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August 18, 2021PMCIron Foundry Industry0

Penn-Mar and metal casting fun facts

PMC employees are happy PMC offers comprehensive onboarding and benefits at 60 days. Our continuous training and fantastic culture is evidence by our average employee tenure of eleven years. The management staff at our PA office has more than 200 decades of combined foundry experience. Casting is good for the economy and the planet According to the American Foundry Society (AFS), in an article entitled Metalcasting Facts and Tidbits written for Manufacturing Day 2019, every dollar that’s spent...

August 11, 2021PMCPeople0

Team building with The Lawton Standard Co. family of companies

To build any team, members need to know and understand the capabilities of each member. Anyone who has been on a team, whether a sport, business organization, or even a volunteer group, understands that everyone has different strengths and skills to bring to the effort. The Lawton Standard Co. recognized that to join four distinctly different foundry organizations, the strengths, and skills of the managers need to be understood by the leadership team. This led The Lawton Standard...

July 7, 2021PMCContinuous Improvement0

Kaizen success at Penn-Mar

The Lawton Standard Co. held an intercompany kaizen event during the week of April 12-16 at Penn-Mar Castings, LLC in Hanover, PA. This was a first for Penn-Mar since joining The Lawton Standard family of foundries in February 2021. Participants from all the Lawton family sites were involved in this exciting project. As the first kaizen event at Penn-Mar, the team chose a 6S project on the grinding room. At first, the leadership team viewed this selection as...