WAUCONDA – Manufacturers the size of HM Manufacturing in Wauconda Illinois face an array of challenges – some similar to big companies and others very different. The company president and TMA Board member Nicole Wolter’s ...
If there’s anything close to a Technology & Manufacturing Association royal lineage, it would be found in B A Die Mold Inc.’s Petrucci Family. The TMA bloodline starts today with Francine Petrucci, goes back through ...
Wade Keats’ father, Bert, and his uncle, Glenn Keats, started Keats Manufacturing in 1958. A key reason for starting the business was something Wade’s father repeated often: “I didn’t get in this business for the ...
MORTON GROVE – TMA longtime member Sko-Die in Morton Grove Illinois is proud of their team members upgrading their skills at TMA’s training center in nearby Schaumburg. Patrick Steininger is Sko-Die’s third- generation owner. Recently, ...
The Women of TMA Committee (WTMA) are working towards raising $25,000 to fund scholarships for young women interested in pursuing careers in the manufacturing industry. Representatives of the WTMA – including Teresa Beach-Shelow, CEO of ...
Craig Zoberis was honored in May 2019 by Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering with their “Entrepreneurial Award” for 2019. The following profile was first published in 2016: By Fran Eaton – Heading up a ...
If there’s the perfect example of an all-around manufacturing Renaissance man, Transwestern principal Ed Brandt is in the running. Brandt started as one of the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s (TMA) early apprenticeship trainees, worked as ...
Rich Hoster has been Smith & Richardson, Inc.’s co-owner and president for nearly 25 years. He joined the company in the mid-1980s, soon after graduating from the University of Tulsa with a degree in finance ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – JR Hommer says he’s been in a manufacturing family since he was six years old, and in the industry himself for since 1992. In just the past few years, he’s noticed a ...
Adapting to demand allows third-generation business to thrive “Adaptable,” “versatile,” “profitable,” “creative” — all words that describe manufacturers that survive and thrive from generation to generation. And those are the words that describe Stanley Spring ...
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