Past Events
Greatbatch Globe Tool
Plant Tour
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Location: Greatbatch Globe Tool, 730 24th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Phone: 763-784-8038
Schedule: 3:30 p.m. – Plant Tour; Dinner to follow tour at Mayslack's, 1428 4th St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418 Phone: 612-789-9862
Dave Fisher is the chief engineer at the Hilma Division of Carr Lane. Hilma manufactures quick-die-change equipment used in the metal stamping, injection molding and die casting industries. Fisher will give a presentation on die-clamping technologies including mechanical, hydraulic and magnetic clamping.
Globe Tool was founded in 1954 in Minneapolis, MN, and was acquired by Greatbatch, Inc. in 2002. Greatbatch Globe Tool can design tooling and processes to meet your precision metalformed part specifications. In fact, GB Globe Tool has nearly 45 years of experience drawing and forming
Titanium alloys—including alternate grades (e.g., Grade 23), stainless steel, aluminum, and other thin metals. Achieving tolerances as close as +/– 0.0005 in. is common. Customers are assured their parts are reliable and consistently meet their specifications so parts can be shipped directly into customer stock.
Greatbatch is a leading supplier of enabling technology to the implantable medical industry and for critical commercial applications.
Implantable Medical designs, develops and manufactures batteries, capacitors, EMI filters, coated electrodes, stimulation leads, catheters, introducers and assemblies that are used in the implantable medical industry. Commercial Solutions develops and produces cells and battery packs for commercial applications, including oil and gas exploration, pipeline inspection, telematics, military and aerospace.
PMA Golf Classic/Fundraiser
Date: Monday, June 9, 2008
Location: Stillwater Country Club, 1421 N. 4th St. Stillwater, MN 55082
Schedule: 1 p.m. - Shotgun start and 4-man scramble; 6 p.m. - Dinner and dessert
The PMA Twin Cities District extends this invitation to all members and nonmembers to join us for a day of golf. Your entry fee covers 18 beautiful holes of golf plus cart, lunch, drink tickets, dinner and dessert, and a chance to win a fabulous prize. Raffles galore and on-course games for cash and other prizes will include: longest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt, closest to the line and scramble winner.
The 18-hole Stillwater course at the Stillwater Country Club features 6,672 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 72.5 and it has a slope rating of 131 on bluegrass. Designed by Tom Vardon, the Stillwater golf course opened in 1924.
Hole Sponsorship and Raffle Donation
This is the major fundraiser for the PMA Twin Cities District and is used to fund most of our district activities, which include education and scholarships.
Your company has an opportunity to help by sponsoring a hole or holes at a cost of $100 per sign! PMA will provide a sign at the tee box that will proudly display your company name and a $20 gift certificate(s) from a local business such as Target, Cub or Victoria Secret!
If sponsoring a hole is not an option, how about a raffle donation? We are accepting gifts, gift certificates and cash for the evening raffle. Our goal is that all golfers will purchase or win raffle tickets for a chance at a fabulous prize(s).
This is the PMA Twin Cities District main fundraiser...Please be generous and support the district.
D & B Plating Tour
Learn About RoHS Today!
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Location: D & B Plating, 7965 Main St. N.E., Fridley, MN 55432 Phone: 763-784-8038
Schedule: 3:30 p.m. – Plant tour; 5:00 p.m. – Dinner at Broadway Pizza, 8298 University Ave., Fridley, MN 55432 Phone: 763-277-6677
D & B Plating is a job-shop electroplating facility located in Fridley. Founded in 1985, D & B specializes in zinc plating, chromating on aluminum, and passivation. D & B is a modern facility with numerous automated plating machines. Come see how parts move through the plating process and the opportunities and challenges that arise. See the various RoHS-compliant finishes currently available and how they vary from traditional finishes. Experience a truly clean plating shop that shines through and through.
The featured speaker is Steve Kocka, area technical service director of Atotech USA Inc. Mr. Kocka has been involved in technical service to the electroplating industry for 34 years. This experience has given him extensive insight into issues facing electroplaters as they try to give stampers and fabricators the best-quality finish. Atotech USA Inc. is a worldwide leader and developer of chemistries for surface finishing. Steve will be giving a presentation on RoHS-compliant finishes. He will outline the differences between traditional chemistries and the newer RoHS-compliant coatings. The discussion will cover many of the opportunities and challenges faced by electroplaters and manufacturers in meeting this directive.
