Gardner Publications selects its partners carefully. In every case, when we evaluate our partners, we hold them up to the following criteria:

1. They must provide real value to our customers
2. They must be of a quality level commensurate with our individual brands
3. They must not conflict with our neutral editorial position as an independent provider of information or with our core advertising customer base.

IMTS.COM (www.imts.com)

Gardner Publications has partnered with the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) to create the IMTS.COM Website, CD-Rom and to sell promotional packages on IMTS.COM. IMTS.COM is a tool to help attendees and exhibitors navigate the show. From comprehensive exhibitor and product listings to hotels and "Chicagoland" info to online exhibitor update functions, IMTS.COM is there.

Hanser Gardner Publications (www.hansergardner.com)

Founded in 1995, Hanser Gardner Publications is a joint venture between Gardner Publications and Carl Hanser Verlag (www.hanser.de) to distribute and market technical books serving the Metalworking, Plastics and Finishing industries. The books offered through Hanser Gardner are all carefully selected by Hanser and Gardner's editors to provide the information most useful to our readers.

Tooling U (www.toolingu.com)

Today's businesses face the challenge of maintaining a trained workforce. Companies must locate apprenticeship programs, cover travel and lodging expenses, and disrupt operations to cover training needs. Tooling U's web-based training offers low-cost, all-access courses and services to maximize corporate training initiatives.

Accessible through all of Gardner's Magazine websites, Tooling University offers high quality web-based e-learning that focuses on today's industrial manufacturing training needs. Tooling U delivers superior training content over the Internet using text, photos, video, audio, and illustrations. Their courses contain "roll-up-your-sleeves" content that offers real-world solutions on subjects such as Metal Cutting, Workholding, Materials, CNC, with much more to follow.

PMPA (www.pmpa.org)

One of Gardner’s key partners for Production Machining magazine is the Precision Machined Products Association . The PMPA is an international trade association representing the interests of the precision machined products industry. While PMPA consists mainly of North American-based manufacturers, its members also operate facilities in various industrial markets around the globe.

Founded in 1933 (formerly the National Screw Machine Products Association), the association is known today as the premier provider of programs and services for the industry. Through dissemination of the latest technological advancements, government regulations, benchmarking, business intelligence and management information, PMPA members stay ahead of the curve, ready to compete on a global scale.
Our partnership with PMPA includes an editorial partnership with Production Machining, as well as partnering on the biennial PMTS <make this a link to PMTS’s website>, an international gathering of manufacturers, suppliers and end users of products and services dedicated entirely to the production of precision machined products and turned parts.