Inside This Issue

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• SpringWorld Kick-off Dinner Takes Place October 17 in Schaumburg

• Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming CASMI Events

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• SpringWorld Kick-off Continued

• Scholarship Recipients Honored at Reception

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• 2019 CASMI Scholarship Recipients

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• SpringWorld Kick-off Continued

• New CASMI Address Reminder

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Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers, Inc.

218 Glorieta Drive

St. Augustine, FL 32095

630.359.4273

info@casmi-springworld.org www.casmi-springworld.org

“Fun Is Good” Will Be Addressed at SpringWorld 2020 Kick-off Dinner October 17 in Schaumburg All CASMI members, SpringWorld 2020 exhibitors and suppliers who are considering exhibiting are invited to attend the SpringWorld 2020 Kick-off dinner on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, at Maggiano’s in Schaumburg, Illinois. The event will feature an update on the 2020 SpringWorld Trade Show, the opportunity to secure exhibit space, network with industry colleagues, and a fantastic speaker!

Guest Speaker

Mike Veek, Visionary & Co-Founder, Fun Is Good, will present “Creating Joy and Passion in Your Workplace and Career”. When we find our joy and passion, great things happen, in both our work world and in our personal lives. It makes sense, yet it’s so hard to put into practice. Mike Veeck shows us how to discover what brings us joy and then “live it” in all that we do.

You will LAUGH, be INSPIRED and have FUN! Mike’s motivating stories will have you reflecting on enhancements or adjustments you can make to your

work environment (and even with friends or family) to positively impact productivity and over-all satisfaction. You will learn ways to re-energize the workforce to increase engagement, discover how to find your passion and bring it into your work and personal life. You’ll also be reminded that today, more than ever, we need to reduce stress with fun! Mike’s experiences and real-life examples prove over-and-over again that a common trait of a successful and engaged team is a work environment that fosters respect, trust and fun!

Schedule of Events

5:30 pm Networking and Cocktails

6:15 pm Welcome

6:30 pm Dinner

7:15 pm SpringWorld Announcements

7:30 pm Keynote Speaker

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Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming CASMI Events

October 17, 2019 December 11, 2019 SpringWorld Kick-off Dinner Annual Holiday Party

November 21, 2019 January 15, 2020 Membership Dinner Meeting Membership Dinner Meeting

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Fall 2019

Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers, Inc.

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Registration

Registration for this event is available by visiting https://www.casmi-springworld.org/event/SW2020Kickoff. You can register a total of three (3) individuals from your company to attend this event at no charge. Additional participants (4 and above) may attend at the rate of $75 per person. The deadline to register is October 15.

SpringWorld 2020 Update

SpringWorld 2020 will take place Oct. 7-9, 2020, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.

Attending SpringWorld provides a unique opportunity to network with other spring manufacturers, wire formers and more. One-on-one discussions with others who share your problems and concerns can be invaluable in gaining new insights for your business. In addition, you will see the newest technology available to improve your productivity, quality, and service. You can speak directly with exhibitors who can answer your questions. There are also free educational seminars being offered by exhibitors on the show floor.

As this issue of the CASMI Connection Newsletter goes to press, the trade show is already 75% sold! CASMI sponsors SpringWorld every two years. New technology presented at this event brings thousands of people to the Chicago area from all over the world. Since the first show in 1959, SpringWorld has become the largest gathering of the Spring Manufacturing and Wire Forming Industry anywhere at one time. At SpringWorld 2018, more than 110 exhibiting companies demonstrated machinery, showed raw materials, tested equipment, software and other products and services in nearly 32,000 net square feet of exhibit space.

SpringWorld Exhibiting Companies

Below is a list of current exhibiting companies.

A&D Trading LLC 533

A.I. Technology 807

A-Tech USA 1605

Able Electropolishing 1216

Accra-Wire Controls Inc. 516

Admiral Steel, LLC 1117

AIM, Inc. 1405

Alloy Wire International 1021

Amstek Metal 1217

Anchor Abrasives Company 1027

Asahi-Seiki Mfg., Co., Ltd. 1321

ASW.Pengg 1220

Automated Industrial Motion 621

BB Spring Technology SRL 727

Bennett Mahler / NIMSCO 905

CASMI 800

Dell Marking Systems 1112

Dongseo Autotech Co., Ltd. 1605

DSR Wire Corporation 1120

FĒNIX LLC 1227

Fenn Torin 1221

Fives Landis Corp. - CITCO Tools & Gardner Abrasives 921

Forming Systems, Inc. 613

Fort Wayne Metals 1520

Gibbs Wire & Steel Co., Inc. 1114

Gibraltar/SIMCO/Delta 501

HS Wire Technology 1131

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CASMI hosted its fourth annual reception to honor the recipients of the organization’s Annual Scholarship on Wednesday, August 7. More than 40 scholarship recipients, company representatives, and CASMI Board members were

CASMI Scholarship Recipients Honored at Reception

on hand for the celebration at Elmhurst Brewing Company, Elmhurst, Illinois. During the event, all of the recipients were announced and those present were presented with recognition certificates.

