Plymouth Tube Manager Elected to ASTM Board

Daniel S. Janikowski has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors.

Daniel S. Janikowski, the technical manager at Plymouth Tube Co. (Troy, WI), a global supplier of stainless steel, carbon and alloy tubing, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of ASTM International (W. Conshohocken, PA).

An ASTM fellow and Award of Merit recipient, Janikowski, who joined ASTM International in 1989, currently serves as chairman of Subcommittee A01.10 on Stainless and Alloy Steel Tubular Products, and on other subcommittees in Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys. He is also a member of Committees B02 on Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, B07 on Light Metals and Alloys and B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys.

In his role at Plymouth Tube, Janikowski assists customers with materials selection, specifications, testing and heat transfer analysis for power plant heat transfer applications. He has been at the company since 2005, holding positions as general manager, energy sales manager and senior account executive before becoming technical manager in 2010.

Janikowski had previously been a general manager with Trent Tube (East Troy, WI) from 2000 to 2005. His additional experience in power tubing came from his time with the Allied Signal Research Center (Des Plaines, IL), where he was involved in alloy selection, product development and failure analysis with a number of company divisions.

Outside ASTM International, he is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers committees; the Heat Exchanger Institute tubular product technical committee; and NACE International; he is also a past chairman of the Chicago chapter of ASM International.

Author of more than 30 papers on pipe and tubing materials selection, manufacturing and testing techniques, Janikowski has been awarded three patents. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois in Chicago.

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