We are also spending about $4 million for improvements at our Birmingham mills. We will perform upgrades and install new equipment that will enhance the quality of our products and increase efficiencies. We are adding quick change-over technology; upgrading mill coolant systems to improve surface quality and increase tool life; adding weld monitoring systems, including flux leakage for improved weld integrity; upgrading mill cut-off systems to improve cut end quality and length tolerances; and improving plant layout for reduced material handling. We will maintain our full range of capabilities while simplifying our mill scheduling.
A: Over the last year, we invested in many upgrades across our plants to ensure the safety of every teammate and visitor. We have added lights to our yard to increase visibility when loading trucks at night. We added many safety measures to enhance our fall protection, including added netting around every truck that is being loaded and loading platforms. We formed safety action committees that focus on specific areas like our No-Touch Tools Team, First Responders and Active Aggressor committees.
We also built an interactive map on our newly designed NTP website to make it easy for our conduit customers to locate their agent based off ZIP code and state/territory.
In addition, we faced the challenge of maintaining and building trust with customers during the transition from three companies to one. Although many of these changes happened internally, NTP remained focused on showing customers that we are committed to providing mutual long-term success and sustained value.
The workplace continues to evolve with shifts to more flexible work-from-home options, and we expect that to continue. With that being said, NTP is committed to making improvements in other areas to make it easy for our customers to do business with NTP on-the-go.
