Companies like General Motors and General Electric stopped on a dime to create parts that they had never created before for the war effort in the 1940s. Molded Precision Components’ (MPC) reaction to the pandemic earlier this year involved a similar change to help the world’s frontline workers.

These days, safety is everything. Edmonton, Alberta-based Davey Textile Solutions Inc. (DTS) has always believed that but during these strange times, it is more important than ever.

Imagine you are working at a company that provides high-quality, plastic, injection molding solutions and you have been there for twenty-five years. Your company, which supplies important parts to the healthcare industry, makes you President in your twenty-first year.

Any conversation these days with a corporation usually begins with the question of how it is handling the current pandemic. Though the situation is bleak now, management at Samco Machinery can see a silver lining in all of this.

Last November, the Ford Motor Company made an announcement that shocked die-hard Mustang fans; the Mustang is not only being turned into an SUV, but it’s going to be electric.

Indications are, it’s a good time to be in the die casting industry right about now, and it appears Ramsden Industries is in a great position to capitalize on the current production increases happening across North America.

I spoke with Keytronic’s President and CEO Craig Gates on the phone from his Spokane office. He seems very proud of his company’s accomplishments – and why not? Keytronic is still expanding after all these years (it just celebrated its 50th anniversary), having just opened its newest location in Vietnam. On the same day, the company was selected as one of the top ten metal manufacturing services companies by a key industry publication, and its almost 900,000-square-foot manufacturing campus in Mexico is doing extremely well in PCBA, plastics, metal stamping, fabrication, powder-coating, painting, and full product assembly.