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Article: Meet NJBIA's Trustees: Robert J. Staudinger
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- New Jersey Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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It was simply a part-time summer job that would get him through college, but once Robert J. Staudinger began working for Eastern Rotorcraft Company (ERC), a Bucks County, Pennsylvania manufacturer of mechanical lifting devices for helicopters, he fell in love - with manufacturing.
The company hired the young college student as an entry-level machinist in 1974, putting him behind engine lathes, turret lathes and other machines. "After my first experience, I knew I wanted to be in manufacturing. I liked making things," he recalls today, sitting in his office at Chatham-based National Manufacturing Co, Inc. (NMC), where he serves as president and CEO.
Staudinger, who has worked for different ...