Ahaus’s nationally recognized apprenticeship program is a highlight of the company’s connections to the educational community. Past President and current Chairman of the Board Rick Ahaus continues his work in education through Every Child Can Read, the Third Grade Reading Academy, and K-Ready literacy programs. Current President Kevin Ahaus has devoted countless hours to manufacturing education and higher education through Ivy Tech Community College, where he currently serves as the statewide Foundation Chairman. Vice President Jeff Sheridan is the current chair of the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Wayne County. Ahaus sponsored three youth robotics teams in 2016, as an effort to encourage teamwork, creative problem solving, and STEM skills for young people in our region. Other team members are board members and volunteers in local schools and various other not-for-profit organizations, including the United Way, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Richmond Civic Theatre.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Ahaus introduced NC and CNC milling technology to the shop floor and the company began manufacturing core builder, radiator assembly and heat exchanger equipment. With Ahaus’s unique engineering capabilities and abilities to meet close tolerance requirements, the company has achieved many notable accomplishments such as the development of special equipment and the process to attach plastic tanks to an aluminum radiator assembly for the Ford Motor Company. This achievement expanded Ahaus’s opportunities to engineer, design and build heat exchanger equipment for a variety of manufacturers throughout the world.
To broaden its opportunities, especially in the design and build sector, Ahaus Tool and Engineering purchased land and constructed a new facility in Richmond’s Eastern Industrial Park where the company resides today. Following further land purchases and new additions to the facility, the plant increased in size from its original 18,000 sq. ft. in 1979 to its present size of 74,000 sq. ft. The continued growth in the design and build sector prompted the development of an engineering department, which was initiated in 1983 and remains an instrumental element to Ahaus’s success.
For more than 75 years, Ahaus Tool and Engineering has been offering customers high-quality solutions to challenging manufacturing, tooling and automation equipment needs. Ahaus Tool and Engineering works with customers through conceptual design, engineering, service and support to meet their specific requirements. The company offers a broad range of custom products and services categorized as: automation equipment; workholding solutions / workholding fixtures; machining services / machining fixtures; heat exchanger equipment; and power generation equipment.
That’s why we have the Ahaus Apprenticeship program, which we’ve been offering for more than 40 years. Our apprenticeship program is a nationally accredited education program for toolmakers and CNC machinists. Our goal is to hire several individuals each year specifically to be trained in these professions. Our apprentices receive on-the-job training as well as formal education; we partner with Purdue University College of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College.
At Ahaus, we are proud of our reputation for building quality, future-leaning projects that meet or exceed customer expectations. More than that – we are proud of our reputation for developing team members, from apprentices to managers. We understand that people are our most valuable resource and we act upon that belief, from empowering employees to further their education to creating an environment that promotes teamwork and personal improvement.
In addition to a full benefits package, Ahaus is well known for flexible start times Monday through Friday, first shift, generous paid time off, paid holidays, employee recognition and incentives, volunteer and outreach events, tuition reimbursement, employee breakfasts and barbeques, pitch-ins, company outings, shared hobbies, and many other perks. It's precisely why Ahaus enjoys a reputation as a place people want to be.
“I would say the most life changing experience for me about working at Ahaus is how family oriented the company is. We regularly do things together outside of the work environment which adds to the sense of family for me. I also would say I have learned an awful lot about how a good business operates while at Ahaus which has helped me to start my own family business at home.”
Along with the expansion of computerized machining services and CNC milling equipment, Ahaus has ventured into new opportunities over the last 20 years, including alternative energy source research. An example of Ahaus work in this area was the manufacture of components for nuclear fusion research with the goal of using sea water as the fuel to generate electricity.
For 80 years, Ahaus Tool and Engineering has been offering customers high-quality solutions to challenging manufacturing, tooling and automation equipment needs. Located in Richmond, Indiana, Ahaus works with customers through conceptual design, engineering, service and support to meet their specific requirements.
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