Have experience with general machine maintenance, sharpening saw blades, or both? Apply to our maintenance department today! Job duties include: Performing general machine upkeep Performing monthly preventive maintenance Sharpening saw blades Documenting work performed Skills needed include: General machine knowledge (gears, sprockets, chains) Additional information: We’re looking for someone...
What is Heat Treating Pallets? Heat treating pallets means that after a pallet gets nailed together, it has to go through a heat chamber before it’s ready for sale. A heat chamber, or dry kiln, is a special room that reaches temperatures around 140⁰ Fahrenheit to ensure the wood...
Need your company name printed on the reels or pallets you order? Part number? Other detail? We’ve got you covered. With the use of our EBS 260 Handjet Printer, we can print a wide variety of fonts and sizes. The ink we use is acetone-based permanent black industrial grade...
Customers’ needs are our top priority. When one customer asked for a way to send back used reels for refurbishment and resale at a discounted price, we found a way to make it happen! Now multiple customers benefit from this recycling process. The recycled reels program might be a...
Two New CNC Routers for Wood Cable Reels We’ve expanded our CNC operation to our wood cable reel department. We purchased two new CNC machines to increase our production capabilities for wooden flanges. These CNCs can drill any arbor hole, start hole, drive holes, test holes, bolt holes, slots,...
We take measurements seriously We pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality products. To keep this up, we have to make sure our measurements are correct. To ensure our measurements are correct and consistent, we verify our tape measures and other tools once per quarter. The quarterly Measuring Tool Verification Day...
New market expansion We now make custom reels for the acrylic and polycarbonate sheeting industries. These aren’t typical cable reels with regular flanges and paper or stave cores. Instead, these have flanges covered with acrylic, and 2×4 inset cores. These cores have a unique design. Instead of a paper...
We are ISO 9001 certified! Updated December 2020 to reflect the addition of Section 8.3 Design and Development to our quality management system. If you are looking for a creative solution for reels or shipping platforms, give us a call or send us an email at (270) 487-6778 or...
Last week we participated in a five-day Stage II audit for ISO 9001:2015 registration. After months of hard work to improve our processes, we successfully completed the audit with zero non-conformances. The auditor has recommended us for certification to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. You can click here to view...
Here at AFP we like to celebrate when we can. We make it a point to show our employees that we appreciate their hard work by taking a break to do something fun every once in a while. We kicked off the holiday season with a company-wide chili lunch...
