American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (Rockville, MD) have merged and will integrate their products and services to better serve the members of both associations. With the merger, the new AMT will be headquartered in McLean, VA, and all cur- rent employees of AMTDA will join the new AMT immediately. The combined associations will offer several advantages to the machine tool industry, according to AMT, including: • Strengthened and expanded products and services; • Access to powerful business intelligence systems; • Data and information from industry economists and analysts;
• A focus on the priorities and needs of the industry; • Networking and collaboration through expanded membership;
• Education and “smartforce” development. “This merger is a logical evolution for the manufacturing
technology industry,” says AMTDA Chairman Steve M. Wherry. “We are uniting the entire manufacturing technology supply
chain from engineering and building machines, to integrating automation and support, to distribution service.” “This move exponentially increases member benefi ts and services to both organizations,” adds Eugene R. Haffely, Jr., Chairman of AMT. “We are now a stronger, more complete organization, representing the entire value chain of the manu- facturing technology industry. Most important, this will give our industry a more clarifi ed and unifi ed voice.” Both Boards of Directors voted unanimously for the merger,
and an unprecedented percentage of the combined member- ship participated in the vote to approve the move. As a result of the merger, the organization took on an intensive process to design a new logo and rebranding of the new group. “It has always been our goal to fi nd better ways to serve the manufacturing industry,” says AMT President Douglas K. Woods. “This process, upon which we embarked two years ago, is a natural partnership that will help both organizations as we seek to advance manufacturing in the United States.”
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