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ENVIRONMENTAL AGING / LIFE CYCLE, FUELS & LUBRICATION, HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE, 412.781.0681 | www.ilovethatbank.com NACE, POWERTRAIN / GEAR BOX, SEISMIC, SHOCK & VIBRATION, STRUCTURAL, FATIGUE, LOAD 2 3 SOURCERESOURCE Editor’s Note....................................................6 ReSOURCE Mission..........................................7 Advertising Index: Banking/Loans – Allegheny Valley Bank 02 IT’S MADE HERE................................................9 Bearing & Power Transmission – Gipson Bearing 32 Champ Printing Company is a full Catering – Remo’s 58 Spotlight - Mr. Rodgers.................................15 service printer located in the Cutting Tools – Custom – Custom Tool and Grinding 34 Greater Pittsburgh area. Entrust Events.............................................................14 Cutting Tools – Standard – Machining Solutions 35 your printing to a company that has Detailing – Vehicle/Truck Outfitters – Xtreme 61 HOT PRODUCT................................................17 Electroplating – East Liberty Electroplating 55 been in business for over 35 years. Fencing – Penn Fencing, Inc 16 Professionally Speaking................................18 Let us show you the price savings Filtration – Filtech, Inc 36 Hydraulics - Wojanis 37 and customer service you can enjoy Company Spotlight......................................19 from a locally-owned, customer - Insurance – Rodgers Insurance 64 Legal – Tucker Arensberg 62 oriented printing company. ECO................................................................21 Logistics – Adcom Worldwide 12 SOURCE SUPPLIERS........................................25 Lubricants – Purvis Brothers 38 Bearings & Power Transmission....................32 Machine Shop – Jennison 39 Commercial Janitorial Cleaning Supplies..33 Material Handling - Equipco 40 Material Recycling - Atlas 18 Cutting Tools - Custom.................................34 Marketing Materials – American Thermoplastic Company 23 Cutting Tools - Standard..............................35 Marketing Services - Metro P Marketing 63 Filtration..........................................................36 Marketing Services - Legion Media 60 Hydraulics......................................................37 Marketing Services - Face2Face Marketing 60 Metal - Fabrication – Chartiers Fabricating & Powder Coating 08 Lubricants......................................................38 Motors – Industrial Pump & Motor Repair 41 Machine Shop...............................................39 Office Supplies – D&D Office Plus 42 Material Handling.........................................40 Office Furniture – D&D Office Plus 43 Outfitters – Work Boots – D.I.B.S. Work Boots, Inc 55 Motors - Industrial..........................................41 Paving – Pave-Rite 12 Office Supplies..............................................42 Pipe & Fittings – Allegheny Pipe 45 Office Furniture..............................................43 Printing – Champ Printing Company Inc. 04 Packaging.....................................................44 Promotional Products – Allegheny Ad Services 20 Pumps-Industrial – Industrial Pump & Motor Repair 46 Pipe & Fittings................................................45 High quality oset printing – up to 6 colors Safety – Shannon Safety 47 Short run quality digital printing featuring variable data Pumps - Industrial.........................................46 Security Guards – AmGuard 56 capabilities for your personalized printing needs Safety.............................................................47 Testing – Clark Testing 03 Tools – C&L Tools 48 Cost eective bindery services Tools................................................................48 FSC certied Translation – All Clear Translations 18 Welding & Gases..........................................49 Friendly customer service Uniforms & Facility Services – Iron City Uniform 24 Welding & Gases – Alloy Oxygen 49 Specializing in quick turnaround Vendor Guide...............................................50 SAFETY............................................................57 4 5 EDITOR’S NOTE Recently I had the chance to visit the beautiful country of Belize. While there, I couldn’t help but notice that everything we bought or ordered had RE•SOURCE been made in Belize. The phrase “Belizean Made” was on bottled water, For two years, it has been our mission to bring awareness to the TEAM BPF importance of supporting local industrial businesses. It has been toilet paper, hot sauce, and beer - it was on everything. This was source of MISSION great pride for them. Of course, this made me think of home and how amazing to see the progress that has been made in such a short time. people take pride in buying items made in the U.S.A. It also got me Chantel Goldstrohm However, as we are learning, there is always more work to do. As local. that stays $25 extra thinking about Pittsburgh and the pride that we have for our region. We President / Founder industry continues to grow in our region, the need to support local [email protected] love our sports teams, universities and our history. We are after all the companies becomes all the more important. We know that sourcing “City of Champions.” On the way home from my trip I began to ponder locally is not always an easy task in this fast paced society, but through this question, is there a way to be a “Pittsburgh Champion” by supporting this publication and website our mission is to make buying local a viable Karen Super local industrial companies in our region? I believe that this is a option for all businesses. To further help in this process we have Director of Operations SOURCE championship in which we can all take a part. I encourage you to start by designed this edition of to act as a buyers guide for purchasers [email protected] SOURCE, looking through the pages of SOURCE and use it as a buyers guide for to keep on hand throughout the year. combined with our your company’s needs. Let SOURCE be the first resource you use. By website will provide you with the best resources that our region has to evaluating your spending habits and contacting local companies for offer. We are sometimes asked if there is any real benefit to souring quotes, you are helping to grow our region’s economy. When you buy from locally. Our answer is always a resounding, yes! Our proof is in the StaceY Dranikoski For every $100 spent with a company headquartered in one of these companies, everyone wins. Your needs are met, the numbers. Director of Business Development Pennsylvania $68 of that money is recycled back to the community company you buy from grows and the region prospers as a result. This [email protected] year I want to challenge us all to not just live in the “City of through expenditures, payroll taxes and more. As opposed to $48 that Champions” but to become a “Pittsburgh Champion.” is given back when buying from a company outside of Pennsylvania. That extra $25 has the potential to become a huge source of cash ROSE HARRIS flow to our schools, roads, parks and more. After two years, we have VISUAL DIRECTOR evolved quite a bit since our first publication, but our mission has stayed [email protected] the same. This mission will not change because it continues to make a difference in the lives of everyone living in our region. Chantel Kalan-Goldstrohm