ASTM International Committee B02 on Nonferrous Metals and Alloys has presented its Gary B. Kralik Distinguished Service Award to Bernard L. Potts, sales manager at The ExOne Co., Troy, Michigan.

Potts was honored for his dedicated service as a Committee B02 member since 1992 and his contributions as chairman of both the main committee and the Long-Range Planning Subcommittee (B02.94). He has worked on the development of several new ASTM standards within Subcommittee B02.04 on Zinc and Cadmium during his tenure. An ASTM fellow who received the Award of Merit in 2011, Potts also serves on Committees A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys, B07 on Light Metals and Alloys and F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies.

A graduate of the University of Buffalo, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business management, Potts has more than 40 years of technical sales and marketing experience in the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries. Before joining ExOne in 2011, he was CEO, CFO, president and shop superintendent of Village Castings Inc., Caseville, Michigan, a custom foundry that produced aluminum alloy castings, zinc alloy castings and iron castings, which he founded in 2002.  Prior to that he served as vice president of sales and marketing at Metropolitan Alloys Corp., Detroit, Michigan. 

Outside ASTM, Potts has served on the board of governors of the North American Die Casting Association, and is also a member of the American Foundry Society and INTERZINC, where he has served as treasurer.

ASTM PR Contact: Erin K. Brennan, Phone: 610-832-9602; ebrennan@astm.org   

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