At the cutting edge of precision.

• Author: Ross, Ian
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Stainless Steel Technology relocates to expand customer base

Tony Yaroshak closely scrutinizes two palm-sized sculptures of steel, pointing out the tiniest of imperfections between the prototype and the finished product. The pair of stainless steel treble clefs, polished and mounted on a base, were cut just minutes before on his shop floor with his precision laser.

"Attention to detail," says the founder and president of Stainless Steel Technology, is what's kept the company he bankrolled with his pension constantly expanding from a small metal fabricating shop operating out of a garage in 1984 to a company now employing 25.

"Our customers expect quality worksmanship," Yaroshak says.

The company just moved into its new location in early January, a new $2.1-mullion, 35,000-square-foot facility in the Walden Industrial Park and workers were going flat out to catch up on orders after their laser cutter was dismantled for three weeks during the move.

After being shoe-horned into an ever-shrinking 17,000-square-foot space on Lorne Street, Yaroshak says relocating was necessary to pursue the kind of large fabricating projects they're after.

Their new facility boosts their lift capacity with four overhead cranes (including a 20 and 10 tonner) and provides larger project bays. Yaroshak says it should enable them to handle multiple jobs for their industrial and commercial clients, as well as allow them to expand their custom laser cutting for a wider range of customers, and hopefully boost their payroll to 50 employees.

Besides working on a diverse range of industrial projects such as aluminium bridges, pressure vessels, duct work, water treatment-plant intake systems and huge 65-ton stainless steel hoods for an Algoma Steel mill, the company also displays an artistic flare.

Their handiwork is evident throughout Sudbury in...