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Article: Showing its mettle: Investing in equipment, people pays off for sheet metal fabricator KMS, which has plants in Luzerne and S.C.(Company overview)
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- The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2007
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Byline: Jerry Lynott
Sep. 16--LUZERNE -- Every day he goes to work Jeff Dickson punches holes in the notion manufacturers like him can't make it in today's global economy.
Workers at Dickson's KMS plants here and in South Carolina stamp, cut, and drill thousands of pieces of steel, brass and aluminum into a myriad number of parts from door hinges, truck grills to cream dispensers.
The privately held precision sheet metal fabricator showed its mettle recently when its plant in West Columbia, S.C., scored a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing businesses in the country. KMS Inc. ranked 2,673 based on a 127.5 percent increase to $10.7 ...