Van Meter announced the 2024 scholarship winners today for the Spark Your Success Scholarship, the Barry and Gilda Boyer Power Your Future Scholarship and the Van Meter Kirkwood Scholarship. The three unique scholarship programs award students who plan to pursue a career in the electrical trade industry. This year, seven individuals will receive financial support for their training and education.
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Van Meter Expands Footprint in Cedar Rapids
- May 01 , 2024
- News
Van Meter Inc. is expanding in Cedar Rapids with a 60,000 square-foot building that will support increased customer demand for value-added services and specialized inventory. Previously home to Speedeezz Indoor Karting, the facility sits adjacent to Van Meter’s central distribution center on 32nd avenue. This expands Van Meter’s total warehouse space in Cedar Rapids to approximately 350,000 square feet with room for continued growth in business.
With workforce shortages, unplanned downtime, and ever-increasing demand, building safe, productive machines in a timely fashion is more difficult than ever. But while today’s manufacturing environment is challenging, there have never been more efficient ways for OEMs to provide value for their customers. To help you turn challenges into opportunities, here are the ways OEMs can use smart machines to create more value for their customers and themselves.
Do you know how a well-run facility adds value for a company and its customers? What should you focus on to operate more efficiently? Do you have the right company culture to make it happen? It’s important to take a strategic approach as you drive to optimize operational performance in your organization. To help guide you, we’ve gathered insights from three experts on the essential elements needed to cultivate a well-oiled operations facility.
Simplify Voltage Detection and Meter Safety with Panduit's Verisafe Absence of Voltage Tester
- April 23 , 2024
- Product Promotions
- Electrical
- Automation
This shouldn’t shock you (pun intended), but before accessing potentially dangerous electrical equipment, workers must comply with safety regulations that require a voltage verification test to validate the absence of voltage. Testing includes several stages that can be complex and time-consuming when using hand-held portable test instruments. Want an easier process?
Six Reasons to Use Southwire's MSB2000 Rigid Bender
- April 18 , 2024
- Video
- Electrical
Do you ever wish your job could be a little more tiring? Or that you could get home later? Or that your tools were more complicated? Well, then this is not the conduit bender for you. But if you are interested in a simpler, easier, faster conduit bending experience, watch this video or read below to see why Southwire’s MSB2000 is the most convenient conduit bender to use in the field.
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Van Meter Minimizes University's Cybersecurity Risk, Earns 2024 Rockwell Automation Distributor Innovation Award
- April 11 , 2024
- News
- Automation
Van Meter was recognized with Rockwell Automation’s Distributor Partner Innovation Award during the 2024 PartnerNetwork Conference March 20 in Orlando, FL. Annually, the Innovation Award honors a distributor that has successfully planned and executed an innovative and transformative solution using Rockwell and other partners’ digital and disruptive technologies. Van Meter received the award for helping a Midwest university improve cybersecurity and reliability by modernizing its legacy boiler system and network.
Van Meter Receives Rockwell Automation’s 2024 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
- April 09 , 2024
- News
- Automation
Van Meter was recognized with Rockwell Automation’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award during the 2024 PartnerNetwork Conference March 20 in Orlando, FL. The DEI Award honors a Rockwell partner that has made DEI part of its business strategy and taken steps to make the industry more diverse. Through leadership development, recruitment, companywide education and community outreach, Van Meter has focused on inclusivity to become a stronger organization.
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