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ITCC presents the 2006 Global Manufacturing Series December 7 - 8
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Profile - Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC
For more than 90 years, Atlas (www.atlas-mts.com) has pioneered innovations in the way companies test the durability of their products. From our first instrument in 1915 - the Solar Determinator - which simulated the fading effect the sun has on fabric, to today's comprehensive network of weathering testing instruments and services, our focus has remained the same:
Providing our customers with sophisticated technology and advanced testing solutions to determine how long their products will last. As a result, they can reach their ultimate goals: a quality product, a competitive edge, a faster time to market.
Atlas is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and with its European headquarters in Linsengericht, Germany. Atlas has two design and manufacturing sites worldwide for the internationally accepted Weather-Ometer® and Xenotest® line of test instruments: Chicago, Illinois and Linsengericht, Germany.
With the combined resources of Atlas Material Testing Technology our clients can have expert assistance in all areas related to natural and laboratory weathering and material testing solutions. We work together to provide our clients with a test program that will supply the data needed to make informed material performance decisions.
Products
Laboratory Weathering Testing
Atlas offers a wide range of instruments that accelerate weathering by simulating sunlight, temperature and moisture in the form of rain, dew and humidity.
Corrosion Testing
Atlas offers a variety of test instruments that predict the corrosion resistance of materials exposed to natural and industrial corrosion in the form of humidity, smokestack and vehicle exhaust, as well as salt fog and salt spray.
Environmental Testing
Environmental testing is used to predict product stability and performance in a wide range of conditions.
Flammability Testing
Atlas offers a family of fire chambers that measure and test fire hazards as specified by numerous national and international standards organizations.
Textile Testing
Atlas Textile equipment helps identify which fibers, dyes and processes are more susceptible to fading, staining, pilling, tearing, abrasion, streaking, snagging, laundering and other factors.
K.H.S. Lighting Systems
Atlas and K.H.S. offer a wide range of specialty lighting systems including solar simulation and high speed lighting used for crash sled testing.|
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Profile - Cardinal Health
Focused on the high-growth health care market, Cardinal Health (www.cardinal.com) has built the industry's broadest suite of products and services that help improve quality, safety and efficiency all along the chain of care. With our unparalleled resources, expertise and proprietary offerings, we deliver integrated solutions that are innovative and practical. To our customers, this means we help them focus on what matters most - improving people's lives.
Cardinal Health, Inc., a company with its roots in drug distribution, has quietly transformed itself into the undisputed leader of products and services that improve the quality and efficiency of care for the entire health care spectrum - from drug researchers and developers to health care administrators, pharmacists, nurses, physicians, and surgeons. Together with its customers, Cardinal Health works to make health care better.
Fact Sheet
Market focus: Health care
History: Founded in 1971 by Robert D. Walter
Number of employees: more than 55,000; 42% reside outside the United States
Annual sales: $65.053 billion (Before special items and discontinued operations)
Global reach: Business operations on 6 continents
Growth:
Revenue 1994 $5.79 billion
Revenue 2004 $65.05 billion
Operating income 1994 $86 million
Operating income 2004 $1.56 billion
Each day, Cardinal Health:
#16 on the Fortune 500 (2005)
Manufactures pharmaceuticals for 9 out of the top 10 pharma companies and most leading biotech firms
Develops, manufactures and packages more than 500 million doses of pharmaceuticals (6,000 per second)
Manufactures more than four million medical/surgical products, including surgical instruments, respiratory products, suction tubing, surgical drapes, gowns and gloves, in 31 facilities worldwide
Employs more than 1,800 pharmacists, 1,000 scientists, Ph.Ds
Provides more than 1,000 hours of temporary staffing in retail pharmacy chains, hospitals, mail order pharmacies, HMOs, home infusion companies and long-term facilities
Makes over 40,000 deliveries of pharmaceutical and medical/surgical products
Picks and delivers more than two million pharmaceutical products for 35,000 customers nationwide
Holds more than 1,500 patents worldwide
Delivers unit-doses of radiopharmaceuticals to 90 percent of U.S. hospitals within 3 hours
Facilities
30 medical/surgical manufacturing plants and 46 medical/surgical distribution centers
25 pharmaceutical distribution centers in the U.S.
42 pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratory and packaging facilities in 11 countries |
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Profile - Central Screw Products
Central Screw Products (www.centralscrewproducts.com) aims to be a partner in the dynamic world of global manufacturing. The company’s manufacturing expertise, coupled with its global network, allows Central Screw Products to provide its customers with the highest level of service, quality, and dependability in the world. It is truly a globally oriented company, looking to establish long term relationships with its customers.
Central Screw Products has been producing screw machine parts and components since 1924. Starting on the Detroit River, and eventually moving to the Northeast side, Central Screw Products has been based in Detroit its entire history. It has always been privately held, and the President and Owner, Arnot B. Heller II, has been in charge for over 30 years. With the help of his two sons, Arnot B. Heller III and Matthew D. Heller, they work together to keep Central Screw Products and its customers on the leading edge of manufacturing in the world. The company has over 100 years of experience in manufacturing quality products.