Arrow Cryogenics Plant Tour
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Location: Arrow Cryogenics, 1671 93rd Lane NE, Blaine, MN 55449 Phone: 763-780-3367
Schedule: 4:00 p.m. – Plant tour; 6:00 p.m. – Dinner at Nicklows Café, 8466 Highway 65 NE (Central), Minneapolis, MN (Blaine) 55432-2167 Phone: 763-784-8566
Arrow Cryogenics, the industry leader in deburring and finishing, will showcase the many capabilities it has available to process manufactured components. In this time of consolidated outsourcing, Arrow has expanded into many areas of finishing to better serve its customers and become a one- stop shop for secondary operations. Celebrating its 25th year, Arrow Cryogenics looks forward to continued expansion and finding new ways to serve its customers and keep them competitive in manufacturing. Arrow recently added laser marking/engraving to its long list of services offered. That way if a component needs laser marking/engraving before or after deburring, passivation, electropolishing or other services provided by Arrow, the company can save its customers time and shipping costs.
The featured speaker is Joe Fredkove from Hennepin Technical College to speak about the M-Powered Program, which provides training for the future of the metalforming industry.
Joe is the director of training and business development at Hennepin Technical College. Joe's involvement with the PMA-sponsored M-Powered Program is paramount to the success of the metalforming industry. Learn more about the 9 to12-month M-Powered fast-track training program. Explore critical success factors for entry-level employees as well as how to raise the skill levels of your current workforce. He will identify the key challenges facing our workforce such as technology, retirees and the lack of skill development/training at the high school level. Find out about grant opportunities for training. Learn how to develop new strategic partners to fill the workforce gap and find out about the involvement opportunities that exist.
Tour the State-of-the-Art Demonstration Facility at SICK, Inc.
Guarding Systems – Sensors – Identification Products
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Location: SICK, Inc., 6900 West 110th St., Bloomington, MN 55438 Phone: 952-941-6780
Schedule: 3:30 p.m. – Plant tour; 6:00 p.m. – Dinner at Famous Dave’s, 5101 West 98th St., Bloomington, MN 55437 Phone: 952-832-0500
SICK, an industry leader in technology and innovation, will showcase its new systems including press brake guarding utilizing digital imaging, application-specific light curtains for punch presses and robotics, area guarding with safety laser scanners, sensors for die protection, and identification products for factory automation.
SICK introduced the first light curtain, the first bar code reader and the first color sensor. Founded in Germany in 1946, today SICK has operations in 65 countries with its North American subsidiary headquartered in Minneapolis.
The featured speaker is Doug Raff. Doug is a principal of Paragon Industrial Controls located in Santa Ana, CA. Paragon Industrial is a distributor, manufacturer and integrator of safety equipment used in metal stamping and fabricating. Doug’s 25 years of experience in this industry have given him extensive insights into safety issues facing stampers and fabricators and the technology currently available to address these concerns. His expertise includes the equipment, its integration and implementation, and real-time experience with in-plant utilization.
Steel Goes Green: Alliance Steel High-Tech Metal Recycling
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007
Location: Alliance Steel, 115 31st Ave. North, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Schedule: 3:30 p.m. – plant tour; dinner to follow tour at Broadway Pizza, 2025 West River Rd., Minneapolis, MN Phone: 612-529-7745
Come visit a state-of-the-art metal (ferrous and nonferrous) recycling facility. Alliance Steel, located at 115 31st Ave. North, Minneapolis has moved the traditional scrap yard to the information age. All lots are tracked through digital imaging and bar coding to provide accurate weights and inventory control. The system, the first of its kind in Minnesota, allows customers to benefit from top-of-the-market real-time pricing for all metals.
Alliance customers are covered by a $1,000,000 insurance policy for pollution and transportation, a first in the industry.
The company has branches in St. Paul, Red Wing and Duluth, with national and international customers for all metal products. A new onsite environmental control system protects groundwater and runoff contamination. This system allows customers to be assured that their material is handled responsibly, meeting and exceeding current EPA standards.
Family owned and operated customers receive attentive professional service along with logistical support for all of their material handling and environmental protection needs.
Visit Alliance Steel and see how this business makes it easy to go green.
Please join us at Broadway Pizza (2025 West River Rd., 612-529-7745) following the tour for a networking dinner featuring guest speaker Larry Berndt from Wenck & Associates, nationally known expert on metal recycling regulations and practices.
