PTDA Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to James T. Moore II
Chicago, Ill.—November 8, 2007—The Power Transmission
Distributors Association (PTDA) has named James T. Moore II, a former
president of Detroit Ball Bearing (later known as Invetech), the 18th
recipient of its Warren Pike Award for lifetime achievement in the power
transmission/motion control (PT/MC) industry.
Moore received the award, named for PTDA’s co-founder and first
president, at the association’s annual Industry Summit in Palm
Desert, Calif. The award was established in 1984 to honor
individuals who have demonstrated outstanding, continuous, long-term
support of PTDA and the PT/MC industry.
In thanking PTDA for the honor, Moore remarked that being selected
for the Warren Pike Award was “wonderful and
humbling.“ “PTDA really gave me an opportunity to grow
and appreciate the difference in people and how great this industry
is,” Moore said. “All I can do is encourage everyone
to continue doing what you’ve been doing and doing it in the best
way possible.”
Moore spent his distinguished career with Detroit Ball
Bearing/Invetech, eventually becoming its president. By the 1990s,
the company ranked as one of the industry’s largest PT/MC
distribution firms. Moore retired after Invetech was acquired by
Applied Industrial Technologies in 1998.
Moore’s dedication to PTDA is demonstrated by the numerous
volunteer positions he held. Moore served as a PTDA board member
from 1986 to 1992, serving as the association’s president in
1991. He served on the steering/by-laws committee in 1986 and
1987, the executive committee from 1989 to 1992, and chaired the
nominating committee in 1992.
A long-time champion of the PTDA Foundation and industrial
distribution education programs, Moore was a Foundation board trustee
twice — from 1991 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2003. He most
recently served on the Foundation’s 25th anniversary gala planning
committee.
During his most active years with PTDA, Moore was noted as being a
bridge-builder between multiple constituencies. He built new lines
of communication and understanding across the channel. Bob
Oberholzer, PTDA’s president in 1993 and another recipient of the
Warren Pike Award, remembers Moore for “doing a yeoman’s
job, in trying to make harmony between manufacturers and
distributors.”
Bill Purser, president of Applied Industrial Technologies, saluted
Moore, “His desire to give back to the industry is a good example
for us all.”
Founded in 1960, the Power Transmission Distributors Association
(PTDA) is the leading association for the industrial power
transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel. A
U.S.-based trade association, PTDA represents 216 power
transmission/motion control distributor firms with over 3,500 locations
throughout North America and 13 other countries, as well as 200
manufacturers that supply the PT/MC industry.
PTDA is dedicated to providing exceptional networking, targeted
education, relevant information and leading-edge business tools to help
distributors and manufacturers meet marketplace demands competitively
and profitably. For more information, visit www.ptda.org.
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