Peerless Industries: In-House From Low-Cost to


Mount maker Peerless Industries set out to be the only vertically-integrated manufacturer in its market category, and in-house metalcasting has been critical in achieving that goal.


Shea Gibbs, Senior Editor J


oe Dolack was a man like many others in 2008: he’d lost his job with a diecasting fi rm and was waiting for the phone to ring with the prospect of a new position.


His phone eventually did ring, and what the caller had to say was about the last thing he expected to hear. “After I got the phone call, I went on the internet to check it out because I


thought it was a prank,” Dolack said. “I couldn’t believe someone was thinking about doing it.” By “someone,” Dolack meant com- mercial and retail audio-visual mount


Peerless Industries makes primarily professional-grade audio-visual mounts at its Aurora, Ill., manufacturing campus. The company makes nearly 100% of the parts it uses in the assemblies in-house.


20 METAL CASTING DESIGN AND PURCHASING JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011


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