RMA/EPG Annual Meeting 2008 The 2008 RMA/EPG Annual Meetings was held on April 12 - 14, 2008 at the Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village in St. Augustine, FL. Click here for a recap of the meeting. SHIP Awards 2008 Fifty-three tire and rubber manufacturing facilities that achieved dramatic improvements in worker health and safety over the last year were recognized with special awards by the Rubber Manufacturers Association at their annual meeting. Below are photos of the award recipients. View the complete list of winners. All of the receipts below were presented their SHIP awards by Jim MacMaster, Yokohama Tire Corporation and Chairman of the RMA Board of Directors and Kim Weber, RMA director of government affairs. BRC Rubber and Plastics, Inc. SHIP Excellence and Improvement Awards Brad Chaffee Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc. SHIP Improvement Award Steven Akey and Mark Emkes Bridgestone APM Company SHIP Improvement Award Joseph Clark Continental Tire North America, Inc. SHIP Improvement Award Matthias Schoenberg Eagle Elastomer Inc. SHIP Excellence Award Regan McHale Excel Polymers SHIP Excellence Award John E. Quinn IMCO, Inc. SHIP Improvement Award Dale Hawkins Lord Corporation SHIP Improvement Award Rebecca Williams View: SHIP Awards page 2;