Brad Carney (left) and Brian Echelbarger have seen their full-service CNC machine shop grow and expand through diversification.
Becoming Jacks of All Trades
Hoosier shop grows as a result of perseverance, determination and diversification
James D. Sawyer Senior Editor
“T
he key thing we’ve learned from be- ing in business,” said Brad Carney, a founder and owner of Carney-Ech- elbarger Machining (C-E; Kokomo, IN), “is that the more that we diversify, the better off we are.”
Along with his mother and father, Carney in 2004 launched what was originally known as Carney Custom Machining (CCM) in a building behind his parents’ house in Sharpsville, IN. The intervening years have been a bit of a