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Customer cutbacks leave firm "stunned"

February 5, 2009 By WRN Contributor

UnitedAlloy.jpg Another Rock County business is feeling the pinch of the economic downturn. United Alloy CEO Terri Roessler says their biggest customer, Cummins Power Generation of Fridley, Minnesota, has announced layoffs. United Alloy does custom metal fabrication and powder coating.

“We received notice on January 22nd of this production reduction by Cummins, and since they're fifty percent of what we sell, we were stunned,” says Roessler, who adds that as recently as six weeks ago, United Alloy was projecting sales were to be increase by twenty percent for 2009.

Roessler says they've instituted some changes, including 12 layoffs, a wage freeze and elimination of overtime, and a 32 hour work week for some employees. Roessler says she didn't think they'd affected by the global depression for another year. “I thought that I had probably, honestly, about 12 to 18 months before I would feel anything,” she says. “In the last two weeks I have hit a wall.”

“I have been the biggest, for lack of a better term, cheerleader about the work that we've had, about the growth that we've had, about all the opportunity that we've had in front of us,” says Roessler.

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