Dear Representative McCotter,
In regards to the bridge loans of some $25 Billion to Chrysler, GM and Ford (Big 3), I support these loans as a business person and taxpayer. I do have one stipulation that I believe is critical to the success of the loans, as it is important to American Manufacturing and its Workers. The Government loan to the "Big 3" should also be tied to their purchasing domestically, which has not been addressed. If the "Big 3" are allowed to continue to increase their purchasing of parts offshore then their gain will continue to diminish the number of manufacturing jobs and companies in America. These American companies create jobs for the skilled workforce who do not attend universities to become professionals. These jobs are critical to the middle class taxpayer's standard of living and have always been supported by the automotive, appliance, machinery, and transportation industries.
To be considered "American Made" there needs to be a minimum percentage of 75% of all parts that are used in each automobile or truck that must be produced in the U.S.A. by an American owned company.
This additional clause in the Government Bridge Loan to the "Big 3" would be a critical step in helping Michigan and America to a long term economic recovery.
Thank you for your support,
J. M. Chain
President & CEO
Almetals Inc.
Chain Industries, Inc.
Chain Oil Co. Inc.
Wixom, MI 48393
http://almetals.com/Coil_Suppliers/what.html
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Revised Stamping Journal
Sorry. User messed up the link. Please see the revised link for aluminum as referenced in the November 2008 edition of Stamping Journal http://www.almetals.com/Coil_Suppliers/Aluminum_slitting\metals-aluminum.html.
Monday, November 10, 2008
November 2008 Stamping Journal
Almetals, Inc. proudly contributed an article to the November 2008 Stamping Journal magazine. The article covered technical questions pertaining to aluminum, a light-weight, high strength metal. We were honored to be able to provide detailed information on a subject Almetals knows a lot about. See more about aluminum at http://www.almetals.com/Coil_Suppliers/Aluminum_slitting\metals-aluminum.html.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Updated Website Coming
Our website will be updated shortly to allow a better listing of excess inventory at rock bottom prices. See our website at http://www.almetals.com/excess.aspx.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Just Ask
Published in Stamping Journal Magazine this past summer...
How To Ask For Help
Simply stated, Ask. According to a recent Purchasing Magazine survey, buyers say they expect their distributor suppliers to provide them with the lowest prices and highest service levels. Separately, distributors say buyers do press them to provide more information, especially on pricing justification and value-added services. This data also suggests that the buyer would like to see more technical support.
Almetals provides expert technical support, just Ask.
Scott Warford, national territory manager for Almetals, Inc., an award-winning, top 100 metals service center states that much of his time is spent working with customers on technical and market-driven issues such as material substitutions, forming issues, and long-term supply agreements. One would think a metals service center sales person would only be there to sell metal, but as Scott sees it “I am here to help the customer get the maximum efficiency out of their metal and see that their material is running correctly.” Gone are the days when a person just sells you metal, they also need to be able to work with their customer to help solve their issues. “We need to be in the trenches with you making the metal do what it’s suppose to do,” says Warford. “If I can’t solve something, our metallurgist is a phone call away who will conference call the customer or myself or be on the next plane to help.” For example, Almetals assisted their customer who was stamping a part, utilizing the OEM’s specifications, for a high-nickel grade stainless. The part was not running well on the presses and it was costing the company a lot of money. “We met with company representatives and suggested a lower-nickel grade with a slightly altered chemistry and at a cost savings,” says Warford. “The new part ran smoothly on the presses and our customer received accolades for passing on the suggestion and cost-savings to their customer. They Asked for help and in the end, we helped each other.”
Tim Doherty, vice president of sales at Almetals, says that most of the time the customer sees us as only wanting to sell them something. “We also provide follow-up and problem solving, which we feel keeps our customer satisfaction high,” says Doherty. “Also, our quality is at 99.8% and our on-time delivery performance at 99.7%. Those numbers speak volumes to anyone involved in this industry.” It’s one thing to say we’re going to do what we say we’re going to do, it’s another thing to actually do it. How do we do it? “Communication is the key,” says Doherty. “Our customers need to know that myself or our sales and customer service representatives are going to call you back and help you, when you need it the most. Our commitment to our customers total quality experience doesn’t end with a purchase order. We are available 24/7.” If you didn’t know this before, you do now. Just Ask.
Almetals, Inc.
1.800.968.7730
www.almetals.com
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How To Ask For Help
Simply stated, Ask. According to a recent Purchasing Magazine survey, buyers say they expect their distributor suppliers to provide them with the lowest prices and highest service levels. Separately, distributors say buyers do press them to provide more information, especially on pricing justification and value-added services. This data also suggests that the buyer would like to see more technical support.
Almetals provides expert technical support, just Ask.
Scott Warford, national territory manager for Almetals, Inc., an award-winning, top 100 metals service center states that much of his time is spent working with customers on technical and market-driven issues such as material substitutions, forming issues, and long-term supply agreements. One would think a metals service center sales person would only be there to sell metal, but as Scott sees it “I am here to help the customer get the maximum efficiency out of their metal and see that their material is running correctly.” Gone are the days when a person just sells you metal, they also need to be able to work with their customer to help solve their issues. “We need to be in the trenches with you making the metal do what it’s suppose to do,” says Warford. “If I can’t solve something, our metallurgist is a phone call away who will conference call the customer or myself or be on the next plane to help.” For example, Almetals assisted their customer who was stamping a part, utilizing the OEM’s specifications, for a high-nickel grade stainless. The part was not running well on the presses and it was costing the company a lot of money. “We met with company representatives and suggested a lower-nickel grade with a slightly altered chemistry and at a cost savings,” says Warford. “The new part ran smoothly on the presses and our customer received accolades for passing on the suggestion and cost-savings to their customer. They Asked for help and in the end, we helped each other.”
