Business View Magazine | March 2020

90 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 the company’s advantages. “One, and perhaps the most important, is our personnel,” he states. “They are a very dedicated and experienced team. Everybody is very passionate about what they are doing and even those who founded the company are still involved. We’ve learned a lot of lessons over the years and our younger team members have had great mentorship from those who have been involved in the industry for so long. This is truly our strongest asset. The second is the scope and scale of the equipment and technology that the company possess, which provides us with an immense amount of manufacturing capacity to support our customer base. Ownership has always been very good about acquiring the latest technology and the newest equipment - things to keep us on the cutting edge of our industry. Those two things, coupled together, are our greatest competitive advantages.” The Group’s equipment includes over 75 high precision CNC machines; 100-plus stamping presses, 11 of which are 1,000-ton capacity or greater, up to 5000 tons; 30-plus laser cutting cells; 3 fiber laser welding cells; 23 robotic MIG welding cells; a full metallurgical lab used for weld macrographic examination and metallurgical analysis; a fully robotic hot stamping cell that is able to access 2 presses; 15 plastic injection molding presses with up to 850- ton capacity; and a tubular hydroforming cell. “Additionally,” Peterson states, “we make significant investments in our inspection and quality departments with various laser scanning technologies and advanced coordinate measurement machines to ensure that our customers are delivered the absolute highest quality products, while meeting their urgent