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The Morality of
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PMA Chair for 2010 Gretchen Zierick, president of Zierick Manufacturing, reminds us that America once stood for entrepreneurship, capitalism and freedom, but that we’ve lost our way. Our industry’s leaders, with the help of PMA and other industry associations, must help get the country back on track.
BY BRAD F. KUVIN, EDITOR
The passion and dedication that Gretchen Zierick, the Pre- cision Metalforming Association’s (PMA) chair-elect for 2010, brings to her family-owned metalforming compa- ny now will be felt by the entire industry, as she takes the reins of PMA. She’s eager to share her ideas, wisdom and enthusi- asm from the association’s seat at the head of the PMA table. Gretchen has served as president of electronics-industry supplier Zierick Manufacturing, Mount Kisco, NY, for the last 10 years; the company has been a PMA member since 1985.
“I love the way metalforming processes work and making sure that they work correctly, knowing that we’re doing things correctly,” Zierick says when asked from where she gets her passion and drive that has kept her company at the front of the pack of electronics-components suppliers. “At Zierick Manfuacturing, we have an R & D team that works to under- stand customer and industry problems and then develops unique patented products.” For the next year, Zierick will work
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