Meet Our Suppliers - Polamer Precision
Polamer Precision, Inc., began its existence as a two-man machining shop, founded after owner Chris Galik immigrated to America from Poland more than 20 years ago. Today, Polamer is a 150,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility with more than 100 employees dedicated to manufacturing complex aerospace parts. This is the Polamer Precision story.
Chris Galik: The company was founded in 1997 and technically there was just me and my partner. The dream was created back then, we had a full vision of what we envisioned that company to become maybe 10, 15, 20 years from at the point. It was a lot of hard work, a lot of determination, and we were just pursuing that dream.
Chris Galik: The majority of the transformation of the company took place within past five years. That's where the growth, dramatic growth, based on investment, based on potential growth that we've seen in the industry, and when I meant industry is the aerospace manufacturing.
Chris Galik: With cooperation with Pratt & Whitney we were able to realize the benefits of different programs that they're unveiling like The Gold Supplier and UPPAP, and not just being conforming to these standards but really taking benefit, full benefit, what is driving us right now to pursue these different concepts. And we're already seeing this, on different kaizen events that we're currently holding with you guys and other customers; we're realizing a potential huge cost savings that technically embraces the company. Everybody was talking about investing, investing; we're already on our way. So what I felt that when that checked flag is going to go down at the start line, we want to be in full speed rather than at that point be analyzing of what has to happen for us to do this.
Chris Galik: At the end of the day, yes: we can make plans, we can build beautiful buildings, we can invest in the equipment, but this is something that definitely allows us to look in the future, have that security that these contracts are going to be rolling in for not just today, and tomorrow, this is something that allows us to look in the future and not just five or ten years, even beyond this. This is the future of manufacturing; this is what we call the 21st century.
