“September InBusiness: Focus on little details keeps group ahead” |
| September InBusiness: Focus on little details keeps group ahead Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:30 AM PDT Not just holding its own but growing during recent economic distress, Korvis Automation Inc. in Corvallis reports a 50 percent increase in customer orders this year. "It's mostly our current customers buying more," said Rich Carone, chief executive officer at Korvis. "A good sign for the overall economy in our high-tech area." Medical instrumentation, three-dimension rapid prototyping and energy, solar and fuel cells, are the areas of modest growth. Rapid prototyping equipment produces a three-dimensional paper, plastic, wax, ceramic or metal prototype or pattern. Carone can't say for sure if these three areas in general are growing or if he just picks his customers well. Carone said his customers are seeing growth in their own businesses and he appreciates that they come to him with their needs. "I think it will continue at the level of this year," Carone said. "The crystal ball is a bit clouded for next year. I doubt if we will grow as fast next year. If we do just a little bit more than this year I would be overjoyed." Korvis has one more biotech customer coming on and one more energy customer. Carone said it takes a while to develop customers in those businesses but expects a few more new customers coming in next year. It is no mystery as to why business is strong at Korvis. Although Carone is humble and credits his customers, customer testimonials give credit right back to the company and staff. "Timely," "working knowledge of the field," "productive and fun," "excellent project management and system know-how skills" are listed as reasons for continued contracts. Carone is modestly confident things will continue to grow but not confident enough to hire "a million people." Instead, he said, Korvis will continue to be conservative and is not growing its work force. Korvis is a manufacturing and engineering business housed in 85,000 square feet, complete with an in-house machine shop, fabrication shop and clean room assembly space. Korvis specializes in high-end precision machines, which cost between $60,000 and $1 million each. These machines provide custom automation equipment design and contract manufacturing of complex systems and products for global markets. Markets served include: semiconductor, disk drive, life sciences, flat panel displays, electronics, rapid prototyping, and inkjet manufacturing. Maria Kirkpatrick is a freelance writer in Corvallis and a frequent contributor to Mid-Valley InBusiness. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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