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Pledging to grow the company’s contract fabrication and machining business, Turnbull recently added this Hypertherm plasma cutting machine, tended to here by service manager and Troy’s son Alex Turnbull (left) and general manager Sam Scott.
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“Who is PMA?,” asks Turnbull, circling back to his theme and its important questions. “We are a group of member companies whose executives, middle managers and other employees believe that they need a place to share knowl- edge and learn from each other, and seek to build a strong coalition to influ- ence and advocate for workforce devel- opment and other favorable policies.”
Where are we going? “PMA will con- tinue its efforts to become the premier training provider throughout North America, via METALFORM EDU,” says Turnbull. “This work is vital to helping our members, and the industry, suc- ceed and grow, in 2020 and beyond. Throughout the remainder of this year and into 2021, we’ll develop a work- force-development committee charged with developing a playbook to help guide metal formers as they begin to use and embrace METALFORM EDU.” MF
performance measures to help grow our businesses,” Turnbull says, “includ- ing website search-engine optimization, customer-relationship management and repetitive performance measures. He keeps us on track with strategic planning at a high level to help us
improve our top-line performance. “These networking groups, of which there are five, put together and man- aged by PMA, represent a terrific ben- efit for members,” Turnbull stresses, “but we need more participation, more active members—especially from the
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