PDM Meeting

Event: Plant Tour – NYE LUBRICANTS, INC.
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2010
Location: 12 Howland Road, Fairhaven, Ma
Cost: No Charge
Time: 5:30 PM – Networking, Food & Beverage and Plant Tour


Alden “Skip” Pierce, Director of Materials Management at Nye Lubricants, Inc has responded to the call for chapter and area companies to open their facility doors – providing the setting for our March New Bedford Chapter event – a Plant Tour.

HERITAGE
Founded in 1844, Nye’s history is one of continual adaptation to market needs. From the Industrial Revolution to the Information Age, Nye has enabled and improved breakthrough products and critical new technologies. Among Nye’s many customers, we serve the Top 25 global automotive parts suppliers, the world’s largest aerospace and defense contractors, name-brand appliance and power tool companies, manufacturers of 60 percent of the world’s computer printers, and three of the Top Five HB-LED manufacturers. Nye’s lubricants, thermal compounds, and optical gels add value to thousands of products around the globe.

INDUSTRIES
Nye Lubricants, Inc., is a privately held, employee-owned company with 130 employees and 28 International Channel Partners on six continents. We formulate, manufacture, market and sell high-quality synthetic lubricants, thermal coupling compounds, and index-matching optical gels. Our product development process is consultative, focusing on the customers’ performance specifications and cost and warranty requirements. Nye services a broad range of industries, with a concentration of our business in the automotive, in-vacuum manufacturing, computer printer, disc drive, appliance, aerospace, defense, medical device and photonics markets. We also manufacture industrial maintenance lubricants for incidental food contact, high temperature and other extreme environments. All Nye products are carefully engineered materials, formulated for a specific application and typically developed in consultation with a customer’s engineering department.