Mount Joy, PA—Mount Joy Wire, a leading U.S. manufacturer of specialty wire for many applications, has hired a new process engineering manager and a new quality assistant as part of its ongoing emphasis to add value to and ensure the quality of its products.

Matt Graham, York, is the new process engineering manager and will be responsible for processing and internal quality and supervising the company’s process control manager and environmental service technician. He reports to General Manager Jon Stine.

Adam Dent, Wrightsville, was hired as the new quality assistant and will be responsible for managing quality complaints and customer quality issues and supporting internal quality control. He reports to Quality Manager Ed Hollock.

Graham, who graduated from Millersville University in 2010 with a BS in chemistry and a minor in physics, previously worked at Mount Joy Wire for nearly six years until September 2015 as the environmental process engineer. He then served as interim quality manager and understudy for the process engineering manager’s position until rejoining the company full-time in July.

Dent is also a Millersville alumnus, graduating with a BS in chemistry (3.83 GPA) in spring. There, he was a member of the university’s American Chemical Society student chapter and was awarded a Neimeyer-Hodgson grant to conduct collaborative research with ITT Engineered Valves, Lancaster. He also worked as a lab technician for Millersville and K&L Plating, Lancaster.

For more than 25 years, Mount Joy Wire has been a trusted leader in manufacturing specialty wire for a wide variety of applications, including aerospace, automotive, architectural, construction, marine, medical and oil and gas. Mount Joy Wire’s flagship music wire product, AmeriCoatTM, is known for its quality and resistance to material degradation. All of its core products—spring, brush and oil-tempered wire—are made in America at the Mount Joy, Pennsylvania headquarters.

Contact: Ty Krieger, President, Mount Joy Wire Corporation, 717-653-1461, ext. 223. For more about Mount Joy Wire, visit www.mjwire.com.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster County, visited Mount Joy Wire on August 2, 2017 and shared his views on tax regulation and reform, ways to strengthen manufacturing in the U.S. and other issues. Shown from left to right are CFO Scott Badger, Human Resources Manager Sue Buckius, President Ty Krieger, Congressman Smucker, CEO Tom Duff and General Manager Jon Stine. Smucker represents Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District and was sworn in to office on January 17, 2017. Previously, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 2009 to 2016. He lives in West Lampeter Township in Lancaster County and was the president for 25 years of the Smucker Company, a family-owned commercial construction firm.

You have been named as one of the Top 100 privately held companies in the midstate for 2016! The staff at the Central Penn Business Journal is proud to have been able to share your story with the regional business community.

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Mount Joy Wire Corporation, a leading Lancaster County and fully American manufacturer of specialty steel wire, announced four key management changes that will strengthen its ability to serve global customers and commitment to environmental, health and safety, and sustainability.

The changes announced by President Ty Krieger include promotions for Ed Hollock, Wernersville, Pa., to Technical Services Manager and Matt Tipping, Quarryville, Pa. to Process Control Manager, and the appointment of Brandt Rosche’, Mount Joy, Pa., to Quality Assurance Specialist and Steve Weems, Mount Joy, to Environmental Services Technician.

Hollock will be responsible for working and collaborating with customers on quality, research and development and new product development. He will also work to further enhance Mount Joy Wire’s new shop floor data collection system to improve in house tracking of material, scheduling of orders, and on-time delivery.

He joined the company in 1998 as Quality Manager and held that position for 5 years. He then worked for Nelson Steel Products as a Plant Engineer and Kalas Manufacturing as a Process and Quality Engineer. He rejoined Mount Joy Wire in 2013 and since then, has been responsible for the design, training, and implementation of Mount Joy’s custom shop floor data collection system.

Hollock, a graduate of Wilkes University where he received his BS in Materials Engineering, supervises the Process Control Manger, Director of Quality, Quality Specialist and Environmental Services Technician and reports to General Manager Jon Stine.

Tipping, who joined Mount Joy Wire in 2004, has been a customer service manager and assistant manager, a supervisor and specialist in various manufacturing departments and, lastly, an environmental technician.

He will be responsible for spearheading quality improvement initiatives, upgrading the safety and increasing the efficiency of production processes in all of the company’s departments, managing laboratory technicians and supervising the wastewater treatment plant.

Rosche’ as Quality Assurance Specialist oversees the internal and external quality of the company’s products and reports to Hollock. Rosche’ previously worked for Auntie Anne’s and American Axle & Manufacturing. He has a BS in Industrial Technology from Millersville University.

