When Vermeer Chair Emeritus Mary Andringa arrived at National Association of Manufacturers headquarters this summer, she expected a tour of the renovated office.

Instead, the former Board chair was surprised by an applauding crowd who gathered for the ribbon-cutting for one of the organization’s meeting rooms, now named the Mary Andringa Room in commemoration of her decades-long service to manufacturers in the U.S. Vermeer CEO and President Jason Andringa says National Association of Manufacturers’ conference rooms are named for many luminaries of manufacturing, including Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Jonas Salk and Marie Curie.

Mary served as NAM Board chair from 2011 to 2013 and has been an active participant on the NAM Board since the early 2000s.