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INDUSTRY UPDATE
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ADVISORY BOARD
Leo J. DeBobes, MA (OH&S), CSP, CHCM, CPEA, CSC, EMT
Stony Brook University Medical Center Stony Brook, NY
Scott Lawson
The Scott Lawson Companies Concord, N.H.
Angelo Pinheiro, CSP, CRSP, CPEA
Senior HES Professional Marathon Oil Company Houston, Texas
William H. Weems, DrPH, CIH
Director, Environmental & Industrial Programs University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Henry Wright, MBA, CFPS
Senior Vice President & Director — Risk Solutions BB&T Insurance Services Inc. Charlotte, N.C.
EMERITUS
Barry R. Weissman, MBA
Green Valley, Ariz.
On the Move
Rockford Systems, LLC launched a “Selfie for Safety” campaign
in May to help raise
students’ awareness
of the importance of
machine safeguard-
ing and to help fund
upgrades to the safety
equipment in the ma-
chine shops of several
high schools in Rock-
ford, Ill., where the
company’s headquar-
ters is located. Hosted
on the company’s Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook pages, the campaign has encouraged students, machinists, Do- It-Yourselfers, manufacturers—anyone who uses machinery and values safety, ac- cording to the company—to submit a selfie of themselves standing next to their favor- ite machine. For every “Selfie for Safety” re- ceived, Rockford Systems is donating mon- ey toward conducting a full survey of a local high school’s machine shop to determine the safeguarding equipment required for OSHA/ANSI/NFPA 79 compliance, along with purchasing and installing that equip- ment; in addition, everyone who posted a Selfie for Safety will receive a free Rockford Systems T-shirt. Rockford Systems said it hopes to expand the Selfie for Safety pro- gram to include additional high schools na- tionwide. “Our goal is to fully safeguard all four public high schools in our hometown of Rockford, Illinois within the next three years,” said Carrie Halle, vice president of marketing for Rockford Systems. “We will also be teaching proper safety techniques to students who are the future of Ameri- can manufacturing.” . . . Physicist Andreas Roelofs is the new director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded nanosci- ence research facility with a core center at Sandia National Laboratories and a gate- way research site at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “We are extremely pleased to have Andreas join CINT as center direc- tor and in the Experimental Physical Sci- ences Directorate at Los Alamos as group leader of the CINT technical organization. He brings a wealth of scientific and lead- ership experience to his role and we look forward to having him on board,” said
Mary Hockaday, associate director of Ex- perimental Physical Sciences. Roelofs will begin his new duties in August in Los Ala- mos; his co-director from the Sandia CINT facility is Sean Hearne. Roelofs is the for- mer director of Argonne National Labora- tory’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program Chain Reaction Innovations and the Argonne Design Works center, as well as the former deputy director of both the Nanoscience and Technology Division and the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne. . . .Dayton, Ohio-based distribu- tor Winsupply Inc. recently opened a new Winsupply company in Houston to serve plumbing, mechanical. and industrial con- tractors throughout southeast Texas. Win- supply of Houston – Plumbing and Me- chanical is the third new company opened by Winsupply this year. “The opening of new companies like Winsupply of Houston – Plumbing and Mechanical is a significant part of our growth strategy at Winsupply,” said Roland Gordon, president and CEO. “We will continue to identify geographic locations throughout the U.S. with strong economies and opportunities for wholesale distribution. Growing sales at our existing locations and making acquisitions will also continue to be an important part of our revenue growth.” Vince Roach is the presi- dent of the new company and is joined by Corey Teague, co-owner and vice presi- dent. . . . The board of directors of MEMIC, a super-regional workers’ compensation specialty insurer that is based in Portland, Maine, has chosen company veteran Mi- chael P. Bourque as its president and CEO to replace John T. Leonard, who is retiring later this year. Bourque has worked for the company for nearly 22 years and was serv- ing under Leonard in the role of senior vice president, external affairs. “We are truly ex- cited to present Michael as the next leader of MEMIC,” said MEMIC Board Chair Da- vid M. Labbe. “His experience, knowledge and loyalty to this company makes him the perfect candidate to step into the role at this important time in the company’s history. We have been fortunate to have the great leadership of John Leonard over our first 25 years, and Michael is ready to carry on that tradition.” Leonard was hired in February 1993 to lead the then-fledgling company and has announced he plans to retire in September 2017. The company’s board undertook a search before select-
ing Bourque. “It is an incredible honor to be chosen to lead this great company,” he said. “I am both gratified and excited by the opportunity to work alongside the great people and partners who make this com- pany what it is, and what it will be. We have come so far since the early days of ME- MIC, and there is still so much potential.” . . . Adam Kimble has been named CEO of Schöck USA Inc. (Princ-
eton, N.J., www.schock-
us.com/) and President of
Schoeck Canada, Inc. by
the board of directors of
Schöck Bauteile GmbH,
located in Baden-Baden,
Germany, the company
announced. He is respon-
sible for managing the focus and growth of Schöck’s North American operations and the task of educating the building industry on thermal bridging solutions in multi-sto- ry buildings using the company’s Isokorb® structural thermal break products. Kimble joined the company in 2012 as Midwest regional sales manager and in 2014 was appointed to head of sales and marketing. “My mission is to support our team of sales engineers in providing commercial archi- tects, structural engineers, developers, and contractors with the technical support and advanced products they need to save en- ergy, prevent mold, and improve building
ADAM KIMBLE
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