by itadmin | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
“They were slow to respond to inquiries, took months to return bids, and were largely unwilling to make investments to manufacture the parts he needed.” That observation from a Fortune magazine article on the “reshoring” trend – and its positive impact on U.S....
by itadmin | Jan 7, 2015 | Blog, Featured
Schaffer Industrial Finishing, based in Centuria, WI, is the batch-style powder coating sister company to Schaffer Manufacturing. Schaffer also operates a wet paint line in Milltown, WI, where our design and engineering, fabrication, assembly and warehouse operations...
by itadmin | Oct 20, 2014 | Blog, Featured
The number of iPhone applications is chugging toward 1.5 million. Google applications for Android products total about the same. Which makes me wonder how someone can write an article that singles out the “10 Apps You Must Have Now.” But those lists come out...
by itadmin | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog, Featured
On the surface, it might seem like buying sheet metal fabrication is a standard “commodity” purchase within your supply chain. In other words, that “sheet metal is sheet metal,” and the main difference between suppliers is usually price-per-part. If that was the case,...
by itadmin | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Featured
When it comes to metal fabrication, the welders and the operators running fiber lasers or 600-ton press brakes claim to have all the fun. But the folks in Engineering have it pretty good, too. There’s nothing like a little research and development (R&D) to get...
