Spring Conference Offers Diverse Educational Plant Tours
One of the best and most popular aspects of the Spring Conference and Supplier Showcase is the diverse line-up of plant tours offered to attendees. On Wednesday afternoon, March 18, the 2015 Spring Conference in Charlotte, NC, will offer three exceptional tours that allow participants to learn about some of the region’s most interesting manufacturing operations.
Tour 1: JR Motorsports is the professional race team and management company for Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s 11-time Most Popular Driver and winner of more than 40 NASCAR-sanctioned races. The company, based in Mooresville, NC, operates out of a 66,000-square foot facility that serves as the nucleus of Earnhardt Jr.’s racing, marketing and business interests. The tour includes the assembly and tear-down area, fabrication shop, paint shop and suspension room, and concludes in the retail shop area where guests can listen to live broadcasts of the company’s “Dirty Mo Radio Show.”
Tour 2: Bull Engineered Products is a full-service, turn-key injection molding source company providing design, development, and production. The firm specializes in rubber and plastic products, and can take clients’ ideas and turn them into profitable production. Bull Engineered Products’ capabilities include injection/compression molding; die cutting of non-metallics; ultrasonic welding; and custom packaging.
Tour 3: Flextronics is a leading electronics manufacturing services provider. It manufactures and tests complex printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies and offers complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer digitial, industrial, and medical and mobile OEM customers. Flextronics’ product portfolio encompasses wireline and wireless networks, servers, vehicle management, handheld computers, global locating systems, HVAC, semiconductor test systems, and energy and audio conferencing.
Tours are limited to 50 people each, and sign-up is on a first-come-first-served basis. To register for the 2015 Spring Conference and for the plant tours, visit FarmEquip.org. S