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DuPont Protection Solutions today announced that it is kicking off a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of DuPont™ Nomex®, an inherently heat- and flame-resistant fiber used to help provide protection to millions of people and critical processes worldwide. Throughout the year, a series of celebratory events and activities will be held to not only mark this major milestone, but to focus on the future.

During a March 20 awards reception at its 2017 Glove Symposium, the International Glove Association (IGA) inducted Frank Stucke into the prestigious IGA Hall of Fame. Stucke began his career in the industrial glove market during the 1970’s, joining the Perfect Fit Glove Company as a knitting machine mechanic while attending high school.

3M has announced the decision to buy Scott Safety for $2 billion, thrusting the company to the forefront of the personal protective equipment (PPE) market.

Streamlight®, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance flashlights, announced that the company and several of its U.S. distribution partners recycled 16,508 pounds of rechargeable batteries in 2016, exceeding its 2015 total by nearly 1,800 pounds.

Just three years after opening its US distribution centre and sales office in Kentucky, leading Irish safety clothing and personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers Portwest Limited has established itself in Australia. Portwest has just acquired Melbourne company Prime Mover Workwear for a sum in excess of $8 million.

Companies can now get greater insight into their OSHA compliance performance with the new OSHA Diagnostic Audit service from J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. “Many companies have asked us for an even more robust solution for managing safety and compliance,” said Steve Murray, senior director of consulting services at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.

Rockford Systems, LLC., a premier provider of machine safeguarding products and services, today announced details for the next webinar in its online educational series: Machine Safety Compliance 101. This free, interactive webinar takes an in-depth look at the major challenges facing managers today as they strive to better understand OSHA, ANSI and NFPA standards as they apply to metal working machinery, along with the steps involved in assessing and safeguarding potentially hazardous machinery to full compliance.

One ladder is all it takes for a general industry workplace to be affected by OSHA’s new Walking-Working Surfaces Final Rule (Subpart D). J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of safety and compliance solutions, has introduced a wide variety of regulatory resources to help companies simplify compliance with this nearly universal rule.

Industrial Scientific, the global leader in gas detection, has announced a significant acceleration of the company vision statement timeline. The Industrial Scientific vision, which previously stated the goal of eliminating death on the job “in this century,” has been updated to reflect the company’s new goal of doing so by the year 2050.

Schmalz Inc. will be exhibiting automated and manual vacuum handling solutions for the packaging and food and beverage industries at the PackExpo East 2017 trade show (February 27 – March 1 in Philadelphia). New products at the Schmalz booth (#1161) include the oval tubular bag suction cup SPOB1f for flow-wrap packaging processes in packaging machines.