It isn’t easy to start a new business in Illinois these days, but that foreboding thought didn’t faze Felipe Perez. The 30-year-old started a brand new milling, turning and wire EDM business in October 2016. ...
The 2018 Chairman of the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s Board of Directors will be the Association’s Ambassador of Good Will with a focus on building the TMA community for the next year. That’s because Todd ...
DES PLAINES – Tom Hacker started his manufacturing career in the 1970s on the shop floor of a metal fabrication company. In 1996, he joined C&L Supreme and twelve years later, he was elected the ...
(As published in TMA’s September 2015 News Bulletin) Manufacturers are a “bunch of MacGyvers” to Stacey Bales, president of Bales Metal Surface Solutions. They make up a unique group of creative, ingenious and determined folks ...
Nicole Wolter has a huge challenge facing her and HM Manufacturing – the business she and her father Ken Wolter, now own as partners. That current test is similar to ones business owners face every ...
OAK LAWN – Driving northeast along Southwest Highway in Oak Lawn, a sizeable, yet non-assuming brick building with the sign “Meyer Tool” would normally not be noticeable. But behind the doors underneath Meyer Tool’s sign ...
The more manufacturing automates, the more work NJC Machine Company will have. That’s a key reason why Kevin and Amy Graff bought the 38-year-old company a year and a half ago. “The more the world automates, ...
PALATINE – Newko CEO President Scott Riddell’s story of leading a manufacturing company for thirty years is one filled with determination, inspiration and flavored with some reservation. Scott’s stepfather Harold Newberg and his partner Gene ...
ROCKFORD – Doug Sosnowski started Spare Part Solutions twelve years ago, and today his Rockford-based business has 22 team members. Among other machinery needs, Spare Part Solutions specializes in replacement parts for printing equipment. Spare ...
Five years before David Long and his business partner Walter Schaub started Pro Mold & Die, David was drafted into the U.S. Army and spent most of his two-year military stint between Western and Eastern ...