we as managers look at the science and not consider what could happen if we don’t act responsibly.
Seems to me that we are faced with the old story about the frog and the scorpion. Scorpion wants to get across a river but he can’t swim. He asks a frog if he can ride on his back to get to the other side. Frog says he can’t because the scorpion can kill him with his stinger and he can’t trust him. Scorpion talks the frog into trusting him and when they are part way across the scorpion stings the frog. Frog asks why did you sting me, now we will both die. Scorpion replies ‘because I am a scorpion’. Shellcast doesn’t like scorpions.” Bob Johnson, Shellcast
––––––––––––––– “Our company has been severely
impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak and COVID-19. Our supply chain is seeing significant delays, and our shipments across the Canadian and Mexican borders have become difficult. In addition, many of our team members are under ‘stay at home’ or ‘shelter in place’ proclamations, and many of our locations are completely closed. Not having people in their normal research development roles will cause product delays as well. The good part is that everyone is working together as hard as they can, and the supportive environment will make us a stronger business community afterwards.” Anonymous Company
––––––––––––––– “On Sunday, Governor DeWine
announced A Stay at Home Order for all Persons Unless Engaged in Essential Work. According to the Ohio Department of Health Stay at Home special orders, manufacturing
companies producing
essential products for industries such as Energy, Steel, Petroleum, Fuel, Mining are included as Essential Business. Under these guidelines, ICP is considered an Essential Business. ICP manufactures ceramics used in the production of metal castings utilized in all these
®
industries. In addition, ICP is a supplier of ceramics used for the production of some critical castings used in military applications such as ships, submarines, aircraft, missiles, tanks and drones. ICP hopes to develop a balanced plan based on employee safety/security while maintaining a viable business.”
R.C. Oberst,
Industrial Ceramic Products –––––––––––––––
“I hope you, yours, and all the people at the ICI are well.
Like us I suspect most foundries and our suppliers are part of the Critical Manufacturing Sector and will try to stay open dependent on local conditions. Being in a small community, we have not had a positive test in our labor pool; however, at the minimum are experiencing huge life style changes and have had to adapt the plant to accommodate social distancing. I’m not sure how long that is going to last because Cindy keeps trying to get back in the house. All kidding aside we have had to reduce our break / lunch area to 2 people max, with no dine in to allow use of the correctly placed vending machines and microwaves. We have had to expand the smoking area and place floor markers at 6 foot intervals in areas like the time clock as a reminder to keep social distancing in those areas. We have had to limit small areas, offices, bathrooms by size to 1 or 2 people and have to maintain watch to keep our distances when handing items from one to another. It is just not natural to set something down and back away for it to be picked up and social behaviors will take time to adjust to new rules. PPE seems to be the biggest supply
chain problem, with mask, gloves and disinfectant all going to the front line and becoming not available. In critical areas we have had to produce our own washable mask suppling 7 per person for each position. We are still producing these. We currently still have gloves but expect them to be nonexistent soon. It IS and will likely be a very fluid situation that will take daily monitoring
and decision making as we go, with nothing concrete at this point. Currently orders have slowed and
we only have had one customer pushing out / canceling orders (unfortunately our largest). Bearing in mind we are in oil country and oil and natural gas are both at all-time lows, we have not seen the effect we would normally see with these kinds of numbers indicating the feeling of a short term low over a longer one. Stay safe and watch your social
distancing.”
Dale Wurster, Sure Cast Inc. “TPM is still up and running. We
did get
letters from a few customer detailing that we make key parts for them that are considered essential per the government guidelines.
We are
hopeful this will prevail should our local government question us.” Brad DeSplinter, TPM, Inc.
Tru-Heat Afterburner 5 - 1
Door Safety Rating
®
1400°– 2200°F WRF (Wax Reclamation Furnace)
Fiberfrax™ Lining
Custom Hearth
Positions to Meet Mold
Dimensions
Natural Gas Propane • Butane
% O2 Trim
Manual or Automatic Hearth Car Movement
Armil CFS, Inc. 15660 La Salle St., South Holland, IL 60473 708-339-6810 office • 708-339-0517 fax email:
info@armilcfs.com
www.armilcfs.com
April 2020 ❘ 21
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40
