{"id":987500171,"date":"2025-03-05T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/?p=987500171"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:57:54","slug":"metalcraft-becomes-100-employee-owned-strengthening-commitment-to-member-owner-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/metalcraft-becomes-100-employee-owned-strengthening-commitment-to-member-owner-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Metalcraft Becomes 100% Employee-Owned, Strengthening Commitment to Member-Owner Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MASON CITY, IOWA \u2013 [February 18, 2025]<\/strong> \u2013 Metalcraft, a leading manufacturer of barcode and RFID identification products, is proud to announce that it is now 100% employee-owned. The company has been an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) organization since 2006 and has now transitioned to full employee ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecoming 100% ESOP is really an extension of our core value, which is member-owner focus,\u201d said Metalcraft CEO Kyle Bermel. \u201cIt also ensures we will stay locally owned and private for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This milestone comes as Metalcraft celebrates its 75th anniversary, marking decades of innovation and customer-focused service. As a fully employee-owned company, Metalcraft continues to provide high-quality identification solutions to customers worldwide, leveraging barcode and RFID technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Metalcraft and its identification solutions, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idplate.com\">www.idplate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Metalcraft, Inc.<\/strong><br>Founded in 1950, Metalcraft is a leading provider of customized identification solutions, including RFID tags, barcode labels, and asset tracking software. The company is headquartered in Mason City, Iowa, and serves a wide range of industries with innovative identification products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br>Julia Deets<br>VP Marketing &amp; CX<br>Metalcraft<br><a href=\"mailto:juliad@idplate.com\">juliad@idplate.com<\/a><br>641-423-9460<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASON CITY, IOWA \u2013 [February 18, 2025] \u2013 Metalcraft, a leading manufacturer of barcode and RFID identification products, is proud to announce that it is now 100% employee-owned. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":987500172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987500171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987500171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987500171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987500171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987500175,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987500171\/revisions\/987500175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987500172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987500171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987500171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aimglobal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987500171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}