We have a lot to be thankful for this year at Induron. It’s been a good year, and we’re looking forward to 2015. We’re all excited about the holiday season, and a few of our sales reps have been reflecting on what they are most thankful for this year when it comes to their personal and professional lives.
Here are some thoughts from them: Continue reading What the Induron Team is Thankful for this Year
By Kent Kuehl
Growing up in the Midwest (Dallas Center, Iowa, to be exact), the only encounter that might pose any danger to an eight year old was the “mad dog” that chased you as you rode down the street on your bicycle. As long as you peddled faster than your buddies, you were safe, soon realizing that you should stay away from that side of town in the future.
Now, fast forward 40+ years . . .
As a sales representative, I have opportunities to travel and explore different geographical areas of the great Midwest. The state of South Dakota, for example, offers a wide range of beautiful countryside scenery and landmarks such as Wall Drug, Mount Rushmore and the famous Crazy Horse Monument. While exploring this historical countryside, I also get the pleasure to meet many great, hard-working and honest individuals.
I suspect that one could argue that there is no scarier five-letter word that brings more fear to the average person than the word SNAKE. When you place the word RATTLE in front of this, the fear becomes twice as alarming.
Being the curious sales representative that I am and never having been to an unknown territory near Platte, South Dakota, I didn’t expect to come across a RATTLESNAKE. While walking through the plant and analyzing coating failures with the manager and two of his operators of the rural water system, we entered though an office door and noticed some movement on the floor near a door jamb. The movement was unmistakable. It was a snake. When we looked closer, we realized that it was a RATTLESNAKE that was not backing down and was ready to strike. Even though the little guy was just over a foot long and didn’t pose a real threat, the fear was real.
Remember hearing the phrase, “They’re more afraid of you than you are of them”? Well, that was not the case in this business meeting. I have never seen four grown men move faster than lightning.
I have shared this story a few dozen times since it happened and just like a fish story, the RATTLESNAKE keeps getting bigger. Be safe out there.
By Davies Hood
Two years ago, I drove from Birmingham, Alabama, to Detroit, Michigan, to watch Game 3 of the World Series so I could see my beloved San Francisco Giants in person in THE WORLD SERIES. Yeah, I know – it’s 700+ miles each way, but this is baseball. I’m loving their run for the World Series this year as well, although I’m not planning on doing anything quite so crazy again. Continue reading Crazy for the Giants in Baseball and Teamwork
By Jeff White, Executive VP & GM and Scott Pruitt, Customer Service Technician
Over the past couple of weeks as we’ve seen ice bucket challenge videos appearing on Facebook time and time again, each time it has reminded us of one of our own members of the Induron family, Steve Watts.
A little over six years ago, Steve was affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Continue reading Induron ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
We are happy that the Induron team continues to grow, and we are pleased to welcome Carl Moye, our newest Sales and Service Representative! Carl will be working in our Georgia markets. Continue reading Meet the Newest Member of Our Team: Carl Moye
We’re pleased to introduce the newest member of our sales team, Kent Kuehl! Kent comes to Induron with loads of applicable experience from his previous job as Water Systems Consultant at Utility Services Company Incorporated in Perry, Georgia. Continue reading Meet the Newest Member of Our Team: Kent Kuehl
By David Hood, Induron President
Induron Coatings, LLC was founded in June, 1947 as The Industrial Paint Company, Inc. That was 67 years ago!
Later, in 1965, the company name was changed to Indurall Coatings, Inc and in 1995, to Induron Coatings. Continue reading Induron Celebrates 67 Years in the Coatings Industry
By Davies Hood, Induron President
In my last safety blog, I commented on the importance of safety in the workplace, and Induron’s mission to support this further in 2013. We kicked off a new incentive plan that year, which focused on no Lost Time Accidents (LTAs), no unexcused absences, and overall improved commitment to safety in our work environment.
I also commented on how we encouraged these goals with prize awards, and that we had six individuals in the operations department meet these goals. We celebrated with a Christmas luncheon and the big prize give-a-way, and it was pretty obvious that this program was effective, and was worth continuing in some form going forward. Continue reading ‘Incentives for Safety’ Paying Dividends
Induron Coatings is a 66 year old family owned business that tries to treat all of our employees as family. As part of our series of Blogs titled “Meet the Induron Family” we’d like to introduce one of the key cogs to our manufacturing machine, Steve Schnell. Continue reading Meet the Induron Family: Steve Schnell
By Allison Searcy, Administrative Assistant/Sales Support/Purchasing
Sometimes the role you originally fill for a company changes and evolves over time. It can be a good thing but one that often requires a little extra training and continuing education.
This is what happened to me when I stepped into the role of purchasing a few years ago. Continue reading My Experience with Continuing Education
