location in Dayton, Ohio.  We are located in the Miami Valley Research Park, just 10 minutes east of Dayton.  The new location will allow us to grow buyCASTINGS Dayton headquarters, manage the growing network of reps, and to serve our customers better.  We have already begun that growth by hiring more project management personnel beginning with Mr. Dave Rauen, Project Manager, Castings.

bC Grows... by hiring an experience foundry-man, Mr. Dave Rauen.  Dave has been in the casting industry for 23 years.  He has worked and managed projects in four different manufacturing facilities, including work and accomplishments in the areas of: 

engineering (managerial, production and design,) production, technology projects, technical sales, and metallurgy.  He has held the titles of Engineering Manager, Manager of Engineering/Manager of Technical Applications and Project Manager/Division Engineer.  Those facilities included various metals, high production, medium production, and jobbing production.  Methods included green sand, no bake sand, hot box, and quick set sands along with permanent molding and

die cast molding. Added to the mix is experience with small half pound castings to castings exceeding 9,000 pounds. Dave has

been an officer, Chairman, and Vice Chairman in both ASTM Committees and subcommittees, as well as equal Chairmanships in AFS.  He has served as company representative of various code authorities and standards forums, also working on oversight of new standards development and testing methods. Post collegiate study (and application) has included: testing (destructive and non-destructive)

quality systems, welding and fabrication standards, production improvement strategies and techniques, QFD and ISO implementation methods. Dave has also worked in areas of metal machining, metal coating methodology and metals fabrication.