Palmer Foundry Palmer | 15 shapes in a manner that is efficient, fast and accurate. Logan says the company has essentially deployed technology to allow for monitoring and measuring of company operations. “We know what is happening with our equipment at any time of operation or nonoperation. We’re monitoring all processes and parameters and getting feedback of data continuously which helps us better understand exactly how we’re functioning. We’re constantly striving for improvement and that requires measuring. In hockey, you have to know how many shots you made, how many hits, how many blocks. In business, you have to keep up with your stats too,” says Logan. Of course, in business, you have to keep customers too. Palmer Foundry is shipping components to customers throughout the world today, and Logan says he is confident that the company will continue to grow. In fact, Palmer Foundry secured town permits to add 10,000 square feet of space to their facility this past year. Logan says as more industries come to understand the value, strength and compositional capability of their aluminum castings, there will be new opportunities and new applications in which the company is prepared to perform. As Logan affirms, “One of our goals has been to raise awareness because casting isn’t typically the first thing in an engineer’s toolbox... but this is a technology that can work in high-tech applications ... it can be used for a lot more than just making manhole covers.”
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