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HTS REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND ASM AFFILIATE

OFFICER SUMMIT

ASM hosted an Affiliate Officer and ASM Management

Summit on April 18 and 19 at its headquarters in Materials

Park, Ohio. On hand to represent the interests of the Heat

Treating Society were

Stephen G. Kowalski,

HTS president,

president of Kowalski Heat TreatingCo. and

JamesP. Oakes,

HTS vice president, vice president of business development

at Super Systems Inc. The objective of the Summit was to

strengthen the relationships between the Affiliates and ASM,

and better align their activities with the ASM Renewal.

Also in attendancewere leaders from the Electronic De-

vice Failure Analysis Society, Failure Analysis Society, Inter-

national Metallographic Society, International Organization

on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, and the

Thermal Spray Society, as well as members of the ASMman-

agement team.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

As HTS gears up for its big event in Columbus, Ohio, this

October—with registration opening in June—plans are in the

works for other heat treating conferences as well. For details,

visit

PLAN TO ATTEND:

Heat Treat 2017

• Columbus, Ohio • October 24-26

SAVE THE DATE:

24th IFHTSE Congress

Spartanburg, South Carolina • June 5-7, 2018

Heat Treat Mexico

Queretaro • September 24-28, 2018*

Heat Treat 2019

Detroit • October 15-17*

*Tentative

Front row, from le: Jaret Frafjord (IMS president), Othmane Benafan (SMST vice president/finance oicer), Ron Aderhold (ASM

associate managing director and chief information oicer), Ryan Milosh (ASM sales andmarketing director), Lee Knauss (EDFAS vice

president), Steve Kowalski (HTS president), Bill Mahoney (ASMmanaging director), Zhiyong Wang (EDFAS president). Second row,

from le: Burak Akyuz (FAS president), Jeremy Schaer (EDFAS president), JimOakes (HTS vice president), Dan Dennies (IMS vice

president-elect), and Doug Puerta (TSS president).

HTS president Steve Kowalski (le) meets with HTS vice presi-

dent JimOakes during the Ailiate Summit at the ASM Dome.

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