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Mission Statement

• We strive to meet and exceed the expectations of all our customers, suppliers and employees each and every time.
• We understand the importance of meeting deadlines, and will continue to maintain production capabilities that allow us to do so.
• We will constantly seek and process feedback from all stakeholders regarding past performance to continue to improve our firm day-in and day-out.
• We are committed to self-directed learning, and will maintain leading edge and innovative problem solving skills and capabilities.
• We will always keep an open mind regarding new products and services. Our client's requirements will fuel our product pipelines.
• We will faithfully serve all stakeholders in an ethical and judicious fashion, at all times with no exceptions.

History

CalCo has been designing and producing high quality cutaways since 1953. It all started when founder, Jim Calhoun, was a sales manager at the RegO Division of the Bastian-Blessing Company of Chicago. The company, a manufacturer of gas controls, used cutaways to demonstrate its products. Because of other priorities, the company's tool room couldn't make the cutaways on a timely basis so Jim decided to make them on his own. Eventually, he started his own cutaway business, selling his services to former competitors in the welding industry. He soon became the industry's major producer of cutaways and CalCo has been growing and adding new services ever since.

In the 50 years that CalCo has been in the cutaway business CalCo has expanded to include many new products, including working models, animation, scale models, motorized display pedestals, shipping containers, cases, printed materials and signage, training kiosks, web enabled training and custom sales awards. CalCo is constantly striving to bring new, innovative products to our clients but one thing hasn't changed, the cornerstone of CalCo's corporate philosophy is still unparalleled customer service.