PROCEEDINGS - Industries of the Future - West Virginia - West ...

Inaugural Symposium Poceedings
2. Casting - technologies
• Assist Steel of West Virginia, Inc. in their near net shape casting development
3. Galvanized steel - white rust
• Develop non-chromium based chemical passification. Seek assistance from
chemical industry
4. Process control sensors
• Establish workshop for information transfer
5. Roadmap review
• Establish group from WVU to review and determine where university can assist.
6. Workforce upgrade
• Use WV Steel Advisory Commission
Glass Industry Group Breakout Session
Session Co-Chairs: Beri Fox of Marble King, Inc., Paden City, WV
Tom Fenton of Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV
Theo Johnson, U.S. DOE, Office of Industrial Technologies
Ed Sneckenberger, WVU, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
B. Gopalakrishan, WVU, Industrial and Management System Engineering
Introduction
Theo Johnson informed the group that participants from industrial companies in the on-going
national-level program can be grouped into three categories: 1) Chief Executive Officer of Company,
etc, 2) Vice President of R&D, etc, and 3) Lead Production Person of Plant, etc. The percentage of
industrial participants in each category is currently about 10, 30 and 60%, respectively; these
percentages need to become closer to 50, 30 and 20%, respectively, so that a company's commitment
to IOF projects is more assured. Participants from academic institutions, national laboratories and
external suppliers were important contributors to the overall scheme and success of the national-level
program, and their involvement in the state-level programs is encouraged.
Basically, the glass industry for the national-level IOF has been defined into four segments: Flat
Glass, Fiberglass, Container Glass, and Pressed/Blown (Specialty) Glass. Trade organizations such as
the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) of Washington, DC and the Society for Glass Science and
Practices (SGSP) of Weston, WV provide leadership for some of these segments. Currently,
however, none of these organizations is a recognized lead association for the entire glass industry. The
American Ceramic Society (ACS) of Westerville, OH has offered to be the single-voice association for
the glass industry. Alternatively, a new Glass Industry Technical Council (GITC) has been proposed.
Projects of interest to the glass industry participants for the national-level program have focused
on four areas: Production Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Protection/Recycling, and
Innovative Uses. The team leaders, respectively, for these four areas of project interest are Vince
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