As mining operations evolve to meet the challenges of efficiency, environmental impact, and safety, so too do the vehicles that power them. In a world where productivity and sustainability must go...
Nate Hendley
Wind River Built
Tiny Home Construction Goes Modular
For most of its existence, Wind River Built of Chattanooga, Tennessee designed, manufactured, and delivered Park Model tiny homes—that is, mini-residences on wheels. The specialty construction...
DY Concrete Pumps
New Products, New Plans, and a New E-Commerce Site
DY Concrete Pumps Inc. of Alvarado, Texas and Calgary, Alberta is gearing up for new products, an e-commerce website, and a milestone anniversary. The company acquires pumps and parts made by South...
Modern Manufacturing
Next-Generation Bag and Pouch Making Machines
Launched in 2009, Modern Manufacturing Services, LLC of Farmington, New York builds machines that make bags and pouches for the flexible packaging industry and other sectors. The company utilizes...
Peak Toolworks
Cutting Tool Excellence and Close Customer Ties for Over 80 Years
For over 80 years, Peak Toolworks has made some of the best cutting tools in the business. Headquartered in Jasper, Indiana, with multiple locations across North America, this ISO 9001:2015...
Lou-Rich
This Minnesota Contract Manufacturer Charts a Unique Course
Lou-Rich is a vertically integrated, employee-owned, ISO-certified contract manufacturer based in Albert Lea, Minnesota. In business for over half a century, this company offers fabrication and...
Stewart Sutherland
A Packaging Firm Built on Sustainability and Family Values
Stewart Sutherland, Inc., is an eco-friendly family- and woman-owned business that designs, manufactures, and distributes packaging products and specialty paper. Based in Vicksburg, Michigan, the...
Terradyne Armored Vehicles
Providing Protection With Unique Vehicles
Terradyne Armored Vehicles, Inc. designs and builds armored vehicles for law enforcement, border patrol agents, and military medical personnel. At its base in Newmarket, Ontario, the company...
Western Integrated
An Electrical Automation Systems Company in Growth Mode
Western Integrated of Burnaby, British Columbia, marked its 40th anniversary last year, and is firmly in growth mode as it looks to the future. The company offers electrical and automation system...
Patriot Products Group
Soaring Growth, New Products, Same Customer Care Focus
The Patriot Products Group continues its dizzying growth, while introducing new products, tweaking existing wares, and codifying internal quality controls. Based in Woodburn, Oregon, Patriot...
Premier Gear & Machine Works
This Family Firm Is in Growth Mode After Passing the Century Mark
Premier Gear & Machine Works, a family-run firm in Canby, Oregon, is on the upswing after enduring some tough times. Founded over a century ago, the company performs fabrication, machining,...
Dorsey Trailer
Success for Over a Century
Founded over a century ago, Dorsey Trailer of Elba, Alabama designs, manufactures, and fabricates trailers that haul goods on roads and highways. Its trailers have been used by NASCAR, country music...
Samuel Automation
Enhancing Productivity, Efficiency, and Safety
Much remains the same at Samuel Automation in Waterloo, Ontario since the firm was profiled April 2023 in Manufacturing in Focus. The company, which custom-designs and manufactures automation...
Creative Packaging Solutions
Perfecting Packaging Containers for Over Two Decades
Creative Packaging Solutions (CPS) of Keyport, New Jersey, has spent more than two decades developing perfect packaging for retail clients. This encompasses bottles, tubes, trays, jars, boxes,...
Eastern Glass and Aluminum
Building Exterior Experts Mark a Major Corporate Milestone
Eastern Glass and Aluminum (EGA) of Norcross, Georgia, marks its tenth anniversary this year as a successful building envelope contractor. Spun off from a larger parent company, EGA excels at...
GROB Systems, Inc.
Expanding Its North American Footprint
GROB Systems, Inc. (pronounced ‘Grow-buh’) is in the midst of a massive expansion. The manufacturing equipment provider, specializing in machining centers, industrial software, automated pallet...
