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Contents
19
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48
FEATURES
19 Springmakers Connect with
the Electrical Industry
42
By Gary McCoy
27 Flashback
President's Message
By George C. Underwood
29 Family Feud
How Buy-Sell Agreements Can
Save the Family Business
By Phillip M. Perry
35 International Spring
Conference Planned for
Tokyo in 2015
37 Ulbrich Marks a 90th
Year Milestone
42 Mexico's Growing
Metal Class
By Peter Buxbaum
COLUMNS
15 Be Aware Safety Tips
OSHA Record Keeping for
Power Presses
By Jim Wood
12 Regional Spring
Association Report
55 Springmaker Spotlight
Former Rower Helps Steer SMI
Into New Waters: A Profile of
Hap Porter, SMI's 34th President
By Gary McCoy
61 Book Corner
63 Inside SMI
65 New Products
DEPARTMENTS
2 Presidents Message
Report from Paradise
7 Global Highlights
67 Advertisers Index
68 Snapshot
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Global
Highlights
North America
Betts Company has been named a 2014 Business
Partnership award winner by the Fresno Compact and was
formally recognized at the Fresno Compacts 18th Annual
Shareholders Luncheon on March 5, 2014.
Each year the Fresno Compact recognizes 10 local
businesses that have built exceptional partnerships with
schools, contributing time and resources to help students
reach their full potential.
Brett Camacho, the department chair for trades in
the applied technology division at Fresno City College,
nominated Betts Company for the award. Camacho
says for the last two semesters the school has worked
collaboratively with Betts Company on the construction
of 30 metal racks to hold materials for the company. Their
engineers drew up the plans, the company purchased all
of the materials and the fabrication students built them,
explained Camacho. This worked out great because it
provided our students the opportunity to build different
projects with no out-of-pocket cost.
Camacho went on to say, The partnership positively
impacts the students by giving them real world experience
they might not otherwise have the opportunity to receive.
Our business partners positively impact the community
by allowing students to receive better training, which
leads to their being better contributors to the industries
in our area.
Joe Devany, director of operations, represented Betts
Company at the March 5 luncheon and says the company
is honored by the recognition. We are thrilled to support
educational endeavors in our community through schools
like Fresno City College and Cal State University Fresno,
said Devany. We value these positive partnerships and
will continue to support their growth.
The purpose of the Fresno Compact is to focus
community-wide efforts on preparing students for the
increasing demands of society and the workplace. In doing
so, it provides a mechanism for mobilizing business and
community support of local public schools, and it acts
as a clearinghouse for the sharing of information among
school districts, businesses, and community leaders. The
Fresno Compact is the coordinating body of the Fresno
Area Strive program. For more information on The Fresno
Compact, visit www.fresnocompact.com.
For more information on Betts Company, visit www.
Betts1868.com, phone 559-498-3304, or email info@
Betts1868.com.
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Airedale Springs in
Hawort h, Engla nd has
appointed Steve Hart to
the board following his
promotion from technical
manager to production
director.
Hart, from Keighley,
joi ned t he compa ny
as a n operat ive in
D e c e m b e r 19 9 3, a n d
qu ic k ly demon st rated
his technical abilities,
Steve Hart
becoming an auto setter
i n t he spr i ng ma k i ng
department, and moving up rapidly through the ranks
during his 20-plus years with the rm.
Harts career virtually mirrors that of his late father John,
who also worked for Airedale Springs, who started at the
bottom and worked his way up to become technical director.
Hart played a key technical role in Airedale Springs
move in 2012 to its newly built 3.5 million factory and
ofce premises off Bridgehouse Lane, The Spring Works,
which replaced the rms former Ebor Mills factory in
Haworth when it was destroyed by re in 2010.
Airedale Springs chairman Tim Parkinson said:
Steve has been right at the forefront of the new machinery
and technology we have introduced into the business. He
is held in high regard by colleagues and customers alike for
his expertise. He is integral to the success of the business
and will continue to be a great asset as we look to develop
our manufacturing range even further in the future.
Hart is married to Claire, who he rst met at Airedale
Springs when she worked in the production planning
department. The couple have a four-year-old daughter, Emmy.
Outside work, Hart enjoys all things relating to electronics.
A i reda le Spr i ngs wa s la st yea r r u n ner-up i n
the Environmental Efficiency category of the EEF
Future Manufacturing Awards, and picked up the
environmentally friendly business of the year award at
the Keighley Business Awards. Both awards recognized
the rms commitment to design and construct an energyefcient building. Q
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Regional Spring
Association Report
NESMA Featured in Newspaper Article
The New Engla nd
Spring and Metalstamping
Association (NESMA) was
featured in an article, Its
time to spring into action
a nd t r a i n mor e sk i l led
workers, that appeared in
the March 10 edition of the
New Britain Herald/The
Bristol Press.
