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by Mary Kaye Denning
Jack Benko, a
native of Windber, PA, located
about sixty miles east of
Pittsburgh moved to Cleveland
in 1953 in search of work.
And work, he found.
"Cleveland has been very good
to me," said Jack.
For more than three decades of
tooling and production
experience, World
Stamping has been
producing short and medium
run stamping for a wide range
of O.E.M.
customers.
Looking around it's obvious
that Jack and his
employees take pride
in their work and that they are
capable of producing a
cost-effective,
quality product with
fast
turnaround.
World Stamping
production has been
reviewed and certified
by
GM. (If,
it is under the hood and
black, there’s a good chance
World Stamping made
it.)
Back in '53, when Jack landed
in Cleveland he took a
job at the Lento
Manufacturing Company where he
studied as a die-maker.
Training with the
best enable him to
move up to a "graduate
program"
with his mentor and
soon to become friend, Bill
Mullen of US Stamping Company,
a company that Jack would later
buy.
Known to the trade as a master
die maker, Jack recalls a time
when he was asked to make
a die for a stainless cup. At
first when he looked at the
job, it appeared to be easy;
but Jack soon realized he was
faced with a huge
challenge.
After struggling and
struggling he finally made
it work. So die in hand he was
quickly was off to get the
client's
sign-off. H
e remarked, "When I got
there I was
ushered down a hall
into a room with extremely
long table. A few minutes
later, a man entered and
started unrolling a 3D drawing
as if it were a bolt of
material. I remember
being stunned by
the size of the print and
about how much detail
there was on this strange and
yet, unidentified,
drawing."
Then, the client looked at
me and said, Jack, you
are looking a drawing for
Sputnik. The piece you've just
made is a special valve
that no one else had been able
to deliver.
"We
understand what the client
wants to do, and we know what
to do with our metal," says
Jack.
"I love to go out and work
with customers, and my son,
Jack, Jr. is almost as good as
me. If it's in metal, we have
probably made it
before.
We worked with Invacare for
years, we’ve made hand surgery
tables, and other medical
appliances, metal boxes for
all, under the hood parts for
GM, aluminum rings for the oil
industry, HVAC vents for
chillers and so on. My sales
director, Cheryl is the best.
She understands and knows our
production even better than
me." Jack gleamed.
World Stamping &
Manufacturing is a one-stop
house. They'll take on most
die-making challenges and they
certainly seem to have
a particular appetite for
the near
impossible.
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