A Northbrook businessman who went to Germany to help hordes of arriving Ukrainian refugees says much work is still needed. "It is absolutely heartbreaking," he says.
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FMA Virtual Annual Meeting provides opportunities to learn from other fabricators, industry experts
The 2021 FMA Virtual Annual Meeting on March 3-4 celebrates hundreds of leaders and manufacturing heroes in metals fabrication, processing, and distribution.
The past year has been a stressful one for all in the metal fabricating community. In spring 2020 shops were wondering where they fit into the overall economic discussion as the world tried to figure out what an essential and nonessential business was. Those who continued to work had to figure out how to do it safely.
Then as business began picking up from almost halting in the earlier part of the year, metal fabricating companies had to balance the normal chaos of job scheduling and tight lead times with the reality of people needing more flexible schedules and extended absences for those that may have gotten the COVID-19 or been exposed to someone who had. With a