Masters in Manufacturing: Al Kasper and Victoria Van Bortel of Ideal Carbide
BOLINGBROOK – Ideal Carbide Die in Bolingbrook’s Victoria Van Bortel and Al Kasper “vice-president” the 61 year old company as a team.
Ideal Carbide, which started in 1953, hired Victoria’s father, Jay Hartz, in 1973. With a background as a metallurgical engineer with an MBA from the University of Chicago, he was hired with an option to obtain Ideal when the founder retired