Retired metallurgist Harry D. Ambs of Jacksonville, Fla., has been honored with the Award of Merit from ASTM International Committee B09 on Metal Powders and Metal Powder Products. The Award of Merit and its accompanying title of fellow is the highest organizational recognition for individual contributions to ASTM standards activities.

Ambs, who was recognized for his exceptional and long-sustained service to Committee B09 and his work toward the development and promotion of powder metallurgy standards, has been a member of ASTM International and B09 since 1971. He currently serves as membership secretary of the committee and is vice chair of Subcommittee B09.02 on Base Metal Powders. For 34 years, he served as the liaison to ISO Technical Committee 119 on Powder Metallurgy, Subcommittee 2 on Metal Powders, through Subcommittee B09.09, and still serves in an advisory capacity on the B09.09 task group.  He has received three Awards of Appreciation from the committee for his contributions.

A specialist in powder metallurgy, Ambs spent most of his career at SCM Metal Products Inc. (formerly Glidden Metals), in Cleveland, Ohio. He retired as manager of technical support in 1991.  He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in powder metallurgy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

In addition to ASTM International, Ambs is a charter member and former president of the American Powder Metallurgy Institute, now APMI International; and a member of ASM International and the Metal Powder Industries Federation, where he served as chairman of the MPIF standards board for more than 10 years.

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