The Cutting Edge™ May 2005
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Public Policy
Progress on WMMA Public Policy Priorities
By John Satagaj
This year, WMMA has been working on five top priorities--estate tax repeal, making direct expensing increases permanent, modernizing the tax depreciation schedules, dealing with rising health care costs, and securing a federal statute of repose. At this point we have some reason to be optimistic about at least three of our efforts...
Education & Scholarship
WMMA's Scholarship Program is Covered in Modern Woodworking
Brooke Baldwin Wisdom, member of the Education & Scholarship Committee and Executive Editor of Modern Woodworking magazine, did a great story on our program, which appeared in the March issue of Modern Woodworking. She again did an article, the COVER story, in the April issue. Modern Woodworking is highlighting the importance of education to the future of our industry...
International Business Development
Opportunity to Increase Exports: International Buyers Attending AWFS®Vegas
AWFS® and WMMA® are inviting 20 foreign representatives and end users of woodworking equipment and/or furnishings to visit association members at AWFS®Vegas as our guests. Each of our guests has stated that they intend to add new lines or buy equipment within the next 12 months. These individuals are also eager to learn about the benefits of our members' products and services...
Ligna 2005: WMMA Members Exhibit at Ligna In Record Numbers; WMMA Has Stand on Exhibit Floor
By Harold Zassenhaus, zemg@erols.com
WMMA members exhibited in record number in Ligna 2005 which ran from May 2-6, 2005 in Hanover, Germany. By my count there were 44 members exhibiting independently, with their representatives, with their parent company/subsidiary or in the WMMA booth; in 2003 there were 40. There were an additional 6-8 that attended the fair and dropped by the WMMA booth...
Donation Opportunity
Self-Help Education Center Requests Woodworking Tools, Submitted by Debra Evans, Delancey Street
I am writing to you to familiarize you with Delancey Street in hopes that you will be able to provide Delancey Street with a donation of various tools and/or equipment for our vocational woodworking training school. Our woodworking school provides hands on training so that our residents have a viable job skill that they can take with them once they graduate. We make everything from furniture to cutting boards, but we are a small operation and cannot use machinery meant for volume factories. Our residents are learning the basics. We are really hoping that you can help...
Member News
Accu-Router Qualifies For Federal Grant; Article in The Cutting Edge to Thank
By Todd Herzog, Accu-Router, Inc.
In late February 2004, I read with interest a short note from Harold Zassenhaus in The Cutting Edge advising about an available matching funds grant program from the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Qualification for this program is based on demonstrating that a domestic company has been harmed by foreign competition. With appropriate qualification, up to $75,000 can be made available...
Timesavers, Inc. Welcomes New President
In late February 2004, I read with interest a short note from Harold Zassenhaus in The Cutting Edge advising about an available matching funds grant program from the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Qualification for this program is based on demonstrating that a domestic company has been harmed by foreign competition. With appropriate qualification, up to $75,000 can be made available...
Mereen-Johnson Celebrates 100 Years
The world has changed tremendously in the one hundred years Mereen-Johnson has been in business. February 10th marked the 100th Anniversary of the filing of the Articles of Incorporation for Mereen-Johnson Machine Company. Mereen-Johnson has much to celebrate - surviving start-up woes, and surviving the departure of two of the founders--Arno Mereen and C.A. Smith, by 1912...
IWF Payment Deadline Dates
WMMA members are entitled to a 20% discount on booth space at IWF 2006 provided the payments due April 22nd (passed), January 20, 2006 and May 12, 2006 are postmarked by a government postal agency or overnight delivery service (not a company postage meter) by the respective due dates.
Mark your calendars for IWF 2006! Visit www.iwf2006.com for details.
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