ETTER Engineering is pleased to announce the following additions to our growing team; Steven Ballou joins ETTER Engineering as Purchasing Agent. Steve joins ETTER from Eppendorf Manufacturing Corp where he was a Buyer. Steve has extensive experience in purchasing, logistics, shipping and receiving and he served our country in the Marine Corps. Steve will head up…
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Visiting Master Distributors – One of my favorite things!
At ETTER, we manufacture six (6) different product lines and we sell our products through a network of Master Distributors. We have MD’s in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, Denver and Indianapolis. We are looking to expand to Ohio and Kentucky as well. This week, Jon Moore and I made a visit to Ohio and Indiana…
NFPA 86 – Combustion Safety Audits
While safety is everybody’s business, the focus on safety and disaster prevention sometimes gets put on the back burner. Work priorities, busy production schedules and a overworked maintenance staff can de-prioritize your safety program. NFPA codes and standards exist to help companies prevent accidents and disasters and to protect your employees. At ETTER, we use…
ETTER – An American Growth Story – Part #5
In Parts 1-4, we talked about Goal Setting, Building a Plan, Setting your KPI’s and Creating Culture and Building your Team. The fifth part of building a great business is building a system of accountability to ensure that you stay on track and keep focused on the plan. Building an accountability system is key to your…
ETTER – An American Business Growth Story Part #4
In Parts 1-3, we talked about Goal Setting, Building a Plan, Setting your KPI’s. The fourth part of building a great business is creating your company culture and building your team. First, start with your culture. It is important to understand the current culture of your organization, your shortfalls and what behaviors you want to…
ETTER – An American Business Growth Story Part #3
Earlier, we talked about setting a goal and building a plan. Part #3 deals with measuring success. At ETTER, we have created our Key Performance Indicators or KPI’s. KPI’s are measurements that we track against every month – we set a goal and track our progress towards the goal. One person owns the goal and…
ETTER – An American Business Growth Story – Part 2
In Part 1, we talked about the importance of having a goal. A goal without a plan is just a wish. You need to have a solid plan behind the goal to ensure that you are doing the right things necessary to achieve the goal. We have the following plans; 5 year plan 1 year…
ETTER – An American Business Growth Story – Part 1
In 2015, ETTER Engineering celebrates our 75th anniversary. Founded in 1940, we have endured a World War, survived 13 Presidents of the United States and made it through 13 recessions. In 2013, ETTER was named to the INC 500|5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States. We think it’s pretty cool…. So, how does…
ETTER Then and Now…..
Each quarter we hold a company meeting to review our progress for the previous quarter and talk about our plans for the upcoming quarter. We also review the ETTER Way – our points of culture that we want our team to model. One of our points of culture is Drive and Embrace Change. In thinking about…
ETTER Named to INC 500|5000 list for 2013
It’s time to celebrate at ETTER. After 73 years in business, we finally made the INC 500|5000 list of fastest growing companies in the USA! We are number #4660, so we will be moving up the list in the future. We are #47 in Connecticut. We think it’s pretty impressive that a 73 year old…