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2007 Award Winners

The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers is pleased to congratulate its 2007 Award Winners:

2007 awards winners:
Oliver Stubbs Medal - Alexander Brown FICME - Scottish Branch
Alexander is the Coal/Clay Product Development Manager of James Durrans & Sons Ltd based at Penistone, near Sheffield. He has been a member of the Scottish branch since 1976 and was upgraded to FICME in 2005.

His foundry career started in 1968 as a Trainee Metallurgist with British Steel in Glasgow. After 8 years and several metallurgical positions with local foundries he joined his present company in 1978. Starting as a Technical Sales Representative covering Scotland, Ireland and Northern England he was able to develop a wide knowledge base in recarburisers, coatings, blackings and coal/clay products.

In 1994 he was promoted to Sales Manager, a position held until 2001 when several new specialist positions were created including Coal/Clay Product Development Manager which allowed him more focus on customer requirements and opportunities to visit customers worldwide. Involvement in manufacturing, raw material purchasing, and hands-on experience solving customer problems has lead to a greater understanding of process application and the ability to assist greensand foundries in reducing scrap levels and increasing productivity.

He has given various papers, mainly on the use of graded coal in greensand systems for the production of iron castings, to foundry societies and foundry groups in the UK, Europe, Asia and South Africa since 2001 including the recent World Foundry Conference in June 2006. The main thrust of his work is in developing the use of carbonaceous products in greensand systems and advising on the correct use and balance of additives, to achieve the minimum sand related scrap defects.

Alexander is currently concentrating on use of coal/clay products and their critical role in producing iron castings worldwide and continues to promote the use and best practice of quality carbon additives in greensand systems.

E J Fox Medal - David Rowlands CEng MIM FICME - Chesterfield and Sheffield Branch
David studied metallurgy at University College Cardiff and joined BSC’s Tinplate division in Llanelli in 1972. In 1979 he moved to Sheffield taking up a technical management post with BSC Stockbridge leaving some eight years later after a variety of technical and business reorganisation roles to join the William Cook Foundry Group.
This move into foundries coincided with the rapid expansion of the Cook Group and, over a period of six years, David worked on business management and new business start-ups within the Group. This work provided a unique opportunity to cover the whole range of processes from sand cast to investment cast to spun cast, from carbon steel to chrome nickel creep resistant alloys and a wide range of end user industries.
In 1993 David moved to the Bryan Donkin Company at Chesterfield as the director of the iron foundry division of this gas engineering company. In 1997 the Foundry was sold to a private company which had an exciting but unfortunately brief life, closing in 1999 after a merger with the former British Steel foundry at Renishaw.
Between 1999 and 2001 David managed the ABC NACO rail engineering steel foundry (formerly Glencast) at Leven in Fife. Since 2002 David has worked as a freelance consultant specialising in business regeneration work in South Yorkshire.
Joining the Chesterfield & Sheffield Branch Council in 1994, David became Branch President in 1997-98. During this time he became the Branch representative on National Council and the Chairman of the ICME Education & Training Committee.
In 2001 David became National President of ICME and more latterly has been involved in overseeing the changes to the membership grades with the Privy Council. During 2005 and 2006 David was the organising Chairman for the 2006 World Foundry Congress held in the UK on behalf of ICME.

Meritorious Services Medal - Peter Wakeman Prof MICME - West Midlands, Birmingham & Coventry Branch
Peter joined the Institute in 1956 and is a Professional Member. He joined the staff of the Institute in 1987 as Assistant to the Secretary and later as Technical Officer and Conference Organiser. Retiring from full time employment in 1993, he worked as a part time Consultant and Conference organiser.
During his period with the Institute he was Secretary to the Technical and Managerial Committee and Secretary to IBF Technical Committees. He represented the Institute on BSI Technical Committees and was a member of the BCIRA Furnaces Committee and the Foundry Coke Quality Advisory Committee.
In 1981 he was awarded the Foundry Medal and Prize for his paper “The use of a 40 tonne channel furnace for duplexing from a cupola” and in 1994 presented a paper on “The IBF and its People, Past, Present and Future” at the Institute’s Annual Conference.
In 1993 he was awarded the E.J. Fox medal for services to the Institute and the Industry.
He has been a member of General Council of the Institute from 1987; as a member of staff, as a co-opted member, as a Branch Secretary and as an elected member due to retire in May 2007. He has been a member of Branch Council for many years as Elected Member, Branch Secretary and currently Membership Secretary.
Peter started work in the industry on 1st January 1945 at Charles Akrill, Chilled and Alloy Roll Manufacturers, Hill Top, West Bromwich as a trainee metallurgist. In 1950 he joined Hale and Hale, Tipton as Foundry Metallurgist leaving in 1952 to build and commission a laboratory at C&B Smith Wolverhampton. He remained at C&B Smith until 1986 as Chief Chemist, Chief Metallurgist and finally Technical Manager.
In 1986, following transfer of work to Qualcast Derby by Birmid Industries and closure of the company, he worked at Melcast Limited as Consultant to supervise transfer of the company to part of the C & B Smith site.

