Oktoberfest Celebration 2012

Over the past decade, it has been an Atlas tradition to celebrate fall with an Oktoberfest celebration. 2012 marks the 10th year that Meribel Enterprises has owned Atlas and the celebration tradition continued this year at an apple orchard. Each employee was given "apple bucks" that they could use for purchasing rides, games, apples, or gift items. Although the weather didn't totally cooperate, we had a tremendous turn out. We enjoyed a meal together and then the families could wander at their leisure enjoying the afternoon. Congratulations to all employees for making this 10th celebration special.

Customer Appreciation Day

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Atlas Precision Sheet Metal Solutions held a appreciation day Wednesday, August 1st,  in order to thank it's customers for another record year. Customers across the United States were invited to Atlas's Minneapolis factory to have a small break from their busy work schedule. While there, customer representatives were given a comprehensive tour of the factory and treated to local food truck fare.

The day was not over yet, as some of the representatives also participated in a round of golf with Atlas sales engineers and management. The evening concluded with dinner and an award ceremony, where the lowest scorers of the event received trophies. The customers left happy and with confidence in another productive year of partnership with Atlas Precision Sheet Metal Solutions.

New Operations Offices

The Operations staff of Atlas Precision Sheet Metal Solutions finished moving into their new office space this past week. The re-structuring began earlier in the spring when sales, customer service, engineering, and quality moved into the new west office wing. Operations was then moved into the east office wing to accommodate their new employees.

Increasing Chippewa Falls Parking Capacity

The Atlas manufacturing plant in Chippewa Falls has been increasing its workforce to keep pace with the rising number of requests for their precision sheet metal solutions. The additional employees prompted a parking lot expansion. Preparations began last fall and paving was completed Saturday.

Introducing the Atlas Fleet

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The Atlas delivery fleet is used for fast and reliable delivery of precision sheet metal solutions  to locations in  Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The fleet operates with Class A CDL drivers employed by Atlas for a higher quality delivery experience. With their own delivery fleet, Atlas is able to ensure a safe delivery by loading and unloading all of their precision sheet metal solutions to customers with their own highly trained staff.

The bulk of the fleet consists of three late model dock trucks. A "Cube Van"  acts as the primary delivery vehicle for the precision sheet metal solutions in the Chippewa Falls area. Rounding out the fleet with the smaller tasks is the Atlas delivery van.

Tractor trailers are also leased and operated by Atlas for larger deliveries. Custom delivery solutions can be provided, such as a continuous train of ABF pup trailers to one customer in the Carolinas. The trailer is docked and slowly filled; when it reaches capacity, ABF picks up the trailer for delivery and drops off a new one to begin packing.

First Cookout of the Summer

The employees at Atlas Manufacturing were rewarded for their hard work with a cookout put on by the co-presidents, Mark Engel and John Peterson. The duo worked together at the grill to produce enough burgers for the staff during the lunch period. Iced beverages, watermelon, potato salad, and cookies rounded off the rest of the meal. The employees enjoyed their meal together and thanked the co-presidents for their effort and the food.

Mark Engel hopes that this will be the first of many cookouts that will occur over the summer. After another productive year of growth and business, the company is showing its appreciation to all those that made this success happen and encouraging them to work hard to keep the business moving forward.

Atlas increases punching capacity

With the addition of a new Trumpf 2020R punch, Atlas has increased prototype to mid-level production capacity.   The 2020R can prove out tooling and prototypes before running full scale production.The TruPunch 5000 fully automated punching center can handle all levels of high production.