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Burnsville, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Elastech Solutions, design and manufacturers custom rubber and plastic parts for various Industries. Elastech Solutions manufactures its customers product in house and throughout the world. Our deep manufacturing capabilities combined with our extensive warehousing gives our customers the best possible product at the best possible price delivered to their.

Cannon Falls MN

Setup up a new 30,000 square foot injection molding plant to produce the new Sentinel product line. Within two years had a three shift plant running injection molding equipment producing the Sentinel product lineBuilt and documented a process of continuous improvement for the Sentinel and Stronghold product line, resulting in our products passing the most.

Cannon Fallls MN

Setup a robust, employee owned, Kaizen process of lean improvements and 5S improvements, resulting in a 25% decrease in floor space and reducing our lead time from four weeks to two. Designed and developed dozens of custom plastic parts and cases for our customers. These designs include parts made from several processes including; injection molding.

Minneapolis, MN

Setup an accounting, inventory, and order entry system, brought in CNC equipment to value add the rough forgings. Brought the company from losing money to 15% net profit over 2 years.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Set up computer systems for small businesses. Including accounting functions, inventory, and work order processing procedures.Designed, built, and sold wooden outdoor furniture.

Hopkins, MN

Managed 50 employees in Production, Quality Control, Purchasing, and Information Services.Initiated a comprehensive quality control program using Statistical Process Control and employee empowerment. Resulting in 30% less rejections, 75% drop in workers compensation claims and a dramatic improvement in employee attendance.Worked with customers and vendors.

Hopkins, MN

Managed three inside sales engineers and 35 independent manufacturing representatives throughout the country.Increased new accounts over the previous year by 30%, culminating in a 10% growth in sales.

Hopkins, MN

Computerized and networked the sales, purchasing, billing, shipping, and production departments. Designed and programmed applications for each department using custom code.

Hopkins, MN

Worked with customers and independent sales reps to generate sales and new accounts. Designed the mesh that covers the parabolic dishes used by the home satellite dish industry.