Christopher Smith, Assistant Editor for PMMI Media Group: Original equipment manufacturer origin stories can be quite the fun ride. Orics Industries founder and president Ori Cohen spoke to OEM Magazine about an interaction he had with two pairs of brothers of a Flushing, N.Y. machine shop that played a key role in Orics’ early development.
“They were essentially retired but continued to operate the shop largely as a place to cook and smoke and drink coffee and argue,” says Cohen. “After listening to me describe what it was I’d been asked to build, they made a space for me in their shop and said they’d make the machine parts I required. And that’s how I built my first MAP packaging machine. Part of the process was acquiring quantities of aluminum in Flushing at Davidson Aluminum and Metal, strapping it to a roof rack on my Chevy, and driving it back to the shop.”
To get more background behind Orics’ manufacturing origin, read the full profile at OEM Magazine.
