The press conference schedule for the 2012 SEMA Show is updated and available online at www.SEMAShow.com/press-conferences.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:09
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:09
The press conference schedule for the 2012 SEMA Show is updated and available online at www.SEMAShow.com/press-conferences.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:09
 Doug Lane, flanked by SEMA President Chris Kersting (left) and SEMA Chairman Scooter Brothers, accepts the award for 2011 SEMA WD of the Year for Motor State Distributing. |
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The finalists have been announced for two of SEMA's prestigious industry awards—the SEMA Rep Agency of the Year and the SEMA WD of the Year. These awards—along with the SEMA Person of the Year Award and the newly created SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award—will be presented during the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet at the 2012 SEMA Show.
2012 SEMA Rep Agency of the Year Finalists
The SEMA Rep Agency of the Year Award honors an manufacturers' rep agency for its contribution to the industry for the past 12 months (corresponding with the SEMA fiscal year). Criteria for the award includes product-line knowledge, communication of critical information between supplier and the client network, updated catalogs, databases and price sheets, and maintains continuous training and education programs. Congratulations to the following finalists:
The SEMA WD of the Year Award was established to honor a warehouse distributor for outstanding contributions to the industry for the past 12 months (corresponding with the SEMA fiscal year). Criteria for the award includes working with jobbers for sales training and support programs, prompt distribution of catalogs, price sheets and collateral materials, services resellers in a timely manner by maintaining proper inventory, and regularly pays bills in a timely manner. Congratulations to the following finalists:
The SEMA Industry Awards Banquet takes places Thursday, November 1, at the Las Vegas Hotel, beginning at 6:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception. Complete information on the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet is available online.
Visit www.SEMAShow.com for the latest Show information and to register for the 2012 SEMA Show.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:09
Doug Lane, flanked by SEMA President Chris Kersting (left) and SEMA Chairman Scooter Brothers, accepts the award for 2011 SEMA WD of the Year for Motor State Distributing. |
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The finalists have been announced for two of SEMA's prestigious industry awards—the SEMA Rep Agency of the Year and the SEMA WD of the Year. These awards—along with the SEMA Person of the Year Award and the newly created SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award—will be presented during the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet at the 2012 SEMA Show.
2012 SEMA Rep Agency of the Year Finalists
The SEMA Rep Agency of the Year Award honors an manufacturers' rep agency for its contribution to the industry for the past 12 months (corresponding with the SEMA fiscal year). Criteria for the award includes product-line knowledge, communication of critical information between supplier and the client network, updated catalogs, databases and price sheets, and maintains continuous training and education programs. Congratulations to the following finalists:
The SEMA WD of the Year Award was established to honor a warehouse distributor for outstanding contributions to the industry for the past 12 months (corresponding with the SEMA fiscal year). Criteria for the award includes working with jobbers for sales training and support programs, prompt distribution of catalogs, price sheets and collateral materials, services resellers in a timely manner by maintaining proper inventory, and regularly pays bills in a timely manner. Congratulations to the following finalists:
The SEMA Industry Awards Banquet takes places Thursday, November 1, at the Las Vegas Hotel, beginning at 6:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception. Complete information on the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet is available online.
Visit www.SEMAShow.com for the latest Show information and to register for the 2012 SEMA Show.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:07
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established new emissions standards for chromium electroplating and anodizing operations. For decorative chrome plating, the EPA has lowered the emissions levels for existing sources from 0.01 milligrams per dry standard cubic meter (mg/dscm) to 0.007 mg/dscm. New sources will be required to meet a 0.006 mg/dscm limit. The EPA also adopted a reduction in the bath surface tension, arguing that it will achieve further reductions in actual emissions.
The agency is also banning the use of perflouroctyle sulfonates (PFOS), a substance that reduces the bath surface tension. The EPA contends that there are acceptable non-PFOS substitutes available in the marketplace. SEMA has questioned the need for additional regulations at a time when, according to the EPA’s own data, industry's emissions have been reduced by 99.7% since 1995. The plating and finishing industry's total U.S. emissions are less than 1% of all chromium emissions from various other sources.
For additional information, contact Stuart Gosswein at stuartg@sema.org.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:07
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established new emissions standards for chromium electroplating and anodizing operations. For decorative chrome plating, the EPA has lowered the emissions levels for existing sources from 0.01 milligrams per dry standard cubic meter (mg/dscm) to 0.007 mg/dscm. New sources will be required to meet a 0.006 mg/dscm limit. The EPA also adopted a reduction in the bath surface tension, arguing that it will achieve further reductions in actual emissions.
