Fabricators Conference explores ways to grow business.
Press Release Summary:
To be held March 2-4, FABRICATOR®'s Leadership Summit: 6th Annual Metal Matters in March will offer knowledge, skill development, inspirational ideas, and networking opportunities with which to improve operations and build strategic partnerships for business growth. Program will feature industry-specific keynote addresses, peer-facilitated roundtables, and tabletop exhibits as well as creative workshops, networking events, and award presentations.
Original Press Release:
FMA's Leadership Conference Offers Metal Fabricators Wealth of Knowledge for Business Growth
Registration for March 2-4 Event Available Online, Via Phone or On Site
ROCKFORD, Ill. - Metal fabricators will be saturated with knowledge, skill development, inspirational ideas and networking opportunities designed to improve operations and build strategic partnerships for business growth at The FABRICATOR®'s Leadership Summit: 6th Annual Metal Matters in March, the premier conference for the fabricating industry.
The three-day event, sponsored by The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA) and The Tube & Pipe Association, International (TPA), begins March 2 at Disney's BoardWalk Resort near Orlando, Fla.
The program will feature industry-specific keynote addresses, peer-facilitated roundtables, tabletop exhibits showcasing industry trends, creative workshops, and networking events to discuss manufacturing process improvements.
Registration is available online at www.fmanet.org/metalmatters, via phone by calling 888-394-4362, or in person on-site at the event.
The FABRICATOR®'s Leadership Summit includes a unique format of peer- and consultant-facilitated roundtable discussions for attendees to exchange ideas and solutions that affect their business' bottom line. Topics include: automation; economic and financial issues of the day; personnel optimization; managing your company's online presence; sales and marketing; plus technology discussions focused on plate, sheet, and tube and pipe.
Dan DiMicco, chairman, president and CEO of Nucor Corporation, the world's largest recycler and steel producer in the United States, and Emily DeRocco, president of The Manufacturing Institute and the new National Center for the American Workforce, will present the conference keynotes.
Other networking opportunities include a golf outing at Disney's Magnolia Golf Course, luncheons and evening receptions.
Awards will be presented to companies that won the 2011 national business performance competition sponsored by FMA, The FABRICATOR® magazine, TPA and TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® magazine.
The FABRICATOR®'s Leadership Summit: 6th Annual Metal Matters will be co-located with FMA's 15th Annual Toll Processing Conference, offering attendees the chance to meet a broad audience.
Based in Rockford, Ill., FMA is a professional organization with more than 2,100 members working together to improve the metal forming and fabricating industry. Founded in 1970, FMA brings metal fabricators and fabricating equipment manufacturers together through technology councils, educational programs, networking events, industry trade publications including The FABRICATOR®, and the FABTECH® trade show. FMA also has a technology affiliate, the Tube & Pipe Association Intl. (TPA), which focuses on the unique needs of companies engaged in tube and pipe producing and fabricating.
Benjamin Arens
L.C. Williams & Associates
150 N. Michigan, Suite 3800
Chicago, Illinois, 60601
Office 312.565.4626
Fax 312.565.1770
barens@lcwa.com
