The Fabricator - February 2010

a consolidation of our manufacturing resources in Ohio. We anticipate a portion of the current production and products will be consolidated into our remaining two facilities in Wellington, Ohio.” NN Inc. manufactures and supplies metal bearing components, industrial plastic and rubber products, and precision metal components.

THINK, Oslo, Norway, has announced plans to begin selling the THINK City highway-capable urban electric vehicle in the U.S. later this year. The company plans to invest $43.5 million in build-

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ing improvements and equipment in Elkhart County, Ind., and the plant could begin assembling vehicles in early 2011.

The Wells Cargo trailer manufacturing plant in Carbondale, Pa., is slated to close, affecting 50 workers. They will be offered jobs at the nearby Haulmark plant.

Universal Trailer, Cincinnati, purchased Haulmark in 2002 and Wells Cargo in 2009. The company owns the building in which the Haulmark trailers are manufactured and was leasing the Wells Cargo building.

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As a job shop executive, optimizing your operations is a daily challenge and sometimes it may feel like you are alone in doing what you do.

Metal Matters 2010 is a venue for you to meet and learn from others who are fighting the same good fight you are.

“I keep coming back to Metals Matters because it’s my chance to run new ideas by people who are in similar situations. Sometimes they’ve already done what I am thinking of and can give me guidance or share experiences, other times I get help developing an idea into something concrete that I can implement when I get back.

Organizations looking to succeed and grow should definitely take advantage of this program.”

- Scott Harnett, President of Sable Metal Fabrication, Markham, Ontario

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methods that I bring back to my business for immediate implementation. The
attendees are living through the exact same business challenges I live through every
day — the roundtable format offers nonstop ideas, solutions, and support on how
to tackle current struggles.”
- Terri Roessler, CEO/CFO of United Alloy Inc, Janesville, Wis.

“I have been attending this conference annually since 2005. As a business owner in the forming and fabricating industry, the value I receive from the benchmarking and technical educational aspects is priceless. It is the best venue to network with other precision sheet metal fabricators in a very non-competitive manner.

For those manufacturers who want their business to survive in today’s challenging
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- Jon De Wys, Owner of De Wys Manufacturing, Marne, Mich.

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People and promotions
Elite Mfg. Technologies, a sheet metal
fabricator and custom design engineering
firm in Bloomingdale, Ill., has hired Steve
Schommer as account manager.
Schommer has more than 15 years of
sales experience in the fabrication indus-
try and outsourcing community. In his
new role, he focuses on increasing the
company’s existing markets and support-
ing customers’ needs. In addition, he leads
the market development of large program
sales and client management while pur-
suing new business opportunities for the
company.
Schommer most recently served as an
account manager at Muza Metal Prod-
ucts, Oshkosh, Wis., where he managed
large program movement, lean manufac-
turing, and cost-reduction processes.
Formtek Metal Forming Inc., Cleve-
land, has promoted Jack Pennuto Jr. to the
position of director of sales and marketing.
He has previously served as sales engineer
and sales manager for the company and as
a project engineer/manager and tooling
designer at Roller Die + Forming.
In this position, he is responsible for es-
tablishing selling strategies for the Yoder,
Dahlstrom, and Tishken forming and fab-
ricating lines; B&K metal construction
products; and Winpro fenestration prod-
ucts. He also manages the aftermarket
parts and services group and is responsible
for interfacing Cleveland’s marketing and
application engineering efforts with the
company’s network of regional sales man-
agers and independent representatives.

Fronius USA, Brighton, Mich., has hired Michael J. Ludwig as market segment manager for shipbuild-ing/platform/power generation for the welding division. He has more than 27 years of experience in the field of welding engineering.

Ludwig’s experience ranges from structural and bridge work to the fabrication of process piping in the petrochemical industry to 25 years in shipbuilding. He began his career as an associate quality engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding in 1982 and later spent almost 10 years at Bath Iron Works as chief welding engineer. Most recently he was the corporate welding engineer for Cian-bro Companies.

The company has also announced that Howard Lunt has joined as Northeast area sales manager for the welding division. Lunt has worked in the industry for