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This issue includes ST&M's 2010-2011 Buyers Guide. We have compiled everything you need for packaging a new spray product into this convenient resource guide, which lists a variety of special services, components and raw materials. We are also featuring its companion piece, the 5th edition of Corporate Profiles, which provides the latest information from the companies committed to providing the most up-to-date products and services for our industry. The Buyers Guide is also offered online and can be found in our digital version, as well. Visit www.spraytechnology.com for more information.

If your company is not represented or under-represented, or even represented incorrectly(!), please contact me directly. Each year, we strive for accuracy and try to make the Buyers Guide more streamlined and efficient than the year before. We can only do this with your help and participation, however. In 2010, we emailed all questionnaires, and for the first time, allowed recipients to email back their responses rather than via fax or snail-mail. This was a huge time-saver for all concerned, but relied on having accurate email addresses for the appropriate contacts in the first place: easier said than done.

Please review the Guide and determine if your company is properly represented; a matter of clearing up a "faulty" or outdated email address is really all it takes to make sure accuracy prevails.

Time to update the Rolodex
Congratulations to The American Cleaning Institute (ACI), which is the new name of the former Soap & Detergent Association (SDA). The Institute introduced its new name and launched a new website (www.CleaningInstitute.org) during ACI's 2010 Mid-Year Meeting in Washington, D.C. in June.

The unveiling of the new name and website coincides with the move to ACI's environmentally-friendly new building located at 1331 L Street NW, Suite 650, Washinton, DC. I feel cleaner already.

As always, we hope you enjoy this issue.

Editor