We chat with Kandarp Patel, who purchased Somerville Plating in Melrose Park, Illinois in mid-2024
Somerville Plating is a Nadcap-certified operation with over 44 years in the finishing industry.
“We were looking for something in manufacturing, and we realized that a lot of it has been moving around because of the competitive risks of moving it to Mexico and China,” Patel says. “However, plating is a very local business, and it seemed that this business is always needed for the local industry, and there's never a risk of outsourcing that.”
Patel and Shalin Amin purchased the shop from Randy Hauslein, who bought the former E.J. Somerville Co. in Chicago in 1990 and moved it to Melrose Park. Hauslein was the plant manager at the company from 1982 to 1992; before that, he worked with Hausner Hard Chrome.
Hauslein has stayed on as Director of Quality Control, and his wife, Lori Hauslein, remains the Head Of Operations for Somerville Plating as Patel and his business partner, Amin, get to know the business better.
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