Checon

We’ll start here – since it’s Checon’s website – but no doubt I will ramble off to other topics by the time I run out of gas.

You’ll no doubt be able to read a press release on this site announcing the recent reorganization of people within the Engineering and Sales functions which I am really excited about. It’s great to be able promote from within and I am confident that Wayne Mello will do an excellent job as Technical Sales Specialist and that Bob Johnson will bring his 30 years of experience at Checon to good effect in the process engineering and quotation role we’ve established.

Engineering is really busy these days with material development efforts – most particularly on a new Silver Tin Oxide material. During the course of our efforts, Gary Haupt has managed to develop a whole new path of development that we are hopeful will bring an entirely new slant on Silver Tin Oxide – the thought of leap-frogging the competition is so enticing! ☺

Our Extrusion press has had a major refit – Bill Estey and John Vaz have ignored budgets and brought our dated extrusion up to speed with all the latest and greatest technology! New pumps, hydraulic and electronic controls and a detailed servicing of all the major components have yielded significantly increased extrusion power. This will have a huge effect on all our extrusion capabilities – those difficult materials will become that much easier and we’ll be able to develop larger billets for extrusion – gaining improved production efficiencies.