Weems, who attended the College of Professional Studies, Villanova, Pa., is responsible for Mount Joy Wire’s environmental health and safety, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing and green initiatives, including sustainability.

Weems previously worked as a project manager for ABM Industries, Malvern, Pa., and as operations manager for ITW’s Thielex Division, Somerset, N.J.

For 25 years, Mount Joy Wire has been a manufacturer of spring wire, oil tempered wire and specialty wire for the agricultural, aerospace, architectural, automotive, building products, construction, household goods, manufacturing, marine, medical, oil and gas, and recreational industries. Their flagship music wire product, AmeriCoat^TM, is known for its quality and resistance to material degradation. The company manufactures all wire products in their Mount Joy, Pennsylvania facility and ships to customers across the globe.

Mount Joy Wire Corporation is ranked sixth on the list of manufacturers ranked by local revenues in the 2015 “Made in Central PA: Made Locally, Distributed Globally” supplement published by the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal.

CEO Tom Duff said Mount Joy Wire reported 2014 local and total revenues the same at $35.5 million for its manufacturing facility employing nearly 150 and established in 1991. Ranking ahead of the company are High Industries Inc., Fry Communications Inc., York Container Company, Greiner Industries Inc. and Ross Technology Corporation.

“Made in Central PA” reported that the top five manufacturing sectors in Central Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon and York counties) are primary metals, machinery, fabricated metal products, forest and wood products, and electrical equipment, appliances and components.

There are a total of nearly 88,000 employees in nearly 2,000 manufacturing establishments in the five-county area. Lancaster County leads with 33,732 employees at 872 facilities.

Statewide, there are 13,710 manufacturing companies with more than a half million workers. Manufacturing accounts for 12 percent of the gross state product (GSP), which was $77.37 billion in 2013. The manufacturing sector employs nearly 10 percent of Pennsylvania’s workforce. Nearly $37 billion in manufactured goods were exported by the state in 2014.

Mount Joy Wire makes spring wire, oil tempered wire and specialty wire for the agricultural, aerospace, architectural, automotive, building products, construction, household goods, manufacturing, marine, medical, oil and gas, and recreational industries. Its flagship wire product, AmeriCoat^TM, is known for its quality and resistance to material degradation. The company manufactures all wire products in the Mount Joy plant and ships to customers across the globe.

You have been named as one of the Top 100 privately held companies in the midstate for 2015! The staff at the Central Penn Business Journal is proud to have been able to share your story with the regional business community.

Your company will be highlighted in today’s edition of the Central Penn Business Journal and you can find the expanded Top 250 list digitally on cpbj.com.

We congratulate you, your company and your employees on your success. We hope you enjoy reading about all 100 companies and wish you even greater growth for the future.

Like so many of his colleagues at Mt. Joy Wire, CFO Scott Badger likes giving back. His latest volunteer assignment was as a member of the Disability Services Committee for the highly successful 70th LPGA 2015 U.S. Women’s Open Tournament at the Lancaster Country Club from July 6 through 12 that drew about 135,000 spectators.

Scott, who is a golfer and who was among some 2,500 volunteers for the seven-day event, worked in a special tent that provided electric powered scooters for visitors to use on their own during the tournament, or other transportation to take them to a particular location.

“People were amazed that there was no charge for the scooters or transportation. For me, it was fun to interact with patrons and visitors during my shifts. The tent was open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the three days of practice rounds and four days of the tournament. Everyone really appreciated the LPGA for doing this.”

He said he also enjoyed being a part of the committee through which he met a number of new people. “I knew the chairman, which is how I got involved in the first place.” His other volunteer efforts include coaching youth sports and supporting Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Challenger Little League.

Scott said the tournament was very successful and he wouldn’t be surprised if another one wasn’t held in Lancaster in the near future.

The LPGA reported that 1,873 golfers were entered in this first major golf tournament held in Central Pennsylvania. The purse totaled $4.5 million for this oldest open held for women professionals and amateurs. Korean pro In Gee Chun won by a stroke after a thrilling playoff and received the top prize of $810,000.

President Ty Krieger said everyone at Mt. Joy Wire is obviously proud of Scott. “He certainly reflects the spirit of giving back among all of our people who volunteer to make the Susquehanna Valley a better place to live and work.”