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Garner Products Inc. Justin Stofan, Ron Stofan, and Michelle Stofan.
Everything is manufactured in house at Garner Products. After degaussing hard drives are bent, and mangled, deterring any attempt to recover data.
GARNER PRODUCTS INC - Roseville, Ca. based Garner Products design, manufacture, and sell equipment that delivers complete, permanent, and verifiable data elimination. Founded more than 60 years ago, they provide time-tested solutions for permanent data security of working and nonworking hard drives, magnetic tape, and solid-state media.
Garner Products are founding members of SVMA and Michelle Stofan was one of the dozen local business owners who were part of the first exploratory meeting. She sits on the board and is a 100% believer in the power of the organization. “Since day one SVMA has been a benefit to us as a local manufacturing business,” tells Michelle. “We were isolated, living really on our own island. We have an impact globally, our products are known around the world, but we didn’t know our neighbors. Without SVMA we would never have met people like Tim Schaefer, director of training at SVMA. He is a wealth of information about everything. Having a group of like businesses is such a resource, that allow us to share best practice information from automation, machining, general employee policy issues and sources of labor. We can’t wait for the apprenticeship program to get in full swing.” Garner Products believe so much in the SVMA apprenticeship program that they sent their son Justin and another employee through the program. At 28 Justin has been a part of every operation in the company and now is tasked with overseeing the machine shop. The shop consists
INSIGHT MANUFACTURING SERVICES - are a supply chain management and contract manufacturing specialist. They do it all from prototype and engineering support to CNC milling, CNC turning, fabrication, assembly
of a Flow water jet, a Hyundai WIA L 150A with live tooling, Fadal 3020 and 4020 mills, three YCM NXV 1020A mills, Shop Sabre router, and multiple Raise 3D printers.
“Thanks to SVMA we have personal contacts with other CEO’s,” adds Ron Stofan. “Big companies are giving us the time of day, us a 30-person shop. And not only that but answering any questions we have about anything.” “Being able to network in good times is valuable, but even more so when you get things like Covid,” continues Michelle. “We were all able share resources like documents to send to employees, response to our local codes and regulations.”
Labor as we all know is a big problem for everyone. Finding skilled machinists, or young people interested in learning the trade is nearly impossible. “We’ve established so many great relationships with SVMA companies,” concludes Michelle. “If we interview someone and they are a great applicant, but I can’t use them I send their information out to our membership. If I can’t keep them, I want our members to be able to. Our goal is to keep talent local; we’ve got to keep the skilled labor here. We need the skilled to teach the next generation, so the industry doesn’t die. SVMA is an organization with those same goals. We are in competition for the same labor pool, but as members we are trying to work together, not poach, and grow the talent pool in the area. I was a founding member of SVMA, I served three years as treasurer, and now I am on the board and concentrating my efforts on workforce development.”
and kitting. Their principal manufacturing center is in the city of Murphys, CA. but today we are at their satellite facility in Rancho Cordova. “Our primary industries are medical and defense,” details Herman Kaiser, VP/COO of InSight. “Our largest customer makes radiation therapy machines. We have for many years provided them with hydroelectric and electromechanical assemblies. The majority of our machining centers are at the Murphys facility where we have a mixture of Hurco and Haas machine tools. We started with the Hurco because of their conversational programming. Not always being able to find employees with the necessary skills, the Hurcos sped up the learning process. We added the Haas line because Selway gives us great support, but now we must train on multiple platforms. We mainly assemble
Machine shop supervisor Donnie and Herman Kaiser VP/COO of Insight Manufacturing Services and SVMA board member.
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