The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA), and its technology affiliate the Tube & Pipe Association, International (TPA), announce a tour to China in 2008.

Update: A Sheet Metal tour and a Tube and Pipe tour will simultaneously take place September 20-27. Tours will include visits to manufacturing companies, meetings with Chinese trade associations and government officials, hotel, sightseeing, domestic flights within China, breakfast buffets, most lunches and dinners, and much more. Transportation is provided with English-speaking guides and consultants.

Tour Information
Sheet Metal Agenda
Sheet Metal Cost and Payment Terms
Tube & Pipe Agenda
Tube & Pipe Cost and Payment Terms

Please contact Ginger Baerenwald by May 22, 2008, to make your reservation.

Congratulations to the following Advantage and AdvantagePlus member companies that made safety a priority in 2007!

Most Improved
Welfab Inc.
N. Billerica, MA

Honor Award
AK Tube LLC
Columbus, IN

B. Walter & Company Inc.
Wabash, IN

FMT Inc.
Findlay, OH

Great Lakes Contracting Inc.
Milwaukee, WI

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc.
Tinton Falls, NJ

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc.— Manokin Street
Baltimore, MD

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc.— Boyle Street
Baltimore, MD

McAbee Construction Inc.
Tuscaloosa, AL

Nisshin Automotive Tubing LLC
Versailles, KY

Nova Group Inc.
Napa, CA

Welfab Inc.
N. Billerica, MA

Merit Award
Anderson & Dahlen Inc.
Ramsey, MN

Clarion Metals
Covington, GA

Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc.
Dallas, TX

Wichita Steel Fabricators
Wichita, KS

Honorable Mention
Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc.
Commerce, CA

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