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To Whom Much is Given, Much is Expected
and employees who supply tooling, components and other manufactured products.
Smith invites more metalforming companies—and manufacturers in general—to “grow the collective herd and raise our voice even more,” he says. He attended his first fly-in with PMA to Washington, D.C. in 2004, and hasn’t
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missed one since. Since 2008, fly-ins and visits to Capitol Hill have been conducted in conjunction with the NTMA/PMA One Voice Legislative Conference.
So committed to the cause is Smith that each year he leads a group of like- minded manufacturing executives up to Capitol Hill to facilitate meetings
Wes Gardocki (center), who became president of Termax in 2014, meets with CFO John Hoeksema and HR manager Maria Rivas. All three are active partici- pants in PMA-related networking events. “Roundtable meetings, in particular,” says Bill Smith, “have proven time and again to be extremely valuable learning oppor- tunities for many on our management team...Our managers always come back from the meetings with ideas we can implement here at Termax.”
with members of Congress and their staffs. He has been at the forefront of tax-policy discussions, having met with the Senate Finance Committee, House Ways & Means Committee and the Office of the Speaker—calling for com- prehensive tax reform. And, in Novem- ber 2011, Smith testified before the House Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access.
“Our activity on Capitol Hill has proven so incredibly valuable and has made a palpable difference,” Smith
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