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1. We Believe in the Family-Owned Business

   November 25, 2013 4:13 pm Leave a Comment

   When we introduced you to the company in a previous blog, we discussed how the founder, John Monné, and his family are still a major part of Maverick Spring Makers. The business began as one idea from Monné, and it has evolved to manufacture custom spring products for North America—and we’ve learned a lot along the way.

   For starters, we’ve always kept at the forefront of our new ideas and expansion plans on how far the company has come. Most notably, we’ve discovered our flexibility an offering not many others can replicate, and we have the ability to accommodate the customer—and employee—need without affecting the ability to deliver.

   While most businesses we tend to work with in the manufacturing industry are corporations and smaller companies, we’ve taken great pride in remaining a family-owned business—and we’re not the only ones. Out of the 500 companies on Standard and Poor’s index, approximately one-third of them are family-controlled, according to Business Insider. The publication breaks down the top 10 largest family-run businesses, including Mars, News Corp., Comcast, and Ford Motor Co.

   Inc.com has a great round-up of success tips for family-owned companies, including the value of making mistakes, the true power of leadership, and setting parameters for business, which we completely agree with. Smaller and family-owned businesses have the opportunity to work with clients on a face-to-face level and build a relationship, and we believe these characteristics are invaluable to businesses.

   Even though Maverick Spring Makers Limited is a small, family owned business, we’re also part of something much larger.  We’re a little more than two hours away from the Windsor-Detroit border, where 25 percent of all Canada/U.S. trade crosses. The value of trade that crosses the Ambassador Bridge is equal to the value of trade between the United States and Japan.  Trade between Canada and the United States supports more than 7 million U.S jobs.

   In Canada, 98 percent of all employer businesses are classified as small business, with almost 50 percent of Canada’s total workforce employed in small business.  Approximately 86 percent of small businesses in Canada are exporters and make up more than 40 percent of private sector GDP.  More than half of small Canadian manufacturers have demonstrated commitments to research and development, and we’re no exception.  We’ll share some of our in-house innovations in future blogs.

   Want to know more about Maverick Spring Makers or do business with us? Give us a call at 800-563-7304.

2. Ontario’s Automotive Industry Sees Major Success

   October 21, 2013 8:45 am Leave a Comment

   

   Did you know that more cars are manufactured in Ontario than any other area of North America? Yes, this Canadian province beats out its neighbors, Michigan included, when it comes to auto production. With Ontario overtaking Detroit, the motor city, in auto production, that makes a big statement about the province’s place in the auto manufacturing.

   To get more specific, Ontario boasts the residence of five of the world’s top automakers, not to mention more than 300 parts manufacturers. These combined producers are the source for more than 88,000 jobs for high-skilled workers in the area, and this massive group of industry insiders made more than 2.1 million vehicles in 2011, according to an Ontario government website.

   So, the number of cars produced in Ontario is “more than any other North American sub-national jurisdiction,” but there is more going on in this province than assembling cars. The Ontario government website claims that the automobile throughout the world is being “reinvented” to meet new environmental standards. The Ontario government is providing incentives to the Canadian auto industry to manufacture in a “green environment.”  The goal of all manufacturers is to have tomorrow’s cars eco-friendly by making lighter and recyclable, and operational via clean energy sources.

   Ontario isn’t just leading the auto industry in North America; it’s changing the auto industry in North America. The green efforts taking place in this region of Canada will help make the production of cars more eco-friendly, while also making them stronger and faster.

   Mavericks Springs is conveniently located in the center of automotive parts manufacturing and automotive assembly in Ontario. As a Canadian manufacturer, we recognize this as an industry hub—as there are few (if any) other areas in the country that can match this level of production, and we’re happy to be in the middle of it. For more information on our past projects in the automotive industry or our springs, head over to our website.

3. Welcome to Maverick Spring Makers Limited

   September 18, 2013 7:43 am Leave a Comment

   

   For those of us just joining us—and others looking for a refresher on our 40-year-company history—we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves. If our name isn’t a complete giveaway, we are spring makers, but we’re much more than that, too.

   While the company was officially founded in 1968, we date it back to the late 1950s, when Holland-born John Monné was toying with an idea in his mind. He had just moved to Canada and was working at a few local spring companies. Surrounded with products and fellow spring-makers, the idea of a better way to make short runs of compression springs, with improved quality, began to evolve.   John’s idea, first built in the basement of the family home, devoloped into the Bennett-Mahler Maxi Coil spring winding lathe.  Almost 40 years after reaching the market, Bennett Mahler is still in the coiling lathe business.

   From there, Maverick Spring Makers officially formed, and business began to evolve out of short order and into mass production in the early 1970s. (Fun fact: Our first mass-production customer is still a customer to this day.) Since then, we’ve moved facilities, become the first Canadian-owned spring company to achieve QS-9000 registration, thrived in the “Great Recession,” and seen major expansions. About every 20 months we purchase new CNC machines continue to meet the needs of our customers. Our core manufacturing strengths include mass production of custom compression, extension and torsion spring manufacturing, as well as consulting and prototyping.

   John Monné is still an integral part of this company and continues to work for the company. Without his knack for developing new ideas and entrepreneurial drive, companies across North America wouldn’t have a one-stop shop for custom-manufactured springs.

   At Maverick Spring, we take the “Monné approach” seriously—and we believe innovations and creativity can begin anywhere, anytime. Because of this, we decided to create this blog as a platform to discuss industry news, trends, and our latest company updates. Feel free to subscribe to these posts, and don’t forget to join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+.