Spray Patterns AVA CARIDAD Editorial Director Representing the Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA), the National Aerosol Association (NAA) and the Western Aerosol Information Bureau (WAIB), Steve Sanchez of Aeropres, Mike Thaete of Aptar B&H and Roger Vanderlaan of Shield Packaging of California recently attended two meetings in Sacramento,CA. The first meeting was with California State Senator Connie Leyva, who serves on a number of committees including serving as Democratic Caucus Chair of the California State Senate. Senator Leyva is a lifelong activist for working people and families in California. The group also met with Senator Leyva in July of 2016 and will continue to push its message that the aerosol industry “makes lives better.” The second stop was at a California Manufacturers & Technology Associations (CMTA) event welcoming the new California Legislature, where the aerosol group met with California legislators and staff, as well as California Senator Ted Gaines, who is working on reducing taxes on business in the state. CMTA shares many of the same challenges as the aerosol industry and, according to the WAIB, has become a valuable partner along with CSPA and NAA in providing a unified voice with shared activism in the California Legislature and the California Regulatory environment. 46 Spray June 2017 The 2nd Perfumed Plume Awards for creative fragrance journalism were held in April at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. The awards, established in 2015 by fragrance and cosmetic executives Mary Ellen Lapsansky and Lyn Leigh, recognize fragrance stories and the many writers and visualists who give the reader an inside view of the cultural, historical, scientific and personal approaches to fragrance design and what it takes to create an evocative scent. Pictured (L to R) Leigh; Sarah Colton, winner of the Fragrance Book Award for “Bad Girls Perfume: Tips &Tales”; and Lapsansky. In an effort to share its automation expertise with the manufacturing professionals of tomorrow, SussexIM, a Wisconsin-based, full-service provider of plastic products, donated a cosmetic packaging assembly machine to nearby Waukesha County Technical College’s (WCTC) Tool & Die and Injection Mold Setup Apprenticeship program. The machine was immediately integrated into the school’s Automated Systems Technology syllabus. Acknowledging the role of robotics in today’s manufacturing landscape, Dan Neuwirth, SussexIM’s Director of Manufacturing Engineering, said, “There is always a need for talented people who can diagnose and troubleshoot automated systems in our plant. This is the future, and this is how we need to train tomorrow’s professionals.” Pictured (L to R) R.J. Spear (WCTC student); Justin Boggs (SIM Injection Molding Setup Technician and WCTC student); Jesse Stuller (Automation Instructor at WCTC); and Zac Salzmann (SIM Injection Molding Setup Technician and WCTC student) The Ball Foundation, Ball Corp. and its employees donated more than $4 million to charitable organizations in the communities where the company operated in 2016. Through the Ball Community Ambassadors program, which encourages North American employees to support causes that matter to them by matching giving and volunteer hours, employees also logged more than 34,000 hours of volunteer service—2,000 hours more than in 2015. In total, The Ball Foundation and Ball employees donated funds to about 1,900 non-profits. The Ball Foundation also invested nearly $1.5 million in community programs that create a positive, measurable impact on recycling, food security, disaster relief, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the U.S., said Ball. Globally, Ball’s plants donated $750,000 and organized events, such as recycling, food and school supply drives, to benefit causes and charitable organizations in their local communities. For the 8th time, L’Oréal has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as a 2017 World’s Most Ethical Company. L’Oréal is one of only two companies recognized in the Health &Beauty industry. Ethisphere honors those companies that recognize their role in society to influence and drive positive change, consider the impact of their actions on their employees, investors, customers and other key stakeholders and use their values and culture as an underpinning to the decisions they make every day, according to the company.
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