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The Aluminum Anodizers Council (AAC) is an international trade association of firms engaged in aluminum anodizing. The Council’s mission is to support its members—and users of anodized aluminum—through education, advocacy, and promotion.
The Council serves as a forum for the exchange of knowledge and encourages the use of anodized aluminum, sponsoring various services and programs on behalf of its global membership. To achieve the Council’s goals, TSO assimilates and organizes industry expertise to conduct successful events and member services including:
- Annual International Anodizing Conference & Exposition
- Periodic Educational Workshops
- Member Directory and Industry Guide featuring Manufacturing Capabilities
- Tools to Support Marketing Campaigns
- Regulatory Compliance Coaching and Advocacy
- Industry Data Resources and Reference Materials.
AAC also conducts academic outreach and hosts a website used by students, designers, materials specifiers, architects, anodizers, and others. A Web Forum is available to those interested in posting aluminum anodizing questions and answers.
For further details on how AAC can assist you,
visit www.anodizing.org
Aluminum Anodizers Council
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084 USA
847/526-2010
Fax 847/526-3993
mail@anodizing.org
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), established in 1950, is an international association dedicated to helping manufacturers, engineers, architects, and others to discover why aluminum extrusion is the “better material process for materially better products." Specialized conferences, workshops, and symposia throughout the year enable members to meet for common cause. The Council’s member companies represent primary aluminum producers and other industry suppliers in addition to aluminum extruders operating some 500 extrusion presses in more than 200 plants worldwide; these are the world’s leading manufacturers of extruded aluminum profiles—The Shapemakers.
Best practices in the industry include an emphasis on safety and related functions. As an advocate representing the aluminum extrusion industry, AEC also provides expertise in outreach to institutions of higher learning and advocacy to appropriate governmental agencies. Educating members, analyzing data, promoting benefits, and disseminating information are just a few means employed by TSO to help AEC members succeed in a competitive manufacturing environment while addressing the Council’s three main goals:
- Provide a platform for members of the aluminum extrusion industry to network with peers and suppliers, to address common internal and external issues, share data, educate, train and sponsor research
- Work cooperatively as industry representatives to establish services that enable members to function more efficiently, cost-effectively and knowledgeably
- Enhance the growth of the aluminum extrusion industry by promoting the advantages of the processes and product applications.
For a more detailed look at what AEC has to offer,
visit www.aec.org
Aluminum Extruders Council
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084 USA
847567-2010
Fax 847/526-3993
mail@aec.org
The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM) serves marketers in Chicago and throughout the Midwest who integrate all forms of direct response marketing — including online and offline channels — to generate positive and measurable results. More than 1,100 members strong, CADM is the largest regional direct marketing association in the United States, and the only broad-based direct marketing association in the Chicago metropolitan area.
TSO provides management and coordination of efforts in support of CADM’s mission to deliver leadership by providing a high-quality forum for knowledge exchange, multi-channel marketing education and networking; a sense of community by connecting members to professionals in every marketing discipline, and advocacy by acting as a liaison for governmental issues impacting the industry. To deliver on this mission, TSO organizes events and manages efforts including:
- Monthly luncheon programs
- Various annual industry award programs for individuals and organizations
- Charitable networking events
- Annual Conference
- Professional development course
- Book Club Events
- Volunteer opportunities and committees
For more information on CADM and the services it provides,
visit www.cadm.org
Chicago Association of Direct Marketing
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084
847/526-2010; fax 847/526-3993
info@cadm.org
The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (CADMEF) has spent more than 20 years working side by side with Chicago’s finest direct and interactive marketing practitioners to strengthen and inspire the next generation of marketers. CADMEF encourages a vital, growing community of professors and practitioners to share experiences, best practices and new ideas at CADMEF’s programs throughout the year.
TSO provides a specialized management role to assist CADMEF’s mission to provide the highest quality programming and resources in direct marketing education for future direct marketers and those who teach them.
For more information on the organization,
visit www.cadmef.org.
