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Michigan auto part companies scramble to fight backlog during reopening
Read full article: Michigan auto part companies scramble to fight backlog during reopeningNOVI, Mich. When major manufacturers shut down in March, many smaller producers in limbo. The small shop repairs and maintains manufacturing spindles, the parts that make the parts in some of Michigans largest plants and factories, including the Big Three Automakers. Through the pandemic weve had to do furlough, so weve gone down to as low as 50 percent of our workforce, Tom Hogan is Setcos director of North American sales said. On a tour of the shop, Hogan said once manufacturing reopened the back log of work was daunting. A problem faced by many other small producers which makes the recent rise in cases both in Michigan and across the country a looming threat.