Complying with the Superfund tax, which Congress resurrected in 2021, has been a challenging process for both NACD members and our staff. It has been nearly three decades since the tax was last in effect, and it was unrealistic for Congress to expect the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and taxpayers to get such a complex tax back online in only seven months.
As if recent years haven’t been difficult enough for NACD members, the instability seen in the banking sector these past few weeks has only added to the uncertainty.
The last several years have presented extraordinary challenges for most businesses, including chemical distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers. With the start of a new Congress this year, there are many issues at the forefront of NACD members’ minds as our industry seeks to address and overcome new and legacy regulatory, labor, and economic challenges to ensure we can continue growing our businesses.
Earlier this year, NACD’s Responsible Distribution did away with its traditional three-year Verification Cycle format to bring the environmental, health, safety, security, and sustainability program in line with other management systems and help make onboarding easier for new members. NACD member companies now need to focus on their own verification timeline, which is dictated by the expiration date on their certificates.
If you’ve had a chance to look at the agenda for NACD’s upcoming Western Region Meeting, you might be wondering why – at a meeting where attendance is dominated by distribution industry executives specifically NOT in sales – we’ll be devoting a significant chunk of our time together discussing — yes, you guessed it — SALES!
NACD’s 2023 Spring Regulatory and Responsible Distribution Workshops are taking place March 14-16, 2023 – bringing industry experts together for a few days of insight, education, and networking. And for the second successive year, NACD will host both workshops at our headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
Sustainability is an integral value of the modern business and consumer world. Understandably, expectations have risen in recent years for how the chemical distribution industry addresses sustainability in its warehousing, transportation, storage, and related servicing of chemical products. Here at the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD), we are rising to the challenge.
For years, NACD has led the charge for Congressional consideration and approval of the reauthorization of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards program (CFATS). As our members are well aware, the CFATS program brings stability to our industry and grants DHS the ability to better protect U.S. chemical facilities against bad actors. The program requires chemical facilities to perform Security Vulnerability Assessments and implement Site Security Plans that satisfy the risk-based performance standards required for their unique security challenges and tier level.
Everyone’s familiar with Microsoft Excel®, right? However, it may surprise you to find out that only a small minority truly understand how to use this ubiquitous piece of software properly.
The powerful spreadsheet tool can transform how you handle data in your business. That’s where Stephanie Hutcheson, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Office Expert, comes in to explain how to unlock its full potential.
If the Speaker’s selection process in the U.S. House of Representatives is indicative of the year to come on Capitol Hill, we are in for quite the roller coaster ride. After four days and 15 rounds of voting, Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) eked out the victory to become House Speaker but not before some major concessions were awarded to various Republican factions to seal the deal, as they say.