General Tools & Instruments celebrates 90th anniversary

General Tools & Instruments, headquartered in New York City, is celebrating its 90th anniversary.  The company will be at the National Hardware Show, May 1-3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, an event they helped launch, to acknowledge the milestone. General Tools & Instruments began as General Hardware in 1922 as the brainchild of Abe [...]

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Shermco’s Mike Moore to present papers at Region VI VPP Safety Conference

Mike Moore, vice president of Shermco Industries, the Irving, Tex.-based provider of testing, repair, and maintenance of rotating apparatus and electrical power distribution systems, will be presenting four papers at the 2012 Region VI VPP Safety Conference, May 15-18, at the Fort Worth Convention Center. On Wednesday, May 16, 11:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., he will present [...]

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APEM celebrates 60 years of switch manufacturing

APEM, a Haverhill, Mass.-based manufacturer of industrial switches and joysticks, announced that it is celebrating its 60th anniversary. From its founding in 1952 as a manufacturer of toggle switches,  APEM has grown into a manufacturing group with more than 120 product lines produced in 12 manufacturing facilities across 4 continents. The company today supplies professional [...]

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Mage Solar Academy launches “Solar Business and Technical Sales” training series

Mage Solar Academy, part of the globally operating Mage Solar and located at the corporate campus in Dublin, Ga., announced that it is offering two newly developed classes that will teach participants “proven practices as well as essential technical know-how to successfully establish and maintain a business in the quickly expanding solar industry.” On April 20, [...]

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EASA announces spring seminar schedule

The Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA), the St. Louis based organization consisting of more than 2,000 electrotechnical sales and services firms, announced it’s spring seminar schedule for 2012. Attendance at EASA seminars is open to members and non-members. For more information, or to enroll, contact EASA by phone at (314) 993-2220 or online at www.easa.com. [...]

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PEARL offers training sessions at electrical safety conference

The Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League (PEARL), based in Aurora, Colo., is offering two days of classroom and hands-on electrical training at its 15th annual Electrical Safety, Reliability, and Sustainability Conference & Exhibition, May 5-7 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. The training sessions will cover medium-voltage contactors and low-voltage circuit breaker [...]

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Hydraulic Institute announces free energy management webinar on April 9th

The Hydraulic Institute and Pump Systems Matter will host a free webinar on the ISO 50001 – Energy Management Systems – Requirements with guidance for use standard. Session participants will be led my Aimee McKane of the the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the it will take place on April 9th. ISO 50001 is a [...]

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Registration opens for Hydraulic Institute Technical Meeting

Registration has opened for the 2012 Hydraulic Institute (HI) Technical Meeting which will take place June 5-9 at the Renaissance Denver in Denver, Colo. Members of the HI, associate members, standards partners, and qualified prospective members are encouraged to register for the upcoming meeting. More information can be found at www.Pumps.org/12Technical. This meeting is a [...]

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Magid Glove to host free NFPA 70E webinar

Magid Glove & Safety, the Chicago-based manufacturer and distributor of work gloves, personal protective equipment (PPE), and protective and disposable clothing, is sponsoring the upcoming complimentary NFPA 70E protection webinar together with Hugh Hoagland, one of the world’s foremost experts on electrical arc testing and safety. Scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 28 at noon [...]

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Registration opens for NAED Women in Industry Bootcamp

Women new to the distribution industry can quickly learn the importance of relationship building at the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ Women in Industry Bootcamp. The one-day forum on April 12 at Panduit World Headquarters in Tinley Park, Ill., allows attendees to cultivate connections in the industry. Designed to bring the industry’s seasoned veterans together [...]

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