Since 1974, The Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center has provided assistance to many different types of firms to help fund a wide variety of business enhancing projects. Below are links to just a few of our many success stories:
North Carolina Precision Mechanical Spring Manufacturer
Background SETAAC assisted a manufacturer of precision mechanical springs from Charlotte, NC. The firm has more than 30 employees and their current annual sales are more than $8 Million. The firm bends wire, from .020 to .270, serving a broad range of industries. They have proprietary sound dampening technology, mechanism assembly capability and a quality-driven […]
Client Success Story | The Old Wood Company
Background I’m Darren Green, owner of The Old Wood Company in Asheville, NC. In 2007, I opened our doors with a vision to develop a company that could compete in the marketplace and also be immune to the onslaught of low-cost foreign imports. I wanted to give people options, suggestions, and one-of-a-kind products tailor-made for their […]
Craft-Art’s Revamped Marketing Strategy Boosts Sales with help from SETAAC
Begun in the basement of its founder in 1998, Craft-Art Co. progressed over its first ten years from making cutting boards and wooden pot racks to a strong position in the custom countertop market. But by 2009, once-thriving Craft-Art was floundering. With the home building industry in shambles, the primary market for the manufacturer’s solid […]
Bonnell Aluminum Maximizes Support from SETAAC to turn around during Great Recession
Bonnell Aluminum has been in business since 1953, so the company has seen its share of ups and downs in markets for its aluminum extrusion products. But they’d experienced nothing as bad as the Great Recession of 2007, when the bottom dropped out of their main markets—commercial and residential construction. With more than 1300 employees […]
A Company Reborn, SETAAC Helps West Point Industries Transform Its Operations
The ITMA show in Paris in 1999 was supposed to have been a high point for West Point Foundry and Machine Co. Instead, the event has passed into company history as the start of an extremely tough period. The quadrennial ITMA is the international textile and garment machinery industry’s premier meeting, and West Point kicked […]