Few presidential statements have stirred up as much furor as when George Bush announced recently that the United States will not support the Kyoto Protocol.
Here's the enigma du jour: Is this downturn in the business cycle just a bump in the economic road, or the harbinger of recession? Whatever you want to call it, many of our clients are less concerned with terminology than the fact that their revenues have gone south along with their profitability.
A workforce of 1,200 employees produces engines at the Bombardier Rotax plant in Gunskirchen, Austria. The engines power a variety of vehicles and equipment used on land, snow, water or air.
Braun GmbH, headquartered in Kronberg, Germany, manufactures small electrical appliances. Virtually all of the company's products are manufactured in its own plants, which produce more than 150,000 units a day.
When Meridian Automotive Systems (Angola, IN) needed to boost productivity on a roll-forming bumper operation, the company switched from resistance welding to a weld process developed with Newcor Bay City (Bay City, MI).
The Motorola facility in Elma, NY, produces over 1 million parts annually, supplying electronic modules to some of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world. Depending on the type of unit installed, its circuits could control one or more operations, such as interior lights or power windows, door locks, seats and seat heating.
Skill Tool & Die (Cleveland, OH) set a goal of producing a spare tire bracket more efficiently and with better quality. Achieving this goal required streamlining the job from manual welding to a fully automated welding operation.
Crane Plumbing LLC (Evanston, IL) manufactures sanitary housewares. Its Dallas division, which was started in 1985 and has approximately 250 employees, manufactures porcelain-on-steel bath products, such as sinks, lavatories and bathtubs.
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