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The Power of Laser Metal Fabrication, with Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

November 29, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

The Power of Laser Metal Fabrication, with Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

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The Power of Laser Metal Fabrication, with Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

[00:00:00] Dee Barnes: So this past year we added the laser metal fabrication division, which allows us to do low volume. We can do one of something or 500 or 5000 of something without having to build a die, which takes, 10 to 12 weeks to build that tool. So quick turnaround. We have ability to serve our customers and I’m excited about the future of our company in that way because now our high-volume customers, they also have low volume work prototyping things that we can add value to our current customers.

[00:00:29] But we also can do all kinds of things that aren’t even in our metal stamping side, which just comes with laser and welding and fabricating anything. And I’m excited because it’s endless. There’s unlimited creativity you can have with metal fabrication. You can build and make anything. If you can cut it and weld it and bend it, you can make just about anything.

[00:00:51] And that’s exciting because when our customers come with an idea, you can just fab it up and see if it works. And it works. And hopefully your volume gets so high that you turn into building a die to make something. So that’s exciting for us.

Listen to Dee’s full ProfitSense with Bill McDermott interview here.

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Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

November 13, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

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Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting (ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 52)

Dee Barnes, CEO of Evans Tool and Die, joined host Bill McDermott to discuss how her 75-year-old family-owned business has successfully navigated the manufacturing industry’s challenges and embraced its opportunities. Dee focused on the importance of trade skills within the sector and the resurgence of manufacturing in the United States. They also delved into how technology is transforming the industry, the addition of a laser metal fabrication division at Evans, the struggle against overseas competition due to inflation, and much more.

Bill wrapped up the show with his thoughts on the one question every business owner should be able to answer.

ProfitSense with Bill McDermott is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton Studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Evans Tool & Die and Evans Metal Stamping & Laser Cutting

Improving Our Community Through Manufacturing Excellence Since 1948 – Celebrating 75 years… Evans is a one stop, Made in the USA, Preferred Provider of precision Tool & Die builds, progressive and hand transfer metal stamping products as well as laser cutting metal fabrication.

They provide complete design and engineering processes, assembly, and packaging. They provide risk management solutions to the overseas supply chain breakdowns for OEMs by localizing supply chains with high quality, seamless logistics and hands on supply chain control.

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Deanne “Dee” Barnes, President & CEO

Deanne “Dee” Barnes has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Evans Tool & Die/Evans Metal Stamping, Inc. since 2011. Dee is the granddaughter of company founder, Leonard Evans, Jr., and represents the company’s third generation of family leadership. A seasoned industry leader, she is the driving force behind Evan’s ongoing commitment to “Made in the USA” manufacturing and delivering the highest caliber of customer service. After attending Georgia College and State University, Dee has contributed to every aspect of the company for more than 35 years. Now as CEO, she continues the family legacy as an example of prosperous domestic manufacturing since 1948. Evans Company exists not only to make a profit for its stakeholders, but to make a positive impact that will support and encourage customers, employees and their families, and our community.

About ProfitSense and Your Host, Bill McDermott

ProfitSense with Bill McDermott dives into the stories behind some of Atlanta’s successful businesses and business owners and the professionals that advise them. This show helps local business leaders get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. The show is presented by McDermott Financial Solutions. McDermott Financial helps business owners improve cash flow and profitability, find financing, break through barriers to expansion, and financially prepare to exit their business. The show archive can be found at profitsenseradio.com.

Bill McDermott is the Founder and CEO of McDermott Financial Solutions. When business owners want to increase their profitability, they don’t have the expertise to know where to start or what to do. Bill leverages his knowledge and relationships from 32 years as a banker to identify the hurdles getting in the way and create a plan to deliver profitability they never thought possible.

Bill currently serves as Treasurer for the Atlanta Executive Forum and has held previous positions as a board member for the Kennesaw State University Entrepreneurship Center and Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity and Treasurer for CEO NetWeavers. Bill is a graduate of Wake Forest University and he and his wife, Martha have called Atlanta home for over 40 years. Outside of work, Bill enjoys golf, traveling, and gardening.

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Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die, Inc. and Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

August 18, 2021 by John Ray

Business Beat

Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die, Inc. and Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

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Frazier & Deeter’s Business Beat: Dee Barnes, Evans Tool & Die, Inc. and Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

Dee Barnes, CEO of Evans Tool & Die, Inc. and Evans Metal Stamping, Inc., joined this edition of “Business Beat” with host Roger Lusby and special guest David Deeter, Frazier & Deeter Co-Founder. Dee discussed the evolution of the family-run business, the effective planning Frazier & Deeter advised on, recent shifts in production due to the pandemic, planning for the next generation, and much more. Business Beat is presented by Alpharetta CPA firm Frazier & Deeter.