Under t he Focus on
Ma nufactu ring sect ion
of the paper, the article
t a l k e d a b o ut N E S M As
work in conjunction with
t he Cent ral Connecticut
Cha mbers of Com merce
to help promote the need
to t ra in more sk illed
workers for manufacturing
jobs, particularly in the
spring and metal stamping
industry that dominates
the landscape in the greater
Bristol area.
Th e a r t i c le e x pl a i n e d t h e
cooper at ive ef for t b et we en t he
groups to work with educational and
commercial industrial partners to
develop multiple curricula leading
to certication and employment in
manufacturing and the trades.
Jim Albert, president and CEO of
the Central Connecticut Chambers of
WCSMA Schedules
Spring Fling for May
in San Diego
Th e We s t C o a s t Spr i n g
Manufacturers Association (WCSMA)
will hold its annual Spring Fling at
the Crowne Plaza San Diego Mission
Valley. The event is scheduled for the
weekend of May 16-18. A golf outing
A t a r ge t e d me s s a ge d r ive s
companies to differentiate themselves
in the market and build stakeholder
value, said Rappaport.
CASMI planned an April plant
tour to Tri Star Metals in Freeport, Ill.
The associations next event is its
annual golf outing and dinner, which
will be held on Wednesday, June 4 at
Indian Lakes in Bloomingdale, Ill.
For more information, visit www.
casmi-springworld.org. Q
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Most of us take
electricity for
granted. You ip a
switch and suddenly
a dark room is
illuminated. You
put a piece of bread
in the toaster and,
minutes later, you
have brown toast.
15.2%
Transformers
29.7%
27.2%
27.9%
Switches
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22.5%
14.0%
18.5%
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Accelerated building
activity and increased
spending on efcient,
secure and safe
electrical equipment are
projected to stimulate
growth in domestic
demand for wiring
devices over the ve
years to 2019.
What is Required?
Most manufactured electrical parts made by springmakers
go into devices approved by Underwriters Lab (U.L.) Generally
speaking, springmakers do not hold the certication by U.L.
because that belongs to the OEM customer. Rather the parts
they make must conform to U.L. standards for safety.
Richards says Fourslide Spring and Stamping has one part
they make that requires assembly, so being U.L. certied for
that operation is required and the company is audited on a
quarterly basis.
Banas says most of the parts made by Stanley Spring &
Stamping are approved by U.L. for safety. He says special
zoning requirements present more of a challenge.
The city of Chicago has special nickel plated hospital
grade strap, but it only goes into hospitals in Cook County,
explained Banas. Yet if you are in Detroit or Dallas you can
use something else.
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Flashback
Presidents Message
By George C. Underwood
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(Editor's note: In this edition
of Flashback, we reprint the
President's Message from the
late George C. Underwood that
appeared in the May 1981 issue
of Springs. Underwood served as
SMI president from 1979 to 1981
and was president of Hardware
Products Company. His tie to
SMI's newest president, Hap
Porter, is very strong. In 1987
Underwood hired Porter to work
at Hardware Products.)
of ou r toughest foreig n
Quality circle programs*
Springmakers across the country can cite
competitors are excellent
are not really new to our
important manufacturing innovations and
imitators, but here in the
companies, but t hey a re
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who cared about the work and the product.
should encourage to get the
best possible suggestions and
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Let's bring out this attitude in our workers
help improve the efciency
circle concept was popular
who are each different, unique and special.
of our firms. We will do
at the time Underwoods
well to communicate with
article was written in 1981.
our employees, to seek their
According to Wikipedia a
input, and to remain accessible in good times and bad.
quality circle is a volunteer group composed of workers
For the rst time in years our nation seems truly (or even students), who do the same or similar work,
receptive to the idea of improved productivity, the creation usually under the leadership of their own supervisor (or
of jobs, and investment in plant equipment. If we, as spring an elected team leader), who meet regularly in paid time
manufacturing managers, can encourage this attitude who are trained to identify, analyze and solve work-related
among our work force, it will help not only us but the problems and present their solutions to management and
country as a whole.
where possible implement the solutions themselves in
Springmakers across the country can cite important order to improve the performance of the organization,
manufacturing innovations and adaptations made by and motivate and enrich the work of employees. When
inventive employees who cared about the work and matured, true quality circles become self-managing, having
the product. Let's bring out this attitude in our workers gained the condence of management. Read more at http://
who are each different, unique and special. Some en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_circle
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Family Feud:
How Buy-Sell
Agreements Can
Save the Family
Business
By Phillip M. Perry
Save or Spend?
