--- title: Make It Better - Stories description: Manufacturing has changed my life. --- [ More Stories ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/all#) - [Talent](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/blueprint-3?hs_preview=BAfKIHtP-48211620954#Stories) - [Transformation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/blueprint-3?hs_preview=BAfKIHtP-48211620954#Transformation) - [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/blueprint-3?hs_preview=BAfKIHtP-48211620954#Innovation) - [Leadership](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/blueprint-3?hs_preview=BAfKIHtP-48211620954#Leadership) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/NSA.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/national-safety-apparel-how-a-cleveland-family-business-became-a-global-family) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [National Safety Apparel: How a Cleveland Family Business Became a Global Family](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/national-safety-apparel-how-a-cleveland-family-business-became-a-global-family) National Safety Apparel (NSA) had humble beginnings, selling safety gloves to steelworkers from a basement in Lakewood, Ohio during the Great Depression. Almost 90 years later, it’s still a family ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/national-safety-apparel-how-a-cleveland-family-business-became-a-global-family) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Qualtech%20blue%20board.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/qualtech-technologies-innovating-what-it-means-to-be-a-contract-manufacturer) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [QualTech Technologies: Innovating What it Means to Be a Contract Manufacturer](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/qualtech-technologies-innovating-what-it-means-to-be-a-contract-manufacturer) When a big manufacturer needs a tiny part – like a sensor to activate a hands-free faucet – it often turns to a company like QualTech Technologies. Based in Willoughby, Ohio they’re what’s known as a ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/qualtech-technologies-innovating-what-it-means-to-be-a-contract-manufacturer) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/magnet-image-2.jpeg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/the-ey-nottingham-spirk-innovation-hub-reimagining-the-future-of-manufacturing) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [The EY-Nottingham Spirk Innovation Hub: Reimagining the Future of Manufacturing](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/the-ey-nottingham-spirk-innovation-hub-reimagining-the-future-of-manufacturing) If you’ve ever used a Crest SpinbrushTM or a Swiffer Sweep + VacTM, you can thank Cleveland innovation powerhouse Nottingham Spirk. Prolific inventors, they helped companies churn out thousands of ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/the-ey-nottingham-spirk-innovation-hub-reimagining-the-future-of-manufacturing) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Shelley%20Roth.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-pierres) [Leadership](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/leadership) ### [Pierre’s Ice Cream Company: Bold Leadership that Puts People and Community First](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-pierres) Pierre’s Ice Cream Company started out as a small shop in 1932. Today, it has about 36 million scoops of ice cream in its freezer. The company has moved and expanded many times, but it has always ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-pierres) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/BuckeyeMask2.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-3d) [Transformation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/transformation) ### [Automation & 3D Printing: Saving Lives and Making a New Future](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-3d) In just two days, more than 2,000 Ohio manufacturers joined the fight against COVID-19. It was March 2020. The governor had just put out an urgent call for help. Spurred by stories of nurses wearing ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-3d) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/ExcuroGroup.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-bettcher) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [Bettcher Industries & Exsurco Medical: Leapfrogging from Meat to Medical with a Smart Risk on Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-bettcher) In 2008, someone called the switchboard at Bettcher Industries. It regularly gets calls from around the world about the cutting tools it makes for meat processing plants. But this call was different. ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-bettcher) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/purell%202.png) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-gojo) [Transformation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/transformation) ### [GOJO, MAKERS OF PURELL™: Using Technology to Solve Pandemic-Sized Problems](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-gojo) At the height of the global pandemic in 2020, some manufacturers locked down. Some went out of business entirely. Others faced unimaginable spikes in demand – companies like GOJO, MAKERS OF PURELL™, ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-gojo) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Schron_Jergens.5f20318e51618.png) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-jergens) [Leadership](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/leadership) ### [Jergens and Jack Schron: Leading with Education, Integrity, and Inclusivity](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-jergens) Jack Schron Jr. is positive Northeast Ohio has what it takes to be the smart manufacturing capital of the United States, and he’s doing his part to help it earn that title — much more than his part, ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-jergens) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/kineticorobots.1.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-kinetico) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [Kinetico: Relentlessly Innovating and Rethinking Water](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-kinetico) A black tank sits in a dusty field in the blazing Texas sun. It doesn’t look like much, but inside it’s a brilliantly engineered water filter running entirely on waterpower. [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-kinetico) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/ATD_CLASS_VISIT.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-tool-and-die) [Talent](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/talent) ### [Automation Tool & Die: Growing Your Own Talent](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-tool-and-die) Manufacturing isn’t just what Randy Bennett does, it’s who he is. It’s in his blood. [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-automation-tool-and-die) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Mulreva1.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lumitex-mureva) [Innovation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/innovation) ### [Lumitex and MuReva: Light Years Ahead with Innovation and Intrapreneurship](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lumitex-mureva) In six short years, Vedang Kothari went from intern to CEO. His meteoric rise was powered by three things: a groundbreaking invention to help cancer patients, a CEO who believed in him, and a company ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lumitex-mureva) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/CenterStreet.0519.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-m-7-technologies) [Transformation](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/transformation) ### [M-7 Technologies: Transforming a Family Foundry into a Digital Pioneer](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-m-7-technologies) In 1985, Michael Garvey got a phone call that changed his life. His father was critically ill. It was his turn to come home and run the family business in Youngstown, Ohio. [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-m-7-technologies) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/LETeam.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lincoln-electric) [Leadership](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/leadership) ### [Lincoln Electric: Welding a Better World](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lincoln-electric) Lincoln Electric was founded in Cleveland in 1895 with $200, an invention, and a dream. John C. Lincoln wanted to manufacture his innovative electric motor and build a company where people worked by ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-lincoln-electric) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Make%20It%20Better%20Story%20PDFs/Deonia.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-talent-gap) [Talent](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/talent) ### [Closing the Manufacturing Talent Gap with Radical Collaboration](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-talent-gap) Deonia Duncan was 16, in high school, and working what she describes as a “dead-end job” in a pizza shop. Eddie Taylor had just been released after serving 13 years in a federal prison. Two very ... [Read More](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-talent-gap) [![](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/hubfs/Ezabarin%20Moore.jpg) ](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-ezabarin-moore) [Talent](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/tag/talent) ### [Ezabarin Moore: Changing Careers Changed Her Life](https://www.manufacturingsuccess.org/stories/blueprint-ezabarin-moore) Ezabarin Moore drove a city bus for 18 years and then worked hard raising four children. 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