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Page B15 JUNE 2017 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on B
Federated’s Stoedter
Gains CPA/ABV
Credentials, Named
Manager of Valuations
and Transaction Services
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convention and conference. The da-
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in life-long business and personal
friendships.”
- Kevin Thomson, Executive Vice
President of Dixline Corp.
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Astral announces
Schoonveld as Director
of Operations
Alan Schoonveld
LYNN,IN— Astral Industries, Inc has hired Alan
Schoonveld as director of operations. With a Bachelor’s
Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree
in Business Administration, he has 29 years’ experience in
operations and engineering. In addition, Schoonveld has
been trained and certified in Lean Manufacturing and is
a 6-Sigma Black Belt. “The expansion of our manufactur-
ing team further strength-
ens our ability to meet the
needs of our customers,”
noted Charlie Shaw, CEO
and chairman of the board.
“Alan’s comprehensive un-
derstanding of the manu-
facturing processes, safe-
ty standards and customer
service will be so beneficial
to Astral’s production of
quality, affordable caskets.”
Astral manufactures 18
gauge, 20 gauge and stain-
less steel caskets, as well
as supplies cremation and
wood products. For more
information about Astral and the products they offer,
contact the customer service department at 1-800-278-
7252, visit , like them on Face-
book and follow them on Instagram.
CMR announces
Formation of Responsible
Recycling Charitable
Foundation
Ron Bowman
ROCHESTER,NH—Cremation Metal Recycling an-
nounces the formation of its 501c3, non-profit recycling
company, Responsible Recycling Charitable Founda-
tion. The purpose of this new non-profit company is to
support any funeral home/crematory (profit or non-prof-
it), who chooses to donate all post cremation metal recy-
cling proceeds to a charity of their choice.
Due to ethical concerns, many funeral homes don’t wish
to profit from the sale of their cremation metal. Many feel
that recycling is the most responsible and environmental-
ly safe method of disposing
of cremation metal and that
the charitable donations are
the most ethical method of
handling any proceeds that
result from the refining of
cremation metal.
Responsible Recycling
Charitable Foundation
will provide the funer-
al home/crematory with a
certificate that shows their
participation in the non-
profit company and that
all proceeds were donat-
ed to a charity. The certifi-
cate can be displayed in the reception area so that clients
will understand the policy with respect to how their loved
ones’ cremation metal is handled.
Ron Bowman Promoted
Cremation Metal Recycling also has announced the ap-
pointment of Ron Bowman as vice president of sales and
marketing. Ron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Busi-
ness Administration with a major in marketing. He has
been involved in both sales and sales management over the
past 40 years, representing several Fortune 500 firms cov-
ering industries such as industrial products, office equip-
ment, communications and the fire protection industry.
Ron’s responsibilities include helping his brother, Jer-
ry Bowman, owner and founder, to develop a strategic
marketing plan for expansion of the company’s recycling
services throughout the United States. He will be design-
ing and implementing a plan to recruit independent sales
representatives, to represent both the cremation metal re-
cycling company and the non-profit charitable donation
company, in targeted areas of the United States. In addi-
tion, Ron will proactively market the company’s recycling
services to crematories in his home state of Florida and
assist with all company advertising and marketing plans.
“I’m excited to help my brother expand his business
throughout the United States. Over the past 20 years, my
brother has built a successful business in New England
and New York, providing cremation supplies and more
recently, cremation metal recycling services to funeral
homes and crematories. Cremation is rapidly becoming
the preferred method of disposition in most states and
most crematories are now recycling post cremation metal
which eliminates any impact on our environment.”
For more information on their recycling companies,
or an independent sales rep opportunity, contact Ron at
, call 800-664-8365 or vis-
it .
Briotech Inc Announces
Distribution Agreement
with Dodge to Tackle
Deadly Prions
SPRINGFIELD,IL— Federated Funeral Directors of Amer-
ica’s Rebecca Stoedter recently completed the credential-
ing process with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA),
gaining the designation of ABV, or Accredited in Business
Valuations. The ABV credential, established in 1998 by the
AICPA, is granted to qualified CPAs who have demonstrat-
ed considerable expertise in valuation through knowledge,
skills and experience. Stoedter met extensive requirements
to earn the ABV credential, which include passing a rigorous
exam, demonstrating significant business experience with
the completion of business valuation engagements and com-
pleting over 75 hours of education in the area of valuation.
Stoedter, who has been with Federated for nearly six
years, has also been named the manager of the Valua-
tion and Transaction Services Department. “We are very
pleased to have such a strong professional leading our val-
uation department,” said Fabrice Moriaux, Federated’s
executive director. Rebecca has a bachelor’s degree in eco-
nomics from the University of Illinois and is a certified
public accountant. The VATS department at Federated
offers comprehensive succession planning services and as-
sists funeral homes in structuring a plan that accomplish-
es the business’s transition goals.
ling and preventing many transmissible diseases. That’s
so important today when rampant antibiotic resistance is
challenging established approaches to infectious disease
management all over the world. The discovery reported
in PLOS Pathogens has opened new avenues for research-
ers to explore in understanding the relationship between
the HOCL made in the brain, its possible involvement
in prion inactivation there, and the disease processes that
lead to dementia. Understanding those processes is one
of the most urgent priorities facing biomedical science at
this time.”
BrioHOCLTM is easy to handle, safe for both users
and treated surfaces and is environmentally safe. Brio-
tech’s pure HOCL, used in the PLOS Pathogens report,
is reliably stable in its formulation and powerfully effec-
tive against a wide range of conventional microbial dis-
ease agents. The solution can be applied directly to skin
and mucous membranes, hard surfaces, instruments, or
safely aerosolized to decontaminate entire rooms.
The research study titled Inactivation of Prions and Am-
yloid seeds with Hypochlorous Acid, appears in the cur-
rent issue of PLOS Pathogens at:
BrioHOCLTM treatment led to a high level of inacti-
vation after short exposure times for transmissible pri-
ons of CJD, BSE, and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD),
but also for self-replicating proteins found in Alzheim-
er’s, Parkinson’s and other dementias. Infectivity of Brio-
HOCLTM-treated scrapie prions in mice was also highly
significantly reduced.
Briotech is a disruptive therapeutic and disinfection
technology start-up based in the Seattle area, that manu-
facturers the first Hypochlorous Acid (HOCL) product
with purity and long term stability without buffers for
use in a wide variety of applications globally.
Dodge is the world’s largest manufacturer and suppli-
er of embalming chemicals, instruments, supplies and
more. For more information, visit or
.
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