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Used cintas to launder 400+ lab coats every week. They got the job done but some would be missing or we would be over charged

Strengths: Large capacity capability

Needs to improve: Expensive and unreliable

Used their impact and tilt indicators on our crates for expensive capital equipment systems

Strengths: Good quality

Needs to improve: Expensive

Used their power tools for our R&D workshop, always reliable and long lasting batteries

Strengths: Durable and high quality power tools

Needs to improve: Expensive

I've been contacted for jobs through them. They seem to have a lot longer process then others which puts me off. I've also hired from them, their rates are higher then others

Strengths: Large company, lots of recruiters. Good for entry level workers

Needs to improve: Always treating cantodates as numbers, not very personable. Quality can be an issue

I racked up over 170000 miles on southwest last year. If you are able to be apart of their rewards program it's great, you get first choice on seats, free wifi and lots of miles to use for personal travel

Strengths: Cheap fairs, free peanuts and pretzels and other snacks. Great rewards program. Companion pass is best reward in airline industry

Needs to improve: Flights are often more crowded then other airlines, no red eye flights

Frays is great if you need a tool or part and it can't wait for a shipment to get sent to you the next day

Strengths: Huge stores with a wide variety of products.

Needs to improve: Hard to find help in the stores

I traveled a great deal for my last company and would use hertz at the majority of those locations. Their gold member program sends you an email as to what stall your car is in before your flight gets in so all you have to do is go to that stall get in, drive I the exit gate and show your drivers liscense

Strengths: Quick service, flexible refueling options

Needs to improve: Expensive compared to competitors, cars can vary widely in add ons and age

Order business cards through them when starting a small business. Cards looked great as were very cheap

Strengths: Custom offerings at a cheap price

Needs to improve: None found

FedEx has been the standard shipment choice for every company I've worked for. Their overnight shipping is extremely reliable and they have the capabilities to handle most anything reasonable sized

Strengths: Much more reliable then other shopping companies. Decent shipment tracking

Needs to improve: International shipping can get quite expensive

We used the fluke 115 for all of our inspection and R&D needs. It is simple but still very veritable and always reliable

Strengths: Lots of off the shelf products

Needs to improve: None found

My biotech company used Rainin pippetes in our labs. They worked well but the cost to service them was quite expensive

Strengths: Reliable company, wide variety of products.

Needs to improve: Expensive

I worked with Nusil while at UCSB. They were able to put together a custom solution to fit out projects needs

Strengths: Wide variety of adhesives, great knowledge base, able to formulate custom solutions

Needs to improve: Small sizes not always available

Used there sliders in a prototype build of our latest product, everything went great no complaints on quality or price

Strengths: Quality Products

Needs to improve: None Found

My company replaced all of their traditional phones with avaya phones, they were a great addition! much better then what we had before

Strengths: intelligent phones, good call quality

Needs to improve: none found

Loctite thread locker was used in most of the equipment i've made, some requires refrigeration which is not always helpful

Strengths: Always providing a quality product for lots of different applications

Needs to improve: Expensive

Used all sorts of disposables for biotech manufacturing, ordered in large quantities

Strengths: Wide Selection of Lab Tools

Needs to improve: Expensive

Good Service with contract, have used Solidworks with every company I've been with,

Strengths: Intuitive and fairly easy to learn, powerful modeling and analysis tools

Needs to improve: Very expensive to start out, files are not backwards compatable

Tap Plastics built some custom covers for some of our machines, they were great when we knew exactly what we wanted but don't ask too many questions

Strengths: Custom Design, Cut to Size Plastic

Needs to improve: Terrible customer service, make sure you know exactly what you want

Qosina provided some barbed connectors and bed sheet clips for our products. We were hoping to use a different material for one part but they were not able to fill our needs

Strengths: Good Catalog, lots of free samples, easy to work with

Needs to improve: Not able to offer any custom modifications

PMI did all of our calibration needs for our tools at my last two companies, they will pickup at your offices and offer express serves if needed

Strengths: Reliable service, able to pickup at your office

Needs to improve: Expensive for simple items, documentation is not always correct