For over 60 years, Kalas has been delivering dependable solutions to our customers. The original founding members of the company were as passionate about manufacturing quality wire and cable products as they were about creating jobs in their local communities and opportunities for their associates.

As a privately held family business, the Kalas family spans more than the three generations of Witwer men who have held leadership positions, and extends to include all 700 associates. We come together with the collective purpose to improve the lives we touch. By honoring our commitments, delivering value, and demonstrating our dependability with collaborative partnerships, we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our materials, but also the quality of our character.

We stand by our Core Values:

• Caring
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Respect
• Rewarding
• Giving

We recycle all materials that can be reclaimed:

• All copper (insulated and bare)
• All jacket compounds
• All lead
• All paper and cardboard
• All scrap wood reels and pallets
• All plastics and rubbers
• All corrosives, flammables and inks
• All scrap metal (steel, aluminum, brass, etc.)
• Waste water at Kalas Plant 2

In addition…

• We utilize no VOC maintenance wash systems
• All of our wire inks are VOC friendly
•   We use T5, T8 & T12 lighting and motion sensor lighting in our facilities
• We are ISO 14001.2004 certified
• We were recognized for driving heavy metal out of our compounds
• Were one of the first wire and cable companies to become RoHS compliant
• Regularly complete environmental targets to reduce our impact on the environment, such as reducing our water consumption by 50% by switching to low flow water fixtures

View our Environmental Health & Safety Management Policy:

Kalas Environment, Health & Safety Management System (EHS) Policy

At Kalas, we value dependable behavior. We recognize our customers have options for their wire and cable needs, and appreciate they choose to partner with Kalas. For this reason, we recognize and reward the dependable behavior demonstrated by our employees.

Each month our production associates have the opportunity to earn rewards for demonstrating their dependability through their attendance, personal and team efforts. These rewards compound each quarter for additional rewards and are distributed to associates who achieve three consecutive months of dependability.

Associates are also rewarded when we meet our exceed our quarterly and yearly business plan targets, Every 90 days, each associate creates personalized goals with their manager to ensure they understand the value, worth, and purpose of their daily contributions and how they align to our annual objectives.

Each of our associates has access to onsite wellness coaching, biometrics screening, quarterly fitness activities, an annual health fair and a variety of other programs to improve their general health and achieve their personalized wellness goals.

All associates are also required to complete comprehensive safety training, applicable to both work and home, as part of our K.A.R.E. Program, to ensure we all take responsible and proactive steps to ensure a safe and productive work environment.

And we are careful to ensure the same attention is applied to our organizational behaviors so they are sustainable and responsible to both our manufacturing spaces and to our planet.

It is the people of Kalas who set our standards:

Reliable
Experienced
Dependable
Trusted

And that is something we celebrate.

Kalas is devoted to taking proactive steps to ensure safety; not only in our manufacturing locations, but also in the behavioral training we provide for each of our 700 associates. In 2012 we launched our K.A.R.E program with renewed focus and energy on safety. Our philosophy stresses the importance of being “Alert, Ready and Engaged” and is supplemented by the nationally renowned SafeStart® program, which reinforces basic safety principles that are applicable to both the workplace and home environments through three key criteria:

State of mind – focus on the state a person is in when an incident occurs, or is about to occur
Critical errors – focus on the errors that are being made when an incident occurs or is about to occur
Critical error reduction techniques – CERT’s are the corrective actions designed to reduce incidents from reoccuring
At Kalas, we rely on our associates to employ dependable behaviors to ensure a safe and productive atmosphere, and we give them the tools and training to effectively do so.

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Kalas EHS Policy