Specialty Melting, Refining and Casting — A Practical Training Seminar
6–9 October 2025 • Birmingham, Ala., USA
Monday, 6 October 2025 | |
4–6 p.m. | Registration |
Tuesday, 7 October 2025 | |
7 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8 a.m. | Opening Remarks Steve Musial, SMS group |
8:15 a.m. | Markets and Applications for Foundries and Specialty Steels Raymond Monroe, Steel Founders’ Society of America |
9:15 a.m. | The Elements Raymond Monroe – Steel Founders’ Society of America |
10:15 a.m. | Break |
10:30 a.m. | Induction Melting Practices Shawn Martin, Harrison Steel Castings Co. |
Noon | Lunch |
1 p.m. | Melt Deck Safety Bart Barbee, Inductotherm |
1:45 p.m. | Induction Preventive Maintenance Procedures Bart Barbee, Inductotherm |
2:45 p.m. | Break |
3 p.m. | Noninduction and EAF Melting Techniques for the Foundry and Specialty Steelmaker Stephan Ferenczy, Steel Infinity LLC |
4 p.m. | Single-Vessel EAF Melting Shawn Martin, Harrison Steel Castings Co. |
5 p.m. | Reception |
Wednesday, 8 October 2025 | |
7 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
8 a.m. | Steel Refining — Fundamentals of Steel Refining: Degassing, Desulfurization, Decarburization, VOD and AOD |
9 a.m. | Pouring and Gating Castings Raymond Monroe, Steel Founders’ Society of America |
10 a.m. | Break |
10:15 a.m. | Casting of Specialty Steel Ingots Mark Suer, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. |
11:15 p.m. | Ingot Remelting: Electroslag and Vacuum Arc Remelting Craig Miller, Consarc Corp. |
12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
1:15 p.m. | Basic Refractories Benjamin J. Hunsicker, Allied Mineral Products LLC |
2:15 p.m. | Refractory Shapes Andrew Pinskey, Holland Manufacturing Corp. |
3:15 p.m. | Forging Process Calum Learn, North American Forgemasters |
4 p.m. | Break |
4:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
6 p.m. | Adjourn |
Thursday, 9 October 2025 | |
7 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
8 a.m. | Depart for Plant Tour of University of Alabama Birmingham Metallurgical Department |
Noon | Return From Plant Tour and Conference Adjourn |