Tim Doherty, vice president of sales at Almetals, says that most of the time the customer sees us as only wanting to sell them something. “We also provide follow-up and problem solving, which we feel keeps our customer satisfaction high,” says Doherty. “Also, our quality is at 99.8% and our on-time delivery performance at 99.7%. Those numbers speak volumes to anyone involved in this industry.” It’s one thing to say we’re going to do what we say we’re going to do, it’s another thing to actually do it. How do we do it? “Communication is the key,” says Doherty. “Our customers need to know that myself or our sales and customer service representatives are going to call you back and help you, when you need it the most. Our commitment to our customers total quality experience doesn’t end with a purchase order. We are available 24/7.” If you didn’t know this before, you do now. Just Ask.
Almetals, Inc.
1.800.968.7730
www.almetals.com
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Almetals, Inc. is run by James Chain who has over 37 years of metal experience. Almetals, Inc. is celebrating 24 years in business and proudly employs 31 people between their Wixom, Michigan and Austell, Georgia locations. Almetals is a metals processing service center that slits aluminum, brass, copper, clad, coated, plated, & stainless steels.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Slitting Metal
How does this process work? A large metal coil, (brass, copper, stainless, steel, clad, aluminum), is brought on and hoisted on to a machine called a slitter. A slitter has very sharp blades or knives that cuts the coil to specific widths and lengths. As the metal is cut it falls into a deep hole in the floor as it slowly winds to the other end with the cuts in place. It's interesting to watch because you can't imagine a coil that big, small, thick or thin being cut like it's butter. It's also amazing to see the bigger coils being cut to many smaller sized coils. We will be putting a video on our website shortly showing how metal is slit www.almetals.com. Almetals slits coil metal to .002" - .190" (0.508 mm - 4.626 mm) thick and in widths ranging from .250" - 60" (6.365 mm - 1524 mm).
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Uses
What can be done with slit coil?
Sorry, forgot to mention that. The applications are endless. Wherever metal is needed there is usually an application for slit coil. A few years back when automobiles used metal decorative trim, it was all about metal - people loved the look. Refrigerators use metal trim, in fact aluminum is all the rage now because it has that polished look and is light-weight. Metal is used to build homes in order to protect them from strong winds, hurricanes, and flooding. Builders are choosing to use metal that won't corrode or rust, which is typically an aluminum product. Brass and copper are used in jewelry applications, as well as electrical components due to its conductivity.
Fuel cells are being developed using slit coil metal. Stampers, roll-formers, & tube producers all use coil metal extensively. Here are just a few of the many applications:
Sorry, forgot to mention that. The applications are endless. Wherever metal is needed there is usually an application for slit coil. A few years back when automobiles used metal decorative trim, it was all about metal - people loved the look. Refrigerators use metal trim, in fact aluminum is all the rage now because it has that polished look and is light-weight. Metal is used to build homes in order to protect them from strong winds, hurricanes, and flooding. Builders are choosing to use metal that won't corrode or rust, which is typically an aluminum product. Brass and copper are used in jewelry applications, as well as electrical components due to its conductivity.
Fuel cells are being developed using slit coil metal. Stampers, roll-formers, & tube producers all use coil metal extensively. Here are just a few of the many applications:
- Fan blades
- Automobile mufflers
- Swimming pool fixtures
- Light fixtures
- Casket liners
- Silverware
- Clad pots & pans
- Heat shields
- Window & door components
- Aircraft parts
- Architectural trim
- Car & Truck wheel covers
- Roof drainage
- Transportation equipment
- Food processing equipment
- Pharmaceutical equipment
- Hot water tanks
- Manifolds
- Refrigeration liners
- Storm shutters
- Fuel tanks
- Boats & furniture equipment
- License plates
- Hand tools
- Metal tags
- Axles
- Railway wheels & tracks
- Cable wire
Experiment
What I hope will be the first of many blogs. I am experimenting to see what happens when I blog about Almetals, Inc., an award-winning coil metals processing service center. Almetals, Inc. slits coil aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, coated steel, painted steel, cold rolled, and fin stock.
Almetals, Inc. is located in Wixom, Michigan and Austell, Georgia. Almetals equipment can process over 200,000,000 pounds (90,000,000 kgs) of slit coil annually. Slitting is a process used to cut a wide coil of metal into a number of narrower coils, as the main coil is moved through the slitter machine. It really is interesting to see the machines able to literally cut through metal. The multiple slitting lines enable Almetals to slit material .002" - .190" (0.508 mm - 4.826 mm) thick and in widths ranging from .250" -60" (6.365 mm - 1524 mm) thus allowing Almetals to be your one stop processor.
While Almetals, Inc. sells aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, coated steel, painted steel, cold rolled, and fin stock, they also can simply slit metal that someone already has in their possession. A customer does not have to buy the metal and have it slit at either of our facilities, they can simply buy the metal or buy it and have it slit by Almetals, or send your coil metal on a truck to Almetals to be slit in our facility.
The following capabilities are also offered by Almetals:
Precision Slitting
Gamma Ray Gauge Monitoring
Protective Film Application
Paper Interleaving
Toll Processing
Almetals quality system is registered to:
ISO/TS 16949:2002
ISO 9001:2000
Certified Q1
Call 1.800.968.7730 or visit www.almetals.com or e-mail: customerservice@almetals.com.
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