SABC Spring Newsletter 2019

We welcome elipsLife and its U.S. CEO Eric Herbelin and Head of Sales US Managing Director Paige Edwards as a new Corporate Member. elipsLife is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swiss Re providing Life and Disability insurance as well as Absence Management services in the US and Europe. Our US business is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL, serving clients with a national footprint. Our target market starts at 500 employees and is focused on mid to large sized employer groups. We are guided by our corporate values of: flexibility, speed, innovation, win-win solutions, and customer focus. Our goal is to achieve maximum client satisfaction by providing outstanding service and we do this through our unique combination of entrepreneurial growth and cost leadership backed by the financial strength of Swiss Re.

Impressions from an interesting panel on design migrations between Switzerland and the US. We enjoyed meeting the panelists and networking at the following SABC co-sponsored reception. For more pictures of the event, please visit the SABC's photo gallery. 

GF Machining Solutions and 3D Systems are bringing game-changing metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) to the booming aerospace market, as evidenced by the DMP Factory 500. This workflow-optimized metal AM printing solution enables seamless large parts, increased quality and lower total cost of ownership for aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers.

With over a half a century of expertise and key aerospace machining technologies, GF Machining Solutions keeps aerospace OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) partners and other contract manufacturers soaring high above the competition. Learn more:https://www.gfms.com/com/en/about-gf-machining-solutions/press-room/press-releases/2019/dmp-factory-500-new-3d-metal-printer-aerospace-components.html

Unlimited Possibilities: On Wednesday, April 10th, GF Machining Solutions North America unveiled the latest in their portfolio of laser texturing machines — the Laser S series. With over 60 participants in attendance, the machine was unveiled by Scott Fosdick, president of GF Machining Solutions North America, and Yvan Meyer, Head of Laser Texturing for GF Machining Solutions. This new series of machines provides a highly efficient, fully digital, all-in-one Laser texturing solution to help designers and manufacturers achieve quality textures without compromising productivity. 

The LASER S series empowers designers to perfectly apply their designs to challenging surfaces and enable manufacturers to execute innovative graining into complex 3D shapes while controlling quality and cost per part, reducing lead-time and machining time. For more information, visit:https://www.gfms.com/country_US/en/Products/advanced-manufacturing/laser-ablation-texturing-family/laser-s-series.html

During NTMA’s annual meeting in Tucson, Chris Kaiser, president/CEO of BIG KAISER, presented a donation for $6,675 to benefit the NTMA’s National Robotics League (NRL). This was an increase of more than 27 percent over the prior year. 

The donation was the result of a year-end promotion, giving back to the association a percentage of every order by an NTMA or AMT member company. Manufacturers placed orders for cutting tools, tool holders, work holding and tool measurement systems, earning funds for the NRL at the same time. 

“We all know it is critical for us to engage the next generation in manufacturing at the company, community and national levels,” explains Mr. Kaiser. “This year-end promotion is one way for BIG KAISER to show support for the NTMA and to promote workforce development and STEM programs.”

“The NRL is all about the community collaborating together to engage manufacturing's next generation. We truly appreciate BIG KAISER's generous contribution and their continued leadership in supporting initiatives to close the manufacturing skills gap,” said Bill Padnos, NTMA workforce development manager. “We are also grateful to all of the NTMA members who participated in this program.” 

The NRL is a manufacturing workforce development program of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) where students design and build remote-controlled robots (Bots) to face-off in a gladiator-style competition. Through the manufacturing process of Bot building, students’ imaginations are captured as they design, build and compete with their own robotic creations. 

Tornos Technologies US Corporation, technology leader for Swiss-type automatic lathes and multi-spindle machines, has appointed Daniel Maerklin as its new President as of February 1, 2019.

Mr. Maerklin has worked in the last 14 years in the machine tool and metal-processing industries, including two German-based manufacturers. The bulk of his market experience has been with job shops and industrial segments in the US such as medical, automotive and heavy equipment. Daniel Maerklin moved to the US more than 10 years ago, first working for TRUMPF Inc. as Key Accounts Manager (2009–2014) and from 2014 onward as President of the US subsidiary of a German global supplier of machine tools and accessories in Chicago. 

Daniel Maerklin brings strong leadership and market knowledge to Tornos Technologies US Corp. 

For more information contact:
Tornos Technologies US Corp.
200 E. Howard Avenue, Suite 220
Des Plaines, IL 60018
630-812-2040
www.tornos.com

In the coming weeks, the Trump Administration will submit legislation to Congress to implement the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), designed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Although the USMCA carries over a number of NAFTA’s important market-opening elements, it also introduces a number of changes that carry potentially significant implications for business planning across many sectors.

The USMCA includes new rules to promote and protect trade in cutting-edge commercial areas such as digital trade and advanced pharmaceuticals. It also generally incorporates the latest approaches from recent US trade agreements on regulatory policies, labor standards, and environmental protection and conservation to promote competitive markets and avoid a “race to the bottom.”  However, the USMCA departs from past trade agreements in that it limits the potential for binding and enforceable dispute settlement decisions, and instead moves toward the use of US trade laws and economic leverage to promote compliance.

Steptoe & Johnson LLP has prepared this helpful guide to the USMCA.

In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.

If you have questions about the USMCA or Steptoe’s capabilities, contact SABC board member Will Turner. Will has more than 20 years’ experience advising domestic and international companies in a wide range of industries on U.S. commercial and transactional matters.

For years now, NGL has been one of the leading suppliers of cleaning and decoating chemicals for PVD/CVD applications. The development of a dedicated range of products for cleaning, the Vacukleen Line, has put NGL in a position of technological leader worldwide.
NGL has also been focusing these past few years on the improvement of working safety for decoating operations, and has developed Uniceral 208 in substitution of Uniceral 108 and Ceraltin 211 in substitution of Ceraltin 111:

For any further information, visit our website at www.ngl-group.com. You can also contact us at usa@ngl-group.com.

For over 160 years, Röhlig has mastered the growing complexity of global freight forwarding. 

By combining the professional competence of a large enterprise with a family-owned company’s virtues and values, we have successfully asserted ourselves on the logistics market. Based on our global network, we create tailor-made solutions to improve our client’s logistics processes.

The core business of this owner-run family company founded in Bremen in 1852 is intercontinental sea freight and air freight. In addition, we provide complex services in the fields of project logistics and contract logistics. 

We are pleased to announce our direct Hamburg to New York & Chicago LCL service. With the establishment of this service offering; we aim to provide our clients with a full suite of services including import and export LCL consolidation. This service provides a solid solution for our Swiss clients using Hamburg as our consolidation gateway. Röhlig continues to add to our portfolio to enhance our customers experience and by launching this service, aims to provide a personalized service were we strive to exceed our customers’ expectations. Our new product helps our clients with Weekly direct service,Faster transit and reliable service,Professional customer service,Competitive rates,Direct consolidation services,State of the art CFS for handling of cargo, & Express availability at destination available on request. For further inquiries please reach out to david.carrizales@rohlig.com. #Oneteam #Onenetwork