improve our productivity (ECONOMY), but also reduces the muscular and skeletal strains on our employees who remove the ceramic from the shells (health and safety – SOCIAL). It will reduce the dust in the Knock-out department (SOCIAL and ENVIRONMENT). The optional feature we purchased will allow us to recycle the water (ENVIRONMENTAL). Our employees are now exposed to programming and operating modern equipment raising the competencies (SOCIAL). We work in collaboration with all stakeholders, inside and outside of Vestshell, to find the right projects to
Recipients of the Innovator of the Year have successfully incorporated improvements in the investment casting process in one or more of the following areas:
• Technology • Process Improvement
• New Process or Product Introduction • New Machine Introduction • Safety Improvement • Cost Reduction
• Creative Business Concept • Customer Satisfaction
• Operational Improvement • Quality Enhancement • Environmental Impact
work on. We also work in collaboration to complete the projects. And it is amazing to see how much we have grown as a company since we began this journey in 2014. Vestshell
President, Joseph
Laflamme commented, “I must credit Greg Laflamme, Dir. of Operations at Vestshell, for being the driving force behind implementing this philosophy at Vestshell. Greg, in turn, would instead credit John Slawvey as well as all the employees and stakeholders for their work and implication. This reminds me of a quote from Ronald Reagan that I heard recently and that gives me great
inspiration to continue to work in this way. ‘There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit,’ Ronald Reagan.”
Aerospace // Automotive // Biomedical Castings // Electronics // Oil & Gas Power Generation // Powder Metallurgy Diffusion Bonding // Additive Mfg.
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Pressure Technology, Inc.
Warminster, PA | (215) 674-8844 Concord, OH | (440) 352-0760
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