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PMA president David Klotz addresses attendees at PMA’s 2022 Forming Our Future event, held in Key Largo, FL, earlier this year.
pendent organization, but continuing such efforts, MetalForming magazine introduced its annual Women of Excel- lence in Metal Forming and Fabrication awards program, now in its seventh year.
Ready for 80 More
There you have it...for 80 years, the association now known as PMA has navigated a challenging path to serve its members and the greater metal forming industry. With 29 employees in its shiny revamped digs; a growing and modernized training regimen; ever-expanding advocacy efforts; full- force technology-transfer publications, seminars and related events; and ever- present networking opportunities, PMA is poised to continue its noble mission.
Doug Johnson, 2022 PMA chair, with his leadership theme, “Building Momentum, Strengthening the Metal Forming Community,” reflects on what PMA is today, and where it plans to go.
“When it comes to developing and implementing new ideas to help our member companies, and the industry overall, evolve,” Johnson says, “PMA seeks to build a larger, stronger com- munity. This promises to deliver numerous benefits, including a stronger lobbying voice in Washington, D.C., on critical issues including work- force development and supply-chain resiliency. A stronger, larger metal forming community also allows PMA to spearhead new training programs and expand its menu of networking opportunities for human-resource pro- fessionals, quality managers, company owners and CEOs, and others.”
Happy Anniversary, PMA, and here’s to 80 more! MF Recapping 80 years of association history in limited space means sacri- ficing some old details for new. In fact, the association has accomplished so much more than we can convey here. For more on PMA’s history, please ref- erence the July 2012 and the July 2017 issues of MetalForming, where previous association-history articles have appeared. These also can be accessed via the online version of this article, at
www.metalformingmagazine.com.
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