Jim E. Zawacki

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  www.automationalleytechcenter.com/autoalley/Tech+Center - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/7/2007    Last Visited: 9/14/2007  

  Jim Zawacki, CEO of GR Spring & Stamping, Inc. will discuss "Doing Business with the New Domestics" and Chris Oleksy, president of ATEK Medical will discuss "Supply Chain Executive: The Make or Break Business Proposition."

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  Published on: 7/15/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  GR Spring & Stamping President Jim Zawacki - Grand Rapids, MI
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  PMA members Jim McGregor of Morgal Machine Tool Co., Ralph Hardt of Feintool Cincinnati and Jim Zawacki of GR Spring & Stamping joined PMA President Bill Gaskin and PMA lobbyists John Guzik and Omar Nashashibi for a meeting with the new Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services, William (Woody) Sutton in Washington, D.C. las week.
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  Jim E. Zawacki, GR Spring & Stamping

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  www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2009/05/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/14/2009    Last Visited: 5/16/2009  

  • GR Spring & Stamping CEO Jim Zawacki gets manufacturers' honor
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  • GR Spring & Stamping CEO Jim Zawacki gets manufacturers' honor 5:02 AM

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 10/3/2008  

  "Springs really started our company, and, over the years, we got more into stamping, and springs became the smallest part of the business," said CEO Jim Zawacki."This will be a plus for our springs."
  
  The Indian company has 11 plants on the subcontinent.Zawacki visited five of them and pronounced them "as good as anybody I've ever seen."
  
  The joint venture, SSS Spring & Wire, will grow the business in its current locations in India and export machinery, sales and engineering people to Grand Rapids to boost spring production there.
  
  "We will not be exporting --maybe importing a little until the equipment arrives," Zawacki said."We expect to double our spring production in the next 12 months."For its part, there is an opportunity for GR Spring & Stamping to do something with the joint venture in India on metal stampings, Zawacki said.

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  Published on: 5/7/2009    Last Visited: 6/7/2009  

  The award will be presented to company chairman and CEO Jim Zawacki on May 12 at the 2009 MMA CEO Forum in Lansing, MI.

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  WGVU's Lindsey Smith spoke with GR Spring and Stamping CEO Jim Zawacki for that angle.
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  Zawacki tells me that domino effect is one of his major concerns.
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  WGVU's Lindsey Smith spoke with GR Spring and Stamping CEO Jim Zawacki for that angle.

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  www.wwmt.com/articles/suppliers-1363137-auto-bankruptcy - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/1/2009    Last Visited: 6/2/2009  

  Still, Grand Rapids Spring and Stamping owner Jim Zawacki has been recognized for keeping his business afloat, as he was just named Michigan's Manufacturer of the Year. And that's due in part to the company's ability to diversify; parts production for what was the Big Three now only makes up 20 percent of their business.
  
  Still, that doesn't make the bankruptcy news any easier to swallow.
  
  "GM was the mighty company, and to see them file for bankruptcy scares a lot of people," Zawacki told Newschannel 3.

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  Last Visited: 2/26/2009  

  Even after President Barack Obama did his best to reassure a nation worried about the economy, West Michigan manufacturing executive Jim Zawacki remains skeptical.
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  "I don't think our elected officials understand what could happen if General Motors goes out of business," said Zawacki, chairman and chief executive officer of Grand Rapids Spring & Stamping, a parts firm closely tied to the auto industry.
  
  "I am scared for my grandchildren," he said.
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  Ehlers echoed the concerns of Zawacki and Levy on the fate of the domestic auto industry.

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  Published on: 12/8/2001    Last Visited: 12/8/2001  

  "They're going to kill us," said Jim Zawacki, president of GR Spring and Stamping, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based business that buys foreign-made steel and makes products for cars, employing 200 people.
  
  The trade commission's recommendations must be forwarded to the White House by Dec. 19
  
  Three members of the panel proposed one set of tariffs ranging between 20 percent and 8 percent, two other commissioners proposed a more severe regime tariffs between 40 percent and 5 percent, while a sixth member of the panel sought import quotas rather than new taxes.
  
  The president has up to 60 days to choose which tariffs and quotas, if any, to impose upon foreign-made steel products, including carbon and alloy flat products (products used in automobiles, appliances and roofing); carbon and alloy long products (rods, bars and wires used to make pistons, transmissions and rebar for concrete); carbon and alloy tubular products (drilling pipe and water pipe); and stainless steel products (silverware, automobile mufflers).

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  Last Visited: 1/5/2009  

  Grand Rapids Spring & Stamping Chairman and CEO Jim Zawacki agrees.
  
  But his focus is on trade policy and saving blue-collar jobs at his auto parts plant. Zawacki asserts it is past time to give U.S. companies a level playing field.
  
  "I would like to have a trade policy equal to our industrial partners. If they have a tariff, we should have a tariff," Zawacki said.
  
  "We do such crazy things in this country. We talk about free trade and then subsidize agriculture."
  
  In September, Zawacki was giving out bonuses to some of his 225 employees. Two months later, he was scrambling to cut costs, as he took an 80 percent pay cut, full-time employees went to part-time and others were laid off.
  
  Zawacki believes the auto industry can survive, but only with some changes.
  
  "If we want to compete with China and the rest of the world, our wages have to be reasonable," he said.

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