Conicts often arise over nancial strategies that impact
individual pocketbooks. Very often there is a tension
between savers and spenders in a family, says Schwerzler.
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How can your own family business stay out of
troubleor at least minimize the damage when a
disruptive event occurs? Consultants recommend drawing
up what is called a buy-sell agreement. Also referred
to as a buyout agreement, this document governs any
situation that results from the death or departure of one
of the organizations stockholders.
Among the questions answered by the buy-sell
agreement are these:
What events will trigger a stock buyout?
Who has the right to purchase the stock of a
departing owner?
How will the stock be valued?
What mechanism will be used to resolve disputes
between family members?
Trying to answer such questions when a disruptive
event hits is a recipe for disaster. The fraught emotions
characteristic of such times can play a destructive role. If
you are trying to hammer out a buy-sell agreement while
there is turmoil in relationships, you are working in a
context which is not ideal, says Kimberly M. Hanlon, a
Minneapolis-based attorney active in business and estate
planning matters.
The challenge is especially acute for a business
undergoing diminished protabilitythe very condition
that can often catalyze family members to cash out. When
a business starts to go downhill family relationships often
go downhill too, says Hanlon. People start blaming each
other and it all goes south.
The moral is clear: Smart family businesses plan
ahead. Think about the terms of a buy-sell agreement
while relationships are still good among family members,
says Hanlon. People who are level headed and thinking
clearly tend to come up with fair and reasonable terms.
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Resolve Disputes
Try as you might to avoid them, domestic squabbles are
bound to occur. As an adjunct to your buy-sell agreement,
write up a procedure that will be used to resolve disputes
between family business owners. For some situations,
arbitration or mediation may be the best course of action.
Alternatively, you may designate a board of nonfamily
trustees who are empowered to cast the deciding votes on
issues over which family members disagree.
Disputes often arise from the conicting interests of
siblings or other family members inside and outside the
business. I tell my clients not to have siblings or family
members outside the business co-own the business with
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Haverkamp, Steve Moreland (SMI President), Dr. Rudolf Muhr
(Mubea and ESF/VDFI, President), Wolfgang Hermann (VDFI),
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kobelev (Mubea), Horst-Dieter Dannert (ESF,
Secretary), Dr. Peter Janen (Mittal), and Prof. Dr. Georgios
Savaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
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1920s
Early 1920s
1924
Fred Sr. founded the Fred Ulbrich company that would
eventually become Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc.
1927
The rst of many expansions by Ulbrich occurred when Fred Sr.
doubled the square footage of his building from 600 to 1,200 sq.
ft. To match his rapid building growth, Fred Sr. decided to
1929
During the Great
Depression lasting 10
years, the demand for
scrap declined, but the
young Ulbrich made the
best of it. Fred Sr. built
another addition to the
plant with the help of
transients hopping off
freight trains near the
plant. He offered them
hot meals and modest
wages. Fred Sr. was devoted to getting his scrap yard in good
shape. The little money he received was from an occasional
scrap sale to the Ludlum Corporation and the unusual rental of
his chicken coop to a local Wallingford business.
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1930s
1940s
1941
1937
1942
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1936
1939
Germany invaded Poland
signaling the start of World
War II.
1944
Fred Sr. became Warden of Wallingford, and one of his major
accomplishments was paving the town roads with real asphalt.
1945
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1946
1949
Ulbrich had grown to four times its original size with a 2,500
square foot building.
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1950s
1950
While the business thrived, Fred Sr. saw an even better
opportunity to supply stainless steel for a growing market of
stainless steel applications. He had both the knowledge and the
rolling mill to ll an important niche. The big melt shops were
supplying 10,000 minimum coils, far too much for many small
manufacturers. Fred Sr. bought the big coils and slit them into
smaller lots and supplied the needed smaller quantities, as little
as 10 pounds, to these small manufacturers.
1964
Fred Sr.s third son, Daniel Ulbrich, entered the business
and Ulbrich decided to hire its own sales force instead
of depending on independent
sales representatives.
1965
1955
Rerolling and slitting was the main focus of the Ulbrich
Companys enterprise. The cutlery business was sold and a
powerful new Sendzimer rolling mill was purchased. The unique
design of this mill enabled Ulbrich to roll to thicknesses unheard
of at the time, down to .005 and at the same time they retained
the desired atness across the width of the strip.
1957
The response from customers was so favorable that Ulbrich
soon invested in two-high rolling mills to handle the demand and
the rst non-family employees were hired.
