Pictures of the new factory
 

I finally made some time to take some pictures of the new shop. I went up on the scissors lift with the maintenance supervisor to take some of them.

The Lobby
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My Office
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Hallway to the shop
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Accounting offices
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More to come..

what kind of factory is it?

I like the lobby the best.

First view inside the shop
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Plastics side of the building. Notice the new lights! The metals side still has the sodium. We are doing the lights in groups of 100. These new lights will save nearly 60% of the energy costs it takes to run them. And I could get a car every month for what the electric bill is!
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The metal side of the building. The coils of steel in this picture weight nearly 5000 pounds each. The VP of metals tells me we are scheduled to process over 3000 tons of steel this year.
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This is the laser cell. This department runs 24 hours a day along with the plastics department. The rest of the metal shop runs 2 shifts and a Saturday shift from time to time.

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is that your personal pink fork lift? ;-)

I'm standing in the middle of the stamping department
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We are still setting up the tire assembly department.
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Some plant offices
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I am up on the scissors lift. The building is 32 feet to the rafters. We didn't go all the way up. On the left is plastic finishing and to the right is the weldshop.
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Your pics are giving me a boner.

Are you getting involved in bio-plastics at all? I just read a report about the explosion of the use of bio-degradable plastics in Asia. Made from sugar cane and other such plants.

Anyway, you have an inspiring new property. I hope it is a great year for you.

Yes..you like? :)

That's called a pallet jack :D

sure, why not!

are all of them pink? is that a safety deal or/


looks like a top-notch facility all around!

thanks, i'm not familiar with menial labor tools.

:Oh crap:Oh crap

As a boss, you should know what the minions need :D

A better shot of the weld shop and the mold department. This group builds the molds that we run in the plastics department.
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This is a new mold being built. This is a small to average size part. Our largest plastics machine will mold a golfcart. We just ordered a new plastics machine that will be delivered in June that will mold a VW bug. The footprint of this new machine is 37 feet wide by 54 feet long and it's nearly 24 feet tall.

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Another shot in the moid fabrication department
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The area of the plant that I took the pictures in is a little over half of the space we have here.
This is the last of the pictures to post. I took over 100 of them.
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Our shipping manager is female. And she wants to make sure HER pallet jack doesn't end up somewhere else,so she ordered our only pink one.

We are using some in very specific areas. Mostly made from corn. Everything we mold is 100% recyclable. Nothing gets tossed.

how much do you pay?

righton-

that's a good attitude for an employee to have.

Pretty serious operation you have there, Congrats :thumbsup Great shots, thanks for sharing:winkwink:

How many kw/h

More than I'd like,..but less than they want.:winkwink:


The average wage in the factory is in the teens per hour, plus benefits.

Since Markham ain't here to ask this VERY important question.... How many bathrooms??? ;)

Not too shabby.

I don't know for sure.

The building has a 4160 volt service @34.5 KVA..I was told that translates to over 9000 amps of 480v.

You must have a lot of real estate on the roof for solar.

Are you hiring? I don't see too many people working there
They are slacking,I'd fire them

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I can answer this now!

There are 5 small and 2 large in the offices.

There are 2 small and 2 GIGANTIC in the shop.

What exactly will you be making there? I am lost...VWs or Golfcarts?

And I finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy popped for a new camera!

12 acres.. I am looking at a large wind generator,first . I met with one of the state agencies already for permits to install one. The city might be another issue. They don't like them. They say they are unsightly and distracting to the area.

Looks awesome - But I think your workers are on strike :(.

Neither. You can see things that we are making in the pictures. We mold over 850 different part numbers for many different customers. The VW is only a point of reference for the size parts we can mold here.

This building is just huge. There are over 150 people working on the first shift. The 2nd and 3rd shifts are progressively smaller.

Do you pay for your employees health benefits also?

Sweet factory! Let's see the parking spot to see your Lambo or Porsche.

what did you get?

so i s the new facility operating at 100% already?

Company pays 70% of healthcare. 100% dental, 100% life and we contribute to a 401k.

A Canon EOS T3

We are closing in on 100% still lots of things to put away, organize,setup and wire.

It was a real challenge moving 2 plants into this building and NOT losing any sales. We had planned for 5 months and it ended up taking a little over 6 months to complete.

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Nice hobby! Taking over the business that your Dad started is a good job if you can get it. :winkwink:

I understand that you used to do some non-nude Bikini websites - are you still in porn (if bikini/non-nude pix is considered "porn")?

:stoned

ADG

i can only imagine.

Well, good luck getting it going. Those things can do a lot of generating and the vertical ones are no more an eyesore than a smoke stack except they don't smoke. Hopefully the city council is not of yesterdays generation I guess. Of course if it were up to me, it'd almost be a mandate to generate at least X% if your own power.

so how come the "Accounting offices" - are empty ?

Great looking shop Minte! :pimp

The little tree in the lobby picture.. every morning it drops loads of leaves yep?
I used to have one, never knew how a tree so small can drop so many leaves and still have some left..

My father didn't start it alone. Him and I started it together. We started as a tool and die company. Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to see the plastics. When he died in the 1990's we were 18 employees in a 3800 sq ft shop.

They are not empty. I made sure to take the picture from an angle.

That's a weeping fig. I had it in my office for nearly 15 years at the old building. My new office only faces north and they need more sun, so the lobby was the perfect place for it.

We painted a load of our tools pink because they kept walking out the door. Worked quite well in stopping it :)

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You started the company in 1967 with your Dad? Damn, how old are you? :upsidedow

:stoned

ADG

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