MMT Chats: Earning a "Masters of Business" in Four Months?
This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.
Joe Cherluck is President of Best Tool & Engineering in Clinton Township, Michigan, which is an injection mold builder hyper-focused on design and engineering. They design for manufacturing with the goal of driving costs out of products, which has allowed them to match and beat overseas prices.
Joe virtually sits down with me to also talk about the current changes happening in the automotive market that have opened his eyes to a mid-market molding opportunity; an expanding customer base including an introduction to servicing government contracts; and how his general approach to business was entirely turned on its side last year when he attended a Goldman Sachs Small Business Program.
Chapters:
0:00 A snapshot of Best Tool & Engineering
1:04 How Best stands out
2:15 Joe's day-to-day
3:10 Best's role in the mid-market space
5:22 Best's work in government contracts
7:15 Joe's journey into business 16:43 COVID's impact on Best
18:18 Joe's biggest concern about COVID
19:36 Moldmaking coming out of COVID
If your shop wants to be a guest on the MMT Chat video interview series, email me at cfuges@gardnerweb.com.
For the full quick chat, watch above, and for more MMT Chats, click here.
This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.
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