"This is a blue-collar business with a white-collar problem," said Harrington. "We need to be as reliable as the parts our customers make. If the mark isn't there, the part doesn't exist."
As the sun set over the Twinsburg warehouse, a technician loaded a pallet of customized marking pins into a waiting truck. Inside, a demo unit began etching a tiny, permanent square of dots onto a piece of aluminum. It was a faint sound—a rapid tick-tick-tick —but to those listening, it was the sound of the supply chain getting a little more honest. technomark north america
"We had a customer who was using laser markers," Harrington explained, gesturing to a heat-scarred engine block on the demo floor. "The laser changed the metallurgy of the surface, which caused rusting in a high-humidity environment. The dot peen method doesn't burn; it just moves the material. No corrosion. No heat-affected zone." "This is a blue-collar business with a white-collar