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Sales
Information:
Year Ended April 30,
2005: $24,400,000 up
2%
Employment:
Ironwood: 140
Two Rivers: 50
Total Employment: 190
Upcoming Trade
Shows:
SAE Show -
Detroit
April 03-06, 2006
MD&M Show -
Minneapolis October 25-26,
2006
Snowfall
Information:
2005-2006
Snowfall
166.6" To Date
2004-2005 Snowfall
162.3"
2003-2004 Snowfall
200.3" | | |
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Ironwood Plastics,
Inc.
Ironwood
Division 1235 Wall
Street
Ironwood, MI 49938
Phone: (906) 932-5025
Two
Rivers Division 2800
18th Street
Two Rivers, WI 54241
Phone: (920)
793-3060
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ISO
9001:2000 Certification
Received
by: Mark
Stephens, Vice President
Ironwood
Plastics was recently recommended for certification by BSI to
the ISO 9001:2000 standard. Since 1998, our facilities have
carried QS-9000 certifications, but the impending obsolescence
of the QS-9000 standard forced some changes. Ironwood’s
Corporate Quality Systems Manager, Terry Mann, reports the
audit went very well. “I have only been with Ironwood Plastics
since September of 2005 and my first project was to obtain
this certification. I worked with Cheryl Suliin in Ironwood,
Lynn Caruso-Stueck in Two Rivers and many others
to make this happen,” reports Terry. In addition to running
his own consulting firm, Terry formerly held a key quality
position at Intel and remains a frequent guest speaker in the
Engineering Department at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison
. “The Ironwood staff helped make this
process move forward smoothly,” Terry continues, “we had
the basics in place and it was a natural transition to the ISO
standard. Now we can begin the path to TS16949. I would expect
to see that certification by the end of
2007.” |
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ARBURG ELECTRIC
PRESSES HEADED TO TWO RIVERS
by: Rob Stephens, Vice
President
Two
Arburg electric presses will enter service in our Two Rivers
Division in early March. The two 110 Ton machines will replace
two older machines as the company-wide machine total remains
at 48. The machines come with 0.7 and 2.0 oz barrels, well
suited for smaller shot sizes. Accuracy and speed are the two
big reasons for the electrics. At a $25,000 price premium over
hydraulic equivalents, they will be called on to produce. The
machines have several features integrated directly with the
controller: RJG cavity pressure monitoring, water temperature,
conveyors and part diverters. With the type of high tolerance
parts we produce, we must look at ways to continually improve
our efficiency, set up time and accuracy of parts. For
specific applications, the electric machines give us another
tool to use to better service our customers
needs.
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