NOMMA News & Events
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Come visit members of your NOMMA family at the West Coast Fence show at booths 315 and 414, which will be located in the middle of the trade show floor. This event starts on Thursday, September 13 and ends Saturday, September 15.
Featuring exhibitors of fence, deck, railing and access control companies, this two-day educational event arms attendees with knowledge of the standards of the industry.
To kick off the event, on Thursday, September 13, there will be a golf tournament followed by an exhibitors reception. On Friday, September 14, educational seminars begin, followed by a champagne reception. The trade show floor also opens on Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, September 15, the educational seminars continue, and the trade show floor will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This show will be located at the Peppermill Resort located at 2707 S. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada 89502.
For additional show information, click here.
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The Metal Museum is pleased to announce Repair Days 2018, an annual fundraiser hosted by the Metal Museum where nearly 200 metalsmiths from across the country come to Memphis to make repairs on metal objects brought in by the community. Visit https://www.metalmuseum.org/repair-days to view the full article online.
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Member News
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Featured Top Job Contest Winner
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Category H: Furniture & Accessory Fabrication (Non-forged) (Metal fabrication including custom castings and cold forged elements with less than 5% custom hand forgings. Includes items such as lighting, tables, chairs, fire screens, fire tools, baker’s racks, window and door grills.) Featured Gold Winner: Living Design Studios, Lafayette, Colorado
 Description of project: Envisioned by the architect, this fireplace required a multitude of materials and finishes. The appearance is a patinated copper finish, however the soffit is steel, the vertical pipes are copper plated aluminum and the bottom is 1/8" copper plate. The soffit was installed first with an internal frame and an opening large enough that allowed access to bolt to the ceiling and wall. Next came the ducting and liner, which [the Living Design Studios team] clad in a tube steel frame. The completed copper mantle, with a texture created by etching with nitric acid, was attached both to this frame and the wall. Precise measurements were taken between the mantle and the soffit. The vertical tubes are cut sections of aluminum tube, welded together from the back side, as needed to install them in sections with concealed attachments. The aluminum was sanded to a clean finish and then plated in copper. The patina was a five-step process.
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Featured Stories
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Construction spending is projected to grow through 2019, according to a new consensus forecast from The American Institute of Architects (AIA). Spending on nonresidential buildings nationally increased only modestly last year, barely outpacing inflation in building costs. Halfway through the seventh year of continuous growth for the cyclical construction industry, 2018 might have looked to be the year that the industry would enter another recession. However, when polled at the beginning of this year, the AIA Consensus Construction Forecast Panel—consisting of leading economic forecasters— instead saw an acceleration in activity, projecting 4.0 percent growth in 2018 and a nearly equal 3.9 percent in 2019. Visit https://www.aia.org/press-releases/208406-projections-reveal-nonresidential-construct to view the full article online.
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NOMMA Career Center
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What makes inks and adhesives effective isn't their chemical content, but their stickiness to the surface of any gummy metal such as nickel, aluminum, stainless steels or copper, researchers at Purdue University and the University of West Florida report in a paper in Physical Review Applied. Visit https://www.materialstoday.com/metal-processing/news/marking-where-to-cut-gummy-metals/ to view the full article online.
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