During the past 20 to 25 years, in an effort to achieve maximum profits, to keep product prices down and in some cases to remain in business, manufacturers have looked overseas—mainly to China—to move manufacturing production jobs. Now, both from experts and from anecdotal evidence, the number of factory jobs being created in the United States has matched the number of jobs leaving.

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Effective December 13, 2013, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) removed 1,3,5-triglycidyl-s-triazinetrione from the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity for purposes of Proposition 65. Based on changes to certain federal regulations that affect the bases for the original listings, OEHHA referred these chemicals to the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DART IC) for reconsideration.

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NAM Senior Vice President and General Counsel Linda Kelly released this statement after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced plans to drop its proposed rules to govern tax-exempt social welfare organizations on candidate-related political activities:

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Powder Producers

American Powder Coatings, Inc.
St. Charles, IL • 630-762-0100
www.americanpowder.com

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The Moline, Ill.-based Deere & Company board of directors has approved an increase of Deere’s quarterly dividend to $.60 a share on common stock. The dividend is payable on August 1, 2014, to stockholders of record on June 30, 2014.

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The Jor-Mac Co., Lomira, Wis., though an affiliate entity, has purchased the assets of Empire Powder Coating, an established provider of custom powd...

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Jervis B. Webb Company, Farmington Hills, Mich., a subsidiary of Daifuku Webb Holding Co., hosted its 31st annual Unibilt/Unibeam conveyor distributor conference in early April in New Orleans. During the conference, Webb recognized its top ten conveyor chain distributors based on sales in 2013, and Therma-Tron-X (TTX), Sturgeon Bay, Wis., came in first place.

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KMI Systems celebrated its 30th anniversary on April 4, 2014. Since 1984, KMI’s mission has been to engineer, design and build powder, paint and porcelain enamel finishing systems at a reasonable cost within the project schedule.

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Robyn Bishop began her administrative assistant career with McBride Ratcliff in 1990. In 1996, she moved to Terra-Mar Inc. after McBride Ratcliff closed up shop. In 2002, she was presented with an opportunity to work with a new company being started by the then-vice president of the Houston area for Terra-Mar.

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Please congratulate Georgia Powder Coating of Gainesville, Ga., for becoming the newest recipient of the PCI® 3000 Certification. Since 1999, Georgia Powder Coating has provided commercial and architectural high specification powder coating services for government agencies, architectural companies, and industrial operations near Gainesville, Georgia and beyond.

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