FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	October 3, 2000
Contact: Barbara Miller
Sumner Rider & Associates
(301) 348-2017

New York, NY -- Richard Kreidel, president of Adams Rite Manufacturing Company, is the newly elected president of Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA). Kreidel was officially named to the two-year post at BHMA's annual fall meeting in Hawaii Sept. 11-13.

Paul Kosakowski, president of the Dorma Group, was named 1st Vice President. Scott Duncan, vice president of commercial products and operations, Security and Safety Sector, Ingersoll-Rand, was named 2nd Vice President. Anthony Mudford, president of Detex Corporation, was named 3rd Vice President.

The association's four elected officers also serve as members of its board of directors. BHMA is the leading trade association representing U.S. manufacturers of architectural hardware.

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