Mega Corp. Inc.

www.megacorpinc.com \ Projected 2007 sales: $50 million \ HQ: Albuquerque, N.M. \ Employees: 140 \ Products:
Haulage products \ Jim Kunz, president: “Sales and outlook remain strong for the mining business through next year.”

Growth And Quality

the demand for mega corp.’s products led to a 400 percent
revenue increase over the past five years. by libby john
mega corp. inc. offers a wide
range of haulage products for Mega Corp. Inc., founded in 1978,
construction and mining oems.
has experienced a 400 percent rev-
enue increase over the past five years
thanks to an improved work force,
focused management and quality
tools and facilities, President Jim
Kunz says. “Almost every measure of
[the] company’s performance has
improved significantly in that time,
but from a manufacturing standpoint,
we are most proud of two items: We
have more than doubled our produc-
tivity and decreased our warranty
expense as a percentage of revenues
tenfold,” he says.
The Albuquerque, N.M.-based
company offers a wide range of
haulage products for construction
and mining OEMs. They include
mobile water tanks from two- to
52,000-gallon capacity, water pumps,
specialty dumper bodies, bottom-
dump trailers, equipment trailers and
custom fabrications.
In response to the growth, the com-
pany doubled its number of employ-
ees to 140. It is one of the largest par-
ticipants in New Mexico’s Industrial
Job Training Program, which funds
classroom and on-the-job training for
expanding businesses. “Mega hires
experienced personnel or graduates
of formal training programs,” Kunz
says. “Mega provides extensive on-
the-job training for most of its posi-
tions, due to the unique nature of its
products.”
The company also invests in its
facilities. Earlier this year, the com-
pany opened a new building in
Albuquerque that will be used for cut-
ting operations, such as machine
shop, sawing and ironworking. The
facility increased Mega’s total manu-
facturing floor space by 20 percent.
“The new building allows us to
improve the flow of materials in
process in our workplace and pro-
vides improved working conditions
for many of our workers,” he says.
mega’s improvement focus in-
Custom-Designed, Durable cludes the quality of its work
force, products, facilities and
The biggest challenge Mega faces is documentation.
simply responding to the demand for
its products, Kunz says. “Demand has lems and issues first-hand.” facturer for OEMs. In 1983, Magnum
been increasing due to both an Most of its products are custom- changed its name to Mega Corp. to
increase in global construction and engineered and built to order, he says. reflect the construction, mining and
mining activity, as well as increased Project times range from one week to rental services markets it services.
attention to air quality in mining and two months, depending on the size. Housing starts and commodity
urban construction environments,” Mega recently announced that it is prices, such as for copper and coal,
he explains. one of two worldwide suppliers are leading indicators for Mega’s
The company distributes its prod- recently authorized by Caterpillar to business, Kunz says. “Although Mega
ucts through OEMs, such as manufacture and sell tractor versions continues to deliver significant quan-
Caterpillar, Komatsu and Deere, and of Caterpillar’s 777 100-ton mining tities of products to construction
works closely with them to ensure its truck. “Mega combines these ma- equipment companies, new sales to
products works well with theirs. “Our chines with bottom-dump trailers of these applications are off significant-
customers expect custom-designed, up to 175-ton capacity for use in coal ly from the past few years and not
durable products with excellent sales mines and construction projects,” the expected to increase until [2008],”
and service support,” he says. company says. he says. “Sales and outlook remain
“Haulage tool performance is “This model of tractor can also be strong for the mining business through
measured in terms of cost per ton- applied to equipment trailers of up to next year.”
mile or cost per ton-hour. 285-ton capacity for use in transport- The company plans to improve its
Productivity, availability and hourly ing large mining equipment within material requirement planning sys-
operating costs are commonly used the mine property.” tem to match its increased volume of
gauges for this performance. business, Kunz adds. “As a small, cus-
“Product support provides feed- Improvement Plans tom manufacturer of specialty fabri-
back from customers directly to man- The company originally was called cations,” he says, “Mega has been
ufacturing personnel regarding their Magnum Industries and manufac- focusing its attention on improving
expectations,” he continues. “Man- tured construction and mining the quality of its work force, its
ufacturing personnel frequently visit equipment before it became an ap- products, its documentation and
customer sites to understand prob- proved auxiliary equipment manu- its facilities.”

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