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Area machinist steadily regaining stability

Millat Industries approaching pre-recession sales levels, officials say.

Left, Greg Millat, president Millat Industries and Brian Dailey, Division Manager, at the company headquarters 4901 Croftshire Drive, Kettering which serves the auto industry with plants in Kettering and Huber Heights.

Jim Witmer Left, Greg Millat, president Millat Industries and Brian Dailey, Division Manager, at the company headquarters 4901 Croftshire Drive, Kettering which serves the auto industry with plants in Kettering and Huber Heights.

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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Updated 7:23 PM Friday, November 18, 2011

KETTERING —At Millat Industries, slow and steady wins the race.

Nearly five years ago, in late winter 2007, before the Great Recession, the machinist had 175 employees in Kettering and Huber Heights and about $23 million in annual sales (as of 2006).

Today, the company has only five fewer employees and sales are approaching pre-recession levels, said Greg Millat, the company’s president. In fact, the company has invested more than $1.5 million in the latest state-of-the-art CNC (computer numeric control) machines and other new technology so far this year.

Steady progress is fine with Millat.

“We’re just Steady Eddie,” Millat said. “We don’t set the world on fire. We’re all about the focus.”

At Millat, the focus is on customers. End-users of Millat products include Honda, General Electric, General Motors, Trimble Navigation and others.

The business offers high-volume manufacturing and custom machining — including prototyping and even experimental work.

Millat has Sinclair Community College instructors visit the plant twice a week to teach workers geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, a way of communicating engineering tolerance limits. The company has had three employees graduate from Sinclair’s Advanced Manufacturing Specialist program and also takes a serious look at all Sinclair Step II manufacturing program graduates who apply. Millat employs about eight Step II graduates today.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

Millat Industries

Founded: In Dayton in 1966.

Locations: Plants in Huber Heights, and Kettering (in the former Croftshire Elementary School).

Employees: 170 (120 in Kettering, 50 in Huber Heights). Compared to 175 employees in February 2007.

Source: Millat

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