ACRC Spring Meeting June 1-2, 2023 at The Ohio State University. 

See the agenda and register on-line here.  Nearby hotel options and parking.

Welcome to the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC).  ACRC is one of the largest industry-university consortia (~ 40 members) in North America dedicated to collaborative research in metal processing and manufacturing. Our focus is metal casting and digital manufacturing. We bring fundamental understanding to existing processes, develop new methods, new alloys, and address management-technology interface issues with our industrial partners. ACRC serves the global metal processing and foundry industry as its educational and research home.
ACRC provides a forum where primary and secondary producers of aluminum and light metals, equipment manufacturers, suppliers and end users come together to discuss the research needed to establish the knowledge base, as well as the educational issues facing the industrial sector.        –Diran Apelian

L to R: Carl Soderhjelm, Diran Apelian, Alan Luo

News Feed

≡  New Member:  NioCorp

≡  IBC Joins ACRC

≡  David Furrer of P&W Also Elected to NAE

≡  Alan Luo Elected to NAE

≡  Intrepid Automation Joins ACRC

≡  Ben Wynne Presents at AM4IC

≡  New Member:  Ferhmann Tech Group

≡  Adam Kopper Earns Best Paper Distinction

≡  Shri Shankar Wins Scholarship

≡ ACRC Partners with Ohio State University

 

Ohio State Becomes ACRC’s 1st Affiliated Branch

 
We are pleased to announce ACRC’s first affiliated branch with The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The affiliation provides our members, and the industry, with expanded research capabilities, facilities and resources, and geographic impact in metal casting and digital manufacturing. It also provides the alliance with a Midwestern footprint, allowing our consortium to bring in enterprises from the manufacturing basin of the nation. This expansion helps cement ACRC’s mission of being the premiere metal processing industry-university alliance serving corporate members and educating future industry leaders.
 
To learn more about this alliance, please visit the news page of our website, read more in an article in Modern Casting or visit our faculty page to better understand the wealth of talent that ACRC provides members.
We are so pleased to share that the director of our ACRC affiliated site at Ohio State University, Prof. Alan Luo, has been elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)  for the implementation of lightweight aluminum, magnesium, and titanium materials and advanced manufacturing processes for automotive applications.
Alan is internationally recognized for his work in lightweight materials and advanced manufacturing. 
 
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!

From the ACRC Board Chair:

The world of castings is evolving rapidly and the demands from industry are continuously pushing the boundaries of what was previously thought possible. It’s an extremely exciting time, and ACRC is well positioned at the tip-of-the-spear by bridging the gap from the needs and requirements of industry with the facilities, faculties, and talents of some of the brightest people in academia. VJ Technologies is proud to be a member of this wonderful organization – understanding the needs of our customers as they continue to push for lighter and more complex parts is critical to the development of the QA and testing systems and processes. The ACRC research programs provide a tremendous value in understanding the growing needs of industry now and into the future.

Sonia Alreja, VJ Technologies

Our Next Meeting
June 1-2, 2023, Columbus, OH

December 12-13, 2023, Irvine, CA


Join us for our next meeting, which is open to all members and registered guests. Interested but not a member? Please contact Diran Apelian dapelian@uci.edu