Company Profile What began as a small company with ten employees and two weaving looms has flourished into a company with two mills and more than 175 employees. For more than seventy years, Murdock Webbing Co. Inc. has been providing its customers with webbing used...
Company Profile Kenyon Industries (now Brookwood Finishing) boasts 300,000 square feet of cutting edge fabric processing technology and over seventy-five years of experience in the dyeing, finishing, coating and printing of woven synthetic fabrics. Kenyon Industries...
Company Profile Hope Global, Inc. develops, markets and manufactures engineered textile components for high potential commercial and industrial customers. They continue to grow by leveraging their capability to provide value added solutions and outstanding customer...
Company Profile Designers at Lincoln, RI jewelry manufacturer ChemArt develop custom products for decoration and industry, and ChemArt takes pride in the fact that those products are made in America. Notably, ChemArt holds the status of the sole producer of the White...
Company Profile Since planting its roots in New England in 1927, Bullard Abrasives has had great success in manufacturing. For decades the company focused on specialized products. It was not until the 1990 to 2000 time-frame, however, that new owners began redirecting...
With energy costs constantly rising during these tough economic times, the release of the new ISO 50001:2011 Standard for ‘Energy Management Systems’ will provide benefits for both large and small organizations. The ISO 50001:2011 Standard provides a framework for...
In my years of implementing continuous improvement strategies the single most important factor of success has been a good steering team. That is the team of leaders responsible for improving the system. Many of you may think that this is common sense but none the...
BY Carl Dwinnells, Polaris MEP Project Manager (retired) Companies decide to do facility changes for any number of machine reasons, from adding new equipment to incorporating a new business they’ve just purchased. If yours is one of them, sharing some of my experience...
One business owner told me: ‘I have been in this business for over twenty years and make a better product than my competition, but I can’t get the business if I don’t become certified.’ Piles of Paperwork? In the ‘old days’ (1990’s), quality management systems were...