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Article: Air lines in global lift: US machinery manufacturer Clarke's Sheet Metal has shifted its focus from local to global following the industry's peaks and troughs. Bill Keil takes a look at the company's journey.(Focus On North America: Canada)
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- Wood Based Panels International
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Clarke's Sheet Metal has seen some big changes in its 50 year history. It is located in Eugene, Oregon, once the heart of the state's wood manufacturing industry where it could serve adjoining mills virtually out of the back door.
For Clarke's it has been a matter of imaginative engineering, construction and sales efforts that have extended well beyond its backyard--far overseas in fact. And the company established a new operation in the US south to get closer to the important southern forest industry.
Current president W James Clarke recalls just coming out of war time service in Korea in 1952 when he, his father, Ralph H Clarke, and mother Belle C ...