Plastics News, April 22nd, 2002
Engineers and designers assigned to create a new seating system for Steelcase Inc. spent two years sorting out joints, angles, pivot points and molding techniques.
They reconsidered supplier relations and looked at market strategies.
And they also put up with one running joke: ``Every time we told people what they were doing, they'd always say, `But we work for Steelcase, not Plasticcase,' '' said Nancy Funk, senior product engineer for seating in the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based office furniture giant's new-product development group.
As the firm's Cachet line of chairs goes into production ...
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