When Disaster Strikes

"The one in 1993—we were out of our shop for three months. It was a whole lot worse than the first one," Hartman recalls. "Everybody flooded in '93 around here. The state of Iowa looked like a lake."

This flood ruined two cutters and a mid-sized press, and it damaged several other pieces of equipment. Fortunately, Hartman and his staff had gotten a warning about the flood.