Business View Magazine November-December 2018

142 143 membership renewals and membership activities. In ad- dition to our full-time staff, we have two technical consultants that are retired from the boiler industry, and who represent our membership at the ASME (American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers) and the National Board code committees. They are also our subject matter experts for official comments sent to the regulatory agencies or the White House.” Partnering with related asso- ciations has allowed ABMA to broaden its reach and impact. “We are members of the Na- tional Association of Manufac- turers (NAM) and we let them take the lead on the big manu- facturing issues,” Lynch explains. “The NAM opens their doors for us. We are active participants in NAM’s Energy & Environ- ment Committee that meets on a quarterly basis, as well as ad hoc meetings, and I’m a mem- ber of that committee. They bring in high-ranking officials at the EPA, the Department of Energy, and the White House, so I get access to those individuals through that relationship, as well as our direct relationship with EPA and DOE.” High on the ABMA’s agenda, in addition to its current focus on THE AMERICAN BOILER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION its programs and member services, as well as its advocacy efforts, are two new initiatives. One is industry promotion: “Being visible to the entire boiler supply chain with a focus on how we reach out to our end-user community,” Lynch avers. “In many cases, there is lack of knowledge about the boiler room and what our companies bring to the table to positively advance production and energy efficiency goals. For example, a recent article in our magazine, Today’s Boiler, notes an ABMA company that doubled the amount of steam production while decreasing the fuel that it needed by 50 percent.We have burner staging systems now, where boil- ers will only run at full fire when necessary. Our companies are doing innovative things, and we’ve focused our efforts over the last couple of years on getting the message out. We recently launched Inside the Boiler Room, a podcast