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AFS Marketing Div. plans casting promotion activities at trade shows, Congresses. (AFS/CMI News).


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 Marketing Div. will be promoting the casting process at the "Total Design Solutions Midwest Show" in Cleveland, October 8-10. AFS is a sponsor of the event, which will be held at the I-X Center The International Exposition Center, also known as the I-X Center, is a 800,000 square foot convention and exhibition hall located near Cleveland, Ohio, adjacent to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. .

The AFS Marketing Div. also has arranged for a "metalcasting" exhibit at the 2003 Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE sae abbr (BRIT) (= stamped addressed envelope) → sobre con las propias seƱas de uno y con sello ) World Congress & Expo March 3-6, 2003, at Detroit's Cobo Center. The exhibit will be shared by AFS, the Ductile Iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies.  Marketing Group and the Diecasting Development Council. Next year will represent the fourth consecutive year that AFS has exhibited at the transportation industry's largest trade show. The Marketing Div. also is assisting the AFS Technical Dept. with coordination of papers for a metalcasting session at the SAE Congress.
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Date:Sep 1, 2002
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