Local firm PTMW expanding its market
By Megan Hart; Megan Hart [email protected] | |
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PTMW, 5040 N.W. US-24 highway, builds what look like small metal houses to protect electrical equipment. Its primary clients are railroads, which use its product to house the electronics that run their signals, though they also have been used for generators, compressors and other types of equipment.
On Wednesday afternoon, owner Patti jon
"They're larger, heavier, more complex, have a lot more electric (equipment) in them," she said.
The substation houses are built to the user's specifications instead of being mass produced, so they can be shipped anywhere in
The facility takes incoming steel and aluminum and uses machines to bend it, cut it and punch holes in it to create the pieces of the houses. Other workers then assemble the pieces, caulk and insulate them, and use machines to wash and dry the houses, spray them with a powder coating, and bake it on.
Most of the work is mechanized, with employees programming and running complex equipment. Finding qualified people can be a challenge at times,
"If they're a good, solid citizen, we'll teach them math," she said. "We'll teach them how to read a tape measure."
PTMW has a somewhat unusual company culture. It pays 100 percent of an individual employee's health insurance premiums,
They also have periodic games and competitions, and seven dogs and two cats who spend time in the office area of the building greeted visitors Wednesday.
"We do a lot of strange things," she said.
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