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Even a moderatly large company (1200-1500 people) is hard to get on and stay on the "preferred supplier lists" - anything smaller than that and the business must be exceptional, cheap, or family related. Seems the only ones that do well have 3-5K people and somehow manage to outsource just about everything - that's how the Tier 2-4s stay in business I suppose.

Alofs doesn't ring a bell, but I've only been with the metalforming company for just over a year - prior to that I dealt mostly with chassis and powertrains. We claim to do a lot of robotic welding (just buy/install weld cells from other companies), but from what I've seen in the plants, a lot of it is done by hand because they haven't figured out how to run what they buy. PM me with your company info and I'll try to get you on our list - we're always sending out mfg engineers to check out new companies to deal with.