SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS – Alan Szymanski was in diapers when his dad and a partner started Do-Rite Die & Engineering in south Cook County, Illinois. While growing up, Alan spent a lot of time working ...

Even at age 86, it’s not unusual for both Harold and Helen Karbin to be working at the business they started 63 years ago. Harold works on Lexco Cable’s accounting and signs checks, while his ...

Teresa Beach-Shelow was busy volunteering with two daughters’ activities and developing a career in banking when her husband Thom launched a new business in their garage. That year – 1992 – spelled dramatic change for ...

In the “Age of Extinction,” the fourth in the popular Transformer movie series, one of Optimus Prime’s two swords is destroyed by Decepticon Galvatron’s chest grinder. Optimus then acquires a knightly longsword as his weapon ...

The first thing Laystrom Manufacturing Company’s new president sees when he comes into his office every morning is a whiteboard on the wall. On that whiteboard are two arrows – one green, pointing up, and ...

So great when national manufacturing news picks up stories from TMA’s News Bulletin about the great people in our membership, like Machined Concept’s Albert Racynski – thanks Manufacturing Stories!  Albert Raczynski points back to the ...

“We know molds, that’s all we know,” John Demakis, coowner and president of Alliance Specialties and Laser Sales says. And knowing molds is crucial for the network of Chicago area manufacturers Alliance Specialties serves. The ...

Making close-tolerance machined components that go into military and aeronautic products is a critical task that weighs heavily on Bob Weisheit, Jr., president of Robert C. Weisheit Company. Lives depend upon the accuracy and quality ...