McKey Perforating Bulks Up Sales Team

The manufacturer of perforated metals and value-added services adds sales representatives to cover territories including Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana.

McKey Perforating Co. Inc. (New Berlin, WI), manufacturer of perforated metals and offering additional value-added services such as laser cutting, leveling, forming & welding, added Vectura Sales & Associates (Ann Arbor, MI) to its team to cover Michigan and Indiana. With over twenty years as an independent sales agency, Vectura Sales brings experience and energy to the territory.

Joe Dietrich, located in Mishiwaka, IN, has over 20 years of experience selling engineered hardware and metal engineered components to the RV/trailer and marine markets along with the general industrial OEMs and fabricators.

Dave Sarnacki works out of Dearborn Heights, MI and has over 25 years of experience selling specialty fasteners, stampings and metal engineered components to the automotive Tier accounts, general industry, military/defense, distributors and fabricators.

Kelly Appel is located in Grand Rapids, MI and is approaching ten years as an outside sales representative. She sells stampings, aluminum extrusions, specialty fasteners, machine parts and related engineered metal components to all industries, distributors and fabricators.

Richard Galbally started Vectura Sales and also brings over 25 years of sales experience in the Michigan market to the group. He has a metal stamping and specialty fastener background and will work to form beneficial alliances between the customer and manufacturer.

“We are proud to add Vectura Sales as part of our team,” says Dan Lesniak, McKey’s Sales Manager. “They are hands-on, courteous, hard working, ethical and looking to continually improve. Both McKey and Vectura are looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship.”

McKey Perforating also added Buffalo Metals Group, headed by Andrew Brown, to its North American sales team. The territory covered by Buffalo Metals includes the states of Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Brown has over 18 years of experience selling value added metal products to the OEM and distribution markets. Prior to starting Buffalo Metals Group he spent 16 years with Rigidized Metals Corporation, the largest deep texturing mill in North America, where he served as regional sales manager for six years and vice president of sales for ten years. Educated at the University of Southern Mississippi and Daemen College in Buffalo, NY, he now resides in Mobile, AL with his wife and two children.

“With the addition of Buffalo Metals Groups, we are anticipating growth in that sales territory. Andrew Brown’s skill and experience in the metals market make him an asset to our sales team and to the customers he serves,” says Dan Lesniak, McKey sales manager.

McKey Perforating, headquartered in New Berlin, Wisconsin, and McKey Perforated Products, located in Manchester, Tennessee, manufacture perforated products and laser-welded perforated metal tubing. The company is a woman-operated business led by Jean McKey, the president.

Founded in 1860, the company serves a diverse range of industries including architectural, electronics, lighting, filtration, food processing, construction, automotive, and public and private institutions. The company was acquired in 2012 by Diamond Manufacturing Company (Wyoming, PA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (Los Angeles, CA).