The
Automotive Parts Remanufacturers
Association’s Volume Transmission
Remanufacturing Group (VTRG) will meet
on March 29, 2012 in conjunction with
SHOWPOWER at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in Dallas.
On Thursday, March 29, the VTRG will
start the day at 8:00 a.m. with tours
of Bishop International where the group
will visit their facility where they
remanufacture manual transmission units
and reclaim automatic transmission hard
parts. After a tour of Bishop the group
will depart for AER’s massive engine
remanufacturing plant.
“This
state-of-the-art facility will be very
educational regardless of what products
one remanufacturers,” stated Jim Slimp,
Chairman of the VTRG. After the plant
tour, AER will treat the group to a
luncheon in their museum, where they
have a very large collection of classic
vehicles.
In the afternoon the VTRG will meet
back at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the
following presentations:
“Overview of the Current State
of the Transmission Market” with Bobby
Mace, Publisher, TRANSMISSION DIGEST
John Schroeder of Jasper
Engines & Transmissions will discuss
“The Geometry of Lean: Understanding
the Golden Triangle”
Laurie Strasser of Afton
Chemicals will present “ATF: Why the
Right Fluid is the Right Fluid”
The VTRG Clinic will end
with a reception and dinner that
evening.
All registrants for the VTRG Clinic
will automatically be eligible to visit
the SHOWPOWER Exposition on March 30-
31. For details on registering for the
VTRG Clinic, visit . For details on
SHOWPOWER, visit www.showpowerexpo.com where you may also make your hotel
reservations. The room rate is $119 for
single/double.
