Posts Tagged ‘member visit’
NFPA Visits HED – Hydro Electronic Devices
This past week Eric Lanke and I attended the 30th anniversary function for HED, an NFPA member of more than 20 years. CEO Paul Ludwig hosted the event, which included facility tours, an outdoor display of mobile machinery, and indoor facility tours highlighting product development. The focus of HED is on the electronic control of…
Read MoreNFPA Visits Hunt Valve
On the way to a presentation on fluid power at a National Tooling & Machining Association event, I had the opportunity to visit Hunt Valve. Located in Salem, Ohio, Hunt Valve is one of NFPA’s newest members, having joined in March 2017. Hunt Valve specializes in severe-duty valves for applications that include primary metals, process,…
Read MoreNFPA Staff Visits Alro Steel
A couple weeks ago, I visited Alro Steel in Bolingbrook, Illinois, to meet with Chuck Rigali. Chuck is Alro’s Fluid Power Product Manager and has been active with NFPA for a number of years. The visit gave me a new perspective on NFPA’s supplier members. We often think of supplier members as competing amongst themselves…
Read MoreNFPA Staff Visits Twin Disc
Racine, Wisconsin may not be the first city in the Great Lakes region you think of for fluid power manufacturing, but it should be. Even though the city has been hit hard over the years by company acquisitions and consolidations, Racine can still boast of a strong fluid power manufacturing sector. Eric Armstrong, NFPA’s Economic…
Read MoreNFPA Visits Iowa Fluid Power
After the Industry/University Engagement Summit, Eric Lanke and I went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to visit Iowa Fluid Power. While we were there, we met with Jim Kaas, the president of the company, who is also very involved with the NFPA and has been a regular attendee at the Annual Conference and the Industry &…
Read MoreNFPA Visits SafeWay Hydraulics
While in Minneapolis, MN last month to attend the NFPA Regional Meeting, Eric Lanke, Lynn Beyer and I had the opportunity to drive up to St. Paul to visit longtime NFPA member company SafeWay Hydraulics, Inc. SafeWay is a division of Specialty Manufacturing Company specializing in the design, manufacturing and worldwide distribution of quick action…
Read MoreNFPA Staff Visits Peninsular Cylinders in Roseville, Michigan
While in the greater Detroit area for the 2016 Detroit Regional Meeting, a few of us from NFPA stopped by to visit Peninsular Cylinder Company, an NFPA member since 2002. Peninsular Cylinder Company manufactures NFPA and metric pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders, 1 1/2″ to 24″ bore and 40mm to 500mm bore sizes, plus all related…
Read MoreNFPA Visits The Paquin Company and Parker Hannifin
Last week, Eric Lanke and I made a quick trip to the Cleveland area for some member visits at The Paquin Company and Parker Hannifin. We started out at The Paquin Company, which is a fluid power distributor located in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb on the northeast side of Cleveland. Paquin has been an NFPA…
Read MoreMember Visit Reinforces Value of Face-to-Face Meetings
Following the recent Chicago Regional Meeting, Eric Armstrong and I made the short drive to Rockford, IL, to visit Concentric Rockford. Concentric AB is the former Hydraulics Division of Haldex AB and manufactures conventional and variable flow oil and coolant pumps as well as fuel pumps for the medium and heavy-duty diesel engines. In addition,…
Read MoreMore NFPA On The Road – In Denver with Gates Corporation, and Beyond
Last week we wrote about the first leg of our Colorado trip, starting with a visit to IMI Precision Engineering. From there, we moved on to a visit to Gates Corporation, and then to Colorado Springs for a Council of Manufacturing Associations event. At Gates we met with Pat Lee, long-time volunteer and past NFPA…
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