New Board of Directors, Officers Elected for AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology

AMT elected 2007-2008 officers and directors at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.

The Board of Directors of the association, which represents over 400 American manufacturers of machine tools, manufacturing machinery, and related products, elected Doug Currie, president & CEO, Erie Press Systems, Erie, PA, as chairman. He replaces Bradley L. Lawton, president, Star Cutter Company, Farmington Hills, MI, who will now serve the as an ex-officio member of its Board of Directors.

The Board elected Daniel D. Janka, president, Cincinnati Technologies, MAG Industrial Automation Systems, Hebron, KY, to first vice chairman. Ronald F. Schildge, president, Transmares Corp., Annandale, NJ, will serve as second vice chairman and treasurer during the coming year. Kim W. Beck, president & CEO, Automatic Feed Co., Napoleon, OH, will serve as secretary.

2007-2008 Officers:

• Chairman: Doug Currie, president and CEO, Erie Press Systems, Erie, PA
• First Vice Chairman: Daniel D. Janka, president, Cincinnati Technologies, MAG IAS, Hebron, KY
• Second Vice Chairman & Treasurer: Ronald F. Schildge, president, Transmares Corp., Annandale, NJ
• Secretary: Kim W. Beck, president & CEO, Automatic Feed Co., Napoleon, OH

• Richard P. Bodine, Jr., chairman, Bodine Assembly and Test Systems, Bridgeport, CT
• R. Stephen Flynn, president, Optical Gaging Products, Inc., Rochester, NY
• Eugene R. Haffely, Jr., group president – AT W Assembly Systems Group, Dayton, OH
• Brian J. Papke, president, Mazak Corp., Florence, KY
• Michael Powell, president, Master Work Holding, Inc., Morganton, NC
• Carl Reed, president & CEO, Abbott Workholding Products, Manhattan, KS
• David Tilstone, president, Extrude Hone Corp., Irwin, PA
• Ex-Officio: Bradley L. Lawton, president, Star Cutter Company, Farmington Hills, MI
• Douglas K. Woods, president, Parlec International, Parlec Inc., Fairport, NY