Equipment Report

NAID Honors Ameri-Shred’s Bartel

According to Cherie Bartel, whether her late husband John was providing document destruction services or equipment to the industry, "his passion was the absolute satisfaction of every customer."

John Bartel, the founder of equipment maker Ameri-Shred Corp., also spent 25 years as a secure shredding service provider, according to Cherie, and helped to finance and create the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID).

NAID honored John with its President’s Award at its 2007 Annual Conference, which was April 11-13 at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla.

Outgoing NAID President Al Judkiewicz recounted how John paid for the expenses of the first NAID Conference in 1992.

Several years later when NAID began its own certification program, John’s Monroeville, Pa.-based secure shredding company All Safe Document Destruction Services Inc. was among the first to obtain NAID certification.

The Bartel family’s presence in the industry grew globally through its creation of equipment maker Ameri-Shred Corp. According to Cherie, John "helped set up nearly 300 secure document facilities worldwide during his career."

Cherie accepted the President’s Award on John’s behalf at the NAID Annual Banquet, where she thanked those attendees who had reached out to the couple during John’s illness and after his death in November 2006.

Security Engineered Machinery (SEM), Westboro, Mass., has introduced the Mag EraSure ME-P3M degausser, which permanently removes information from hard drives and other magnetic media, according to the company.

The manual ME-P3M is ideal for in the field where power may not be available, according to SEM, and complies with National Security Agency and Department of Defense requirements.

The unit accommodates functioning and nonfunctioning floppy disks and most desktop and notebook hard drives as well as VHS, S-VHS, ½-inch (type 3480), DLT, LTO, QIC, DAT, 8mm, TRAVAN and AIT tape drives.

More information is available at www.semshred.com.