Posted on Wed, May 09, 2012
For our second installment of Employee Spotlight, we focus on Lori Crutcher, Corporate Systems Manager.
Q: What is your job/role at Venkel?
A: I am the Corporate Systems Manager, and my main focus is helping customers with their orders. I make sure they get their orders on time, making changes to their orders, if there are any issues that come up on their orders. In addition to this, I help all of the departments with any issues that they may have to solve their problems.
Q: How long have you been working here?
A: I have been here 20 years this month.
Q: What is the best thing you like about working here?
A: The best thing is working with customers and helping them out. Venkel is run by a family, and they are great to work for. They have given everyone an opportunity to do what they do best and they are open to ideas or changes that make the business better. I like the people that I work with. It's a very comfortable and relaxed company.
Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. I am a southern girl and moved to Texas with a guy, or should I say I followed a guy to Texas.
Q: What is your family like?
A: I have a 30 year old daughter that just got married last year and a 17 year old son who is a junior in high school. My husband is from Texas, so we are big outdoors Texas people and we enjoy doing everything outdoors.
Q: What are your hobbies?
A: I am an outdoors person. I like to hunt and fish, and I love sports. Right now my son plays football for Lake Travis High School, and I attend all of their sporting events including softball, baseball, football, basketball, volleyball. I am really into college sports, and reading, doing puzzles and garden work. I love the LSU Tigers! Geaux Tigers!
Q: What is something that people may not know about you?
A: I am a big family person, very passionate about my family. That is another reason I like working here because the owners here are also very big on family and very family oriented. My family is #1 in my life.
Posted on Tue, Apr 24, 2012
We are excited to annouce the Employee Spotlight; a new feature for our newsroom that gives you an inside look at our valued employees. For our inaugural Employee Spotlight we would like to introduce you to Susan Chavez. Susan works in our sales department and is one of Venkel’s longest tenured employees.
Q: What is your job/role at Venkel?
A: I am an Account Manager. I communicate with customers everyday via email, phone, fax. I process orders, look up stock.
Q: How long have you been working here?
A: I have been working here for 18 short years. It seems like, maybe 5 years ago. I had a few jobs before finding this position through an employee here (Nelson) who told Venkel’s UPS delivery guy, who happened to be my boyfriend at the time, that Venkel was hiring. I came in, applied and they hired me on the spot. I started out in shipping and worked there for a few years before getting pregnant. After the birth of my son, I came back and didn’t want to work the longer hours in shipping. So I was offered a different position as an Administrative Assistant to the VP. I worked with him for a few years and helped him manage the outside sales reps. When the industry slowed down, I was asked to move into sales which is where I am today.
Q: What is the best thing you like about working here?
A: Honestly, it’s the people that I work for. Anil and his family make it a really nice place to work. The environment, setting, their standards and morals are things that I believe in. The other reason is, it’s a great job. I like the type of work. Its challenging, not boring everyday mundane work and most importantly its rewarding.
Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I’m a Cali girl and moved down here (Austin) in 1990.
Q: What is your family like?
A: I am married…been married 16 years. I have 1 son, raised a stepson, and 2 stepdaughters. We just purchased our 2nd house this past year. After starting Venkel, I got married, bought a house and had a baby. So it was like the American dream.
Q: What are your hobbies?
A: Of course my son plays baseball select, so I am involved in that and the fundraising and accounting for his organization. I have a ’68 Camaro and my husband has a ’32 Ford Coupe. We work on cars, drive them and get together with people and go to car shows. I go to the gym. This is how I use the time for myself to unwind.
Q: Is there anything else that you enjoy doing when you're outside of work?
A: I’m a good cook and I like to cater events.
Posted on Fri, Apr 13, 2012
This week we celebrated 20 years of service from Lori Crutcher, Corporate Systems Manager, and Donnie Yeagin, Facilities Manager. We also celebrated 10 years of service from one of our Quality Control Technicians, Harold Rogers.
Pictured from left to right: Co-founders Ravi and Anil Venketrao, Harold Rogers, Lori Crutcher, Donnie Yeagin
Venkel employees were able to enjoy the beautiful Austin weather while Chi'Lantro BBQ provided a delicious variety of Korean and Mexican infused dishes including Kimchi Fries and Bulgogi Tacos.
In addition to being the "Live Music Capital of the World", Austin is quickly becoming a culinary hotspot and its food trucks and trailers are increasing the trend. Chi'Lantro has been featured in several media outlets including the Food Network and in the New York Times, and we were very excited to know that they would be catering the event.
Check out our Facebook page to see more pictures from the event.
Posted on Wed, Apr 04, 2012
We will resume regular business hours on Monday, April 9th.
Posted on Fri, Mar 30, 2012
We are excited to announce that our Facebook Timeline is now live. Please check out our new
page to see our new cover photo and view several milestones within Venkel's history.
Posted on Tue, Mar 13, 2012
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a list of 13 new candidates for the new Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) list. Those who are interested are invited to provide comments on these substances by April 12, 2012. ECHA will then post their findings and decide whether these substances will be officially added to the SVHC list. Stay tuned for the latest on this development.
See the official ECHA press release. You can also find our official REACH statement and documentation on our REACH page.
Posted on Tue, Feb 28, 2012
We are excited to announce our Google Plus page! Please follow us for up to date company and industry news.
Don’t forget that you can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Drop by and say hello on one of our social media outlets.
Posted on Fri, Feb 03, 2012
ECHA has reported over 2000 substances have been identified for registration for the 2013 deadline. At the end of 2011, ECHA released a survey to better gauge the phase-in substances that will be registered by the 2013 deadline. This deadline is to ensure that companies that manufacture or import phase-in substances over 100 tons or more a year are registered with ECHA.
The results released by ECHA revealed 2300 substances have been registered. ECHA plans on updating the list on a monthly basis and encourages those companies that have yet to register their substances to do so before the May 31, 2013 deadline. Any potential registrants can check the list of registered substances to see if any of their possible substances already exist on the list. This list is also helpful for any downstream users to know whether a substance being used has been registered or expected to be registered by the 2013 deadline. It will be interesting to see how large this list will grow by the time the deadline rolls around.
For a deeper dive, please see the ECHA website.
Venkel Ltd. offers REACH compliant Surface Mount Components. See our REACH page for more info.
Posted on Tue, Jan 17, 2012
We are thrilled to announce our latest infographic, “Conflict Minerals 3TG”. This infographic captivates its reader through illustrating the atrocities that are occurring within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It begins with a brief definition of what a Conflict Mineral is, followed up with the worldwide production of 3TG’s (Tungsten, Tin, Tantalum, and Gold).
The most compelling section of the infographic is the amount of money that is estimated to be funding the armed conflict within the DRC and is followed up with a list of other countries that are suspected of being involved in the trade of minerals from within the DRC. We hope that you find it informative. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions related to this infographic.
View the Conflict Minerals infographic.
Posted on Tue, Jan 03, 2012
As we reported last month, ECHA has added 20 new substances to the SVHC Candidate List bringing the total to 73. We have updated our REACH documentation for our Ceramic Chip Capacitors and Chip Resistors to reflect this change. Please find our new REACH documentation on our REACH page.
