Hutchinson Aerospace and Industry

Our intrepid rugby team traveled to Houston, TX, June 20–23 for the TotalEnergies international 100 Teams Rugby Tournament, where, as Team U.S.A., they played hard, played well and had a LOT of fun! Hutchinson AI teammates included Bobbie Haggerty, Hutchinson Ithaca team lead; Erlyn Santana, buyer/planner at Vlier; and Tony Lazo, Hutchinson HSA team lead. While we didn’t advance to the finals, we had some great wins and, most importantly, had fun and showed everybody why this is a great place to work! Congratulations and gratitude to Team U.S.A.! #RugbyTournament #HutchinsonAI #Vlier #TotalEnergies #WorkCulture #BeAGoodTeammateDay

Taking advantage of the opportunity to enhance our workforce recruitment efforts, we were selected to participate in the New England Talent Pipeline Project (NETPP), a U.S. Navy-funded project that provides employers with the tools, training and resources they need to increase their capacity to build submarines. On May 30, Hutchinson CEO Bob Andersen, machinist Giovanni Ferrara, and high security area technicians Pol Feliu Colon and Giany Rivera attended NETPP’s inaugural National Signing Day in Boston, gathering with local shipbuilding companies and suppliers, elected officials and community leaders. The U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) program held the event to celebrate its 31 new employer partnerships and the future of the defense workforce. According to TMG - Consulting Engineers, Inc the company engaged to administer the NETPP, the Navy has determined it needs to hire 10,000 people in the submarine industrial base for the next 10 years. As the global leader in protecting equipment and systems, managing shock loads and isolating structure borne noise in naval environments, we are well positioned to contribute to the mission. We look forward to maximizing our impact through participation in the NETPP! PICTURED (l-r): Joseph Barto IV, program manager at TMG, Inc.; Pol Feliu Colon, high security area technician; Joe Barto III, founder and president at TMG, Inc.; Giovanni Ferrara, machinist; Erica Logan, deputy director submarine industrial base, PEO Strategic Submarine; Bob Anderson, CEO at Hutchinson Aerospace and Industry; Meganne Atkins, AUKUS executive director; Giany Rivera, high security area technician; Command Master Chief Jeffrey Hiscocks, PEO Team Submarine; and Ambrose (Bo) Brewer, program analyst at TMG, Inc. #Hutchinson #USNavy #NETPP #TalentPipelineProject #BuildSubmarines

Have you heard about the Hutchinson reHuse program? We’re saving our customers time and money while reducing waste by recovering and refurbishing customer-supplied used metal parts. Once received, we clean them, leaving only the original metal component, ready to be processed into a new part. The Hutchinson-produced reHuse new parts meet all customer original product specifications, eliminate the negative environmental impact from producing new metal parts and, because metals are recovered, reduce the overall Hutchinson cost of manufacturing. Read our latest case study to see how we saved one of our largest rail customers $1.2 million, shortened the time required to complete the project, and reduced treatment waste and CO2 by an estimated 40%: https://lnkd.in/e2D2zdhK. #reHuse #ReduceReuseRecycle #Manufacturing #CostSavings #Sustainability

Our parent company, TotalEnergies, is celebrating 100 years in business with the “100 Teams Tournament”—a rugby competition between employees from around the globe! We’re sending Bobbie Haggerty, Erlyn Santana and Tony Lazo to Houston on 6/20 for the USA competition. If they win, they’ll go on to play at the October world finals in France. Good luck, team! #TotalEnergies #RugbyTournament #Hutchinson #Centennial

The Hutchinson Ithaca Plant was recently awarded the Business Clean Energy Award from Consumers Energy recognizing our company-wide commitment to energy efficiency and energy waste reduction. On June 10, Ithaca Environmental Health and Safety Manager Don English was interviewed on The Art Lewis Show on WSGW Radio in Saginaw. Don spearheads the clean energy initiatives for the Ithaca plant; in this interview, he discusses the efforts leading up to the award and Hutchinson’s ongoing efforts to meet its ultimate sustainability goal of being 100% carbon neutral by 2050. Listen to the interview: p.ftur.io/wsgwam/13531. #SustainableBusiness #GreenBusiness #CleanEnergy #Hutchinson

We are proud and honored to be presented the 2023 Exceptional Quality Award from Honeywell Aerospace Technologies at this month’s Supplier Conference. In 2023, we delivered 56,941 pieces to Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, Minneapolis without a single rejection or return. That’s right—a 0.00 PPM for the year! This award honors everyone throughout the Hutchinson organization and their ongoing efforts to improve processes and increase quality control. It is evidence that your hard work and dedication is genuinely appreciated by our customers. #Hutchinson #Honeywell #Aerospace #QualityControl #ZeroPPM

In 1988, Paul Newman founded The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp to give children with serious illnesses the chance to “raise a little hell.” Through a variety of year-round programs offered onsite, in hospitals and clinics, and right in camper homes and communities, they serve thousands of children and family members each year. Hutchinson employee Cesar Campero and his family connected with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp when his son Christian was in treatment at UMass Memorial Medical Center. They have stayed involved ever since—and this year, the Campero family is running the Camp Challenge 5K together as Team “Christian’s Courage.” We are proud of Cesar and family, and fully support the cause of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Won’t you join us? We’ve put a link in the comments leading to the Campero Family fundraiser page. #HoleInTheWallGangCamp #CharityRun #5KFundraiser #RunForKids

In the latest issue of Defense and Munitions magazine, Hutchinson Regional Sales Engineer and US Northeast / Defense Aftermarket Sales Manager Tim Russell shares the story of our team’s quick and innovative problem-solving for a U.S. Navy contractor. Our customer needed a shock protection solution for its shipboard identification friend or foe (IFF) device and wanted to be sure the Navy’s recommended Cablemount system would be up to the task. Hutchinson’s rigorous modeling showed that the recommended Cablemount solution left no room for possible error, and we quickly set about identifying a superior solution. We’ve posted a link to the full article in the comments below (the article begins on page 28). #NavyContractors #DefenseContractor #MilitaryContractor #MilitaryEngineering

The Sea-Air-Space Maritime Exposition is around the corner, and we’re very excited to be taking part! Sea-Air-Space features defense industry leaders and major military decision makers from around the globe sharing the latest in maritime developments. Naturally, Hutchinson will be on hand to showcase the shock and vibration solutions we’ve been providing the US Navy for over 80 years, helping protect everything from circuit cards to weapon guidance systems, missile launch canisters and turbine generators. The show runs April 8–10 at the Gaylord National Harbor Sales in National Harbor, MD. We’ll be at Booth #516. See you there! For more information about the show and to register, visit: seaairspace.org. #SAS2023 #SeaAirSpace #Hutchinson #DefenseIndustry

Challenge: address inefficiencies in the manufacture of a part made for one of our largest defense sector customers, which required a team of operators to spend significant time manually cleaning off the flash and debris inherent to the molding process. Read on to learn how our Automation Team activated a customized “cobot” (a robot designed to share space safely with a human operator) to free employees for more meaningful, value-added work: https://lnkd.in/eEb-P9Ju.