Member Associations
Members are National Associations of Sheet Metalforming Companies:
France
Ms.
Catherine Larroque
French
Association for Sheet-Metal Working Maison de la Mecanique
(GIMEF)
39/41, rue Louis Blanc
92400 Courbevoie - FRANCE
Ph: 33 (0) 1 47 17 64 12
E-mail:
clarroque@ufimo.com
Founded on March 2, 1900, GIMEF is the association for metal stamping, fabricating, metal spinning and tooling industries in France. Primary markets include the automotive, aeronautic, electronic, telecommunications, agriculture, appliance and precision equipment industries.
GIMEF is one of the members of FIM (Federation of the French Mechanical industries). The key role and mission of GIMEF are to provide assistance in the understanding of the market evolutions, training, exchange of information, communication between the members, legal and financial fields. It is also to ensure technical work in co-operation with CETIM (French Technical Center of Mechanical industries) through executive commissions and presence in trade shows.
Germany
Mr.
Bernhard Jacobs
Industrieverband Blechumformung (IBU)
Goldene Pforte 1
58093 HAGEN
GERMANY
Ph: 011/49-2331-958856
Fax: 011/49-2331-958756
E-mail:
bjacobs@ibu.wsm-net.de
IBU has been representing the interests of the German sheet metalforming industry since 1934 until 1995 under the name "Fachverband Pressen, Ziehen, Stanzen" (association of pressing, drawing and stamping trades).
Our members make things from sheet metal via: stamping, precision and fine blanking, laser and water cutting, bending, combined cutting and bending, drawing, deep drawing, hydroforming, pressing assembly into modules and systems.
England
Mr. John
Houseman, Director General
CBM Metalforming
National Metalforming Centre
47 Birmingham Road
West Bromwich B70 6PY
ENGLAND
Ph: (UK dialing code: 00 44) 011/44-121-6016350
Fax: (UK dialing code: 00 44) 011/44-121-6016373
E-mail:
info@britishmetalforming.com
CBM is the leading trade association for all UK manufacturers of fasteners, forgings, pressings and fabrications, offering both business support and representation at the highest level for the metalforming industry.
Japan
Mr. Yutaka
Hamanaka
Japan
Metal Stamping Association
212 Kikai-Shinko Bldg., 3/5/8
Shibakoen, Minato-Ku
Tokyo, JAPAN
Ph: 011/81-33-433-3730
Fax:011/81-33-433-7505
E-mail: jmsa@nikkin.or.jp
Japan Metal Stamping Association supports various efforts to be promoted by its members, such as enhancement of management infrastructure, improvement in technology, making high value-added stamped products, establishment of safe operation, support to internationalization and globalization, training engineers, and is actively developing many services to realize advanced metal stamping.
Netherlands
Mr.
Leendert Remmelink
Branchemanager
NEVAT
Boerhavelaan 40
Postbus 190
2700 AD Zoetermeer
Ph: +31 79 353 1364
E-mail: lre@fme.nl
The Nederlandse Vereniging Algemene Toelevering (NEVAT) (Dutch Association of Subcontracting Industries) is the most important network for industrial subcontractors in the Netherlands. As a branch organisation with about 280 members, Nevat is the spokesman for the Dutch subcontracting industry, a platform for exchanging knowledge and experience and an indispensable source of knowledge for suppliers and outsourcers at home and abroad.
United States
Mr. William
Gaskin
Precision
Metalforming Association (PMA)
6363 Oak Tree Blvd.
Independence, OH 44131
USA
Ph: 216-901-8800
Fax: 216-901-9190
E-mail: pma@pma.org
PMA is the full-service trade association representing the $91-billion metalforming industry of North America-the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping, fabricating and other value-added processes. Its nearly 1,200 member companies include metal stampers, fabricators, spinners, slide formers and roll formers as well as suppliers of equipment, materials and services to the industry. Members are located in 30 countries, with the majority found in North America-in 41 states of the United States as well as Canada and Mexico.