Meritorious Services Medal - Eric Boultbee IEng, Prof MICME - Chesterfield and Sheffield Branch
Eric has been a member of the Institute since 1974 joining as a student, quickly becoming an Associate Member then Member; he is also a registered Incorporated Engineer. He has actively served both General Council and the East Midlands Branch Council for over 25 years and was President of the East Midlands branch in 2001 – 2002.
Eric worked in the industry since leaving school working firstly as a chemist and then as a metallurgist at Ley’s Malleable Castings and then at International Combustion, before joining the Institute staff in 1978 as Journal editor when it was based in Clay Cross. He moved to Birmingham with the Head Office relocation in 1980.
Along with branch colleagues he has worked tirelessly to maintain the branch activities as industry in the East Midlands region declined and he was still battling at the very point of the branch closure. He has now transferred to the Chesterfield and Sheffield Branch.
He has a Master of Science Degree in manufacturing management and is the Innovation Manager with the East Midland Development Agency, Nottingham, a position which provides opportunities for activity in the industry.

Best Technical Student - Graeme Brown of the Davy Roll Company.
Graeme passed his Foundation Degree in Metallurgy at Bradford College with Distinction, the highest grade that can be achieved. He has now enrolled for a BEng (Hons) in Metallurgy and Materials and has also recently registered as an Engineering Technician with the Engineering Council UK. He is a Professional Member of ICME.
This award is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.

British Foundry Medal and Prize - Dr Sam Jones FICME, Dr Chen Yuan FICME and Dr Stuart Blackburn FICME, West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch
The Institute is pleased to announce that the British Foundry Medal and Prize has been awarded to Sam, Chen and Stuart for their joint paper entitled ‘Rapid shell build for investment casting: revolutionizing an ancient process’ published in the October 2006 issue of Foundry Trade Journal.

Diploma - Dr Bill Griffiths FICME, West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch
Bill has been awarded a Diploma for his paper entitled ‘The effect of the die coating on fluidity in the gravity die casting of aluminium’ published in the March 2006 issue of FTJ.

Diploma - Nick Richardson MICME and Malcolm Macnaughtan MICME - London Branch
Nick and Malcolm have been awarded a Diploma for their joint paper entitled ‘Advances in the melting of high quality grey iron automotive Castings at Precision Disc Castings’ published in the September 2006 issue of the FTJ

Long and Notable Service Award - George Beattie FICME, Scottish Branch
George has served as a member of the Scottish Branch for 28 years. During this period he has been Branch President and at present he is Treasurer; he has held this position for approximately 12 years. George is a regular attendee at both Branch Council meetings and Technical meetings; he also attends the ICME General Council meetings on a regular basis.

Long and Notable Service Award - Jack Gunning Prof MICME, Scottish Branch
Jack has been involved in the foundry industry for the past 45 years and has been a member of the Scottish Branch for over 25 years.
He was Scottish Branch President in 1997-98 and is still a regular attendee at both Branch Council meetings and Technical meetings. Jack is currently employed as a General Manager with Archibald Young Ltd at Kirkintilloch.

Long and Notable Service Award - Martin Newby Prof MICME, West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch
Martin has been a member of the Institute, in the West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch, since 1981. He is a Professional Member and attained his 25 years’ service in 2006.
He has been a tireless worker for the branch for many years as a regular attendee of Technical meetings, Branch Council meetings and social events. He has been Branch President on two occasions, 1997-98 and 2005-06, both highly successful years, and during his Presidency contributed to General Council deliberations.
Martin is Foundry Manager at Aga-Rayburn, Coalbrookdale and has been with this company for many years.

Long and Notable Service Award - Paramjit Dahri prof MICME, West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch
Paramjit has been a member of the Institute, West Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry Branch, since 1978, he is a Professional Member and attained his 25 years service in 2003. A regular attendee of technical meetings, Branch Council meetings and social events, he has consistently and actively supported the branch. He is currently Branch Treasurer, a post held since 2002.
Paramjit joined Castings plc in 1972, as a refugee from Uganda, and remained with that company until his early retirement due to ill health.

2006 Award Winners

E J Fox Medal winner - Brian Higgins, ProfMICME

Meritorious Services Medals winner- Trevor Yates, IEng, ProfMICME

Meritorious Services Medal winner - Malcolm Collins, ProfMICME

Oliver Stubbs Award winner - Dr Phil Ramsell, CEng, FICME

Diploma winner - Prof Peter Lee, FICME

M M Hallett Award - Verein Deutscher Giessereifachleute

Voya Kondic Medal - Bill Sorensen