1968
As customers began to respond to Ulbrichs quality and
versatility in the 1960s, it became obvious that the Biggest
Little Mill needed a national distribution network. Ulbrich of
Illinois became Ulbrichs rst stainless steel strip service center
located in Alsip, Ill. and served the Midwest market.
1959
A new Sendzimer rolling mill was added and 12 new employees
were hired. At this time Fred Sr.s oldest son, Frederick C.
Ulbrich, Jr., joins the company and sets up a sales department,
alleviating the rms dependence on the service centers that had
been selling their products. In addition Fred Sr.s second son,
Richard J. Ulbrich joined his father and brother in the business to
focus on manufacturing and mill operations.
1960s
1960
Nickel-based alloys were added to the product mix as Ulbrich
made a bid for new applications in the aircraft and aerospace
industry. Inventories included 20 stainless alloys and over
40 different special metals which combined into a constant
inventory of more than 5 million pounds.
1963
The company invested all of its prot into new laboratories
and testing facilities in order to qualify as a supplier to Pratt &
Whitney, located in Hartford. The approval opened up
1970s
1980s
1970
1980
With Fred Jr. as CEO and his brother Dick as COO, the company
set a target of expanding sales tenfold by 1990 and begin plans
to reach that goal. They decided to reinvest all corporate prots
into their capital expansion programs.
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1971
1982
A 100,000 sq. ft. building was erected at the main plant in
Wallingford. A regional service center, Ulbrich of New England,
was created. After a series of strategic meetings, The Ulbrich
Revolution was underway, and the company embarked on
an employee-wide effort emphasizing quality and customer
commitment.
1974
1986
1977
Chris Ulbrich, Fred Jr.s son, joined the company full time after
working part time, operating most of the machines in the plant.
1989
Ulbrich now serves a broad market that includes makers of cars,
trucks, aircraft, aerospace vehicles, medical instrumentation,
implantable parts, petrochemical and power generation
equipment and many others.
1990s
1990
1994
The quality improvement effort paid off as Ulbrich attained its
ISO Quality Certication at the mill with all divisions following
soon after.
1997
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2007
1998
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2011
Ulbrich Solar Technologies prepares to open another
manufacturing location for producing PV Ribbon in Hillsboro, Ore.
1999
Ulbrich marks its 75th anniversary with over 600 employees and
facilities in four countries. The company was now buying over
140 different alloys from various melting sources all over the
world to maintain its commitment for wide product choice and
quick deliveries.
2012
Ulbrich continues into the fourth family generation with 700
employees, and 11 locations. The company moves into a new
corporate headquarters at 153 Washington Ave, North Haven,
Conn.
2000 to present
2014
Ulbrich celebrates its 90th
anniversary with a series of
commemorative events planned
at all locations during the year. Q
2001
Ulbrich acquires a at wire division in South Carolina that they
name Ulbrich Precision Flat Wire.
2002
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2005
Ulbrich increases capacity to produce wire called PV Ribbon that
is used in the production of solar panels. The Ulbrich Special
Wire Group opens a PV Ribbon facility in Austria.
2006
Ulbrich expands it Wallingford, Conn. rolling mill facility by
12,000 sq. ft. and enters into the Ultra Lite Foil business
improving it thickness capability to less than .0004.
Mexicos Growing
Metal Class
How Keats Manufacturing
Capitalized on Increased Auto
Production South of the Border and
Used NAFTA to its Advantage
By Peter Buxbaum
Photos by Fernie Castillo
We already had
$1 million worth of
work in Mexico in
the early 1990s,
says Matt Keats,
president of Keats
Southwest. My
brother and I were
making sales south
of the border and
we saw a boom of
assembly plants
and we said,
Wow, there is a
lot of potential
down here.
Keats. With fuel costs rising and with the sheer distance
between the U.S. and Asia, it is making a lot more sense
to manufacture on this continent. Weve seen a lot of our
customers move entire assembly lines from China to Mexico.
In recent years, Mexico has become a manufacturing hub for
many automotive and aerospace manufacturers.
Keats Southwest has beneted from NAFTA, thanks to
the agreements provisions that U.S.- and Mexico-origin
products can move back and forth between the two
countries duty free. At the same time, because of the way
Mexican assembly plants operate, the company avoids
the hassles of shipping its products across the border.
Our customers pick up orders at our plant or we
deliver them to their docks in El Paso, says Brad Keats.
The customers handle the logistics of the border crossing.
We arent involved with any export paperwork or
duties, which is kind of nice, Matt Keats adds. We would
need a bigger staff if we had to handle all of that.
There are a few reasons why logistics are handled on
the Texas side of the border and why Keats Southwest
nds it benecial to remain in El Paso, rather than
relocating to Mexico.
