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Dr Valery Rudnev receives two prestigious heat-treating awards

Dr Rudnev was chairman of the Technical Committee of Forging Industry Association (FIA) of North America (2013-2016). He has more than 30 years of experience, and his credits include more than 50 patents and inventions (US and International) and more than 250 engineering/scientific publications. Dr Rudnev was also presented with the ASM International ‘Best-Paper in Heat Treating’ award for co-authoring an article entitled ‘Revolution – Not Evolution – Necessary to Advance Induction Heat Treating’. The article was co-authored by Gary Doyon, Collin Russell and John Maher. The ASM International Heat Treating Society, Research and Development Committee established the award to recognise the best papers in the heat treatment industry each year. To be considered, papers must appear in either the HTPro quarterly newsletter or be published in ASM’s Heat Treat conference proceedings. Papers are judged on several criteria, including production readiness and breadth of

The international conference ‘Thermal Processing in Motion’ took place in June in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, jointly organised by the American Society for Materials (ASM Int’l) and International Federation for Heat Treat- ment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE). During the conference’s opening ceremony, Dr Valery Rudnev, director of science and technology at Inductoheat Inc, received two prestigious awards for his contributions in the field of induction heating and heat-treating. Dr Rudnev was elected as a Fellow to the IFHTSE in recognition of his outstanding, globally recognised and significant contributions to the devel- opment of heat treatment and surface engineering. The citation read, “For his pre-eminence in induction heat treating and modelling of the induction heat treating process.” IFHTSE is a non-profit group of scien- tific/technological societies and asso- ciations, groups and companies and individuals whose primary interest is heat treatment and surface engineering. Dr Rudnev is also Fellow of ASM Inter- national, and considered by many to be one of the leading global figures in the induction heating and heat-treating industry.

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