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Box 330, Congers, NY 10920-9894 www.copyright.com CT Spring & Stamping 1,500 a week, with a 30 percent rejection rate, to 1,500 per day, with zero losses. Companywide, CSS workers operate as 28 largely self-directed teams. An assignment board on the shop floor lists all scheduled work orders, with milestone deadlines cul- minating in the final customer-delivery date. Once they have their assignments, each team is responsible for ensuring quality and meeting deadlines. But they also are imbued by CSS with flexibility to make adjustments along the way, to ensure quality and timeliness. Management, Stevenson said, functions to provide teams with the resources they need to perform. "The people that do the work know what's right, what's wrong,'' Stevenson said. CSS started in Hartford, when co-founders Bert Youmans and Stanley Fischer opened doors in late 1939, at 618 Capitol Ave. Just a spring maker then, its early customers included Royal Typewriter, which had a Hartford plant, and General Electric. Youmans reportedly bought out his part- ner in 1963, and his family has owned CSS outright since, Stevenson said. In 1953, CSS relo- cated to 1841 Broad St., then in 1960, made its final move, to the Farm- ington Industrial Park that Youmans and Fischer co-developed, Stevenson said. That tie is reflect- ed in the company's 48 Spring Lane address. Like other Connecticut manufacturers, he said CSS toils to hire promising, young man- ufacturing talent, while also trying to retain as many of the most productive, seasoned skilled workers as possible. It, too, regularly receives relocation overtures from other states, but so far it has resisted them. "We're not leav- ing,'' said Stevenson, a Connecticut native who was part owner of a Middletown manufacturer from 1990 to 2000, now owned by Swiss conveyor- belt maker Habasit Abt Inc., before taking the CSS reins in 2000. "It's not happening." Not only are most of its customers based in the Northeast, the challenges of relocating staff and recruiting in a new site make a move problematic, he said. "We can manufacture parts in Connecticut,'' Stevenson said. "We just have to stay focused.'' n ▶ ▶ ' We build what our customers ask us to build.' William "Bill" Stevenson, president, Connecticut Spring & Stamping EVENT & TRAVEL PARTNERS Presenting Sponsor: Presented By: Event Sponsors: Event Partners: Media Partner: Recognize a deserving client, coworker, boss, friend, spouse or colleague for a job well done. 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