For most businesses across the region, April 15th was just another income tax due date. For Rita Jones of Bridgman, it was a rewarding day that successfully wrapped up a full year of paperwork, site inspections, an intensive review of her Gast Road plant and production facility and rigorous scrutiny that has led to the national certification of her M&M Die Cast, Incorporated as a Women's Business Enterprise.
That certification by the Women's Business Enterprise Council — Great Lakes, a regional certifying partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council took a full year to accomplish, but the work is now done, and Rita proudly displays her certification document on the wall of her office a short drive away from the Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgman.
M&M Die Cast was founded 38 years ago in 1978 as a manufacturer of aluminum castings for multiple industry sectors. The rigorous process of certification includes a meticulous, in-depth review of the business, located at 8556 Gast Road, as well as a site inspection designed to confirm that the business is at least 51-percent owned, operated and controlled by a woman or women.
By including women-owned businesses among their vendors, corporations, and government agencies demonstrate their commitment to fostering diversity and the continued development of their supplier/vendor diversity programs.
M&M Die Cast has the capability to manufacture in multiple aluminum alloys and in any volume order, low, medium and high. Rita's current customer base varies from appliances, food service equipment, automotive, military, office furniture, recreational vehicles, compressor components and many more.
In addition to aluminum casting, M&M Die Cast also offers XRay inspection, CNC Machining, polishing and burnishing. In addition to their WBENC certification, M&M is also rated for ISO 9001:2008. Their close proximity to many tool & die shops, lends M&M Die Cast amazing flexibility to offer all sorts of customers strong price advantages as well as lead-time for tooling design, engineering and the manufacture of quality built dies.
The Women's Business Enterprise National Council is the nation's largest third party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the United States. WBENC is a resource for more than 700 U.S. companies and government agencies that rely on their certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity programs.
