COVER STOR Y www SMTCLca 8 SEPTEMBER 2011 Havlik International raises the bar for the gear manufacturing industry I n most manufacturing sectors involving machining we see declining markets and investments Large manufacturers are either disappearing or are the victims of a takeover by com petitors or other large companies Company history is no longer a prerequisite for success today s market just wants to know what can you guarantee to do for me today Havlik International truly stands apart from many of today s trends They have exceptional company history the company started in the 1880 s in the Czech Republic and then relocat ed to Canada in the mid 1940 s T oday the company is still run by one of the original family members fourth generation John Havlik Jr Havlik International has two core business units large gear manufacturing and they are also a major distributor of machine tools representing major machine tool manufactur ers like TOS CDK Blansko Kovosivit Mas T os Kurim Skoda and T rens from their homeland Czech Republic and of course SMTCL from China