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KMC Controls Celebrates Employee’s 52 Year Career
KMC Controls®, an industry leader in building automation, is at once delighted and saddened to announce the retirement of Chris Kreuter, an innovator whose career spanned more than 50 years with the company.
Chris' career started 52 years ago when his father, Ken Kreuter, founded Kreuter Manufacturing - today called KMC Controls.
In the late-1960s Ken realized an opportunity to form his own company. "My dad wanted to design a line of controls of our own," explained Chris, "and that's what we started doing. We built molds and dies to make our own parts and our own controls."
At the company's inception, Chris worked in partnership with his father, two of his brothers, and future brother-in-law. "I was making parts on a lathe and also on a punch press when I was a teenager," recalled Chris, three of whose brothers continue to work at KMC. Together, along with other family members lending a hand when and where needed, they fashioned parts and equipment to Ken's designs in a three-car garage. "We used to work 12, 14 hours a day if we had to."
In the mid-1970s, the young company relocated from Winnipeg, Canada to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. By the 1980s, manufacturing split off and moved to a site in New Paris, Indiana. By the close of the decade, the company had consolidated its engineering and manufacturing operations to its expanded facility in New Paris.
As the business grew, so did the scope of Chris's roles at the company. "I started doing some of the tool design in the '80s," he said, "and I was doing some of the product design in the '90s."
A small sampling of HVAC hardware he helped develop include wall-mounted sensors, the proprietary line of KMDigital controllers, the Conquest series of BACnet controllers, and the Company's new Indoor Air Quality line of controllers and measuring devices, not to mention a system for coupling an actuator to a valve or damper, for which he holds a patent.
In his more than five decades in the business, Chris has witnessed firsthand sweeping changes in technology and how it is applied to facility controls. "We went from pneumatics [controls that use compressed air as the signaling medium] to computer electronics on all aspects of a building," he said. "That was the biggest change I've seen."
In that same time span, KMC Controls has managed to grow while remaining true to its origins as a family-owned business committed to innovation and to the success of its customers.
Today, the original machine shop has given way to a state-of-the-art tool and die facility under the same roof as the engineering department and factory floor. Having all those capabilities in house remains one reason the company can take a concept from drawing to working prototype in a fraction of the time it takes other manufacturers in the controls industry.
Looking ahead, Chris said he looks forward to having more time for his hobbies. "I'll probably do a lot more hunting and fishing," he said. A pilot who has logged more than 4,000 hours in the air, he is also an avid vintage motorcycle collector.
Looking back, said Chris said he enjoys the friendships he's made at KMC. "Good folks here," he said. And he plans to check in on them at KMC from time to time. After all, it's another opportunity take one of his 1930s- and 1940s-era Harley Davidson cruisers out for a ride.
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TES Expands US Operations by Adding a Fourth Facility
LAS VEGAS - September 6, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Continuing with the growth already seen in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Las Vegas facility will expand TES's overall processing capacity and deliver a full suite of IT Asset Disposition services to support the technology giants on the West Coast.
The 40,000-square foot facility is anticipated to open in January 2023. It will offer onsite data destruction, data center decommissioning, and the redeployment or resale of parts and assets, including testing, grading, repairing refurbishment, and recycling.
This latest facility complements an existing infrastructure already recognised as the largest globally, bringing TES's investment to almost $10 million in ITAD infrastructure across its North American facilities over the previous five years.
TES's infrastructure is unique. Comprising over 40 facilities located across more than 20 countries, the ownership of these facilities offers clients unique sustainability and consistency through centralized functions, including security, work processes, reporting, value recovery, and compliance.
This latest facility is strategically located close to Las Vegas's major logistics arteries, offering clients lower logistics costs and reduced carbon emissions resulting from excess transportation.
Eric Ingebretsen, TES's Chief Commercial Officer, commented: "As we grow, we must ensure that we continue to closely meet the needs of our customers, not just by offering superior IT lifecycle solutions but also by ensuring that these solutions are combined with the best sustainability-based outcomes for those assets."
Gary Steele, TES's Chief Executive Officer, commented: "This investment backs that commitment by providing best-in-class full lifecycle solutions where our clients are located, backed by a global support network."
According to a new study by Future Market Insights on the IT Asset Disposition market, the ITAD market is anticipated to document a compound annual growth rate of 7.42% during 2022-2032. Fueling this growth is an increased need for data and information security, as well as environmental factors.
TES's services and infrastructure growth align with the data and information security needs of businesses by meeting complex compliance needs while removing the associated barriers to organizations leveraging a strategic ITAD program, such as concerns over data security.
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About TES
Founded in 2005, TES is a global leader in sustainable technology services and bespoke solutions that help clients manage the commission, deployment, and retirement of technology devices and components. As one of the largest IT lifecycle service providers in the world, TES understands the common challenges of managing IT equipment throughout its lifecycle. Customized, cost-effective solutions address these challenges and ensure compliance with all local and international data security, environmental, and industry regulations.
TES's mission is to make a decade of difference by securely, safely, and sustainably transforming and repurposing one billion kilograms of assets by 2030. TES has an unmatched global footprint of 42 facilities across 21 countries and offers unrivaled consistency in service. In addition, the company provides consistent commercials, reduced logistics costs, and local environmental compliance experts, as well as support in local time zones and languages and a deep understanding of transboundary movement throughout the world.
To learn more about TES, visit www.tes-amm.com or email Eric Ingebretsen, our Chief Commercial Officer, at [email protected].
About SK ecoplant
The business model of SK ecoplant is an eco-friendly ecosystem platform that links its technologies with humans, the environment, and finance. SK is building sustainable lifestyles with our creative solutions and advanced technologies, offering solutions to current problems and sowing the seeds for a better future.
SK ecoplant is building a financial story that manifests our commitment to a new future. As proven by our acquisition of a leading company in the environmental industry, we are taking steps to achieve our goal of becoming "Asia's leading environmental business by 2023," with clear, concrete mid- and long-term strategies for each business sector.
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