CUTV News Radio spotlights Vander Voort Consulting

Wadsworth, IL – Metallurgists are materials scientists who specialize in metals such as steel, aluminum, iron and copper. They often work with alloys - metals that are mixed with each other or other elements - to create materials with specific desirable properties to manufacture everything from precision components to huge engineering parts.

George Vander Voort is a physical metallurgist recognized worldwide as a leading expert in process and physical metallurgy: the science of the manufacturing and performance of metals and metal alloys. Vander Voort is the founder of Vander Voort Consulting.

Vander Voort is also an expert in Metallography, the science of preparing samples to examine their microstructure. His Metallography: Principles and Practice, published in 1984. is the most widely read books in the field.

Vander Voort’s expertise extends to archaeometallurgy, the science of examining historical objects. There are steels that are copper-based alloys from many hundreds or thousands of years ago. Vander Voort has examined 4,000-year-old bronze from ancient Persian up through the spikes and nails that would have been in used in the Crucifixion.

“The Bronze Age started before Christ was born and the Iron Age was pretty primitive at that point. For many centuries all they could make was wrought iron because they couldn't get the temperature hot enough to completely melt the ore and refine it.”

Vander Voort’s expertise is all the more necessary today and only a few schools teach metallurgical engineering and only a handful of professors left in the United States that can teach process metallurgy.

For more information on George F. Vander Voort, visit www.georgevandervoort.com