PKM Steel Expanding, Adding 20 New Jobs
KSAL Staff - Fri 02:38 PM 03/01/2013
PKM Steel Service Inc. is planning a $250,000 capital investment in 2013, which will create 20 new jobs.
An expansion at a Salina company will create 20 new full time jobs. PKM Steel Service Inc. is planning a $250,000 capital investment in 2013, which will create the jobs.
According to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, the expansion is a result of PKM gaining a new major customer and will allow the company to continue improvements in research, development, testing, fabricating, design, and sophisticated painting.
Mark Hamade, PKM Chief Operating Officer said, "It's a success story here in Salina. We have hiring going on. We have new jobs at PKM Steel Service Inc. We are convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day we are not just betting on strategies, we are betting on people from the community and the City of Salina."
Salina Area Chamber of Commerce President, Dennis Lauver said, "These are quality jobs that communities throughout the region are competing for. We are glad that Chamber staff could assist PKM in completing training applications and that PKM made the decision to grow and invest in our community. PKM is a good corporate partner and this is great news for Salina."
The local company is a global producer of heavy and intermediate structural steel for all types of industrial and commercial buildings. As a premier custom fabricator, the company focuses on helping customers build innovative structures across a diverse range of industries.
The Salina Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce, worked with PKM Steel Service Inc. to secure the project for Salina and Kansas.
Lauver adds that no local incentives were used to secure the project.
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teamwork
Friday 1 March 2013 17:20 Report this comment
Is that why several people people working there were just let go? What about improvements to safety?
jimdingo
Saturday 2 March 2013 18:21 Report this comment
What happened? Bad accident?
Safetyman
Monday 4 March 2013 21:13 Report this comment
Those would be the actions of a rapacious, inexperienced, self aggrandizing individual on the border of pomposity, that proclaims to listen to all ideas but fails to harken to the wise counsel of learned individuals that by title may be subordinate, but by experience are vastly superior. There is almost nothing more worthless than an individual that spouts the philosophy of others on a daily basis, yet fails to live up to that philosophy or even worse, fails to come up with their own philosophy learned by years of trial and error; in other words experience and originality.
Safetyman
Monday 4 March 2013 22:42 Report this comment
From the mouth that roared, "We are convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people". Safety should be first and foremost. Statics show that young employees are most prone to accidents. How do the stats at PKM add up? Part of the attitude instilled in young employees should be the attitude of safety. I would wager that young, inexperienced employees are turned loose far too quickly to perform their assigned duties. There is most likely a reckless disregard, for allowing enough time to become accustomed to performing their assigned duties with the proper safety mind-set. It is not that they don't necessarily get the proper training or that they don't understand the training, they simply are not used to performing under the restrictions and precautions that safety entails. They need more time and more supervision to ensure they get it right. Rarely are there second chances where injuries are concerned.