Logistics is huge in El Paso, says Robert Queen,
director of the U.S. Export Assistance Center, a unit of
the U.S. Department of Commerces Commercial Service
in El Paso. There are a tremendous number of logistics
companies and customs brokers located here, and these
and that gets heavy. The freight costs would add up if our
customers were buying from Connecticut or Chicago.
Matt Keats says the U.S. side of the border is also
better for recruiting the highly skilled workers required
to operate Keats more technical machinery. It would be
difcult to locate people with the right level of skill on
the Mexican side of the border, he says.
In fact, when Keats Southwest rst opened shop, the
plant was manned by technicians who had relocated from
the Illinois facility. We didnt move to El Paso for cheaper
labor, Matt Keats says. When we rst opened in 1994,
I brought six guys from Chicago because they knew the
equipment and the business, which is so rare down here.
We had to convince people to come down with us and the
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To learn more or to request a free stock spring
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or by calling us at (800) 237-5225 Mon-Fri
6:00am - 4:30pm PST.
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Although Keats
Southwest is not
subject to the
documentation
requirements of
NAFTA since it
delivers on the U.S.
side of the border
Brad Keats believes
the trade agreement
has made a positive
difference in how the
company operates.
SMI Celebrates
81st Annual
Meeting in Hawaii
Giving Back
SMI wishes to thank the many sponsors who made the
80th annual meeting a success.
Platinum Sponsors Amstek Metal, Gibbs Wire and
Steel, Industrial Steel and Wire, JN Machinery, SWPC,
Suzuki Garphyttan, The InterWire Group, WAFIOS and
Zapp Precision Strip.
Gold Sponsor United Wire Company
Bronze Sponsors NIMSCO, and OMCG North
America
The 2015 SMI annual meeting will be held in Orlando,
April 11-15 at the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World. Q
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Springmaker Spotlight
By Gary McCoy
Hap rowing
with the
Harvard
heavyweight
crew in 1979.
Hap is fth
from the right.
Many of the members of the SEI MetalTek "family" traveled to Hawaii to help Hap Porter celebrate his installation as SMI's 34th president.
Parallel Lives
Working with Porter has gone beyond just being in
business together, says Grace. Hap and I live a parallel
life. We are the same age and have children of the same age
and gender. It has been a real pleasure to see our families
grow up in the business, said Grace. It would be great
to see them work together at some point.
Porter says Grace gives him much grief about being a
Yankee. So in his acceptance speech he poked fun and
expressed thanks to the Texan for putting up with his
New England ways.
In addition to Kevin and Beth Grace, and Bob Grace,
Porter was grateful to have in Hawaii ve individuals he
works closely with at SEI MetalTek to help celebrate his
Book Corner
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Play Dumb
Be Boring
Don't Be Yourself
Stop Talking
The book is a great thought stimulator, especially for those
who work in communications. The author makes a great point
about not trying to solve every problem immediately.
Our quick, cheap and easy digital devices allow us
to have far too many unnecessary collaboration, and get
our hands (and thumbs) on too many irrelevant issues.
Specialty metals
without limits.
Ulbrich has an impressive number of high-performance
metal products that provide innite solutions to
precision industries. By keeping pace with worldwide
market demand, Ulbrich has always beenand always will
continue to be your trustworthy partner.
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Advertiser's Index
A & D Trading
(440) 563-5227 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Admiral Steel
(800) 323-7055 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Alex Industries
(847) 298-1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Alloy Wire International
(866) 482-5569 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
CASMI
(630) 369-3466 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Century Spring,
Division of MW Industries
(800) 237-5225 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Diamond Wire Spring Co.
(800) 424-0500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Elgiloy Specialty Metals
(847) 695-1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Forming Systems Inc.
(877) 594-4300 . . inside front cover,
back cov er
Gibbs Wire & Steel Co. Inc.
(800) 800-4422 . . inside back cover
Gibraltar Corporation
(847) 769-2099 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Grainger
www.grainger.com . . . . . . . . . . . 34
RK Trading
(847) 640-9371 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rolled Metal Products
800) 638-3544 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Simplex Rapid
(563) 391-0400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Suzuki Garphyttan
(574) 232-8800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
TCT Stainless Steel
(800) 334-7509 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Tool King
(800) 338-1318 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Ulbrich Stainless Steels
(203) 239-4481 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
United Wire Co.
(800) 840-9481 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Vinston
(847) 972-1098 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Vulcan Spring & Manufacturing Co.
(215) 721-1721 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
WAFIOS
(203) 481-5555 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Zapp Precision Strip
(203) 386-0038 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Snapshot
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