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OfflineLaura Gibson

Company Focus: Jervis B. Webb

By Laura Gibson

Ever wonder what other manufacturers in other communities do? Well here’s a brief summary of one of our Hamilton Consortiium members, Jervis B. Webb.

Jervis B. Webb has been manufacturing high quality products in industrial Hamilton since 1919. They have the expertise to design and manufacture basically any type of material handling systems or build any type of structure made from steel to service transportation and/or packaging industry. Although they are known to manufacture the most sophisticated material handling systems for Airports and the Automotive Industry Jervis B. Webb prides themselves in having capabilities to supply any…

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OfflineLaura Gibson

On October 7, 2009 we met at Palfinger in Niagara Falls to look at their plant and their Continuous Improvement efforts. We had a mix of participants including members from our Burlington/Oakville Consortium.

Jeff Race talked about the challenges they are faced with at Palfinger including standardizing processes in a product that tends to have a lot of one offs as well as issues with Health and Safety (since Jeff was only tasked with Health and Safety early in 2009). During the tour we saw what a great

On October 7, 2009 we met at Palfinger in Niagara Falls to look at their plant and their Continuous Improvement efforts.  We had a mix of participants including members from our Burlington/Oakville Consortium.

Jeff Race talked about the challenges they are faced with at Palfinger including standardizing processes in a product that tends to have a lot of one offs as well as issues with Health and Safety (since Jeff was only tasked with Health and Safety early in 2009).  During the tour we saw…

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