Bradbury Community and Outreach

Construction crews have been hard at work building a new gymnasium, storm shelter and updating the interior and exterior of the facilities at Moundridge USD 423 schools after passing a bond issue (view time lapse here).  With Company headquarters located in Moundridge, KS, this project hits close to home for many of The Bradbury Group's employees.

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The Bradbury Group has called Moundridge home for more than 60 years. As the world leader in Coil Processing and Roll Forming Solutions, Bradbury employees pride themselves on making top of the line equipment for our customers, which in turn make products you use and see every day. 

Upon taking a closer look at the materials used in the school bond project, employees were delighted to see components in use from Bradbury's customer base. 

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"It is always rewarding to be able to re-hire former interns" says Shonda Fast, Bradbury Recruitment & Employee Development Coordinator.

 Jeremy Hett spent the previous two summers as a Weld Intern, while he finished school, at Bradbury's Headquarters in Moundridge, KS. Hett is local to the Marion, KS area but relocated to Stillwater, OK while his wife finished her schooling.

Congratulations to Zack Ledford on his promotion!

Congratulations to the following employees on their promotions!

In our Seventh edition of our Series of Summer Intern posts, we introduce Ethan Williams, an Automation Engineering Technology student at Hutchinson Community College. Ethan is from Arlington, KS.

Congratulations to Maria Pressnall, HR Director at Bradbury, for being recognized as one of this year’s top HR Professionals in the Wichita area by the Wichita Business Journal!

The Bradbury Co., Inc. was proud to present Jeremy Hett, Weld Intern, with a scholarship today. Jeremy will be attending Fort Hays State in the fall to pursue his Associates in Welding Technology. Jeremy plans to intern with us again next summer. We hope to start a tradition of awarding a deserving intern a scholarship each year to acknowledge his or her outstanding performance. Jeremy said that he really appreciates the recognition of his hard work. Congratulations, Jeremy!

In our sixth edition of our Series of Summer Intern posts, we introduce Austin Bickel, a Mechanical Engineering student at Kansas State University. Austin is from Buhler, KS but currently lives in McPherson. This is Austin's First summer working at Bradbury, but he did spend time with us this winter. Austin has been tasked with working half of his summer in the Assembly Department and the other half in Engineering. He has learned different assembly processes, as well as the engineering applications in assembling machines. Some engineering applications include, reading and interpreting engineering prints, finding the most efficient way to assemble, and learning how to improve the process. During his time in the Engineering Department, Austin has been working on a special concept project. He was tasked with designing both inboard and outboard fixtures to form a return lip on a cee purlin to 90 degrees. Part of the project parameters included the criteria of having four different parts be adjustable using pneumatic cylinders, pin locations, and on a centerline. Austin said "this was an extremely fun project and proved itself challenging in trying to figure out the most practical and most cost effective way to be designed". Gary Janzen, Mechanical Engineering Manager, said "The mechanical engineering internship is designed to give interns a feel for what is involved in a career in engineering.   Austin was assigned with the job of designing a roll tooling fixture. Austin has excelled in modeling components along with the required calculation.  Austin has a bright future in a career of mechanical engineering." 

In our fifth edition of our Series of Summer Intern posts, we reintroduce Cade Papes, a Mechanical Engineering student from WaKeeney, KS that currently lives in Wichita and is attending Wichita State University.  This is Cade's second summer working at Bradbury. This year, he has been tasked with working on a Garage Door project.  In this venture, he assisted other engineers with certain design elements, updated drawings, and completed a report compilation.  He was also given a mock project of his own once the first project was completed.  The task was to design his own rollformer and perform a stress analysis based on the specifications given to him by his supervisor, Gary Janzen. Cade will continue to work for the company part-time in the fall while he works to complete his degree in December. Gary Janzen, Mechanical Engineering Manager, said "The mechanical engineering internship is designed to give interns a feel for what is involved in a career in engineering. Cade has excelled in modeling components along with the required calculation. He has a bright future in a career of mechanical engineering."