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Editor Dean M. Peters has written extensively on metal working markets and the issues that affect them. Dean brings over 25 years of technical journalistic experience to his position at FORGE. His strong journalistic credentials are enhanced by his BS in metallurgical engineering. He can be reached by e-mailing ForgeEditor@forgemag.com
FIA will hold its biennial Forge Fair May 21-23 at Cleveland’s Huntington Convention Center. This article, geared to the less experienced tradeshow attendee, will give you tips on how to make the most of your time on the exhibit floor and in the technical sessions.
Ongoing trade discussions between the U.S. and China were high in the news cycle in March. The economic relationship between China and the U.S., which has expanded enormously during the last few decades, has been one filled with tensions, allegations of currency manipulation, outright theft of intellectual property (IP) and other speed bumps in the highway of trade between the two countries.
For the third consecutive time, Cleveland will host Forge Fair on May 21-23. The event will feature a full exposition with more than 150 exhibitors, 60 technical papers and important keynote speakers.
The forging industry will meet in Cleveland for the third consecutive time at Forge Fair 2019. The new Huntington Convention Center will host the biennial event May 21-23, 2019.
In 2012, OTTO FUCHS of Germany considered its future growth strategies and decided to invest in a huge new press to supply large titanium and aluminum forgings primarily to the aerospace sector.
At the FIERF 32nd Technical Conference held last September in Long Beach, Calif., Weber Metals’ Justin Owen made a presentation about the process by which OTTO FUCHS (OF)/Weber Metals made the decision to invest $180 million in what they say is North America’s largest forging press. This became the largest single investment decision in company history.
A group of forging professionals recently gathered in Long Beach, Calif., to attend the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation’s (FIERF) 32nd Technical Conference. Attendees were treated to a great plant tour, two days of technology, and a chance to greet old friends and network with new ones.
Long Beach, Calif., is perhaps best known as the retirement home of the legendary cruise ship Queen Mary, which is permanently moored there and is currently an operating hotel and museum. But on Sept. 11-12, Long Beach hosted some of the forging industry’s best and brightest technical people, industry professionals, suppliers and educators at what was FIERF’s 32nd Technical Conference.
John Peter Zenger was a New York journalist who, in 1733, voiced his disagreement with the Crown’s governor in New York, William Cosby, who replaced a disagreeable judge with a more agreeable jurist. Zenger’s paper, the New York Weekly Journal, wrote articles critical of the royal governor, who in turn criticized the paper for its “divers scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections.”
My previous column (April 2018) covered the March 1 imposition of tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The Trump administration’s seemingly sudden declaration of a tariff policy became real when, on March 8, the President signed an order imposing a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum.
