{"id":10973,"date":"2022-12-06T01:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:52:49","slug":"caldwells-ferchen-joins-awrf-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/caldwells-ferchen-joins-awrf-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Caldwell\u2019s Ferchen Joins AWRF Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) has named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/the-caldwell-group\/\">The Caldwell Group Inc.<\/a>\u2019s Director of Business Development Jeff Ferchen to the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>It represents a return to the AWRF board for Ferchen, who previously served from 2015 to 2017.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AWRF serves the lifting, rigging, and load securement industry by advancing interests common among its member companies. The association helps create and share technical information, promotes safety standards, and helps develop product identification procedures. Ferchen will serve on the New Member Committee.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ferchen, who joined Rockford, Illinois-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/the-caldwell-group\/\">Caldwell<\/a>, last year, said: \u201cI am proud to represent both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/the-caldwell-group\/\">Caldwell<\/a> and the wire rope, rigging, and lifting industries in this new, yet familiar, role. The good work performed of our board and the active participation of our membership make the industry stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cAWRF is where all the industry experts work to get technical information and help drive overhead lifting standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10974\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10974\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-307x230.jpg 307w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-513x385.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jeff-Ferchen-copy-507x380.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caldwell\u2019s Director of Business Development Jeff Ferchen has been named to the board of Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ferchen delivers a wealth of experience to the board, having spent more than two decades in the rigging industry at several large manufacturing companies and channel partners positioned closer to the point of use. Ferchen is a regular at AWRF\u2019s 18-monthly Product Information Exhibition (PIE) and has worked with various committees during his career.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ferchen and other new board members attended AWRF\u2019s Fall Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October, and will next meet in Scottsdale, Arizona, in January 2023 for their first official board meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) has named The Caldwell Group Inc.\u2019s Director of Business Development Jeff Ferchen to the board of directors. It represents a return to the AWRF board for Ferchen, who previously served from 2015 to 2017.\u00a0 AWRF serves the lifting, rigging, and load securement industry by advancing interests common among its member&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/caldwells-ferchen-joins-awrf-board\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[8058,149,39,4011,7104,4869,6473,257,975],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-associated-wire-rope-fabricators","tag-awrf","tag-below-the-hook","tag-caldwell","tag-jeff-ferchen","tag-lifter","tag-lifters","tag-lifting","tag-rigging"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caldwell\u2019s Ferchen Joins AWRF Board - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/caldwells-ferchen-joins-awrf-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caldwell\u2019s Ferchen Joins AWRF Board - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) has named The Caldwell Group Inc.\u2019s Director of Business Development Jeff Ferchen to the board of directors. 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