Our professional family: Celebrating our employee owners

By Dave Barr, Central States Manufacturing. 

At Central States Manufacturing, our employees are partners, and we practice open book management to empower them to make the best decisions for our customers. 

Good work and good business are a product of good people. The marketing team at Metal Central recently took some time to visit our sites across the country to celebrate the incredible employees and see where the magic happens. Here at Central States Manufacturing, Inc., we wanted to recognize our employees and our partners who help us provide the best customer service and premium metal materials across the U.S. 

Whether we’re in Texas, Claysburg, St. Peters, Jasper or Hartford, Connecticut – the biggest common denominator for our success, our culture, our place as an industry leader is you. Our amazing employee owners (EO’s). 

You hold us together during the good and the bad. In celebration and during challenges. 

Forget mailmen and the elements they battle. In the extreme heat of Texas to the frigid conditions of the north and east, our production techs continue to provide our quality products to our incredible customers no matter what – we see you. 

The ability to be easy to do business with is all about our business development managers and territory sales managers. We have heard the really good conversations and we’ve heard the bad. Your honesty, product knowledge and dedication to providing the best to those who we serve is invaluable and keeps us going – we see you. 

The faces of our company – the drivers. You hear the good, the bad and the ugly. You are our company’s greatest ambassadors – we see you. 

The ability to go above and beyond is a badge of pride we all try and wear. To all of the EO’s who drop everything and get the job done – we see you. 

To the people who know our products and services inside and out – our Metal Central EO’s. You all take care of so many people who walk through your door with a servant spirit and knowledge to guide their projects to a successful end – we see you. 

The human resources departments who strive every day to bring in the best talent. Who ensure that the communities we work in, live in and serve in know who we are and why we are special – we see you. 

Along with that community interaction comes our drive to serve and give back. Through sweat equity, compassion and empathy – we work, we give, we love. To all our employee owners – we see you. 

It is an honor to come to work shoulder to shoulder with the closest thing to a professional family many of us have ever experienced. We work for each other, and we work for our families. Never should a blind eye be turned to the importance and impact that every one of you have every day – we see you and we thank each and every one of you. 

Original article source: Central States Manufacturing