The Women of TMA Committee (WTMA) are working towards raising $25,000 to fund scholarships for young women interested in pursuing careers in the manufacturing industry. Representatives of the WTMA – including Teresa Beach-Shelow, CEO of ...
Craig Zoberis was honored in May 2019 by Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering with their “Entrepreneurial Award” for 2019. The following profile was first published in 2016: By Fran Eaton – Heading up a ...
If there’s the perfect example of an all-around manufacturing Renaissance man, Transwestern principal Ed Brandt is in the running. Brandt started as one of the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s (TMA) early apprenticeship trainees, worked as ...
Rich Hoster has been Smith & Richardson, Inc.’s co-owner and president for nearly 25 years. He joined the company in the mid-1980s, soon after graduating from the University of Tulsa with a degree in finance ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – JR Hommer says he’s been in a manufacturing family since he was six years old, and in the industry himself for since 1992. In just the past few years, he’s noticed a ...
Adapting to demand allows third-generation business to thrive “Adaptable,” “versatile,” “profitable,” “creative” — all words that describe manufacturers that survive and thrive from generation to generation. And those are the words that describe Stanley Spring ...
One of Technology & Manufacturing Association’s Board Members – Nicole Wolter, CEO and President of HM Manufacturing in Wauconda – gives firsthand experience confirming that despite media reporting differently, manufacturing is doing well these days. ...
Sko-Die, the company Patrick Steininger’s grandfather Joseph Steininger started with two partners just after World War II, is thriving and “open for business” – the company motto. The Morton Grove-based custom metal stamper and manufacturer ...
From TMA’s June 2015 News Bulletin – Patrick Osborne emigrated from Ireland when he was 18 years old. He did so for one reason: the “plethora of opportunity” in America. Trained at an Irish state ...
How a Wobbly Lawnmower Knob and Good Old American Ingenuity Led to a Successful Business American ingenuity emerges more often than not when a problem needs a solution. Case in point: Innovative Components, Inc. started ...