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The American Foundry Society publication, Modern Casting, includes full page Product Innovations article describing Apogee Transportable Electric Ladle.

Transportable Electric Ladle – Product Innovations

Modern Casting, January 2011, Page 58

Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Industrial Technologies Program.  Project description from DOE site regarding IsoThermal Melting and delivery via Transportable Electric Ladles.  Project partners include Apogee, General Motors, Aleris International, et al.

DOE Project

DOE EERE ITP ITM TEL Project

The American Foundry Society publication, Modern Casting, includes full page Product Innovations article describing Apogee Conductive Trough.

Product Innovations – Conductive Trough

Modern Casting, December 2010, Page 45

PennState New Kensington presents “Building Futures Through STEM Education” a one day education seminar addressing topics such as; 

• STEM Education and the Challenges Facing K-16 Education
• Regenerative Medicine: Exciting our Region’s Youth About the Life Sciences
• Westinghouse: A Company Built on STEM.

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Honoring Innovation in Science and Technology

2010 AWARDEES

Advanced Manufacturing
Dr. C. Edward Eckert, president
Apogee Technology Inc.

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Spring 2008 Issue Focus: Resources to Save Energy Now

This page presents all the articles in the Spring 2008 issue of Energy Matters, the BestPractices quarterly of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program. Energy Matters reports on a new partnership between utility companies and ITP that will deliver energy efficiency resources to industrial customers. This issue also focuses on improving process heating in manufacturing facilities: the Isothermal Melting technology promises energy savings for the aluminum industry; our Ask an Energy Expert column addresses process heat loss; and ITP introduces an updated process heating sourcebook and software tool. In another article, find out how three companies optimized their steam systems through Save Energy Now energy assessments.

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By Joe Napsha, TRIBUNE-REVIEW

About six miles from New Kensington, where Alcoa Inc. built the foundation for its aluminum-making empire, a fledging firm is seeking to revolutionize the industry with a new aluminum melting process that significantly cuts energy costs.

“I feel in two years we will fundamentally change the aluminum industry,” said C. Edward Eckert, president of Apogee Technology Inc., which operates out of a former foundry off Hulton Road in Plum. “It’s big business,” said Eckert, who learned about aluminum processes as an Alcoa manager of metal quality.

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Although it only has 10 employees, Apogee Technology Inc. is starting to think big. The small, Penn Hills-based company is using grants from the Department of Energy to develop technology it thinks could mean big business down the road.

Read more: Grants fuel growth at Apogee Tech – Pittsburgh Business Times

Apogee Technology and Partner Aleris International Recognized

PITTSBUGH, PA. – July 6 2006: Apogee Technology, Inc. and its industrial partner, Aleris International, have received a 2006 R&D 100 Award for the high efficiency Isothermal Melting process. According to R&D Magazine: “The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.”

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