Congratulations to our very own Jennifer Kalas, President of IRMCO. Jennifer was selected for the 2018 Women of Excellence in Metalforming & Fabricating. At IRMCO for 19 years, Jennifer, a 32-year manufacturing-industry veteran, has led the company to record growth while helping foster an innovative company culture of open-book management and development of high-technology lubricant products. As the only woman…
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Don’t Drink the Lubricant Kool-Aid: IRMCO Minute #11
Happy Halloween! It is that time of year again — for ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. It sure is fun to scare ourselves silly. But do you know what is really scary? Tool wear. Scrap. Meeting your production numbers while reducing costs. And typical lubricant suppliers that don’t care…
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The American Trucking Shortage
Anyone ordering raw materials or shipping finished products today is feeling the pinch of America’s latest manufacturing woe—a shortage of skilled & available trucker drivers. Largely the result of newly mandatory and strictly enforced electronic monitoring of daily driving hours and a spike in economic activity—there is a building crisis regarding shipping on our nation’s…
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