The Cutting Edge™ September 2004
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Public Policy
Making Sense of it All, By John Satagaj, email@jsatlaw.com
As this Congress enters its home stretch-maybe-there sure is a lot of unfinished business still on the table. In last month's column I focused my attention on one critical item for us,
the repeal and replacement of the Foreign Sales Corporation/Extraterritorial Income (FSC/ETI) tax program. Every day, I go back and forth between optimism and pessimism…
October is Manufacturing Month
The Coalition for the Future of Manufacturing has designated October "Manufacturing-Making America's Future" Month - with the goal of educating and mobilizing political candidates in the final weeks leading
up to the elections. During October, manufacturers are urged to engage in an array of political and societal leaders needed to help change the climate for U.S. manufacturing…
Conference - Manufacturing Competitiveness of the Forest Products Industry:
Competing in Today's Global Manufacturing and Consumer Marketplace
November 3-5, 2004; Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. This conference is about developing a state-of-the-art approach to competing in today's global economy.
It is about understanding the value stream, aligning production with demand while achieving quality, and designing ultimate flexibility into forest products manufacturing systems.
This conference is about manufacturing excellence…
WMMA® Member Earns Federal Government Matching Funds Grant through an Article read in The Cutting Edge
By Todd Herzog, todd@accu-router.com
In the February 2004 issue of the WMMA® The Cutting Edge newsletter, Harold Zassenhaus had written about an available federal government grant program with the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce. U.S. manufacturers could qualify for a matching funds grant of up to
$75,000 by showing economic harm from foreign competition…
International Business Development
Wood Bedroom Furniture Tariffs Reduced, By Harold Zassenhaus, zemg@erols.com
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced an "Amended Preliminary Anti-Dumping Duty Determination" on Chinese wooden bedroom furniture due to "significant ministerial errors made in margin calculations". As a result, several Chinese
manufacturers who were originally facing 198% tariffs will now face only 10.92% rates, while only two manufacturers saw their margins increase…
Wood Furniture Import Trends, By Harold Zassenhaus, zemg@erols.com
Wood Furniture import statistics have been broken down into 11 component parts: bedroom furniture, wood frame upholstered furniture, chairs, furniture parts, office furniture, kitchen cabinets, furniture
and parts of rattan, cane or bamboo, chair parts, kitchen furniture (excluding cabinets), furniture for vehicles and other wood furniture…
IWF 2004 Recap
Congratulations to WMMA's® Challengers Award Winners!
Congratulations to Accu-Systems Inc., Binks, DeVillbiss/ITW Industrial Finishing's, Mereen-Johnson Machine Co. and Vortex Tool Co. Inc. for winning 2004 Challengers Awards…
IWF 2004 a Success
The 2004 International Woodworking Machinery & Supply Fair (IWF) put an exclamation point on the woodworking industry's
recovery. Representatives of woodworking machinery were particularly impressed with the quality of booth traffic at their booths and most importantly their seemingly strong intent to buy…
Workplace Tools
Tools to Help Manage the Hispanic Workforce, By Tim Longwell, tim@djcase.com
The wood products industry, like many labor-intensive industries, has increasingly turned to hiring Hispanic workers to maintain a competitive edge. Recently, numerous wood product
industry associations decided to collectively address the challenges that their members were facing with their Hispanic workforce…
Innovative Energy, Efficient Industrial Ventilation - Provided by Ecogate
Industrial Ventilation is a major part of energy consumption in the woodworking, metalworking, food processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, printing and other industries. This article
describes an innovative on-demand industrial ventilation system. The main benefit from system installation is radical energy saving (67% average of all installed systems) in comparison
with classical ventilation systems…
ANSI Standards Available
The ANSI O1.1 1992 (R 2002) Standard is available for sale on the ANSI website at www.webstore.ansi.org. Type "O1.1" in the search field and
you will be directed to the Woodworking Machinery Safety Requirements. The most revised edition will be available shortly…
Association News
Let Down Your Spam-Guard for WMMA®
As you know, WMMA® sends most of its communications electronically to members. However, we have been struggling to keep up on bounce backs as more and
more companies take advantage of software to cut down on spam. We have found that these software programs are blocking important messages from your association…
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