Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! As 2022 arrives and pushes 2021 out of the way, I have had a chance to reflect on the past two years and the changes we have endured. 2020 saw unprecedented challenges that touched every person, business, and industry in some way. We changed the way we did things daily, while some of those changes were temporary, some will stay with us forever. The virtual training, meetings and happy hours of 2019 still linger even though 2020 saw us fight back to in-person encounters as much as the dreaded pandemic would allow. I am hopeful that 2022 will be our chance to continue back to normalcy while keeping the good lessons learned.

One of the “good lessons” was that cleanliness is critically important to our health and well-being. And as everyone in this industry knows, cleanliness is absolutely key to the proper function and dependability of the products we make and use in our everyday lives. As we strive at MCA to determine “How clean is clean,” we are working together to educate and inform our membership about the latest technology, innovations and processes to make us all successful.

Your MCA board and I are extremely excited about what we have to offer in 2022. We are continuing our informative and popular webinar series, growing and expanding our technical content and gearing up to see everyone in person this fall at IMTS to share our knowledge, and network with friends and colleagues.

I look forward to connecting with all of you in the coming year and hope you will take advantage of all our association has to offer. Please feel free to reach out to me or any of our board members with any questions, suggestions or comments. We would truly love to hear from you.

Stay safe, stay healthy and let’s get this year started off with a bang!