Local high school students tour Coe Press Equipment on Manufacturing Day

Assembly Plant Manager Rick Grossi (left) illustrates how to identify parts from prints to build a roll feed.

Sterling Heights, Mich.-based Coe Press Equipment hosted 40 students from Utica Community Schools’ (UCS) Stevenson High School on Manufacturing Day, Oct. 7, providing them insight into the types of careers available in manufacturing.

The tour began with an overview of the company’s business, presented by COO Linda Rosati. The students then were split into smaller groups that rotated through informative sessions from the sales, engineering, machining, and assembly departments. All of the students who participated in the event were from the school’s machine shop and engineering design classes.

“Over the next decade, nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled yet the interest in a manufacturing career has waned”, said Rosati, “We wanted these students to see the diversity of jobs available in this field and help open their eyes to the myriad career opportunities available through small manufacturers such as Coe.”

The family-owned company designs and manufactures coil handling and servo roll feed equipment.