Evans Tool & Die, Inc. and Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

Evans is a one-stop metal manufacturer that reduces supply chain risk for OEMs.

Seventy years ago, in 1948, Leonard L. Evans, Jr. established Evans Tool & Die, Inc. in Decatur, Georgia. Leonard and his wife Mary Alice Evans had four children: Len III, Dale, Craig, and Fran. Leonard and Mary Alice were both tool & die makers who began their first shop in their daughter’s playhouse. As the business grew, with much hard work and dedication, it expanded to later incorporate Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

The second generation of the Evans family that would lead to their success through the next years included Len III, Craig and son-in-law Ray Duensing. The company has expanded several times at its Conyers location which now boasts 200,000 square feet of manufacturing space with a full-service tool & die shop and over 67 punch presses. The company is now in its third generation of leadership with Dee Barnes, granddaughter of Leonard Evans, as President and CEO. Leonard and Mary Alice Evans, as well as Craig Evans, passed away in 2013, 2011, and 2010, respectively. The legacy that they began lives on. While Evans Tool & Die and Metal Stamping has grown in size and influence, our values, inspired by Leonard and Mary Alice Evans, remain the same – Integrity, Accountability, Excellence, and Generosity.

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Dee Barnes, President/CEO, Evans Tool & Die, Inc./Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

After attending Georgia College and State University, Dee has contributed in every aspect of the company for more than 30 years. Now as CEO, she continues the family legacy as an example of prosperous domestic manufacturing since 1948.

David Deeter, CPA, Founder & Tax Partner, Frazier & Deeter

As a co-founder of Frazier & Deeter, David Deeter has a major role in facilitating the growth of the firm. From 2001-2009, during his term as Managing Partner, the firm experienced an average growth of 20% annually and became a Top 100 Firm in the U.S. In a recent survey conducted by Inside Public Accounting, David was recognized by his peers as one of the 5 most admired leaders in U.S. accounting firms.

Most of David’s work centers around income tax and financial planning. He is advisor to many of Atlanta’s leading families. He has extensive experience with companies in the real estate, entertainment, finance, manufacturing, services and non-profit industries.

Frazier & Deeter

The Alpharetta office of Frazier & Deeter is home to a thriving CPA tax practice, a growing advisory practice and an Employee Benefit Plan Services group. CPAs and advisors in the Frazier & Deeter Alpharetta office serve clients across North Georgia and around the country with services such as personal tax planning, estate planning, business tax planning, business tax compliance, state and local tax planning, financial statement reviews, financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, internal audit outsourcing, cyber security, data privacy, SOX and other regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions and more. Alpharetta CPAs serve clients ranging from business owners and executives to large corporations.

Roger Lusby, host of Frazier & Deeter’s Business Beat, is an Alpharetta CPA and Alpharetta Office Managing Partner for Frazier & Deeter. He is also a member of the Tax Department in charge of coordinating tax and accounting services for our clientele. His responsibilities include a review of a variety of tax returns with an emphasis in the individual, estate, and corporate areas. Client assistance is also provided in the areas of financial planning, executive compensation and stock option planning, estate and succession planning, international planning (FBAR, SFOP), health care, real estate, manufacturing, technology, and service companies.

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An episode archive of Frazier & Deeter’s Business Beat can be found here.

ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 12: Deanne Barnes, Evans Tool & Die; David Sergile, STONE Resource Group; and Tom Vitale, Northwestern Mutual

August 14, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 12: Deanne Barnes, Evans Tool & Die; David Sergile, STONE Resource Group; and Tom Vitale, Northwestern Mutual

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ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 12: Deanne Barnes, Evans Tool & Die; David Sergile, STONE Resource Group; and Tom Vitale, Northwestern Mutual

Deanne Barnes with Evans Tool & Die joined host Bill McDermott to discuss her family tool & die and metal stamping business. In addition, David Sergile of STONE Resource Group joined the show to highlight his company’s staffing services, while Tom Vitale of Northwestern Mutual outlined his work in helping client with financial planning needs. “ProfitSense with Bill McDermott” is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton Studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Deanne Barnes, President & CEO, Evans Tool & Die, Inc./Evans Metal Stamping, Inc.

