2 million to 2.5 million rivets each day. They are stored in a
warehouse at the facility before being picked up and distributed.
Stanley Engineered Fastening sells to numerous automotive
companies, including Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Honda,
Nissan and Tesla, as well as the aerospace company Boeing.
“It’s more than likely that you eventually are driving with rivets
in your car,” Manufacturing Manager Roberto Celis said. “Rivets
are part of your life.”
The company’s biggest customer is the Crawford Products,
which distributes rivets to a wide variety of industries. The second
biggest customer is Ford.
Besides shipping throughout the United States, the Stanfield
location ships its rivets all over the world — Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, China, Australia, Russia, India and throughout Europe.
Toole, a Stanly County native, started with Stanley as an intern
and has been with the company for about 12 years.
What she loves most about Stanley Engineered Fastening is the
people.
“I’ve worked at other places and there’s just not a better group
of people to work with,” she said. “Everybody’s got each other’s
back.”
Quality Manager Jerry Janiga has worked at the company for
12 years. His job is to make sure the customers are receiving good
products.
Janiga is part of a five-person quality control team that spans all
three shifts.
“We make sure the processes are in place so the customer
receives good product,” he said.
The team interacts with the customers, addressing any problems
or concerns they may have.
Safety First
The company prides itself on its “culture of safety,” said Renae
Presnell, co-chairwoman of the company’s safety committee along
with Kenya Dockery.
“You think about what you should do before you do it,”
she added.
Ben Woodrow and Lindsey
Toole exhibiting some of the
fasteners they produce.
The safety measures include making sure employees wear safety
glasses, ear plugs and have closed-toed shoes before working on the
shop floor. The employees also stretch for about five minutes at the
start of each shift.
The stretches “are targeted to make sure they don’t injure
themselves,” Presnell said.
In August, the company was rewarded for its safety measures
with the Carolina Star, the most prestigious safety recognition a
company can earn from the North Carolina Department of Labor.
It was the company’s fifth time receiving the award.
At the time the company received the Carolina Star, it was
74 percent below the national standard in total recordable cases
(when people report an injury) and 80 percent below the national
standard in lost times (when people take time off due to injury),
according to James Ray, vice president of Global Operations for
the company.
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