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2017 CMLA Annual Meeting
October 25, 2017
Nashville, TN
2017 Deck Expo
October 25-27, 2017
Nashville, TN
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Jared Rothstein
Executive Director
John Woestman
Codes & Standards Director
Daniel Yi
Staff Associate
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CLMA President
Brian Lowry
TAMKO Building Products, Inc.
CLMA Vice President
Bruce Stanhope
AZEK Building Products
CLMA Treasurer
Peter Kotiadis
Fiberon LLC
CLMA Board of Director
John Kozal
Universal Forrest Products
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We are pleased to announce that
Dow Performance Silicones
,
INEOS Styrolution
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MN Fastener Co.
are new members of CLMA!
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Dow Performance Silicones
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If you know of anyone who many be interested in CLMA Membership, please feel free to contact
CLMA Staff
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Have any company news, or information on upcoming product offerings? Please let CLMA staff know to have it featured in future CLMA quarterly newsletters!
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CLMA President's Update
Brian Lowry, TAMKO Building Products, Inc.
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Fellow CLMA Members,
In my last update, I welcomed Americhem as the CLMA's newest Associate Member. Since then, three additional Associate Members have joined the Association. I would like to welcome: Dow Performance Silicones, INEOS Styrolution America LLC and MN Fasteners Company. Associate Members have the rights, privileges and obligations of membership except the right to vote on the CLMA Board. This means they can dial into the current building and code issues affecting our industry by attending our Codes and Standard Committee meetings, and, to gain a more immediate return on their membership investment, they can network with CLMA's full membership at next month's Deck Expo.
Yes, it's time for the Deck Expo! If your schedules permit, I urge all CLMA members, associate members and industry-related companies to send representatives to the October 25, 2017 CLMA Annual meeting in Nashville, TN. This year's one day meeting is the day before the 2017 Remodeling Show/ DeckExpo in Nashville and has added an exciting and interesting feature, a tour of Vanderbilt University's Lab for Systems Integrity & Reliability. Speakers during the afternoon portion of the meeting include Bob Tichy, an expert in the field of wood composite materials science; Steve Quarles, an expert in the field of wood composite fire testing; and ICCES representatives, sharing ways to improve the Evaluation Report application experience. For more information on this year's meeting, please follow the links at the News and Events below.
Thank you for your continued support of the Association and I hope to see all of our membership in Nashville!
Brian Lowry
TAMKO Building Products, Inc.
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CLMA Meetings & Industry Events
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2017 CLMA Annual Meeting - Registration is Open!
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Please join us on
October 25, 2017 for the CLMA Annual Meeting in Nashville TN!
Open to both members and non-members, the CLMA Annual Meeting will include a full schedule of educational and networking opportunities.
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eatured presentation topics will include building codes and standards updates, regulatory developments, emerging research, and other trends impacting the wood plastic composite lumber industry. For more information
Click Here and don't forget to register today!
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...In Conjunction with the Deck Expo!
For the first time, the CLMA Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Deck Expo! Click
here
to learn more and register for the Expo.
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Codes & Standards Committee
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The CLMA Codes and Standards Committee (CSC) has been involved with several activities so far in 2017:
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CLMA is participating in the California Building Code (CBC) Chapter 7A Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Task Group. CLMA members and staff are engaged, along with other stakeholders, in this task group.
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CLMA members continue to be involved with potential revisions of important standards, including ASTM D7032, ASTM D6662, ASTM E84, and others.
CLMA Technical Bulletins:
Read CLMA's latest technical bulletins:
TAMKO's Hurricane Harvey Red Cross Donation
Pictured (left to right): Executive Director of the American Red Cross Southern Missouri Stacy Burks, Red Cross Volunteer Thomas Zeller, and TAMKO Vice President and General Counsel
TAMKO Building Products, Inc. has proudly donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to assist with their Hurricane Harvey disaster relief efforts in Houston and the surrounding area. TAMKO presented the funds at the Joplin, Missouri Red Cross office on September 6.
"Thanks to generous partners like TAMKO, the American Red Cross is there, providing food, shelter and comfort to people affected by Hurricane Harvey," said Stacy Burks, Executive Director of the American Red Cross Southern Missouri. "We have deployed over a dozen local [Joplin-area] volunteers. They join more than 3,000 Red Cross disaster workers who will continue to support families as they begin to recover and rebuild."
In the past, TAMKO has donated to the Red Cross to assist with disaster recovery from tornadoes that ravaged areas where TAMKO operates, including a deadly EF-5 tornado in 2011 that struck the town of Joplin where TAMKO is headquartered.
TAMKO's President and CEO David Humphreys, said, "The devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey are heartbreaking. TAMKO and its employees have witnessed first-hand what the American Red Cross can do to help in these types of disaster situations. We make this donation in the spirit of kindness that Houston and its neighbors so desperately need now."
Expanded Products Offerings Position AMERICHEM as "Your Complete Composites Partner"
Americhem Inc., has expanded its offerings for producers of composite decking and other composite products." Unlike other suppliers in the composites industry, Americhem has a full range of offerings to suit any manufacturing process, end-product use and aesthetic preference," said Mark Juve, business director, building and construction for Americhem. "We deliver our products in a multitude of forms including masterbatch, precolored capstock compounds, dry blends, additives, special effects and more."
In partnership with its sister companies Vi-Chem and Infinity LTL Engineered Compounds, Americhem is now positioned to provide an expanded offering of world class products and services to the building products industry. This creates the opportunity to reshape and improve the customer experience. The combined product lines, brands and expanded product categories create one of the most extensive offerings in the industry.
"Most polymeric building products manufacturers know Americhem for our masterbatch products," Juve continued. "Now, with our partnerships and 75 years of product knowledge, we are able to create new product categories, especially in the compound arena. For example, we are able to offer enhanced PVC technologies to our customers thanks to Vi-Chem's 35 years of PVC compound experience."
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