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2023 ASBWA CONFERENCE & PRODUCT FAIR HIGHLIGHTS
May 10-12, 2023 • Grand Hyatt • San Antonio, Texas
Henry Hidell
Clay Bell and Jamie Carroll
Steve Kurth, Dave Redick, and Craig Brewton
The 2023 ASBWA first ever convention was held in San Antonio, Texas at the Hyatt on the Riverwalk. Attendees for the event included bottlers, distributors, suppliers, and professionals in the industry. The conference featured a great lineup of speakers on timely topics including: Future Performance & Key Indicators of the Bottled Water Industry (Bob Hidell, Hydell-Eyster); What Keeps You Up at Night (Steve Kurth, Polymer Solutions International, David Redick, Steelhead, and Craig Brewton, Aqua One); Empowering Your Team (Shaye Donica, Leadership Consultant); Acing Third Party Audits and FDA in a Post-Covid World (Chris Dunn, DunnWorks); State & Federal Legislative and Regulatory Updates (Joe Doss, IBWA); to name a few. The first-ever ASBWA Product Fair was a great success featuring a Raffle give away and many other vendor prizes.
Mark your calendar now for the 2024 ASBWA Convention & Product Fair to take place April 7-10 at Lanier Islands, Legacy Lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia!
Affiliated States Bottled Water Association Webinar Series
Build a more resilient workforce & secure your company’s security posture!
Join us on Thursday, August 31st to learn how to build a more resilient workforce and develop your company’s security posture against unwanted threats.
Here is what you can learn:
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Identifying factors that influence employee departure.
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How to develop strategies that help retain top performing employees.
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How to make sure you are safeguarding sensitive data.
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Actionable steps toward a more secure workplace.
Logistics:
This special webinar is free for ASBWA members! The webinar will be held on Thursday, August 31st from 9:00 am - 11:00 am CST. Once you have signed up you will receive an invitation to join the meeting. Register today and as added bonus we will send you the recording!
ASBWA COMPANY PROFILE
Dave Redick and Jack Walsh, Owners of Steelhead
Experts in Water Treatment and Bottling
Steelhead takes pride in its long-term client relationships and ability to provide the support necessary to the success our partners. Whether you have a technical question, or need to schedule field support, Steelhead service experts are just a phone call away.
Steelhead was founded in 1971 as a family business with a single purpose – to design and manufacture equipment for the bottled water industry. At the outset, the company focused on returnable bottles, and Steelhead built a first-class line of equipment including the industry’s first single operator 5-gallon bottling machine. Since then, Steelhead has expanded its abilities to provide world class water treatment solutions. With equipment placed in over 90 countries and an extensive customer base that is growing by the day, Steelhead is a reliable partner for leading producers in the beverage and agriculture industry.
50 years, over 90 countries, and hundreds of customers later, Steelhead’s experience in the industry is a key strength in providing top quality systems.
Steelhead is the longest operating manufacturer in the business producing Home Office Delivery (HOD) and related equipment. Over the last 50 years has been an undisputed innovator in the industry, bringing solutions from the first mineral injection system and the first one-operator bottling system, to the most effective ozone sterilization system available.
Steelhead takes pride in its long-term client relationships and ability to provide the support necessary to the success our partners. Whether you have a technical question, or need to schedule field support, Steelhead service experts are just a phone call away.
Global Locations
Steelhead Inc.
10322 Moursund Blvd. San Antonio, TX 78221
800-966-7471
ASBWA NEWS BREAK!
Bottled Water Reaches New Peaks in Revenue and Volume
Alexandria, VA – America’s favorite packaged drink – bottled water – reached new peaks in both volume consumed and sales in 2022 in the U.S., new data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) shows.
Bottled water’s total volume sold in 2022 was 15.9 billion gallons, its highest volume ever, surpassing carbonated soft drinks for the seventh year in a row. In terms of retail dollars, 2022 sales approached $46 billion, up from $40.8 billion in 2021.
POU/POE viable for SDWA compliance, study finds
Contaminants, research, pou/poe, WQRF, SDWA, Community Water Systems
Study assessed public health, environmental and economic trade-offs.
LISLE, Ill., – A research study funded by the Water Quality Research Foundation has been published in AWWA Water Science, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of research on the science, engineering and social aspects of water. The University of Massachusetts Amherst study demonstrates how Community Water Systems can examine three different factors together to determine whether it’s better to upgrade their centralized treatment plant or provide point-of-use or point-of-entry treatments to customers.
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ASBWA COMING EVENTS
August 31, 2023 - 9:00 am - 11:00 am CST
ASBWA EDUCATION WEBINAR (by Zoom)
August 31, 2023 - 2:00 PM CST
ASBWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
(by Zoom)
OCTOBER 19, 2023
ASBWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
(Site to be announced)
OCTOBER 19-20, 2023
ASBWA FALL EDUCATION SEMINAR/PLANT TOUR OF GRAND SPRINGS,
ALTON, VA
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If you would like to be part of a professional, energetic, and fun group of men and women who are dedicated to the betterment of ASBWA member businesses and the bottled water industry, the Affiliated States Bottled Water Association (ASBWA) is the perfect association for you. ASBWA represents states stretching from Arizona and Utah across to Florida and Georgia and up to Virginia along with all states in between. We are growing fast! Join ASBWA today! You’ll be happy you did!
