Finkle Machine Ready for Expansion In 1971 Finkle M a c h i n e came an associate company, "In the days of modern Company will be celebrating a business within a business. technology the work has to be the 25th anniversary of its Mr. Finkle has four cranes done faster," he added. organization in Belleville. within this network and they And this is what c o u l d With the celebration in the are often not enough, again prompt a move by Mr. Finkle near future is the possibility proof of a growing market. and his company. His aim is a But, it is structural steel for of relocation and expansion. There has already been which Finkle Machine Com-^ much change since the com- paeny is known. It recently pany began in 1946 in a small completed a job containing 37 building at its present site at tons of structural steel needed in the construction of the 68 Dundas Street West. But the history of Finkle Campbellford High School. Another construction and Machine Company is the history of William Finkle, its cre- contracting chore has been OJ work on structures at CFB ator and operator. m Mr. Finkle was employed as Trenton. r Finkle Machine Company a machine shop teacher durr ro ing World War II and it was employs about 15 persons and m ro then that the idea of owning three men are required for his own business came into the crane rental division of being. the business. After resigning from his Among these employees are teaching position, Mr. Finkle machinists, welders, m e t a l O^ became a machine shop work- fabricators, truck drivers and 2 er in a number of Belleville secretarial staff. H r~ "We have a fine operation industries. In 1946 his dream of his own business became a for the size of the shop," Mr. Finkle says. "We have a very reality. "I started off with custom good fabrication concern.." It is one of the few mamachine work," he said. From there the business chine shops in the province branched out to sub-contract- with extremely large machining on machine parts on many ery needed for heavy steel Belleville area projects. work. An example of the soAnd to this day there is still phisticated equipment at Fina market for parts contract kle 's is the large press breach work, a market that is met in which bends steel. this area by Finkle Machine "It makes all sorts of work Co. that couldn't be done before In 1950 the company began easy now," he said. another specialized machine But growth is the main conshop business -- welding and cern* of Mr. Finkle now and fabricating steel. This now is of the future of his industry. the major part of the Finkle "We can't help but get bigenterprise. ger," he said, and he is acAnd to keep up with the tually considering relocating welding and fabricating of his company. steel special machines a o d "Any future expansion will processing equipment now fill mean relocation. We need betthe building. ter facilities to do the work FinMe Crane Rentals be- we've got." machine shop, prompt and ef- reason for the possibility of ficient, on the job to keep pace expansion. with modern growth speed. "It's a good market, basicThere also has b e e n a ally, although we have comsteady growth in the market petition from concrete prodfor fabricated steel, another ucts," he said.