Hickey Metal Fabrication Invests in Automation

SALEM – Hickey Metal Fabrication, Salem, has taken a common sense approach in tackling the anemic labor market and other challenges brought on in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, its executives say. “We had to figure out how to continue to grow without just saying we needed more people,” says Adam Hickey, vice president. So, the 81-year-old family business invested in automation to create additional manufacturing capacity, meet its customers’ needs and attract new business,