MECCO, a leader in developing innovative laser and dot peen solutions for permanent marking and traceability for more than 130 years, has acquired FARO Photonics. Located in Londonderry, NH, FARO Photonics designs and manufactures high-precision laser scan heads, Ethernet-based vector controllers, and advanced processing software to provide an integrated steering solution for a wide range […]
In 2019, the MECCO team celebrated our 130th anniversary. That’s an impressive milestone for any company. But at MECCO, we look at our company’s history a little differently. You see, while we may have 13 decades under our belt, it’s really what we’ve accomplished in our most recent history that’s driving the industry-leading marking and […]
Cranberry Twp, Pa., February 1, 2019—At MECCO, we understand that improvement is ongoing. So, we’re proud to announce that we’ve enhanced our customer service and solution design process, or what we call “The MECCO Experience.” Manufacturing companies are rethinking the way they track and trace their products. Amid technological growth and constant advances within the […]
This is no doubt an exciting time to be in manufacturing and other science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Yet, did you know that less than eight percent of female college freshmen considered a STEM major in 2014? MECCO is passionate about working together to discover innovative solutions, so we were eager to host a […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: How MECCO Stays Two Steps Ahead “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple, spoke these words. As with so much of what Jobs gave to the world, these […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Design for Success “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words over 200 years ago. Yet they are just as relevant to us today, for he expressed a basic tenet of how MECCO […]
Across the spectrum, business leaders agree that happy employees are productive employees. And with good cause. Recent research from the University of Warwick (Coventry, England) reveals that when companies invest in employee satisfaction, the rewards are bountiful. At Google, employee satisfaction rose by nearly 40% when the company implemented initiatives geared toward satisfaction and happiness. […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Be Humble For over two millennia, writers, scholars, and philosophers have found inspiration in the term “humility.” Born in 551 B.C., Chinese philosopher Confucius is credited for a widely-known aphorism: “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” Fast forward nearly two thousand years, and you’ll read similar words by […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Lend Hands to Your Team “You have two hands: one for helping yourself, and one for helping others.” While the late Audrey Hepburn is perhaps best known for her starring roles in iconic films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Hepburn became a humanitarian and, ultimately, […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Build Open and Honest Communications “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” With these words, Paul J. Meyer (the late founder of the Leadership Management Institute and an authority on personal and professional development) stated a fundamental tenet of how we at MECCO […]
