Automatic for the People," released by REM in 1992, was one of the most worn-out CDs ever owned. There is not a bad song on that record. Calstrip Industries, likewise, is humming along with its extensively automated new coil processing plant in Blytheville, Arkansas. Calstrip was founded in 1939 near Los Angeles as a strip producer with narrow rolling mills and annealing furnaces. In 1999, the company entered a new era by building a new slitting and sheeting facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, which is near both El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, says Calstrip Chief Operating Officer Ed Camden.
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