April 2013
| Business World Magazine | 185
oven. With only six employees, Suth went
on to secure new contracts, and the company
coiled on to the future. Jim Suth’s son, Mike,
was eventually appointed to head the com-
pany and lead it through another dynamic
era of growth, and today, his son, Greg Suth,
represents the third generation of family
leadership.
The company has come a long way from
those days of the garage. Factory operations
today accommodate all manner of material
resource for spring manufacturing, inspec-
tion and test. In addition to specializing in
cold coiling in the forming of compression
springs (whether that’s conical, cylindrical,
hourglass or barrel variety), the company also
produces extension springs, garter springs,
clips and wire forms. Coil wire sizes can
range from .008 to .540 and through their
semi-automatic capability, Hoosier Spring
can coil up to .750 wire. Average lot sizes
figure at around 200 pieces, but the com-
pany can handle significantly larger quanti-
ties too. Hoosier Spring has expertise in the
vast range of both common and more exotic
metals, including stainless steels, titanium,
Monel K400, Rene 41, Nispan C, Hastelloy
C, oil tempered chrome vanadium, chrome
silicon, and much, much more. Heat treating
processes have also come a long way from the
