MRO Magazine receives Gold Award for best technical how-to article (September 01, 2007)

Toronto, ON — Machinery & Equipment MRO has won a Gold Award along with three Top Ten Finalist awards in a prestigious competition for Canadian business journalism. This is the second year in a row the magazine has taken Gold in the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Awards program, and the sixth such award the magazine has received.

The awards are presented annually by the Canadian Business Press. Business and trade magazines across the country submit their best work in several different categories. More than 700 entries were received in this year’s competition.

Machinery & Equipment MRO won the Gold Award in the in the Best How-to category for ‘Troubleshooter’s Guide to Test & Measurement Technology’, by technical editor Lloyd (Tex) Leugner.

The magazine was also honoured with three Finalist awards for the following articles. In the Best Industrial/Manufacturing category — Finding the Hot Spots, by Carroll McCormick, as well as the Maintenance Management column by Cliff Williams; and in the Best Resource/Infrastructure category — When Less is More, by Carroll McCormick.

Congratulations to contributors Carroll, Cliff and Tex for helping make MRO Magazine one of Canada’s top trade magazines. All of these winning articles were published in 2006 and are archived online at www.mromagazine.com.

Back in 2006, MRO Magazine received the Gold Award in the Best Industrial/Manufacturing Article category for ‘Curbing the Bad Actors’ by Carroll McCormick.

For details on the awards program, visit www.cbp.ca.

APEX Award bestowed

Machinery & Equipment MRO also received its second APEX Award of Excellence in APEX 2007, the Awards for Publication Excellence competition. The first was received in the 2006 competition.

Sponsored by Communications Concepts, the international APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.

Editor and associate publisher Bill Roebuck, and art director Ellie Robinson, received the Award of Excellence in the Magapapers & Newspapers category for the November 2006 issue of the magazine. The issue was selected from among a total of almost 5,000 entries.

For more information about the APEX awards, visit http://apexawards.com.