car grills, billet grills

When it comes to manufacturing a quality product, it starts in the design department but it doesn’t end there. We start with solid stock of aircraft quality T-5/T-6 billet aluminum (billet series) or 304 stanless steel (mesh series), rather than extruded aluminum as used by some competitors. The stock is cut to length then shaped to its specific contour. Each grille is then hand assembled into a custom jig and precision welded with a process called “T.I.G.” to ensure a strong and clean weld. The final stage of manufacturing includes a three-stage polishing and cleaning. 

Detailed installation instructions included, along with all the necessary mounting hardware.

car grills, billet grills

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NORMAL, Ill. - The United Auto Workers ratified a four-year contract with Mitsubishi Motors North America on Saturday that calls for employees at a central Illinois plant to take pay cuts in exchange for job security. ADVERTISEMENT

Mitsubishi agreed to no involuntary layoffs for the more than 1,200 workers at the Normal plant and guaranteed the factory will stay open through Aug. 30, 2012, when the new contract expires.

Voting concluded Saturday. A UAW Local 2488 spokesman said 54 percent of voting members approved the contract and 46 percent voted against it.

“The bargaining team delivered an agreement that will protect jobs and provide four years of stability for our members and their communities,” UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said in a Saturday statement.

The agreement, effective Monday, also includes a two-tiered wage system, retirement offers and medical benefit changes.

Union employees had been working without a contract since a labor agreement expired Sept. 5, after the union unanimously rejected the automaker’s latest offer.

“We are extremely pleased with this agreement,” Shiro Futaki, Mitsubishi’s manufacturing president and CEO, said in a statement Saturday.

Futaki said the contract illustrates how both sides have recognized “the tough issues facing the U.S. automotive industry, and we have worked together toward solving them.”

The central Illinois facility, which produces the Eclipse, Eclipse Spyder, Galant and Endeavor, has been the focus of company cutbacks for several years.

Mitsubishi reduced the plant’s work force by about 100 buyouts over the summer.

In 2006, the plant’s workers agreed to a round of pay and benefit cuts in exchange for the promise that their jobs would be safe for two years. The union narrowly voted to accept that pact, which expired Aug. 28. Both sides agreed to extend the agreement until Sept. 5.

The plant laid off 1,200 workers in 2004 as part of a worldwide plan that the Tokyo-based parent company Mitsubishi Motors Corp. called its final chance to survive. Union members also went on a one-day strike in Normal in 2001.

The plant opened in 1988. It now employs fewer than half the workers it did at its peak about 10 years ago.  Chevy Tahoe Lights