Royal Oak’s Bonal sees profit jump, looks to add three employees
Everyone feels stress, even metal. And too much stress can crack a beam or a tool – and a person. Bonal produces products to ease that stress in metal, not humans. Their product has brought increased sales, which have brought a few jobs.
NASA, NASCAR, and mining equipment all have something in common – Royal Oak.
More specifically, Bonal International Inc., a Royal Oak-based high-end machine-manufacturing firm. They specialize in a product called Meta-Lax Stress Relief.
As metal gets worked and worked, stress builds up – not unlike humans – and when that happens the metal can snap (also not unlike humans), setting a project back who knows how long.
Through vibrations the metal relaxes the stress, which lengthens the length of the beam or the tool. Essentially, it’s like a massage, for metal.
Through this product, Bonal saw a 25 percent increase in sales. Higher sales equal more jobs and president George Hebel says that he’ll be looking to add at least three more positions to his staff of 17.
Source: George Hebel, president of Bonal International Inc.
Writer: Terry Parris, Jr.
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