Page 35 - MetalForming March 2023 - PMA Chairman Jeff Aznavorian

“Our path as a company and our progress is intertwined with our involvement with PMA,” says Clips & Clamps President Jeff Aznavorian, PMA board chair for 2023. “I will continue to cheerlead for PMA—this organization represents the best of the best metal forming companies.”
Clips & Clamps president Jeff Aznavorian (PMA board chair for 2023) and wife Tara (Clips & Clamps’ director of customer relations) take a look at the firm’s newest addition: a three-robot lean production cell that performs six value-added processes. Describing the “leap-of-faith” investment in the cell, added late in 2022, Aznavorian says: “As Clips & Clamps continues to evolve, we’re going to turn into more of a technology company than a manufacturing company.”
BY BRAD F. KUVIN, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
“We as metal formers must be able to create the types of jobs that allow us to pay our employees great wages, which in turn means that they’re going to be doing great things
for our companies.”
So emphasizes Jeff Aznavorian, pres-
ident of metal former Clips & Clamps Industries, Plymouth, MI—“engineers by trade and by passion,” it says on the firm’s website. Clips & Clamps per- forms an array of processes, including CNC wire forming, stamping, welding
and assembly. The firm, founded in 1954 by Aznavorian’s grandmother, Estelle Dul, and now owned by mem- bers of the 2nd and 3rd generation, is much more than a metal former. Jeff credits the continued growth and suc- cess of the company—nearing its 70th anniversary—to the engineering mind-
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