Business View Magazine May 2023

101 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 ESOP that might not have been possible otherwise. Initiatives for 2023-2024 Willard outlined a few corporate initiatives for the next couple of years. One is to introduce more robotic applications among its distributed products. A second is expanding the company’s maintenance and repair reach and revenue. Salem employs nearly 20 master service technicians who travel to customer sites for installations and repairs. This is a growing part of the business with consistent revenue opportunities and Willard hopes to hire at least 10 more technicians in 2023 to support the company. Corporate acquisitions are possible in 2023 and beyond. Willard says Salem’s employee-owners are currently in discussions with a small but highly SALEM FABRICAT ION TECHNOLOGI ES GROUP