This relationship brings PMPA's members into close and friendly contact with their counterparts throughout Europe. The British, the French, the Germans, the Irish, the Spanish, the Swedish, and the Swiss all have equivalent associations to the PMPA and are all members. The SID is governed through a Steering Committee comprised of two members of each National Association and three Officers. In each odd numbered year, one country hosts an International Congress to which all the individuals of each National Association are invited. The next Congress is scheduled for Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, in September of 2001.
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Factory visits are also a most important feature of the International Congress and much useful information is exchanged. Certainly, the formal meetings and the factory visits have good business value, but the real worth of the SID, like that of the PMPA, is the opportunity it presents to its members to meet together informally and to build up international relationships, both commercial and personal. In the past few years, PMPA members have visited precision machine shop in Sweden, France, Ireland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The SID, by bringing the National Associations together, is the organization that promotes and encourages such meetings. All rights reserved Developed and Created by Matrix Group International, Inc.