Ford B. Cauffiel

Over 50 years of experience and over 20 U.S. patents in developing, designing, and manufacturing highly-efficient aluminum and steel processing plants.

EXPERIENCE
1952 to 1953	Staff Production Engineer for Ford Motor Company.
1953	Sales Engineer for Motch and Merryweather Machine Company.
1953	Started business, Cauffiel Machinery Corporation, as an engineering and machinery sales company.
1959	Purchased 100,000 square foot 30 ton crane building from National Supply, Toledo, Ohio, to develop into industrial building complex and manufacture and remanufacture machinery.
1960	Purchased 250,000 square foot crane building from E. W. Bliss, Toledo, Ohio, to form Toledo Industrial Center to develop industrial real estate and expand machine shop facilities to manufacture aluminum and steel processing machinery.
1963	Purchased 120,000 square foot 30 ton crane building from New York Railroad, known as the Campbell Street Works, Toledo, Ohio, to further expand heavy industry in the inner city of Toledo.
1965	Built first and largest steel processing system to precision cut steel plate from coil up to 3/4" thick using a cold process which revolutionized the steel industry.
1968	Built and patented first tapered steel pole process for high tension tapered poles and street light tapered poles.
1974	Received Presidential “E” Award, the highest award a company can receive from the U.S. Government for "Outstanding Contribution for Export Expansion of the United States".
1981	Developed highly-efficient concentrated solar collector used in Kenya, Africa.
1981	Founded Alabama Pickling & Warehousing for the development of a highly-efficient chemical process using very little energy by agitating hydrochloric acid in a sealed, non-polluting tank for removing scale from hot rolled steel coils. (Sold to A. J. Gerard, Florence, Alabama, 1984.)
1982	Sold 200,000 square foot building and cranes to Champion Spark Plug (later known as Baron Drawn Steel Corporation) to expand industry in the inner city of Toledo.
1983	Developed a co-generation system for producing heat and electricity for the textile and canning industries using an induction generator.
1984	Designed, manufactured, and operate a push/pull pickle line and steel plant in Granite City, Illinois located on National Steel Corporation's property – processes 300,000 tons/year. Enabled National Steel to stay competitive. QS & ISO9002 quality approved.
1986	Founded American Steel Products Company, Toledo, Ohio which revolutionized making homes and building frames out of steel (instead of wood).
1989	Founded Students For Other Students (SOS), a non-profit foundation, which pays students up to $6.00 an hour to tutor other students in public schools in Northwest Ohio. Over 10,000 students have been involved with this peer-tutoring program in Northwest, Ohio and other school districts around the U.S.
1992	Invented and patented the “EZ-Table” to replace T.V. tables - sold to Am Fab, Inc., A Bissell Healthcare Company on a guaranteed royalty basis.
1996	Purchased 80 acres of industrial property near I-75, the Ohio Turnpike and Rt. 795 known as the “Golden Triangle” for industrial development.
1996/97	Designed, built, and shipped the largest plant in the world to China for cladding aluminum alloys to steel for connecting rods and main bearings for gasoline and diesel engines.
1997	Sold industrial building to Banner Manufacturing, Toledo, Ohio, to expand their spring manufacturing facilities. Banner employs 130 people.
1997	Appointed Director of the Advisory Board of the Executive MBA Program at the University of Toledo.
1999/00	Designed, and built the largest rolling mill in the world to Praxair, New York, for producing tantalum, mobium, and other metal alloys for making computer chips on a high production basis.
2000/03	Designed, built, and arranged financing through U.S. EXIM Bank complete aluminum rolling mill plant for Nigeria used for making painted aluminum roofing and siding in different colors that will not rust or corrode.
2001	Helped arrange for a $100,000 grant to send approximately 50 people from the University of Toledo, Department of Education, Toledo Public Schools’ superintendent and teacher’s union, and 10 area business executives to Houston, Texas for two days to learn how children are being taught to read with an 89% proficiency level while 4th graders in Toledo Public School had only 29% passing reading proficiency.
2001	Founded American Steel Products of Illinois to process steel to pickle, slit and make first operation blanks for the automobile industry, QS & ISO9002 quality approved.
2003	Bought 700,000 square foot plant under 35 ton cranes in Granite City, Illinois to expand Granite City Pickling & Warehouse and American Steel Products of Illinois. In addition, expand heavy industrial entrepreneurial businesses.

