PEARL to pursue ANSI status

Members of the Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League (PEARL) voted at the group’s annual meeting in Portland, Ore., this week to pursue accreditation as a developer of electrical product reconditioning standards under the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The group, made up of dealers of surplus, reconditioned and remanufactured electrical products, will pursue ANSI standards developing organization (SDO) status with the goal of adding PEARL’s reconditioning standards to the ANSI body of U.S. technical standards. Also at the meeting, PEARL added a new Service Organization membership category for electrical field service companies and motor and transformer repair shops, and named Malcolm Fredrick of Coastal Switchgear/Shermco, Angleton, Texas, its new president.