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SITE OF THE
2010 NFFS
ANNUAL MEETING
Friday, October 8th - Monday, October 11th

7 Lighthouse Lane
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928

2010 NFFS Annual Meeting Guest Speakers

	Exploring Trade Opportunities Dennis Kelley Pacific World Trade

Can U.S.manufacturers compete with foreign sources? Can they learn to export more? Is it possible to expand business without lowering prices?

When the State of Indiana wanted to help their industries find answers
to those questions, they turned to Dennis Kelley, President and CEO of
Pacific World Trade, a company he cofounded with Cummins Engine. In
fact, Dennis has served as the Director of the State’s “China Office” since 1987 and has been a frequent speaker on International and China trade at Columbia University, Yale University, the John Hopkins School of Advanced Studies, and the Thunderbird School of Global
Management, among others. He also served as Technical Editor for Doing Business in China for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2007).

	Channeling Credit & Sales Davy Tyburski CREDITandSALES.com

Credit is tight, suppliers are demanding prompt payment, and customers want extended credit terms. What can you do? It’s a subject that couldn’t be timelier – or more important to your foundry. Davy Tyburski is the Founder of CREDITandSALES.com, whose strategies, techniques and programs are based on real-world experience, NOT theories or concepts. He is also the author of The Insider’s Guide to a Strong CREDITandSALES Relationship, and co-author of the International book, The Best Kept Profit Secret: The Executive’s Guide to Transforming a Cost Center into a Profit Center.

	Is There Really a Safe Harbour Ahead? Alan Beaulieu Institute for Trend Research

For the third consecutive year, Alan Beaulieu, senior analyst, economist,
and a principal with the Institute for Trend Research (ITR®), will update
Annual Meeting attendees on what the near- and longer-term futures
may hold in store for the U.S. economy and, in turn, for their businesses. Alan’s keen insights and entertaining presentation style keep his travel schedule full andmade himthe top rated speaker
at the NFFS Annual Meetings at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in 2008 and Henderson, Nevada in 2009 (he was rated excellent on every speaker evaluation form last year).

There’s no longer any good reason for non-ferrous foundry owners and managers to rely on dead reckoning to navigate around problems facing their businesses. Technology has evolved far beyond the primitive techniques and devices they might have used in the past,
but the real secret behind any good tool lies in knowing how to use it properly – and most effectively.

	Pointing the Way to Compliance Skip Guimond & Martha Guimond Guimond & Associates

Skip and Martha Guimond are the principals of an engineering and
consulting firm with more than 30 years experience as OSHA and
EPA compliance specialists. More importantly, NFFS keeps their firm on
retainer to give members a cost effective way to deal with the
growing and ever-changing list of government regulations.

Martha’s no-nonsense approach to regulatory compliance has made her one of the Society’s most popular Annual Meeting speakers. She is also the author of the Society’s NFFScene newsletter, and the featured presenter for the monthly NFFSummit teleconferences – the Society’s
highly-rated new membership service.

Skip’s involvement in the recent EPA Area Source rulemaking was instrumental in helping the Society reduce themonitoring and recordkeeping burdens the rule might otherwise have imposed on non-ferrous foundries once it takes effect in June of 2011. He is already working to develop a template for the written management practices plan foundries will need to implement to demonstrate their compliance with the rule.