Uitimate Recycling: Stator Winders Return Home By Traci Matt Associate Editor If the cornerstone of automotive electrical remanufacturing is making what’s old new again, Component Production & Recovery, or CPR (pun intended), has found a way to take that one step further. This Anderson, Ind. supplier owns five OE stator winders built in the 1970s by Delco Remy, which continue to churn out rewound 10SI, 12SI, CS130, CS130D, 22SI and 27S] parts. “They have been moved all over the country and we have purchased them and returned them back home again to Indiana,” said CPR President Randy G. Parker. “Using new stator lamination we can produce a brand new OE part off of the original manufacturing equip- ment. CPR also has the equipment to me rotors ” fencing: a“ rings, CPR employee Carrie Grubbs. eel MADE- AMERICAN PROUD Component Production & Recovery racks up the rotors on their rotor finishing line, showing their balancer, drill press and lathe. welding on new fans, varnishing, turn- ing and balancing.” Parker, a native of the U.S. industrial belt, is far from naive about the chang- ing state of affairs in the automotive electrical industry. With engineering experience at both Delphi and Ennis Automotive on his resume, along with three years as president of compo- nent distributor RGP Enterprises, he remains encouraged with the number of opportunities in automotive electri- cal remanufacturing. “T try to be a positive person and I still believe this is a great American industry and I don’t like it when anyone speaks negatively about it. Please understand that I come from Anderson, Indiana, where there have been over Making what’s old new again are re (bottom row L to R) owner Randy Parker, Jim Huguenard, Mark Cassell and Joe Rector, and (top row L to R) Wayne Rieger, Marc Fry and Steve Herget. 20,000 good UAW jobs lost. It will never be like it used to be but it can still be very good for all of us that will con- tinue to work hard and find our niche market. I still firmly believe that there will continue to be niches in the rewind- ing and rebuilding industry for many years to come,” he said. Parker’s headquarters, which houses both CPR and RGP Enterprises, is a 23,000 square foot, historic building which was originally used to manufac- ture decorative tiles. CPR was incorporated in February of this year, but the original company, LR Industries, served the rebuilder and distributor market for more than a decade. Along with remanufacturing stators and repairing rotors, CPR also markets Taditel electronics. They have six employees and target rebuilders and distributors such as LTD, American Automotive, Dubois Marketing, and Ryder Rebuild, through — direct advertising, as well as the Electrical Rebuilder’s Exchange and Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) publications. CPR recently joined the Electrical Rebuilder’s Association (ERA) and is already seeing tangible benefits. “We joined the ERA because we felt that our target audience would be read- ing the ERE newspaper and attending the ERA Trade Shows,” said Parker. “The biggest benefit we have found is that we receive phone calls from all over the country now. We may not be able to supply everything that we are