Manufacturers elect co-leaders
Leaders of a new Western New York trade group representing small manufacturers were installed at the organization’s inaugural meeting Jan. 26.
Matt Gehman, president and owner of Metal Locking Service Inc., of Buffalo, and John Goller, president of Arrow Grinding Inc., in the city of Tonawanda, were installed as co-presidents of the 60-member Buffalo Niagara Manufacturing Alliance.
Officers and a six-member board also were elected.
The new organization is a joint venture of the National Tooling and Machining Association’s Buffalo chapter and most members of the Machine Shop Association of Western New York.
The group’s goal is to have 100 members within three years and to put the Buffalo-Niagara region “back on the map as the place to go for machining and manufacturing needs, to create a large networking pool and to establish advocacy for our group with local and federal government,” said spokesperson Crystal Newman, Metal Locking’s marketing manager.
Machine Shop Association, which Newman said disbanded after formation of the new organization, was established in 1912.
The Buffalo chapter of the NTMA, which represents the U.S. precision custom manufacturing industry, still exists but with a smaller membership, she said.
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