Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

184 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 and cities, and Spirac (USA) Inc. call to action in this context is to make product reliability and service support their top priorities. “We’ve had a sales boom since about 2018 where we’ve virtually doubled our return,” shares Egger. “Last year in particular was a record year, so we’ve come out of Covid quite well. Successfully executing the many projects we’ve received will put us to the test, but we remain focused on minimizing the impact of the supply chain situation, and providing quality equipment in time to our customers.” Spirac (USA) Inc. cultivates its connections with industry and services through membership with two significant organizations: the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) and the Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association (WWEMA). Both organizations have around 100 years of experience in rallying to bring the needs, concerns, and goals of their members to the forefront, with CEMA serving the manufacturers, integrators, and designers of conveyor equipment throughout the Americas, and WWEMA priding itself on being the voice of water and wastewater technology providers. “We do a lot of work in Washington through WWEMA, lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the government— educating them, if you will—as to what’s needed in the market and what the Association can provide,” Egger mentions. “I’ve served on the Board of WWEMA myself for a dozen years, or more. I think it’s tremendously helpful to the member companies and a great resource for the EPA, the U.S. Government, and the U.S. Commerce Department, in many of the activities they undertake. They come to us with a lot of questions and for a lot of information. There’s good collaboration between the government entities and the private sector.”