Handy & Harmon Specialty Wire Group's New VP
Handy & Harmon Specialty Wire Group recently announced the appointment of Hy Luft
to the position of Vice President, Sales and Marketing (domestic operations). Prior to his
association with Handy & Harmon, Hy held several key engineering and manufacturing
management positions at AAI Corporation (Hunt Valley, MD), including Director of
Engineering, Program Manager and Vice President of Programs.
Hy is a graduate of City College of New York, with a BS in Electrical Engineering. In his
new role, Hy will be responsible for directing all Sales and Marketing activities for
Maryland Specialty Wire, Willing B Wire, and Strandflex.
Founded in 1967, Handy & Harmon is a diversified industrial manufacturing company
with operations in materials engineering and specialty products for global markets.
American Spring Wire Corporation Announces New Sales Representative and Product
Manager
William Snyder, General Sales Manager of American Spring Wire Corp. (ASW), has
announced the promotion of Stephen A. Golden as Sales Representative. Steve will
handle sales coverage for the Central Midwest region, and will be responsible for the
sales of all ASW Spring Wire and PC strand products. Steve comes to this position with
over 20 years of experience at ASW's Kankakee, Illinois facility, working in various
capacities including Quality Control Technician, Inventory Control Supervisor, and most
recently as Manager of Procurement, Packaging and Shipping Departments.
Mr. Snyder also announced the hire of David F. Ryan as product manager for the valve
spring and regulator wire markets. David has spent the last 15 years with Brush Wellman
Inc. serving the automotive industry. He most recently held the positions of Automotive
Marketing Manager/North America here in Cleveland and District Sales Manager in
Detroit. David holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University's Executive
Program and a BS in Applied Science from Miami University. According to Mr. Snyder,
"We are excited to have David join our sales management team and look forward to the
value he will add to our company as we move into the future."
American Spring Wire Corporation manufactures valve quality and commercial wire in
carbon and alloy steel grades. Manufacturing processes include surface preparation, die
drawing, cold rolling, patenting, annealing and oil tempering. The company also produces
PC strand for the pre-stressed/post-tensioned concrete market, and supplies wire for the
automotive, agricultural equipment, construction and appliance industries. Headquartered
in Cleveland, Ohio, ASW is certified as com-plying with ISO 9002 standards.
EPA Enforcing Air Emissions Reporting
The EPA is now aggressively enforcing a widely applicable, but little understood
regulation that covers common air emissions sources. There are over 350 reportable
chemicals, including many common contaminants such as HCl, nitric acid and sulfuric acid.
Reporting thresholds for these chemicals are as low as 1 pound per day in some cases.
Facilities must report a release when it is equal to or greater than the specific substance's
reportable quantity (RQ) listed in the "List of Extremely Hazardous Substances and Their
Threshold Planning Quantities."
A facility is only exempt from these reporting requirements if the air emission source is
covered by a federally enforceable air permit that has a specific emission limit or control
requirement for the extremely hazardous substance (EHS). The federally permitted release
provision exempts only those releases that are subject to emission limits and other controls
that are specifically designed to address hazardous impacts from the release of the
hazardous substance.
EPA has stated it will not assess any penalty against companies that choose to
self-disclose violations under the audit policy. These violations must have been identified
voluntarily and not through any required monitoring, sampling or auditing procedure.
Violations must be disclosed within a specific number of days after their discovery, and
prior to any agency inspection, investigation or information request, notice of a citizen suit
or legal complaint.
EPA's ELG Plan
The EPA published its Effluent Limitation Guidelines plan in the Federal Register (June 16,
2000, p. 37783) that details the agency's ongoing guidelines development efforts and
proposes EPA's plans for developing new and revised ones. Among the highlights:
- In some cases, a regulation may prescribe "Best Management Practices (BMPs) in
addition to or in lieu of numerical limits. BMPs may include requirements addressing the
minimization or prevention of storm water runoff, plant maintenance schedules and
requirements addressing the training of plant personnel.
- EPA identified the most significant environmental problems. Many of the sources
modeled to have the highest risk to water are in the metals industries, such as Iron & Steel
or Metal Products and Machinery (MP&M). The final plan will most likely be issued in
the fall.
| 2000 |
| September 27-29 |
| AWPA Fall Meeting |
| Capital Hilton, Washington, DC |
| 2001 |
| February 7-11 |
| AWPA Annual Meeting |
| Rancho Las Palmas,
Rancho Mirage, CA |
| May 14-17 |
| Interwire 2001 |
| Georgia World Congress
Center |
| Atlanta, GA |
| 2002 |
| APRIL 8-12 |
| Wire 2002 |
| Dusseldorf, Germany |
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