Steve Heim, president of Brenco Industries, British Columbia, Canada, was elected to a one-year term as board chairman of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA), at the group’s recent annual meeting. Also, R. Bruce Benedict, Edwin Herbert Stanley, and Al Zelt were elected to the organization’s board of directors and will serve three-year terms on the 15-member board. Benedict is president of Production Tube Cutting, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio; Stanley is vice president of operations for The Gas House, a metal fabrication shop based in Fort Payne, Alabama; and Zelt is director of sales and marketing for Homestead, Pennsylvania-based ASKO Inc., a producer of specialty wear-resistant tooling for the metal producing, processing, and recycling industries.
Re-elected to serve three-year terms on the board were Tom Connell, CEO with Main Steel Polishing Co., Tinton Falls, N.J., and Carlos Rodriguez, general director of ACERO PRIME, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Vivek Kumar Gupta, managing director for Texas ProFab Corporation, Carrollton, Texas, was appointed to serve a one-year term as a young professional (YP) associate director to the board. The YP program was initiated to provide FMA board members with perspectives and ideas from young executives in the industry.
Additionally, FMA Communications Inc. (FMAC)—the publishing arm of the association—elected Rick Schwer, vice president and group publisher for Scranton Gillette Communications, which is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois—to its board of directors. Schwer will serve a one-year term on the 12-member board.
Based in Rockford, Illinois, the FMA is a professional organization with more than 2,000 members working together to improve the metal forming and fabricating industry. Founded in 1970, FMA brings metal fabricators and fabricating equipment manufacturers together through technology councils, educational programs, networking events, and the FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show. FMA also has a technology affiliate, the Tube & Pipe Association, International (TPA), which focuses on the unique needs of companies engaged in tube and pipe producing and fabricating.
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