Specific Mechanical Systems
A Brewing and Distilling Equipment Expert Continues to Innovate
Specific Mechanical Systems Ltd., a Victoria, British Columbia-based company that designs, manufactures, and installs brewing and distilling equipment, has expanded its automation processes and...
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)
Moving Manufacturing Forward
The Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) provides a depth and breadth of services, programs, and opportunities for manufacturers. Headquartered in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a national...
Norwich Plastics
Sustainable Success for This Vinyl Recycling and Reclaiming Company
Norwich Plastics of Cambridge, Ontario wants to lead North America in vinyl reprocessing. To this end, it diverts over 50 million pounds of the material from landfills each year. The company...
DY Concrete Pumps
This Texas Company Offers Great Pumps and Stellar Service
DY Concrete Pumps is a Texas-sized success story. Based in Alvarado, near Dallas-Fort Worth, the company offers high-end concrete pumps, a vast inventory of spare parts, and comprehensive customer...
Lapeer Plating & Plastics
Made-in-America Automotive Components
When asked what makes Michigan-based, Class A automotive components manufacturer Lapeer Plating & Plastics, Inc. (LP+P) unique, Human Resources Administrator Joe DuBreuil is quick to reply....
Patriot Products Group
Soaring Growth, New Products, Same Customer Care Focus
The Patriot Products Group continues its dizzying growth, while introducing new products, tweaking existing wares, and codifying internal quality controls. Based in Woodburn, Oregon, Patriot...
Rock Hard Landscape Supply
Products for Beautifying Properties
Rock Hard Landscape Supply is a family-run firm that stocks an array of products for beautifying lawns and properties. With four locations in Minnesota, the company stocks everything from mulch,...
Grotnes
From Metal Rings to Custom Manufacturing
In 1898, Charles Grotnes (pronounced ‘Grote-ness’) founded an eponymous machine works in Chicago to provide services and products for a very specific industry. He “started a business to produce...
Acorn Manufacturing
This Family-Run Iron Hardware Firm Forges Ahead
Acorn Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a decades-old family business in Mansfield, Massachusetts that manufactures and distributes forged iron builders’ hardware across the United States and abroad....
Xymox Technologies
High-Quality Interfaces
After Xymox Technologies was profiled in Manufacturing in Focus in December 2018, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based firm merged with the RAFI Group of Germany. This corporate collaboration has the...
Elasto Proxy
Family-Owned Fabricator Finds Its Niche
Thriving, family-owned fabricator Elasto Proxy of Boisbriand, Quebec specializes in high-end, low-volume industrial plastic and rubber components. The company also offers a suite of value-added...
Eco-Flex
Leaders in Recycled Rubber
Eco-Flex of Sturgeon County, Alberta, marked its 30th anniversary last year as a leader in the recycled rubber product market. The company is well-poised for future growth with products that appeal...
ProVantage Automation
Same Keen Focus, Even Bigger Projects
ProVantage Automation of Brantford, Ontario is a turnkey industrial systems integrator and custom machine builder that designs, builds, and installs automated solutions for clients looking to...
DY Concrete Pumps
This Texas Company Offers Great Pumps and Stellar Service
DY Concrete Pumps is a Texas-sized success story. Based in Alvarado, near Dallas-Fort Worth, the company offers high-end concrete pumps, a vast inventory of spare parts, and comprehensive customer...
Stamtec
Metal Stamping Press Success
Stamtec, of Manchester, Tennessee, sells industry-leading metal stamping presses and forming equipment. These wares are manufactured by a parent company in Taiwan in ISO-certified facilities,...
Western Integrated
An Electrical Automation Systems Company in Growth Mode
Western Integrated of Burnaby, British Columbia, marked its 40th anniversary last year, and is firmly in growth mode as it looks to the future. The company offers electrical and automation system...
LasX Industries Inc.
Realizing Solutions
Since Manufacturing in Focus profiled the engineering firm in November 2021, LasX Industries Inc. has developed a new process controller, established a new business development team staffed by...
