Masonry Magazine March 2009 Page. 57
INDUSTRY NEWS
News from MCAA
# Masonry Quality Institute
The MCAA has announced a new date and location for the Masonry Quality Institute (MQI) seminar. The next MQI course will be held March 24-25, 2009, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at March Westin Inc., 360 Frontier Str., Morgantown, W.V. 26505.
The MQI will provide you the ability to measure your company's level of quality. In this two-day course, participants will learn to assist masons in evaluating their services, meeting stringent customer expectations, and improving their profitability. They'll leave this course with knowledge on quality process, detailed implementation of the basic principles of quality, quality processing and team building, along with problem solving.
This course is a requirement for National Certification and is worth 16 credits. If you are not familiar with the MCAA certification program, contact Sharyl Toynton at 847-301-0001 or stoynton@masoncontractors.org. This information is also available at www.certification.masoncontractors.org.
# Congratulations to Four Certified Contractors
In other MCAA news, four new Certified contractors emerged from the World of Concrete/World of Masonry show and MCAA Convention in Las Vegas in February: Doyle Hatfield Masonry Inc., Kevin Hatfield; G2 Masonry, Troy Guevara; IMS Masonry Inc., Heath Holdaway, and Midwestern Masonry Inc., James Buttron.
# Kevin Callahan Passes
Kevin Callahan passed away Feb. 12 at the age of 81. Callahan served on the staff of the National Concrete Masonry Association for 31 years, from 1962 to
Ceramics Business Unit at Wellsville Foundry
Wellsville Foundry has established a new business unit to better serve a growing customer base in the ceramics and brick-manufacturing sector. Wellsville supplies OEM and replacement castings weighing 35 grams to 1800 pounds in short to medium runs. A recent facility expansion, which preceded the new business unit, includes a full melt lab and extensive metallographic capability. This allows the company to focus on the prototyping, manufacturing and testing of the special alloy castings that are most in demand for high-wear applications within the ceramic and brick industries. IMAS
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