Meet the Next Generation of Metalforming Professionals
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Location: Brooklyn Park Campus, 9000 Brooklyn Blvd, Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
Schedule: 1:00 – Networking and manufacturing facilities tour (Room H -195); 3:00 – Reverse Job Fair (D -150); 5:00 – Graduation Ceremonies (Cafeteria); 6:15 – Dinner and Socializing (Cafeteria)
Attention all HR professionals and company principals. The Twin Cities district of PMA invites you to meet the latest graduates of the innovative M-Powered Metalworking Program at Hennepin Technical College. Sponsored by the Twin Cities district, the program is one of the most highly rated in the country, having trained and placed 142 students.
Students, graduates, employers and local and national representatives of PMA will be in attendance. Companies in the program this fall include Morrissey Inc., Greatbatch/Globe Tool, E.J. Ajax and Sons, and Rotation Engineering. Other participating businesses are Marshall Manufacturing, Bermo Inc., Top Tool, Thomas Engineering, Meier Tool & Engineering, and Perbix Machine. Our key partner for entry-level workers is HIRED, a nonprofit workforce agency that provides recruitment, assessment and work readiness components for entry level students.
E.J. Ajax & Sons, Inc. Plant Tour
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Location: E.J. Ajax & Sons, Inc., 7779 Ranchers Rd., Fridley, MN 55344
Schedule: 3:30 p.m. – plant tour; dinner to follow tour at Broadway Pizza, 8298 University N.E., Minneapolis, MN 763-277-6677
Please join us for the first PMA Twin Cities District meeting of the year.
We will tour the E.J. Ajax & Sons facility, and highlight its state-of-the-art technology and lean manufacturing practices. The tour will emphasize the safety practices and procedures that have made E.J. Ajax an award- winning leader in metal stamping safety. The E.J. Ajax stamping plant has operated for more than 17 years, over 1.5 million hours, without a work- related lost-time injury.
A 5:00 p.m. dinner at Broadway Pizza will follow the Ajax tour. Erick Ajax will speak on the company’s safety culture and best practices.
PMA Golf Classic/Fundraiser
Date: Monday, June 11, 2007
Location: Stillwater Country Club, 1421 N. 4th St. Stillwater, MN 55082
Schedule: 1:00 p.m. - Shotgun start and 4-man scramble; 6:00 p.m. - Dinner and dessert
The PMA Twin Cities District extends this invitation to all members and nonmembers to join us for a day of golf. Your entry fee provides 18 beautiful holes of golf plus cart, lunch, drink tickets, dinner and dessert, and a chance to win a fabulous prize. Raffles galore and on-course games for cash and other prizes will include: longest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt, closest to the line and scramble winner.
The 18-hole Stillwater course at the Stillwater Country Club features 6,672 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 72.5 and it has a slope rating of 131 on bluegrass. Designed by Tom Vardon, the Stillwater golf course opened in 1924.
Professional conduct and courtesy are required on the course as well as a golf shirt or the participant will be asked to leave.
We will change the format back to providing lunch for all participants from 11:15 to 12:45. We are requesting all participants wear appropriate golf attire.
Greatbatch Globe Tool Plant Tour
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Location: Greatbatch Globe Tool , 730 24th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN
Schedule: 4:30 p.m. – plant tour, dinner to follow tour at Mayslack's, 1428 4th St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Please join us as we gather for a plant tour of Greatbatch Globe Tool, followed by a networking dinner featuring guest speaker Larry Berndt from Wenck & Associates.
Berndt will present on Your Company’s Relationship with the Scrap Industry and will address adding value to your scrap material, key regulations and limiting your liability. Berndt is a registered professional geologist and is employed by Wenck & Associates, Inc. Berndt manages Wenck’s Saint Paul office and has worked in the environmental engineering and consulting field for more than 20 years.
Globe Tool and Manufacturing was founded in 1954 in Minneapolis, MN, and was acquired by Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. in 2002. Greatbatch is a leading developer and manufacturer of power sources, wet tantalum capacitors and precision-engineered components used in implantable medical devices and other demanding applications.
For more than 30 years, GB's products have provided The Power To Do Great Things™ for the medical device industry. As medical technology has advanced, GB has led the way in the development of smaller and more powerful batteries, capacitors and precision-engineered components for implantable medical devices.
GB's innovation and expertise enable its customers to advance their systems' technology: making implantable devices smaller and longer lasting with enhanced functionality.
GB also leverages its expertise in designing and developing innovative power sources for demanding applications such as aerospace, military, oil and gas exploration, and oceanographic applications around the world.
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