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Product Highlight: Reel to Reel Terminals and Contacts

June 16, 2016 8 years ago Leave a Comment

At Keats Manufacturing Company, we specialize in building high-precision terminals and contacts for electrical transmission. Essential for the automotive industry and a wealth of other applications, reel to reel custom parts maximize convenience and cost effectiveness. Reel to reel terminals are valuable for high volume orders of precision parts and are often used in customers’ […]

Tags: automotive, die stamping, disposable reels, four-slide stamping, high-precision components, leda frames, multi-slide stamping, progressive stamping, reel to reel terminals, reels, returnable reels, stamping machines, tape and reels

Material Matters: Choosing the Right Metal for Your Project

May 17, 2016 8 years ago Leave a Comment

The dedicated team at Keats Manufacturing Co. has been crafting stamped metal parts since 1958. Over the past few decades, we’ve seen a number of unique projects and individual parts come through our facility. While many decisions — from design details to custom tooling — influence these parts’ performance, one of the first choices made […]

Keats SW: How Our Second Facility Meets Customer Needs

April 12, 2016 8 years ago Leave a Comment

Customer service has always been at the forefront of everything we do here at Keats. Since our founding in 1958, maintaining unparalleled customer service has been the driving force for all of our business decisions; it also factored in to our decision to augment the manufacturing capabilities of our original Wheeling, IL facility with a […]

Building a Community of Manufacturers: Keats and the Industrial Manufacturing Committee

January 21, 2016 9 years ago Leave a Comment

Keats has been a part of the manufacturing community since 1958, and we’re expanding our commitment to new service areas. Our partners and neighbors can benefit from new initiatives like the Industrial Manufacturing Committee (IMC). Matt Eggemeyer, Chief Operating Officer of Keats, currently serves as the Vice President of the Wheeling-Prospect Heights Chamber of Commerce […]

Tags: Attracting Future Manufacturing Leaders, IMC, Industrial Manufacturing Committee, manufacturers, manufacturing industry

Welcome to MFG Day at Keats

September 28, 2015 9 years ago Leave a Comment

MFG Day, STEM Education and Why Keats Cares Bert and Glenn Keats saw more than just the Northwest Side of Chicago in 1958 — they saw opportunity. Starting with three employees and growing to triple digits is something we’re proud of as a company and as a family, and we couldn’t have done it without […]

Tags: Bert and Glenn Keats, future engineers and manufacturers, Illinois Department of Commerce, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, Manufacturing Day, MFG Day, STEM education, STEM Education Program at Wheeling, Wheeling High School, Wheeling High School graduates, Youth Task Force Board