Making Their Mark
Ever since the first artists in prehistory pressed red-ocher handprints on a torch-lit cave wall, enterprising humans have sought to make personal and lasting impressions.
Fast-forward roughly 40,000 years. Today, in our quick-paced digital age, skilled technicians use complex technology to engrave the identifying signs and symbols that entrepreneurs use to mark their unique products.
One such sophisticated enterprise is Buckeye Engraving of Kent, Ohio. This year, the family-run business marks four decades of manufacturing top-notch, hand-finished, custom-made metal stamps and branding irons designed for business logos, serial numbers, decorative designs and other product marking.
A percentage of the company’s output is manufactured for industrial firms, such as stamps for injection molds and the like. But the majority of their products are made for small businesses. In fact, their work is a favorite with a wide variety of craftspeople — makers of leather handbags, belts, holsters, wallets and shop aprons, copper or silver jewelry, knives and knife sheaths, pipes, decorative woodwork and much more.
As the company motto puts it, “If it’s worth making, it’s worth marking.”
AT THE SHOP
Buckeye Engraving, which grew from its parent company, Raschke Engraving, is located in a 4,000-square-foot factory in the heart of Kent’s busy industrial district, an area with deep manufacturing roots as
