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Remaining Manufacturers Harken To Route 5's Golden Era

In the early years after World War II, manufacturer George Giering Sr. marveled at the demand in the U.S. and abroad for the treated metal products churned out by his father's business. Click here for full article

Ulbrich Steel - an Unsung Hero

Producing wrap wire for most of the indstry's guitar and violin strings, Ulbrich's metal working expertise is a key component of stellar tone. Click here for full article

Gold plated tungsten wire for medical applications

Ulbrich is pleased to announce a continued effort to help medical device manufacturers drive down material cost by focusing on gold plated tungsten wire as a lower cost alternative to platinum and platinum alloy materials. "In this economy, any opportunity to reduce costs while keeping the same if not better quality is a priority", said Ted Davis, Product Manager for Plated Products. Click here for full article

Ulbrich Opens Precision Flat Wire Facility In Hong Kong

Ulbrich Opens Ulbrich Precision Metals Asia Photovoltaic Factory
Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of Ulbrich Precision Metals Asia in Hong Kong. This manufacturing facility provides solarcell tabbing and string interconnect for the solar industry. Click here for full article

Ulbrich Increases Its Rolling Dimensions

Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. is pleased to announce its increased capabilities at the strip mill. Ulbrich now has the ability to roll stainless steels and special metals starting at .0005, .0127mm up to .0015, .0382mm. Click here for full article

Dick Ulbrich, Chairman and CEO, passed away on September 25th, 2008.

Fred Ulbrich Jr., previously Chairman Emeritus, has reassumed the role of Chairman with Chris Ulbrich Vice Chairman and COO. Click here for full article

Ulbrich, as a company, is dedicated to lifelong learning and customer service. On September 25, 2008, our company experienced an intensification of this understanding. We salute the accomplishments and mourn the loss of Richard (Dick) John Ulbrich, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who died on that day, after a brave battle with bladder cancer. We are clear, however, about the knowledge he shared with us as our leader and as a revered mentor through all the years of his life. We carry on, with more pride than ever, the essence of his work.

Dick's brother, Fred Ulbrich, Jr. steps in as Chairman and Fred's son (Dick's nephew), steps in as Vice Chair while retaining his role as Chief Operating Officer. With continued Ulbrich family leadership, including Dick's daughter, Mary Ulbrich Merlini, Vice President Corporate Communication and Education, all 808 employees of Ulbrich are part of a company that grew from basic, but certain, principles that are integrated throughout our company worldwide. While serving as Chairman and CEO, Dick spent deliberate time carefully mentoring the Ulbrich family, the executives, managers, and many individual contributors. Our machine operators speak with particular warmth for the time he spent appreciating their work and relating to their efforts to finesse our manufacturing expertise.

Dick was a graduate of Georgetown University and entered the family business to join his father and brothers in the expansion of the business. While his brother, Fred, focused on sales and customer service, Dick turned his engineering mind and keen eye to the efficient operation of all equipment and proceeded to create and lead our technical abilities in precision work. Throughout the years, Dick was as comfortable examining the capabilities of a machine as he was ensuring that our technology could wrap around the world, serving customers globally.

In recent weeks, hundreds of people have come forward to describe how Dick spent time with them, usually one on one, to share his knowledge or inspire an idea. In his gentle, unassuming way, Dick had every confidence that the wisdom within Ulbrich is within each Ulbrich employee, who we thoughtfully recruit, carefully train, and encourage to fulfill their professional best. He was very special to us for his encyclopedic knowledge, wisdom, gentle manner, insightful mentoring, and generous spirit. Dick's death is a great loss. To carry on his work is our deepest pride.

Ulbrich Opens Precision Flat Wire Facility in Austria

Ulbrich Stainless Steels and Special Metals, Inc. is pleased to announce the formation of Ulbrich of Austria, Gmbh. The new venture will be part of the Ulbrich Specialty Wire Group, which will now consist of five production facilities in three countries. The Specialty Wire Group has extensive capabilities including shaping, drawing, rolling and plating custom engineered rod and wire based products in a wide range of specialty metals and alloys. Click here for full article

Ulbrich Stainless Steels and Special Metals, Inc. opens Trading Company/Service Center in Hong Kong

North Haven, CT, May 7, 2007: Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. an international supplier of precision rolled foil and strip, flat and shaped wire products opened a Trading Company/service center in Hong Kong on 03-09-07. Click here for full article

Ulbrich acquires Delta Precision Alloys:

Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of Delta Precision Alloys of Montgomeryville, PA. Delta Ulbrich Precision Metals will become part of the Ulbrich Specialty Wire Group. Click here for full article

Ulbrich Addition Carries High Hopes
By George Moore
Record-Journal staff

Chris Angileri / Record-Journal
Fred Ulbrich Jr., chairman emeritus of Ulbrich Stainless Steels, speaks Thursday at the groundbreaking ceremony for a 12,000-square-foot addition to the company's plant, at the corner of Dudley Avenue and Carlton Street.

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WALLINGFORD - An addition to the Ulbrich Stainless Steels plant on Dudley Avenue will be small, but what goes on inside will propel the company into new high-tech markets, Ulbrich officials said at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday.

The 12,000-square-foot addition, under construction at the plant on the corner of Dudley Avenue and Carlton Street, will be used for the development of super-thin metals. The metals produced in the addition - some of which will be one fourth the width of a human hair - will be used in medical supplies, power generation equipment and aircraft.

"We are focusing on 13 markets worldwide for this light material," said Chris Ulbrich, the chief operating officer. "This will be the most up-to-date facility in the world to produce this type of material."

Breaking into these markets will not be cheap. The company will spend between $4 million and 5$ million on construction and equipment for the addition, and will increase its workforce of 150 by about 5 percent over the next two years. The expansion received the praise of Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr.

"In my book, manufacturing and steel are basics to any sound economy," Dickinson said, "and the word that I'm going to express in the town of Wallingford today is pride, pride in Ulbrich Steel and what you stand for."

The addition may only be a first phase of a much larger project around Dudley Avenue. Dickinson and town councilors have had talks with the company about its interest in buying portions of Carlton and Nichols streets for a larger expansion. Before making an offer on the street sections, however, the company is negotiating to buy a neighboring property that would enable expansion, Ulbrich said.

Rell, who is up for election this November, attended the groundbreaking to talk about the state's involvement and interest in encouraging such expansion projects.

"You represent the best of our economy, truly the heart of our economy. We've been doing our part too and that's because we've been listening," she said.

Rell didn't mention specific state programs that helped promote the addition, but mentioned a number of programs designed to promote high-tech manufacturing, such as the Connecticut State Technology Extension Program or CONNSTEP, and state funding to promote aerospace investment.

Rell of late has been criticized of running a "rose garden" campaign and using such events to bolster her name at the polls. Rell said she was there because "this is exactly what we've been focusing on in Connecticut for the last two and a half years."

"If it plays into the campaign, the only thing it would say is. we're succeeding and I think that's obviously good news for everyone," she said.

Ulbrich's father, Fred Ulbrich Jr., spoke about the origins of the metal company, which also has a plant in North Haven. The Wallingford site, he said, was once the location of his father's scrap yard. The family home was also on the parcel, before he knocked it down with the consent of his father to make way for an addition, he said. The company was established in 1924.

He noted that the company early in its history made forks and spoons, but has evolved to take advantage of the new markets.

"The reason we're here today," he said, "is because over the years we've been able to change with the market.

gmoore@record-journal.com (203) 317-2275