Our nation has an urgent need for Ventilators, and General Motors, one of the companies charged with retooling to make ventilators, asked a PMPA member if they could make all of the parts needed. Our member brought the prints for the ventilator parts to PMPA to leverage the capabilities of our entire association. The PMPA…
PMPA staff has prepared a Conflict Minerals compliance guide for our members based on our analysis and understanding of the SEC’s final rule. Our report provides 5 questions to help you make sense of and formulate your reply to each job and request for documentation from your customers for Conflict Mineral Status. Finally, our document provides both the means to determine and suggested language to warrant that your product is “DRC Conflict Free” to your customer.
PMPA’s Business Disaster Recovery Plan for PMPA members is the highest and best form of networking- Sharing our strengths to support our customers and fellow members at the time that they need support the most.
The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) created our Disaster Recovery Plan for PMPA members several years ago.
Networking can also be a more substantial, value added, support function at the time when you need it most- such as when your shop is in the midst of “disaster’ and you are torn between the nneds of your shop and the needs of your customers.
Federal Regulations continue to hobble Small Business Manufacturing Job Creators.
On June 17th, at the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management & Budget removed from its list of Submissions Under Review (http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDetails?rrid=119517 ) the EPA proposed final “Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Articles Exemption Clarification Rule.”
The proposed rule would have eliminated the articles exemption under TRI and required manufacturers to report releases from finished goods in storage. PMPA took a leading role in objecting to this proposed “clarification.”We are pleased that our attention to this regulatory issue with other affected industries has resulted in its withdrawal at the current time.”
Effective Associating is demonstrated by PMPA staff directors and professional colleague Bob Drab of Schmolz and Bickenbach USA to assure attendees get great programming and Tools They Can Use.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it is withdrawing its proposed interpretation titled “Interpretation of OSHA’s Provisions for Feasible Administrative or Engineering Controls of Occupational Noise.”