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2016 Commercial Heat Treater of the Year
In 1961, something special happened in the 16,000-square-foot former home of Chevrolet Toledo (Ohio) Transmission. That's when Phil Flynn, chief metallurgist of Buick Motor, and Bill Durako, tool steel metallurgist of Crucible Steel, founded Erie Steel Heat Treating.
The duo knew that heat treating was an engineering discipline, not a black art, and they knew they could do it better than most. Today, 55 years later in a modern 70,000-square-foot facility in Toledo, Erie Steel Ltd. continues that tradition.
The thought that heat treating could be done better has been transformed and enhanced over the years to what is now a quest for excellence. A quest involves...