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Motto of the Month President's Corner "Marketing Manufacturing in America" At the recent MFG Conference in Chandler, Arizona, NTMA 2011 Chairman Grady Cope of Reata Engineering Machine Works in Englewood, CO gave what I feel was a passionate case for the critical importance of rebuilding a manufacturing base in America. He called it appropriately, Marketing […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Recognizing People Who Give Back to the Industry" Each year around this time, trade associations and non-profits of all stripes gather to elect and install the leaders who will guide their organizations in the year to come, while taking time to recognize and celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "California - So Many Issues Without Clarity in Direction" So, the results are in and everyone knows that California did not hear the same message that the rest of the country heard. We did not exactly vote for manufacturing here as I hoped we would do in my mid-October […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "Vote For Manufacturing on Election Day" So says a new poster published by the NTMA and the PMA through their alliance in government affairs called One Voice. These two very familiar associations (as least in this monthly blog) teamed up a few years ago in the interest of solidarity […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "IMTS Is Coming... Make Your Plans Now To Be In Chicago" Every even year in September, I always know where I'm going to be. That's the decades-old schedule for IMTS. For those of us with long memories (or just plain-old long careers), the show is only half as long […]

Motto of the Month President's Corner "A Salute to Workforce Development and the People Who Make it Happen" As I write this month about "workforce development", I'm reminded of NTMA's 2000 Chairman Roger Sustar, president of Fredon Corporation in Mentor, OH. Long before he went through the NTMA chairs, he created a program in his […]

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