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August 11, 2025

Honoring Gloria Webber for her Dedication to Temperform

After over 27 years at Temperform, and much longer in the metals industry, Plant Manager Gloria Webber is retiring. Gloria has a long, storied career in the industry, guiding Temperform through thick and thin and gaining an immense amount of knowledge along the way. Gloria Webber’s Career Gloria graduated from Michigan State University in 1982...

April 18, 2025

Temperform is now ISO 45001 certified

Temperform is excited to announce that we are now ISO 45001: 2018 certified. This continues our commitment to workplace management systems, providing customers better quality, safety and better environmental practices. Temperform is now ISO 45001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified. What is ISO 45001: 2018 Certification? ISO 45001 is an international standard that specifies...

January 29, 2025

Knotts wins SFSA Founders’ Choice Award for Research on Mold Wash

We’re proud of our own industrial engineer Nick Knotts for always looking for innovative ways to make the castings we produce… better. Nick was awarded the Founders’ Choice Award for his research paper on the effects of mold wash drying methods on the formation of gasses and inclusions. He presented the paper at the Steel...

January 8, 2025

Man of Steel: White Iron

Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company Today, we will be continuing our series of blogs on Temperform Materials. So far, we have talked about Heat Resistant Stainless Steel, Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel, Austenitic Manganese Steel, Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel, and High Strength, Low Alloy Steel. In this blog, we will cover...

December 16, 2024

Man of Steel: High Strength, Low Alloy Steel

Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company This blog is another continuation of our series covering the different families of steels that Temperform produces. In our last entry, we talked about Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel, which is a subcategory of the broader group of carbon and low alloy steel. This blog will...

November 4, 2024

Man of Steel: Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel

By Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer for The Lawton Standard Co. This blog is another continuation of our series covering the different families of steels that Temperform produces. In our last entry, we talked about corrosion resistant stainless steel, which wraps up our stainless-steel topics and brings us into my absolute favorite group of steel, carbon...

October 8, 2024

Man of Steel: Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel

This blog is a continuation of our series covering the wide variety of steels in the Temperform alloy portfolio. So far in this series, we have covered Stainless Steel for Heat Resistance and Austenitic Manganese Steel. Today, we will be covering another fascinating material with an extremely wide variety of applications and properties, corrosion resistant...

August 28, 2024

Customized solutions for any industry

For over a half-century, Temperform has developed industry-specific capabilities to better serve our clients in a variety of industries. This industry-specialized proficiency helps us to excel in every aspect of the process for our customers. The industries Temperform serves What we supply to the cement manufacturing industry We serve a number of cement manufacturing plants...

August 14, 2024

Man of Steel: Austenitic Manganese Steel

Of all the materials that mankind has ever discovered or developed, my extremely biased opinion is that steel is the greatest of them all. That being said, to say steel is the greatest material of all time is like saying that cake is the greatest food of all time. There are a wide variety of...