SPRINGFIELD — While most manufacturing businesses have experienced a decline over the past months, one area shop is doing well, mostly because they’re hungry. Well, OK, and it certainly helps that the rest of us are hungry.
Arctech Fabricating Inc., a certified welding facility offering TIG and MIG welding at 1317 Lagonda Ave., makes a wide range of products, with a major portion of its business being baking pans for various sectors of the food industry.
“We’re pretty fortunate. The whole shop is working 56 hours a week,” said Director of Operations Steve Boland.
One of the company’s biggest customers is the American Pan Co., located in Urbana.
“That was how we really got going and it’s grown from there,” Boland said of Arctech, which was started by Tecumseh high school graduate Len McConnaughey in 1992.
Co-owner Jim Roberts, also a Tecumseh grad, worked with McConnaughey at a Dayton-area company, then joined him at Arctech in 1993.
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