Current 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
Please join us as we gather for a plant tour of Greatbatch Globe Tool, followed by a networking dinner featuring guest speaker Dave Fisher from Carr Lane Hilma.
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.
We hope that you and your colleagues will join us for this great event!
COST: $30 per member, $60 per nonmember
Greatbatch Globe Tool reserves the right to review the list of tour registrants and deny any individual or company access to the manufacturing areas due to a competitive situation.
Register online or Contact:
Laura Bernier
PMA Twin Cities District
19592 Rochester St.
East Bethel, MN 55011
Phone: 651-238-6210
lrbrnr@yahoo.com
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.
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.
COST: $150 per person; Dinner only: $50
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.
Register online or Contact:
Paul Spaulding
PMA Twin Cities District
Minneapolis Washer & Stamping Inc.
1501 W. River Rd. North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Phone: 612-588-0501
Fax: 612-588-0506
pauls@minneapoliswasher.com
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