Kruse hopes for a new contract with AHA for the second half of this year. When the company began operations in 1989, it processed mailings of coupons and advertisements for the Supermarket of Savings company. It now provides mailing services for an assortment of clients. We did 30 million pieces for them last year. In 1989 Hays International Mailing Services employed about 100 people.
Employment fluctuates with the work load.
Cross Manufacturing Inc., Hays, manufactures hydraulic control valves, pumps and motors. Its products are used primarily in agriculture-related industries but also in mining, forestry and marine equipment. General manager Greg Schmidt said the last year has been a bit slow for the company, owing to difficult times for agriculture. Things like this seem to happen every few years. Cross Manufacturing is continually developing new products, Schmidt said.