IFI Division I Industrial Products Meeting: August 26, 2025 @ MWFA

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IFI DIVISION I INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS MEETING | AUGUST 26 | 7:45 A.M – 9:45 A.M. 

FREE for IFI members!
$55 for IFI member guests/customers

Division I has planned a meeting for our membership and their customers in Lincolnshire, IL, in conjunction with the MWFA show.

Where:  Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, 10 Marriott Dr., Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069
When: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Breakfast: 7:45 a.m.
Division I Business Meeting: 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker: Laurin Baker, The Laurin Baker Group, LLC starts at 8:45 a.m.
Topics: Discuss brief Division I business and hear a keynote address from Laurin Baker of The Laurin Baker Group, LLC about how IFI Government Affairs works to safeguard the entire fastener industry.
Adjournment: 9:45 a.m. 

Laurin M. Baker, Founder of The Laurin Baker Group, LLC, has more than 40 years of experience in government relations and public affairs, including 20 years as an executive in Fortune 500 companies in the forest products and recreational marine manufacturing industries.  He provides the firm’s clients with senior government relations counsel in the areas of the environment, taxation, defense, international trade and natural resources.

He has been a practitioner and a manager of government relations, corporate communications, employee communications and community relations at the state, national and international levels.

Since founding The Laurin Baker Group in 1996, Mr. Baker has successfully represented various corporate and association clients on issues before state, federal and international legislative and regulatory bodies, including Congress and the European Union.  For example, he provided political strategy and leadership to a group of steel-consuming organizations that successfully sought early termination of tariffs imposed on imported steel in 2001.  He also headed a coalition of industrial fastener manufacturers and distributors, as well as end users of fasteners in the automobile, aerospace and heavy equipment industries, in passage of a major reform of the decade-old Fastener Quality Act.

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