The agency is also banning the use of perflouroctyle sulfonates (PFOS), a substance that reduces the bath surface tension. The EPA contends that there are acceptable non-PFOS substitutes available in the marketplace. SEMA has questioned the need for additional regulations at a time when, according to the EPA’s own data, industry's emissions have been reduced by 99.7% since 1995. The plating and finishing industry's total U.S. emissions are less than 1% of all chromium emissions from various other sources.
For additional information, contact Stuart Gosswein at stuartg@sema.org.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:03
 The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. |
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SEMA is seeking nominations to recognize a young individual from the industry who is making breakthroughs in the areas of new products, new approaches to business or setting new trends. These nominations will be used to select the first-ever SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award.
The winning candidate may be the first to act on a new trend or to invent an original product people did not yet know they needed. Or, working independently, to devise and implement stellar ideas that better suit the changing marketplace of the new millennium. Whatever the case, the Gen-3 Innovator will be young—less than 40 years of age as of December 31, 2012.
If you know someone who exhibits the same pioneering spirit as the original first-generation industry founders, please tell us about the person you think deserves a moment in the spotlight (self nominations are also encouraged).
The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. All nominees will be invited, along with a guest, to attend and participate in the banquet.
Please submit your SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award nomination form prior to close of business Wednesday, October 10, at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).
For more information about the award, visit www.SEMA.org/innovator, or contact Arlene Wood at ArleneW@sema.org or 909-978-6689.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:03
| The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. |
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SEMA is seeking nominations to recognize a young individual from the industry who is making breakthroughs in the areas of new products, new approaches to business or setting new trends. These nominations will be used to select the first-ever SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award.
The winning candidate may be the first to act on a new trend or to invent an original product people did not yet know they needed. Or, working independently, to devise and implement stellar ideas that better suit the changing marketplace of the new millennium. Whatever the case, the Gen-3 Innovator will be young—less than 40 years of age as of December 31, 2012.
If you know someone who exhibits the same pioneering spirit as the original first-generation industry founders, please tell us about the person you think deserves a moment in the spotlight (self nominations are also encouraged).
The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. All nominees will be invited, along with a guest, to attend and participate in the banquet.
Please submit your SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award nomination form prior to close of business Wednesday, October 10, at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).
For more information about the award, visit www.SEMA.org/innovator, or contact Arlene Wood at ArleneW@sema.org or 909-978-6689.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:03
| The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. |
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SEMA is seeking nominations to recognize a young individual from the industry who is making breakthroughs in the areas of new products, new approaches to business or setting new trends. These nominations will be used to select the first-ever SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award.
The winning candidate may be the first to act on a new trend or to invent an original product people did not yet know they needed. Or, working independently, to devise and implement stellar ideas that better suit the changing marketplace of the new millennium. Whatever the case, the Gen-3 Innovator will be young—less than 40 years of age as of December 31, 2012.
If you know someone who exhibits the same pioneering spirit as the original first-generation industry founders, please tell us about the person you think deserves a moment in the spotlight (self nominations are also encouraged).
The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. All nominees will be invited, along with a guest, to attend and participate in the banquet.
Please submit your SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award nomination form prior to close of business Wednesday, October 10, at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).
For more information about the award, visit www.SEMA.org/innovator, or contact Arlene Wood at ArleneW@sema.org or 909-978-6689.
Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:03
| The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. |
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SEMA is seeking nominations to recognize a young individual from the industry who is making breakthroughs in the areas of new products, new approaches to business or setting new trends. These nominations will be used to select the first-ever SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award.
The winning candidate may be the first to act on a new trend or to invent an original product people did not yet know they needed. Or, working independently, to devise and implement stellar ideas that better suit the changing marketplace of the new millennium. Whatever the case, the Gen-3 Innovator will be young—less than 40 years of age as of December 31, 2012.
If you know someone who exhibits the same pioneering spirit as the original first-generation industry founders, please tell us about the person you think deserves a moment in the spotlight (self nominations are also encouraged).
The SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award winner will be honored at the 2012 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 1, 2012. All nominees will be invited, along with a guest, to attend and participate in the banquet.
Please submit your SEMA Gen-3 Innovator Award nomination form prior to close of business Wednesday, October 10, at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).
For more information about the award, visit www.SEMA.org/innovator, or contact Arlene Wood at ArleneW@sema.org or 909-978-6689.