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## [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 ...

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[![](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)

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### [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 ...

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[![](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 ...

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[![](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. ...

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[![](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.

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[![](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 ...

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