GROB Systems
Speeding Ahead in the E-Mobility Market
Manufacturing equipment provider GROB is experiencing accelerated growth, with new products, new staff, and a new focus. Founded in 1926 in Munich, Germany by Ernst Grob (whose family still controls...
Kal-Polymers
This Family Plastics Reprocessing Company Has Its Eye on Growth
Kal-Polymers will be massively expanding its capacity this year, a move that will enhance the company’s position as a leader in the North American plastics recycling sector. Based in Mississauga,...
Peninsula Plastics
New Products, New Ownership for This Family Firm
Big changes have taken place at Peninsula Plastics Ltd., a start-to-finish custom injection moulding company in Fort Erie, Ontario, since it was profiled in February 2021’s Resource in Focus...
Samuel Automation Solutions Group
Stronger Together
Things are booming at Samuel Automation Solutions Group (Samuel ASG) of Waterloo, Ontario. “We’ve gotten stronger. We have a greater reach and expertise. Being part of a much larger organization...
Max Die Group
World-Class Tooling, World-Class Training
With roots going back a century, the Max Die Group designs and builds automotive stamping tools, prototype parts, and low volume production parts, and runs a training centre for young apprentices....
Automated Work Trucks
Moving Forward Without a Driver
On November 8, 2021, Walmart—the largest grocery retailer in America—made high-tech history in its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart announced it had successfully used fully autonomous...
Think-PLC
Automated Control Systems, Human Relationships
Think-PLC designs and builds new automation control systems and keeps legacy control systems running long after they were installed. Among key services offered by this Lexington, North...
Samuel Automation Solutions Group
Stronger Together
Things are booming at Samuel Automation Solutions Group (Samuel ASG) of Waterloo, Ontario. “We’ve gotten stronger. We have a greater reach and expertise. Being part of a much larger organization...
Peninsula Plastics
New Products, New Ownership for This Family Firm
Big changes have taken place at Peninsula Plastics Ltd., a start-to-finish custom injection moulding company in Fort Erie, Ontario, since it was profiled in February 2021’s Resource in Focus...
Diversified Chemical Technologies
Diversified Chemical Technologies Marks Over Half a Century of Success
Diversified Chemical Technologies, Inc. (DCTI) has passed the half-century mark as a highly-successful African-American-owned business in Detroit, Michigan. With multiple divisions, the growing...
Coherix, Inc.
3D Machine Vision Experts
Coherix, Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan aims to dominate the precision industrial sealant and adhesive dispensing market through its pioneering products and cutting-edge technology. The company...
JN White
New Products and New Acquisition Equals Big Growth
JN White is a fast-growing firm headquartered in Perry, New York, that manufactures custom graphic overlays, membrane switches, display backlighting, and complex user interfaces. Its primary...
Performance Plastics Ltd.
Celebrating a Milestone with New Products and Big Goals
Performance Plastics Ltd. (PPL) of Cincinnati, Ohio marked its fortieth anniversary this year as a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic components. The company...
ProVantage Automation
This Unique Systems Integrator Celebrates a Corporate Milestone
ProVantage Automation, a Brantford, Ontario-based systems integrator and custom machine builder, marked its tenth anniversary in business this April. With its three in-house engineering and design...
Patriot Products Group
Technical Skills, Customization Expertise, and Big Ambitions
Patriot Products Group designs and manufactures pump system packages. The company offers diesel dry prime, diesel wet prime, sound attenuated, electric dry prime, and electric wet prime packages...
CO-AX Valves, Inc.
Showing Grace Under Extreme Pressure
CO-AX Valves, Inc. (CVI) has come through the COVID crisis in a strong position, with new markets, new products, and new ways of doing business. The Bristol, Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of German...
The International Safety Equipment Association
Keeping Employees From Harm: The International Safety Equipment Association Advocates for a Safer Workplace
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) represents companies that make the workplace safer. Due to COVID, the association’s mission has taken on a new urgency. When the pandemic began,...