**Deanne Barnes, Evans Tool & Dye, Inc.**

Evans is a one stop, Made in the USA, Preferred Provider of precision Tool & Die builds and progressive and hand transfer metal stamping products. They provide complete design and engineering processes, assembly, and packaging. They provide risk management solutions to the overseas supply chain breakdowns for OEMs by localizing supply chains with high quality, seamless logistics and hands on supply chain control. Evans Tool & Die a 3rd generation, owned and operated, family business.

Deanne “Dee” Barnes has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Evans Tool & Die/Evans Metal Stamping, Inc. since 2011. Dee is the granddaughter of company founder, Leonard Evans, Jr., and represents the company’s third generation of family leadership. A seasoned industry leader, she is the driving force behind Evan’s ongoing commitment to “Made in the USA” manufacturing and delivering the highest caliber of customer service. After attending Georgia College and State University, Dee has contributed in every aspect of the company for more than 30 years. Now as CEO, she continues the family legacy as an example of prosperous domestic manufacturing since 1948.

David Sergile, CEO, Stone Resource

STONE Resource Group is a minority owned professional IT, Finance & Accounting, and Telecom staffing and services company. Founded in Atlanta, GA in 2010, STONE provides high quality services for contract, contract-to-hire and direct-hire opportunities throughout the state of Georgia and the continental United States. STONE has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 company 6 years in a row, one of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the United States. STONE’s diverse group of professionals are committed to hard work, accountability, customer service and above all, RESULTS.

STONE Resource Group, headquartered in Roswell, Georgia, was founded in April of 2010 on the principles of quality, integrity and service. On this foundation STONE has achieved exceptional growth. By 2016 STONE had expanded its Atlanta Headquarters 3 times and successfully launched new offices in Denver and Dallas. In 2019, they launched their newest offices in St. Louis and Los Angeles. They look forward to continued growth and geographical expansion while remaining steadfast in their commitment to their core values.

Today they continue as leaders in the design of senior, health care, studio, and hospitality design, surviving the 1993, 2008, and current impacts on the economy, creating designs of value for the development community.

Tom Vitale, Wealth Management Advisor, Northwestern Mutual

Tom Vitale, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CLTC is a Wealth Management Advisor representing Northwestern Mutual. He has been helping professionals and business owners for over 29 years. He and his team work diligently to build personalized Financial Plans to help clients achieve their most important financial goals.

As a wealth management advisor, the key to Tom Vitale’s success has always been putting his clients’ interests ahead of his own. When Tom begins working with a new business or family, he takes the time to get to know their goals, fears, and risk tolerance, and he strives to treat everyone he works with the same way he’d treat his own family. His clients appreciate his steadfast follow-through and innovative approach, and they view him as a partner that they can rely on for straight-shooting advice and wise counsel on their financial affairs.

Everyone’s goals and priorities are different, and everyone has made a different amount of progress toward them, and that’s why Tom believes in highly-specialized planning, not cookie-cutter services. His expertise includes, but is not limited to, business succession planning, wealth management, estate planning, employee and executive benefits planning and life insurance planning. He has spent nearly thirty years in the financial industry, and holds four advanced designations: Certified Financial Planner (CFP^®), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC^®), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU^®), and Certified in Long-Term Care (CLTC^®).

For more information on Tom and his services, please visit his website http://www.tom-vitale.com/
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI (NM) and its subsidiaries. Thomas Paul Vitale, is an Insurance Agent of NM. Thomas Paul Vitale is primarily licensed in Georgia and may be licensed in other states. Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ CFP® (with plaque design) and CFP® (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.

About “ProfitSense” and Your Host, Bill McDermott

“ProfitSense with Bill McDermott” dives in to the stories behind some of Atlanta’s successful businesses and business owners and the professionals that advise them. This show helps local business leaders get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community and their profession. The Show is presented by McDermott Financial Solutions. McDermott Financial helps business owners improve cash flow and profitability, find financing, break through barriers to expansion and financially prepare to exit their business. The show archive can be found at profitsenseradio.com.

Bill McDermott is Founder and CEO of McDermott Financial Solutions. After over three decades working for both national and community banks, Bill uses his expert knowledge to assist closely held companies with improving profitability, growing their business and finding financing. Bill is passionate about educating business owners about pertinent topics in the banking and finance arena.

He currently serves as Treasurer for the Atlanta Executive Forum and has held previous positions as board member for the Kennesaw State University Entrepreneurship Center and Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity and Treasurer for CEO NetWeavers. Bill is a graduate of Wake Forest University and he and his wife, Martha have called Atlanta home for over 40 years. Outside of work, Bill enjoys golf, traveling and gardening.

Connect with Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow McDermott Financial Solutions on LinkedIn.