WORLD TRADE	Designed, built, and installed many aluminum and steel processing systems/plants all over the world, including England, The Netherlands, France, Israel, Mexico, Canada, Ecuador, Colombia, New Zealand, Korea, China, Greece, Saudi Arabia, West Germany, Pakistan, India, and Honduras.
	Act as consultant to the U.S. Government. Was sent on a U.S. world trade mission to The Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan to improve U.S. exports.

MEMBERSHIPS/ INTERESTS

Reynolds Road Rotary Club of Toledo American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Management Association Classic Car Club of America Employers Association Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce Toledo Area International Trade Association International Toastmasters Association Cleveland World Trade Association Boys Club of America United Negro College Fund Association of Steel Distributors American Iron and Steel Institute National Association of Manufacturers Toledo Opera Society Toledo Art Museum, President's Council American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) CHILD, Inc. (Children's Healthcare Is A Legal Duty) Arts Commission of Greater Toledo United States Industrial Council Education Foundation American Institute of Management Junior Achievement of Northwest Ohio International Association of Professional Salesmen Young Entrepreneurs Society (YES) Sylvania Area Chamber of Commerce Inventor’s Council of Toledo Toledo Astronomy Association Shadow Valley Tennis Club The Toledo Tennis Club United States Tennis Association Stone Oak Country Club Member of Naturalist Camera Club of Toledo World Traveler Past sponsor of “Miss Cauffiel of Toledo”, an Unlimited Hydroplane Built museum to show classic car collection which     includes: Cords, Duesenburgs, Packards, Cadillacs,     Milburn, Pierce Arrow, Auburns, Lincolns, and     other historical cars from 1917 to 1938 Investments in buildings, industrial real estate, and     stocks and bonds in over 20 small and medium     size companies throughout the United States Traveled around the world with wife and 18 other     couples to study ancient civilizations and     cultures, including Easter Island, New Guinea,     Nepal, India, Cambodia, Oman, Tanzania, Africa,     Jordan, Morocco, and Mali Been to Over 75 Countries

SUBSIDIARIES

Cauffiel Industries, Inc., Toledo Ohio Cauffiel Technologies Corporation, Toledo, Ohio Cauffiel Machinery Corporation, Toledo, Ohio Granite City Pickling & Warehousing, Inc., Illinois American Steel Products Company, Toledo, Ohio American Steel Products of Illinois Toledo Industrial Center, Toledo, Ohio Students For Other Students (SOS) Foundation

AWARDS

Many patents in aluminum and steel processing machinery and consumer products. Presidential "E" Award from the U.S. Government for "Outstanding Contribution to Export Expansion", 1974. "Entrepreneur Of The Year Award" finalist 1989 and 1990, sponsored by Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, and Inc. Magazine. Received the "Celebrate Literacy" award from the International Reading Association for promotion of literacy for developing and proving a system by paying students to tutor other students and starting a foundation called Students For Other Students (SOS). Winner of the “Entrepreneur Of The Year Award - Master Entrepreneur”, 1994, sponsored by Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, and Inc. Magazine. Honored at The Entrepreneur Of The Year Institute’s International Conference in Palm Springs, California, 1994. Received honor into Libbey High School’s Hall of Fame, 1994. Honored as one of “The Fifty Most Influential Business People in Northwest Ohio” by Business Venture Magazine, 1996. Received the “Horace Mann Award”, 1999 from the American Humanist Association, in recognition of philanthropic work funding student tutors in many public schools for over ten years. (Other recipients of the award: Ted Turner, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Jonas E. Salk, Erich Fromm.) Helped the University of Toledo obtain grant from the Cleveland Foundation and started the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), a credited MBA at the University of Toledo, chairman of the Advisory Committee from 1996 to 1999. (Now teaching its seventh class, approximately $3,000,000 total sales.)