Award Nominations Bolster Our Outlook

Like the industrial economy in general, it’s turning out to be a another good year at Machinery & Equipment MRO. Our larger issues mean you benefit as a reader.

For example, this edition has 19 feature articles — we actually had to leave some specific stories off of the contents page because they wouldn’t fit. (Five stories on motors and generators are just described by their overall theme, not individually.)

You’ll also find descriptions of more than 60 new product items, as well as several pages of industry news to keep you up-to-date with your suppliers, your peers and your profession.

Our good news also got a boost lately when we learned we were nominated as a finalist in a total of four categories in the 2005 Kenneth R. Wilson Awards competition. The KRW awards recognize excellence in Canadian business journalism and graphic design. There were a total of 729 entries in the competition, which was for issues published during 2004.

Our nominations included Best Editorial (Time to get tough on counterfeiters, November 2004, pg. 6, by Bill Roebuck); Best Resource/Insfrastructure Article (Paper Chase, June 2004, pg. 19, by Carroll McCormick); Best News Coverage (Killer counterfeits, November 2004, pg. 19, by Richard Rix), and Best Cover (Drive Time, April 2004, conceived and created by art director Ellie Robinson and editor Bill Roebuck with photography by Sean Ellis).

We’re pleased and hope you are too. We’re especially proud to be recognized among many much more glamorous business and trade magazines — medical and marketing publications, for example.

As you know, the maintenance field reflects one of the most unheralded yet most important functions in any operation. Without it, production could idle for days or weeks, not hours; the quality of goods would suffer; and dangerous situations around equipment would arise in facilities across the country.

We continue to be amazed at what some of our readers get up to in order to innovate solutions to unexpected problems. And we love to tell their stories. Just turn the page and you’ll see.