Central Screw Products has the knowledge to process a customer’s requirements with the latest in technology, the network to apply their manufacturing expertise quickly, and the experience to set up the supply chain correctly. In addition, Central Screw Products monitors the product along the way to assure conformity at the end.
Products & Services
Products and services range from single specialty screw machine parts to complex manufactured assemblies. Our products can be shipped anywhere in the world. Central Screw Products offers its customers a manufacturing viewpoint to let them know the best way to make their product, and provides a network to find a cost-effective solution. Central Screw Products specializes in low volume prototype and production services, with 1-25,000 piece orders and quick response capability. In addition, the company can effectively manage jobs up to 500,000 pieces and beyond.
Quality & Craftsmanship
With over 100 years of experience in quality screw machine products, Central Screw Products is a leader in the manufacturing industry. All of its people are schooled in the art of machining and short run production, which produces high quality problem solvers for manufacturing. With the advent of globalization Central Screw Products has found that its knowledge of processes and quality is its most important asset. The dedication to manufacturing allows Central Screw Products to critically examine products and understand the inherent manufacturing difficulties before production. This is true both for Central Screw Products’ own plant or a strategic partner’s facility. By maintaining control of quality processes Central Screw Products is able to provide products to its customers more quickly and effectively than anyone in the industry, and provide its customers with a quality global supply chain solution. |
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Profile - GR Spring & Stamping, Inc.
GR Spring & Stamping, Inc. (www.grs-s.com) has four locations in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area; a plant in Richmond Kentucky; a J/V in Mexico; and, an LLC in China. With 360 employees and 300,000 sq ft of manufacturing space in the U.S, all plants are TS 16949 registered. Markets served are 95% automotive as Tier 1 or Tier 2. Sixty percent of our business is New Domestic selling directly to Nissan, Toyota, and BMW and other Tier 2 new domestics.
Job Shop Capabilities
stamping up to 1,000 ton presses with bed length of 12 feet by 6 feet
slides forming
springs
value-added operation, including welding riveting and automatic and manual assembly
GR Spring & Stamping is known for its unique CULTURE:
its associates average thirty implemented ideas in fiscal 2006
one lost time accident in 13 years
no time clocks
operate in a Mini-Company concept which is a self-directed cross functional team.
This Culture has allowed GRS&S, a small company, to have a high level of technology:
"SMART Tool" with three patents, a closed loop self adjusting progressive die
"In-Die-Projection Welding" which is proprietary and combines two operation in one
an Automation team which builds specialty equipment and Poke Yoke devises
a separate captive tool shop to better serve customers
The company was founded in1960 and purchased by chairman Jim Zawacki and a partner in 1985 as a $5 million company with 45 associates. Since the purchase, GR Spring & Stamping has won several national awards for its training and education programs, and many customer awards. Two special non-customer awards of recognition were the 1999 Industry Weeks - Top 25 Growing Small Companies and the 1996 SME Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award (first time ever awarded to a small manufacturer). GR Spring & Stamping is now a $60 million company and continues to grow.
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Profile - Hydrox Laboratories
Hydrox Laboratories (www.hydroxlabs.com) was originally established in 1913 and has the unique distinction of being one of the oldest continuously-running manufacturing companies in the United States. As the originator of hydrogen peroxide solution in the U.S., the company had a monopoly of this product for almost 70 years. In the early 1980’s, Hydrox expanded its product line to meet the needs of its diverse markets.
Located in Elgin, Illinois which is 30 minutes northwest of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The company’s headquarters/manufacturing facility is ideally located near the Route 31 exit of the Northwest Tollway, called the “Golden Corridor.” Some of Hydrox’s neighbors are Sears World Headquarters, SBC, Pfizer, Motorola and Allstate, just to name a few.
Hydrox Laboratories' state-of-the-art facility is over 80,000 square feet in size. It was custom designed to meet the world-class standards of our customers and position us as a strategic supplier in our industry.
Hydrox Laboratories is a strategic, world-class supplier of beauty and medical products. We are also one of the few certified minority-owned business manufacturers in our industry.
Hydrox is a member of the National Alliance of Business and the Illinois Manufacturers Association.|
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Profile - Mathews Company
Mathews Company (www.mathewscompany.com) is a leading, family-owned manufacturer with more than 40-years commitment to building 'Iron Horse Quality' agriculture equipment that meets the needs of modern agriculturalists and landscapers around the world.
Located in Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA, M-C began operations in 1954 with the production of hay and forage flail choppers. In 1957, the first continuous flow grain dryers rolled out of the factory. Today, M-C offers a versatile product line, including continuous flow grain dryers, multi-crop shredders, rotary scythes, flail mowers and pulverizers.
From qualified design teams to professional sales and service representatives, M-C is dedicated to fulfilling the needs of producers and landscapers by building long-lasting equipment that's easy to operate.
