METAL, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, and funded by the Department of War’s IBAS Program, was built to revitalize American manufacturing through hands-on training. Now, in a new […]
Check out this episode of Industrial Talk featuring Penn State Associate Professor Dr. Paul Lynch. Scott Mackenzie hosts the Industrial Talk podcast, celebrating industry professionals and their contributions. In this […]
Russell Winter has spent most of his life on a machine shop floor. As a third-generation tool and die maker, Winter cut his teeth at his grandfather’s company in Illinois, […]
Keystone Development Partnership (KDP) launched 20 years ago after a massive skills gap derailed Pennsylvania’s transportation industry. Now, America’s metal industry faces a similar situation. An unprecedented labor gap has […]
Nothing could have prepared me for my first time in a foundry. Yet there I was at Erie Bronze and Aluminum Co., mesmerized by the sound of grinding machines, the […]
Heat. It whooshed past me as big buckets of bubbling bronze moved through the air, tethered to a crane, with one large, silver-clothed man guiding them from one place to […]
Sparks flew as students from Tennessee School for the Deaf turned a university foundry into their classroom. Through METAL’s hands-on workshop, eight high school students pounded sand molds, poured molten […]
The first time Bruce Barron walked into Barron Industries’ investment casting facility, he found a dimly lit room with low ceilings, barely the size of a basketball court, and a […]
STATESBORO, Georgia (February 11, 2026) – The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) program, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, is proud to announce a new partnership with […]
Dr. Alexandra (Allie) Glover remembers her grandfather, Douglas Glover, by his quirky inventions, from a mechanical cherry pitter to a peanut butter stirrer, and his passion for metallurgy. He was […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (February 3, 2026) – The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) program, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, is proud to announce a new partnership […]
RALEIGH, North Carolina (January 14, 2026) — North Carolina State University is proud to announce a new partnership with the Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) to enhance and […]