Chicago Association of Direct Marketing Educational Foundation
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084 USA
773/281-8463
Fax 312/849-2239
The Commercial Law League of America (CLLA), founded in 1895, established its mission to be the pre-eminent source of professional services, to promote the highest standards of professionalism, and to foster economic opportunities for its members in service to the credit industry.
TSO provides a specialized management role to assist CLLA with their objectives to:
- Elevate the standard and improve the proactive practice of Commercial law
- Encourage an honorable course of dealing among its members and in the profession at large
- Promote uniformity of legislation in matters affecting Commercial law
- Foster among its members a feeling of fraternity and mutual confidence.
For more information on the organization and what it has to offer,
visit www.clla.org
Commercial Law League of America
150 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60601 USA
312/781-2000; fax 312/781-2010
clla@clla.org
The Extrusion Technology for Aluminum Profiles Foundation (ET Foundation) has been established as a nonprofit organization for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes to develop, promote, provide, and fund education and research related to aluminum extrusion processes and technologies.
The ET Foundation, in pursuit of educational and technical advances in aluminum extrusion, educates students, product designers, specifiers, as well as those engaged in aluminum extrusion, by sponsoring programs, research, and education. Among the major events and services that TSO manages and conducts to achieve these goals are:
- International Aluminum Extrusion Technology Seminar and Exposition (ET Seminar Series)
- Aluminum Extrusion Design Seminar
- International Student and Professional Design Competition
- ET Seminar Proceedings
- Academic Outreach
- Grant Administration.
For further details about the many services provided by the ET Foundation,
please visit www.etfoundation.org
ET Foundation
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084 USA
847/526-2010
Fax 847/526-3993
mail@etfoundation.org
The Home Ventilating Institute (HVI), founded in 1955, is a nonprofit association of the manufacturers of ventilating products used in residential and light commercial environments. Through a Certified Ratings Program, HVI provides a voluntary means for residential ventilation manufacturers to report comparable and creditable product performance information based upon uniformly applied testing standards and procedures and performed by independent laboratories. Today, HVI represents manufacturers from the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe, producing the majority 98% of the residential ventilation products sold in North America.
Under TSO management, HVI offers a variety of services including, but not limited to, the following:
- Test standards
- Certification programs for airflow and sound
- Energy performance for heat recovery ventilators
- Market support
- Periodic meetings to further common industry purposes.
- Providing certification of product performance
- Providing consumer information
- Participation in building code activities
- Providing a forum for the industry to meet and discuss common issues
For more information on HVI, its mission and activities,
visit www.hvi.org
Home Ventilating Institute
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084
847/416-7257; fax 480/559-9722
hvi@hvi.org
The International Magnesium Association (IMA), founded in 1943, is an international trade organization representing the producers, processors, fabricators, and marketers of magnesium, along with suppliers to the industry. IMA’s membership spans more than 30 countries on five continents.
TSO provides management and coordination of efforts in support of IMA’s mission to promote the use of magnesium in material selection and encourage innovative applications of the versatile metal. Manufacturers and consumers are increasingly aware of the numerous options and benefits offered by metal magnesium as a result of IMA’s activities, which include:
- Annual World Magnesium Conference
- Awards of Excellence
- Seminars
- Statistical programs
- Research
- Publications.
For more information on IMA and the services it provides,
visit www.intlmag.org
International Magnesium Association
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084
847/526-2010; fax 847/526-3993
info@intlmag.org
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Chicago Chapter is a professional organization designed to provide programs and activities that support professional development and networking within the PR community. In support of PRSA Chicago’s goals to advance the profession of public relations, promote high professional and ethical standards, and build the reputation of the profession in the Chicago area, TSO organizes events and manages efforts including:
- Monthly luncheon programs
- Professional development workshops
- Job Search services
- Annual awards program
- Volunteer opportunities and committees
- Young Professionals Network
- Accreditation.
For more details about the Chicago Chapter’s resources and calendar of events, visit www.prsachicago.com.
Public Relations Society of America, Chicago Chapter
1000 N. Rand Road, Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084
847/526-2010; fax 847/526-3993
mail@prsachicago.com
