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Empowerment, Craftmanship, and Balance – of which permeate every facet of the company’ s operations.“ We have a nice mixture of long-tenure employees and new people coming in. This unique culture is partly driven by the fact that Lanco is employeeowned,” Bob emphasizes.“ Recently, we have kicked off some initiatives where we’ re doing some internal branding on our values to try to attract and retain people because, even in the interview process, we know what type of person will work well in our environment.”“ The creation of these values wasn’ t a senior leadership decision, but chosen by our employees,” Barry reveals.“ Over the course of a year, they came back with some core values that represent Lanco’ s true culture, and we’ re now in the process of implementing and rolling these out.”
With a heritage rooted in precision and a future defined by innovation, Lanco remains to set the benchmark for custom automation. By uniting global scale, cuttingedge technology, trusted partnerships, and an empowered employee-owned culture, the company will continue to engineer the future of manufacturing for many more decades to come.“ We’ re very comfortable with the operational effectiveness of the organization. Now, our focus is on penetrating not only these vertical markets but specific applications, whilst also finding adjacent customers within those markets,” Bob enthuses, ending our conversation optimistic for the future ahead.
“ Over the last five years, we’ ve became much more focused on better publicizing ourselves in targeted spaces where customers respond well to our experience and expertise,” added Barry.“ Our priority now is to continue identifying these customers, build up successful wins, and then growing organically from there on up.” ■
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