SECTION NEWS JUNE 2016 / WELDING JOURNAL 105 District 6 Michael Krupnicki, director (585) 705-1764 mkrup@mahanyweld.com NORTHERN NEW YORK April 5 Location: The Edison Club, Rexford, N.Y. Speaker: Lou Okonski, president, Troy Boiler, and Chris Whalen, public utilities manager, Troy, N.Y. Topic: The speedy repair of the burst 110-year old, 33-in.-diameter riveted steel water main in Troy, N.Y. Summary: Twenty-one people attended the event. District 7 Uwe Aschemeier, director (786) 473-9540 uwe@sgsdiving.com Beaver Valley Student Chapter April 13 Location: Moody Corp., Zelienople, Pa. Presenter: Tom Geisler, welding instructor, Beaver County Career and Technology Center (BCCTC) Summary: Mark Calhoun, engineer, gave Student Chapter members a tour of the company. Members learned how the company can apply exotic hardfacing weld metal depositions like Stellite ® and Inconel®, and how they fabricate using the CNC machine for close tolerance applications. COLUMBUS March 22 Location: Four String Brewing Co., Columbus, Ohio Presenter: Jim Ellison, tour guide Summary: Dan Cochran began home brewing 20 years ago and started Four String Brewing with repurposed dairy equipment. The company recently completed construction of a new brewing plant and production facility. Section members toured the facility, which contains a 30-barrel, threevessel brewhouse, a 120-barrel fermenter, a modern keg cleaner/filler, Wild Goose packaging line, and a quality control laboratory. The facility is capable of producing more than 12,000 barrels of beer a year and is expandable to as much as 50,000 barrels. District 8 D. Joshua Burgess, director (931) 260-7039 djoshuaburgess@gmail.com NORTHERN NEW YORK — Dave Parker, Section secretary/treasurer (left), and Lou Okonski, president, Troy Boiler Works, held a failed section of the city’s 110yearold, 33in. diameter water main. Beaver Valley Student Chapter — (From left) Tom Geisler, instructor at BCCTC, Mike Hornstein, graduate of BCCTC, and Owner of Moody Corp. Mark Calhoun after Calhoun’s tour for the student chapter. Beaver Valley Student Chapter — Student members enjoyed a tour of Moody Corp.: (front row from left) Dalton Bradford, Anthony Miller, Scott Chaffee, Morgan McCrea, and Ron Campbell; (second row from left) Preston Vigna, Isaiah Hunter, Tom Geisler, and Jay Steinbach; (third row from left) Justin Sorrell, Michael Hornstein, Brandon Leport, and Mark Kiss.
Welding Journal | June 2016
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