Contract-manufacturing adds jobs, revenues at Harsh plant

EATON — What started out four years ago as a few metal-cutting jobs to accommodate requests from other businesses is now a full-fledged, million-dollar-a-year-and-growing contract-manufacturing division at Harsh International Inc.
That means that contract manufacturing makes up 5 percent of Harsh˜s $20 million a year in total sales, said Bob Brown, president.
That kind of growth has affected the 50-year-old company in a number of positive ways.
One of the most visible is the company˜s new 27,000-square-foot addition at Harsh facilities southeast of the principal location on U.S. Highway 85.
"We now have our main assembly plant at [the southeast]…