We're emphasizing the concept of being the 'one source'
for a company's manufacturing and assembly requirements,
focusing our attention on our core business of contract
machining and fabrication, from prototype to production.
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CLARKSVILLE, IN -- pāco manufacturing® was recently featured in the July 17, 2009 edition of the Louisville Business First. President Glen Morris acknowledged 2008 as a record year for the company, with $5 million in sales. However, 2009's recession has been difficult on pāco manufacturing® as with many other companies. Morris stated that companies have deferred the kind of capital projects and expansion which pāco manufacturing® targets.
To boost sales, new strategies have been researched, reviewed and adopted.
Two major ideas presented in the article were growing a foreign partnership and
taking advantage of visibility. At the beginning of 2009,
pāco manufacturing® started a joint venture with
Apple International to market, sell and service Apple's food processing
machinery in the United States. The newly formed company,
Apple Food Systems LLC, will offer a proven
technology to the Americas. Morris stated that the venture gives pāco manufacturing® an alternative to its normal business of making unique products for customers.
Another idea adopted by the company this year was to take advantage of the plant's prime location and 1200 feet of Interstate 65 frontage to display banners about the company. These 3' x 15' interchangeable banners are rotated on a monthly basis with such slogans as "Increase your Productivity with paco manufacturing", "CNC & General Machining", and "Machine Design & Build", to name but a few. Recently, this effort paid off as an engineer from a large local company saw one of the banners and hired pāco manufacturing® to make machines for them. Providing this visibility will help to inform the public of what the company does and who they are. Click here to read the entire article.
PRECISION AUTOMATION® CONTINUES OPERATIONS UNDER NEW NAME
CLARKSVILLE, IN -- Precision Automation® Co., Inc.
began
doing business as
pāco manufacturing® in October of 2006, according
to an announcement by Glen A. Morris, President of the Clarksville, Indiana company.
There is no change in ownership or management, and the official name
of the company remains Precision Automation® Co., Inc. The decision
to do business on a daily basis under the new name is just one
action item resulting from a lengthy strategic planning process
undertaken by management and staff to better position the company
for the future.
“Automation is a limiting term,” observed Morris. “Most of our
customers and prospective customers are manufacturers, and we want
to make sure they view our company on that broader platform,
especially with our contract manufacturing capabilities.” The
consensus among those involved in the planning process was that the
previous name has become too closely associated with high-end
automation, close tolerance parts and so on, to the exclusion of the
plant’s other capabilities.
Founded over fifty years ago, the company changed its name in 1970
from Precision Parts to Precision Automation® Co., Inc. That earlier
change, too, was a reflection of how the company had expanded its
services and capabilities over the years. The new change to
pāco manufacturing® will help position the Indiana facility to once again
target a wider manufacturing base.
“We’ve changed a great deal over the years,” noted Morris, “and have
begun to develop brands in specific niches; have increased our
contract manufacturing capabilities, while we continue to offer
design, engineering and implementation capabilities as well. We’re
emphasizing the concept of being the 'one source' for a company's
manufacturing and assembly requirements, focusing our attention more
intently on our core business of contract machining and fabrication,
from prototype to production.”
The name change will also enable the Clarksville facility to foster
an image which compliments but differentiates itself from the
original plant in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which will continue to
operate under the Precision Automation® name. The strategic focus of
the two plants has diverged somewhat over the years, even with their
shared 53-year history, and the new name will aid the Clarksville
plant in strengthening its own unique identity.
The name change is one component of an overall strategic plan to
better position
pāco manufacturing® in enhancing and deepening its
existing customer relationships while broadening its customer base
through an increased market-wide awareness of all it has to offer.
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