When Chester Panek first started his drill press shop, his 30-feet wide storefront was located in a busy Chicago neighborhood, crammed in between a row of taverns. “I was just a kid then, and I ...
When Deb Sommers answered a job ad nearly four decades ago, she had no idea what career opportunities would lie ahead for her. Today she owns Lakeview Precision Machining in South Elgin and tells an ...
Few things are more important when an airplane is taking off or touching down than dependable, sturdy and smoothly functioning landing gear. Most fliers just don’t give those gears a thought – unless they malfunction ...
One thing a person doesn’t want to worry about when facing surgery is just how dependable the tiny surgical instrument parts the doctors use really are. Paul Ziegenhorn and over a dozen members of the ...
LYONS – Atlas Tool Works will soon be celebrating its 100-year anniversary, and the fourth generation of Mottls is focused on the company’s future. Since its founding in 1918, Atlas Tool Works – like all ...
Ryan and Aaron Wiegel of Wiegel Tool Works WOOD DALE – Brothers Aaron and Ryan Wiegel and their sister Erica make up the third generation of a manufacturing family that has owned and operated Wiegel ...
Metrology — the science of measuring — is the centerpiece of East Dundee’s Made to Measure, a company Sven Bley founded in 2003 from a department at Bley Engineering in Elk Grove, Illinois. Bley, a ...
LEBANON, IL – State Senator Kyle McCarter represents IL’s 51st district at Illinois’ State Capitol during legislative sessions, and when he’s not there, he’s overseeing his manufacturing companies in Lebanon, IL or visiting Kenya, where ...
ADDISON – When Steve Pagliuzza started working for his dad in the early 1960s, Dial Tool Industries’ toolmakers wore shirt and ties to work each day. “It was very different from the way things are ...
CICERO – When Amy Arend started at United Scrap Metal in Cicero after graduating from the University of Missouri, she had no idea what an exceptionally good fit her new job in manufacturing would be ...