Grede Foundry on Tuesday\, April 12th beginning at 2:30 p.m. Groups of 5- 10 people will tour the foundry based on arrival time. When tours are comp leted\, we will meet at House of Pizza in Sartell for a Social sponsored b y Grede\, Dinner Buffet\, and a presentation by John Haas\, Grede St. Clou d Plant Manager\, “Grede Foundry Updates and the State of Business.”\n \nAbout the Tour... The Grede St Cloud Foundry was originally a steel foun dry that opened in 1991 by M.E. International. Grede Foundries purchased t he foundry in 1995 and transformed it into a Ductile iron foundry. The fou ndry has had three major expansions over the years (1996\, 1998 and 2015). The foundry spans over 330\,000 square feet in its main building. The fou ndry operates both mold lines on a 24 hour per day basis. The plant melts about 700 tons of iron per day and ships nearly 350 tons daily. The highly automated facility is a Tier 1 supplier to GM’s Heavy Duty pick-up truc ks. The plant produces parts for the Ram\, Ford’s Super-duty\, and other automakers. In addition to these parts\, the foundry produces castings fo r heavy truck\,  construction\, and agricultural customers. The foundry e mployees over 350 employees. Grede-St Cloud was recently named as The Will iam J. Grede Plant of the Year for 2021. Grede has 10 facilities operating in the US and employees over 2500 people.\n\nAbout the Speaker... John Ha as returned to Grede as the Plant Manager of the Saint Cloud Foundry in No vember 2020. Prior to that\, he spent over two years as the President of C adillac Casting in Cadillac\, Michigan and a year as the President of Dalt on Corporation in Warsaw\, Indiana. John’s expertise and extensive found ry knowledge is the product of his more than 45 years of working within th e metal casting industry. He started in the field while in college. He obt ained a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree from Xavier U niversity. John steadily progressed through a number of positions and gain ed extensive experience during these growth opportunities. Over the course of his career\, John has risen through the following positions at a varie ty of companies - Plant Metallurgist\, Melt Superintendent\, Quality Manag er\, Technical Director\, Plant Manager\, VP of Operations\, Group VP\, an d President. He also spent four years as an internal consultant and manage ment resource (both domestically and internationally) at a large steel pro ducer. At Grede\, John has built up an exceptional team. John and this gro up of talented people transformed the Saint Cloud foundry into the premier foundry within the organization. The plant is a leader in safety\, qualit y\, productivity\, and profitability metrics. John is currently a member o f the American Foundry Society Board of Directors.\n\nSchedule...\n\n2:30p m      Grede Foundry Tours -\n\n5200 Foundry Circle\n\nSt. Cloud\, MN 5 6303\n\n4:30pm      Social Hour at House of Pizza (sponsored by Grede F oundry)\n\n1733 Pine Cone Rd. S.\, Suite 200\n\nSartell\, MN 56377\n\n5:30 pm      Dinner Buffet\n\n6:00pm      Presentation - John Haas\n\nReg ister below by Monday\, April 11th at noon. \n\nClick here to view newsle tter.\n\n\n\n  LOCATION:Grede Foundry - St. Cloud\, 5200 Foundry Circle\, St. Cloud\, MN\, 56303\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5200 Foundry Circle\, St. C loud\, MN\, 56303\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Grede Foundry - St. Cloud:geo:0,0 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