by Ben Wiley | Jun 14, 2021 | Careers, community, Family Business, Laser Cutting, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators
It’s rarely good to be front-page news, but we’re excited about our moment in the spotlight. To see why take a look at The News Herald from May 12-18th. At the top, you’ll see a headline that reads, “New investment, jobs to help Wiley Metal”. This is a good news story...
by Ben Wiley | May 25, 2021 | Careers, Welding
You’ve heard of Rosie the Riveter, well how about Wendy the Welder? Right now it’s unlikely you know many women welders, even if you work in the fabrication industry. That’s because only about 5% of the welders in the US are women, according to a recent NBC News...
by Ben Wiley | May 21, 2021 | Careers
Henry Ford has a lot to answer for. Yes, he gave us affordable transportation, but he also gave us the moving assembly line. It cut the time and cost of building cars but it also created a whole new type of work: repetitive, monotonous, and unsatisfying. Work is...
by Ben Wiley | Apr 26, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, OEM
We won an award recently. We’re rather proud of that and prouder still that we’ve won it more than once. It’s not in our nature to brag though. Despite being told that talking about it would be good for business we’d rather just get back to doing what we do: serving...
by Ben Wiley | Apr 19, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, Sheet Metal Fabrication
Offcuts and scrap are inevitable in metal fabrication. Handled right, (which means with gloves,) they’re worth money. Handle them the wrong way and we’d be throwing money away, and who likes doing that? So for anyone interested in controlling manufacturing costs,...
