Cashco Appoints New Engineering Coordinator

ELLSWORTH, Kan. (Jan. 17, 2014) — As documentation coordinator in the Cashco, Inc. engineering department, Jo Ellen Freeman already has an important role in the application and sales of Cashco products. Now, Freeman has also been named engineering coordinator for the department. “I’ve been with Cashco for almost 29 years and I’ve been in the engineering department since the day I started here,” Freeman explains. “So, I’m excited to take on yet another role. With this broadened position, I am primarily working with the design engineers in the Cashco sales and service office in Hoppegarten, Germany, which we opened within the last year.” Because the German office is involved in designing and engineering a diversified line of control valves and regulators for the European market, Freeman says it’s important to incorporate any unique drawings and assemblies into the Cashco system so everyone in the company has access to them, no matter where they’re based. Hence, a large part of Freeman’s job involves coordinating information and making sure all the information and drawings have been recorded. “Our goal has always been to share some design capabilities between the U.S. and Europe and, hopefully, ship more U.S. products to Europe and vice versa,” says Clint Rogers, General Manager, Valve Division, Cashco, Inc. “By collaborating on design capabilities,” he relates, “Cashco can better fit the needs of both markets with a broader line of products built in both countries.” Freeman, who reports to Engineering Services Manager Darrin Vanderbilt, says her duties also include entering parts numbers unique to the German drawings into the system. This allows the other departments to ship and/or order parts without having to take unnecessary steps or waste valuable time trying to contact sources in Germany. In the meantime, Freeman says she continues to fulfill documentation coordinator duties, which often involves supplying drawings for special product orders, providing certificates of conformance and furnishing customers with other types of certified documentation. When she isn’t busy with Cashco duties, she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and with her husband, who has operated an automotive body shop in Ellsworth for the past 40 years. “I really appreciate everything Cashco has done for me over the past 28 plus years,” Freeman insists. “This has been a very enjoyable place to work, even though I can still remember some of those early days that involved standing on my feet for hours folding drawings to file or, worse yet, making blueprints by running them through an ammonia solution. I don’t miss those days at all,” she says. Cashco, Inc., headquartered in Ellsworth, Kans., manufactures a broad line of throttling rotary and linear control valves, pressure reducing regulators and back pressure regulators in a wide range of sizes.