For more details on this year’s recipients, please refer to the story on page 3.

CASMI President Tony Pesaresi was on

hand to deliver certificates to recipients

who attended the reception. Pictured here is Tony (left) with David

Kierpiec (right).

A large crowd attended the Annual Scholarship Reception.

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Congratulations 2019 CASMI Scholarship Recipients

The Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers, Inc. (CASMI) is proud to have awarded eighteen undergraduate scholarships of $1,500 to dependents of CASMI member company employees in 2019. This brings the total cash awards for CASMI Scholarships to $819,000 since the program’s inception in 1989!

Additionally, two Postgraduate scholarships of $2,500 were awarded. The Terry & Jerry Reese Postgraduate Scholarship, made possible by a grant from Rosemont Exposition Services, and the Joseph H. Goldberg Postgraduate Scholarship, made possible by a grant from the Joseph H. Goldberg Foundation/International Spring.

The CASMI Scholarship Program is managed by Scholarship America, a not-for-profit foundation. Scholarship America receives and processes the applications, determines the awards, and informs the winners thus assuring impartiality in awarding the scholarships.

Recipient photos appear below, along with their parent and CASMI member affiliation.

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Emma Lane Patricia Lane

Patrick Manufacturing, Inc. Elgin, IL

Kellie Kuehl Steve Kuehl

Exacto Spring Corp. Grafton, WI

Carrie Lefeber Christine Lefeber

Spiros Industries, Inc. West Bend, WI

David Kierpiec Zofia Kierpiec

Sterling Spring Corp. Chicago, IL

Alexandria Hansen Heather Hansen

Anchor Abrasives Co. Tinley Park, IL

Kailyn Lefeber Christine Lefeber

Spiros Industries, Inc. West Bend, WI

Avery Fess Shelly Fess

R & L Spring Co. Lake Geneva, WI

Kailey Davies Brandy Davies

Lesjofors Spring America Pittston, PA

Taylor Gorsuch Mark Gorsuch

Rockford Spring Co. Rockford, IL

Erika Brogdon Melissa Brogdon

Winamac Coil Spring, Inc. Winamac, IN

Joshua Bender Robert Bender

Worth Steel Alsip, IL

Tomasz Gruchala Greg Gruchala

Sterling Spring Corp. Chicago, IL

Murphy Weiland Christopher Weiland Perfection Spring &

Stamping Corp. Mt. Prospect, IL

Kirby Weiland Christopher Weiland Perfection Spring &

Stamping Corp. Mt. Prospect, IL

Marissa Werner Maureen Werner

Green Packaging, Inc. Harleysville, PA

Hollie Parish Mark Parish

Winamac Coil Spring, Inc. Winamac, IN

Hannah Markle James Markle

Lesjofors Spring America Pittston, PA

Drake Wolan Matthew Wolan

Sterling Spring Corp. Chicago, IL

Lydia Fess Shelly Fess

R & L Spring Co. Lake Geneva, WI

Darian Los Pawel Los

Excel Spring & Stamping, Inc. Bensenville, IL

Terry & Jerry Reese Scholarship Joseph H. Goldberg Scholarship

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Ideal Welding Systems LP 1421

Industrial Steel & Wire 1014

InterWire Products 1415

Jowitt & Rodgers Co. 1015

Kinecoil Division, Kinefac Corporation 510

KSW WIRE / S&J HANS CORP. 700

Larson Systems, Inc. 824

Leggett & Platt 1121

Metal Improvement Co.: Curtiss Wright 1224

Midwestern Rust Proof, Inc. 1020

Moyer Process & Control 1022

Nabertherm, Inc. 1214

Norton |Saint-Gobain Abrasives 820

ORIIMEC Corporation of America 1105

PROTO 1115

Pyromaitre 1521

Raajratna Stainless Wire (USA), Inc. 1315

Radcliff Wire, Inc. 1100

RK Trading Company 707

Shinko Machine Tool Co., LTD 1213

Simplex-Rapid / NIMSCO 1005

SMI/NEMSA 627

Starrett Company 920

Sumiden Wire Products Corp. 1326

Sungshin Electric Furnace 1605

Suzuki Garphyttan Corporation 1008

Taubensee Steel and Wire Company 1030

Theleico Schleiftachnik 522

Toyo Seiko North America 1031

Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Specialty Metals 925

Victory Machinery Exchange/ Victory Rebuilding & Parts Technology 1018

Vinston US Corp 721

WAFIOS Machinery Corporation 1205

Winoa USA/W Abrasive Brand Products 1031

Winona Powder Coating 1013

Wire Forming Technology International 825

Worth Steel 1017

218 Glorieta Drive St. Augustine, FL 32095

October 7-9, 2020

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

Rosemont, Illinois

CASMI Address Change Reminder

Please be sure to update all of your company records, including

accounting and CASMI’s vendor/payee address in your systems.

Our new contact information is:

CASMI 218 Glorieta Drive

St. Augustine, FL 32095

Phone: 630-359-4273 E-mail: info@casmi-springworld.org