Thorough research, development and testing is the hallmark of every M-C product - ensuring all equipment meets the high standards of quality and dependability established by the founder, B.C. "Matt" Mathews.|
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Profile - North American Tool Corporation
North American Tool Corporation (www.natool.com) is a family of companies – with subsidiaries Gaylee Corporation, Bitner Tooling Technologies, Inc. and NATool – that lead the worldwide industrial tooling industry with a broad spectrum of premium quality cutting tool products. This is a $10MM company that has leveraged its supply chain position in the US and 38 other countries. It makes a common product, but uses distribution node positioning and related short delivery time to compete and continue its profitable growth. It started exporting in 1995.
North American Tool Corporation, South Beloit, IL, an ISO 9001 registered manufacturer, is the industry leader in reliable same day shipment of popular special taps, dies and gages. Blueprint special taps ship in 7 - 10 days.
Gaylee Corporation, Sterling Heights, MI, is a premier manufacturer of solid carbide and carbide-tipped "Thin Saws", as well as multiple saw gangs and special purpose cutters. Gaylee has a long tradition of producing saws held to limits of accuracy and tolerance that are unsurpassed in the cutting tool industry.
Bitner Tooling Technologies, Inc. is a supplier of precision H.S.S., solid carbide and carbide-tipped cutting tools, such as: subland drills, special drills, circular and dovetail form tools, special reamers, combination tools, insertable tooling, recess tooling, cut-off and shave tools, as well as custom and 'blueprint special' tools.
NATool - Special Thread Tool Products, Rotherham, England, offers an extensive array of popular special taps and threading tools, designed and manufactured to meet worldwide customer requirements. Same day shipment available for most products. Custom-designed 'blueprint' specials are produced and shipped in as few as seven days.
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Prince Industries, Inc.
Prince Industries, Inc. (www.princeind.com) is a global manufacturer with facilities in the USA and China. Prince offers an array of services that are completely integrated allowing customers to design and manufacture products at globally competitive prices.
We are a manufacturing leader due to our integration of experience, high technology, and a commitment to excellent quality. We employ the latest, most innovative manufacturing technologies and techniques to maximize productivity and quality. Our production capacity, including our China facility, prepares us to meet the most demanding applications from short runs, quick/immediate delivery of JIT components, to high volume production components and assemblies. Prince Industries, Inc. has achieved "certified supplier" status with several of our major customers and also is ISO 9002 and QS 9000 certified.
Our capabilities include the following:
CNC Machining
CNC Turning
Swiss-type CNC Screw Machining
Precision Grinding & Honing
Engineering, including hydraulics design expertise
Assembly
Fabrication
Quality Control
Global Procurement
We proudly serve the following markets:
Telecommunications
Construction equipment
Hydraulics
Medical/dental
Instrument and controls
Computer-peripheral equipment
Automotive
Truck
Government
Electronics
MISSION
The Mission of Prince Industries Inc. is to provide world-class products and services while continuing to exceed the needs and expectations of our customers, employees, and suppliers through continuous evaluation and improvement in every aspect of our daily operations.
HISTORY
Prince Industries began in 1959 as a single man operation. Since that time, we have expanded our workforce and capabilities to be a global organization recognized as a premier manufacturer of precision machined and sheet metal fabricated components, mechanical and electromechanical assemblies. At Prince Industries, we have embraced the challenges of today’s rapidly changing manufacturing marketplace by putting in place the highest technology assets to accompany our new Shanghai plant. Prince Industries is prepared to meet the most demanding applications from short runs, quick/immediate delivery of JIT components, to high volume production components and assemblies.
Founded 1959
Sheet metal Fabrication added 1977
CNC Technology Implemented 1985
Moved to current facility January 1997
Total employees 250 (three shifts)
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Profile - S•K Hand Tool Corporation
Founded in 1921, S•K Hand Tool Corporation (www.skhandtool.com) is a leading designer and manufacturer of professional tools for automotive assembly and maintenance applications; industrial assembly, production, and maintenance applications; and construction and trades applications.
In order to meet the changing needs of professional tool users, S•K continues to develop new products. Since 1985, our product line has grown by more than 300 percent – from 750 items to over 3000 individual tools and sets. From wrenches, sockets and drive tools to screwdrivers and pliers, we offer the wide variety of tool styles and expanded size ranges required by today’s professional tool user.
At S•K, we offer a wide variety of products for the industrial tool user: expanded ranges of combination wrenches, chrome sockets and impact sockets; a line of ergonomic hand tools that address factors which cause operator strain; a line of 1000V insulated hand tools for use on and around live components; and a line of electronic hand tools for use in assembly, production and service applications. We are committed to serving the needs of today’s industrial tool user with superior quality, innovative hand tools.
S•K Hand Tool Corporation, through its school specialist dealers, supports vocational school instructors and students with a Vocational School Program that allows for special pricing and special set configurations for qualified buyers.|
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