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FECT I ON
Vince Lombardi once said that perfection may not
necessarily be attainable, “but if we chase perfec-
tion, we can catch excellence.” And when it comes
to the manufacturing of precision metal products,
from springs, stampings, mechanical assemblies
and more, a company in Mount Prospect, Illinois,
has attained a reputation for delivering excellence
to those chasing “Perfect” solutions.
Long before he established a company that has emerged
as a world leading supplier of custom engineered metal
components, Louis Kahn served our nation in both the
U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. In the early 1950’s, after re-
turning home to Illinois, he worked briefly for his fa-
ther’s clothing store, but quickly determined that he
wasn’t really “suited” to work in men’s clothing. As it
was, he had fallen in love, married his sweetheart in 1952
and the two took off from the windy city of Chicago
for the balmy breezes of Bermuda. They only returned
to Illinois after running out of money. From 1953 to