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Metaldyne trio headed for slammer NEARLY four years after their original arrest, three former Metaldyne Corporation employees have pleaded guilty in Detroit federal court to conspiracy to sell stolen confidential and proprietary information to a competitor in China, Chongquing Huafu Industry Company, Ltd (See Metal Powder Report, March 2005). Based on the results of the pre-sentencing investigation, a preliminary sentence hearing is scheduled for 15 January, 2009, according to Detroit FBI. A federal jury in Detroit brought a 64-count indictment in 2006 against Anne Lockwood, former Metaldyne vice president of sales; her husband, Michael Haehnel, former senior engineer; and Fuping Liu, former metallurgist. Lockwood, 55, faces a possible 33-month sentence and a $60 000 fine. Liu, 44, faces up to 18 months in federal prison and a $30 000 fine. Haehnel, 53, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour and faces up to a one-year sentence and a $5000 fine. The three were charged with plotting to steal and stealing Metaldyne’s proprietary powder-forging and PM parts manufacturing information and providing this information to potential Chinese competitors. Liu worked in Metaldyne’s Shanghai,
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China, office, after which he joined GKN Sinter Metals there. It was also alleged that he gave confidential information belonging to GKN to Lockwood, as well as to the Liaoning Shuguang Automotive Corporation, a Chinese automotive parts maker. Lockwood and her husband reside in Kent County, Michigan, and Liu lives in Flushing, New York.
Name change to protect brand SUPERWEAR Technologies, has changed its name to Ferro-Tic®, a division of PSM Industries of Los Angeles. PSM founded Superwear in 2001 after purchasing Alloy Technology International, West Nyack, New York. Alloy Technology and its predecessor, the Chromalloy Sintercast Division, developed the Ferro-Tic® brand of steel-bonded titanium carbide composites more than 50 years ago. The carbides consist of ultrahard, rounded titanium carbide grains dispersed in a hardened steel or alloy matrix. “We have changed the name to emphasize that we are the original Ferro-Tic®,” says Craig Paullin, PSM president. “When you buy it from us you are buying the authentic material.”
Ask the Expert For the past year we have been running the Ask the Expert column on the Metal Powder Report web site www.metal-powder.net with a growing number of queries being received. Dr Satyajit “Satya” Banerjee has dealt with inquiries across the breadth of powder metallurgy, despite the fact that he is, in reality, a metal injection moulding ( MIM) expert. It has been obvious for some time that we needed an expert to deal with ferrous powder queries, and we hit paydirt when we reached agreement with US iron powder major Hoeganaes Corporation that one of their very own experts, Dr W Brian James, can step into the position from this month. Brian James will hardly need an introduction for many of you. Although based in the US, he is currently Manager International Technical Service – Sales and Marketing, a role that more often sees him overseas in one of a variety of roles from teaching to representing his company at the highest levels in the councils of the world of PM. A PhD and Chartered Engineer, he is a Fellow of AMPI International, Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, and Fellow of ASTM International. In addition he holds or has held a variety of senior posts in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). He is the recipient of numerous other honours from, among others, the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF). He has to his credit more than 40 technical papers, plus numerous presentations at technical conferences and seminars. He is author of the wellknown Ferrous Powder Metallurgy basic training programme, accredited at Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler.
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China, office, after which he joined GKN Sinter Metals there. It was also alleged that he gave confidential information belonging to GKN to Lockwood, as well as to the Liaoning Shuguang Automotive Corporation, a Chinese automotive parts maker. Lockwood and her husband reside in Kent County, Michigan, and Liu lives in Flushing, New York.
Name change to protect brand SUPERWEAR Technologies, has changed its name to Ferro-Tic®, a division of PSM Industries of Los Angeles. PSM founded Superwear in 2001 after purchasing Alloy Technology International, West Nyack, New York. Alloy Technology and its predecessor, the Chromalloy Sintercast Division, developed the Ferro-Tic® brand of steel-bonded titanium carbide composites more than 50 years ago. The carbides consist of ultrahard, rounded titanium carbide grains dispersed in a hardened steel or alloy matrix. “We have changed the name to emphasize that we are the original Ferro-Tic®,” says Craig Paullin, PSM president. “When you buy it from us you are buying the authentic material.”
Ask the Expert For the past year we have been running the Ask the Expert column on the Metal Powder Report web site www.metal-powder.net with a growing number of queries being received. Dr Satyajit “Satya” Banerjee has dealt with inquiries across the breadth of powder metallurgy, despite the fact that he is, in reality, a metal injection moulding ( MIM) expert. It has been obvious for some time that we needed an expert to deal with ferrous powder queries, and we hit paydirt when we reached agreement with US iron powder major Hoeganaes Corporation that one of their very own experts, Dr W Brian James, can step into the position from this month. Brian James will hardly need an introduction for many of you. Although based in the US, he is currently Manager International Technical Service – Sales and Marketing, a role that more often sees him overseas in one of a variety of roles from teaching to representing his company at the highest levels in the councils of the world of PM. A PhD and Chartered Engineer, he is a Fellow of AMPI International, Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, and Fellow of ASTM International. In addition he holds or has held a variety of senior posts in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). He is the recipient of numerous other honours from, among others, the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF). He has to his credit more than 40 technical papers, plus numerous presentations at technical conferences and seminars. He is author of the wellknown Ferrous Powder Metallurgy basic training programme, accredited at Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler.
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