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w w w.in s i g h t o n m f g . c o m March 2019 • /INSIGHT ON MANUFACTURING | 29 NEWMA'S PRESIDENT'S CUP GOLF EVENT RETURNS FOR SECOND YEAR The NEW Manufacturing Alliance's President's Cup Scholarship Golf Scramble returns for its second year June 6 on the River Course at Blackwolf Run in Kohler. The event, which sold out last year, pairs participating companies with a manufacturing president or executive in a four-person golf scramble. Some of the confirmed participants for 2019 include Wilson Jones, president and CEO of Oshkosh Corp.; Kurt Voss, CEO of Amerilux; Louie Gentine, CEO of Sargento Foods; and Kim Bassett, president and CEO of Bassett Mechanical. Eighteen gold-level sponsorships are available for $3,000 each. Opportunities include: • Two golfers from a company get paired with a president and another executive (sponsors choose which president to golf with, selected on a first- come, first-served basis). • A hole sponsor with a company's logo on flag on green. • A one-page advertisement in the event program that is distributed to all attendees. Last year's event raised $36,000 for NEWMA's scholarship fund, which was applied to the $45,000 the Listen better. Plan better. Build better. ¡ Design-build ¡ Commercial ¡ Industrial "I would highly recommend CR Structures Group and will use them again. From planning to building, they exceeded our expectations." ~ Owner, PolyFlex, Inc. 920.733.7305 | www.crstructures.com 571 Marcella St. | Kimberly, WI 54136 SHAWANO'S TIMBERPRO ACQUIRED BY KOMATSU AMERICA CORP. Komatsu America Corp., a global heavy equipment manufacturer, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TimberPro Inc. of Shawano. The acquisition is expected to close on April 1. Established in 2002, TimberPro is a manufacturer of purpose-built forest machines and attachments, offering tracked feller bunchers and harvesters, forwarders, wheeled harvesters and felling heads. "Acquiring TimberPro will strengthen the company's position in the full-tree- length market and enables us to offer a highly competitive range of products for professional logging," said Rod Schrader, CEO of Komatsu America Corp. EVENT|NEWS