Founded in 1926, the Central Fabricators Association (CFA) is a not-for-profit trade association serving Structural Steel Fabricators across the Midwest.

CFA fosters continual improvement for business and personal development through education and idea exchange. Not only do we provide a forum for discussing management successes and failures, we also act as a clearing house for labor data, compiling industry wide reports for members on safety, wages, benefits, insurance, pensions and related topics.

"CFA has allowed me a forum to meet and get to know some of the leaders of our industry - the sharing of ideas and information has taken our business to a new level."
                     Tyler Owen - Paxton & Vierling Steel Company

"CFA is a perfect example of the power and resulting benefit of a trade association----bringing together the collective financial & intellectual resources of a diverse group to address and offer solutions to the strategic & operational issues of the individual members."
                      Ted Hazledine - Benchmark Fabricated Steel

"CFA provides me an opportunity to benchmark the best and the brightest structural steel fabricators and bridge builders in the US." 
                      Bill Lundberg, President Roscoe Steel & Culvert Company

"CFA is a unique forum allowing our company the benefit of sharing relevant information with quality fabricators who understand our business."
                      Dan Kadrmas, President Fargo Tank & Steel Company

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Metal Fabrication Hazardous Air Pollutants and National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants

During our last meeting on April 26th in Chicago, members enjoyed a half day education session with experts from Lincoln Electric, the Society of Protective Coatings and AISC.  Experts from these three organizations discussed the regulations, requirements and options for compliance with new regulations for Metal Fabrication, Hazardous Air Pollutants and National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants.

For your information, below are links to the material presented in the half session:

EPA 40 CFR Part 63: A Summary by the Society of Protective Coatings

MFHAP - NESHAPS Rule by Lincoln Electric

Weld Fume Control Methodology by Lincoln Electric

Courtesy of SSPC and Lincoln Electric

Private Nonresidential Construction Spending Falls 0.4 Percent in July

We are now facing a period of declining spending in both public and private construction categories,” said Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu. “The momentum in commercial construction spending continued through July, but with financial market volatility and economic uncertainty generally on the upswing, it is likely that lending has become more cautious, which will translate into diminished commercial construction starts going forward.

“Today’s construction spending data are now reflecting the renewed weakness that began to pervade the economy earlier this year,” Basu said. “The most recent gross domestic product data indicated that the economy grew less than 1 percent on an annualized basis during the first half of this year, and that inevitably will translate into weaker construction spending during the months ahead.
“The construction data are also reflecting the impact of diminished state and local government fiscal health. Spending declines were posted in public safety-related construction, education-related construction, and sewage and waste,” said Basu. “Decline in these categories is likely to persist for the rest of this year in much of the nation due to a general lack of revenue growth among the nation’s local governments.”
 

Courtesy of ABC http://www.abc.org/