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 Jack Benko has been producing short and medium run stamping for a wide range of Original Equipment Manfuacturers (OEM) 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.

Mary Kaye Denning 
 

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