Springfield Marine Company

　　Springfield Aluminum Company was founded in 1952 as a small sand cast aluminum foundry to provide castings for a fence company and prospered into what it is today, by providing quality castings for many diverse industries throughout the United States. Today, fifty years later, Springfield Marine, a division of Springfield Aluminum, continues to thrive providing a vast array of product for the majority of boat manufacturers and distributors in the United States and abroad, and till this day is the leading supplier of quality seating and accessories in the industry.

　　The leaders of Springfield Marine soon realized that America was just a starting point and driven by the vision of the Founder, Garnett Carnahan and his wife Caroline, decided to take Springfield Marine to the rest of the world. In 1990, they expanded their efforts by opening a manufacturing factory in China. This strategic location would enable them to effectively provide their products for the overseas markets at a more affordable cost and serve the domestic markets with their manufacturing plant in Nixa, Missouri. The corporation now has agents and maintenance service for regions across the globe that include Asia, Australia, Scandinavia, Europe and the United States, and has grown into the single largest supplier of seating hardware for pleasure craft boats in the world.

　　Knowing that quality was the first concern in the industry, we have invested the time and the financial resources to train our employees to gain ISO9001L2000, Certificate No. L 0086-2002-AQ-RGC-RvAL issued by DNV Certification B.V., The Netherlands. Springfield Marine also holds one of the oldest foreign individual investment licenses in Shanghai, China.

　　With the trend of manufacturers to exploiting the Asian market and the Asian market being eager to supply, Shanghai has become known as the "Pearl Gateway". Garnett and Caroline needed a way to bring buyers and sellers of various marine-related items together, so they created a "one stop shopping center" in their factory. Their in-house Sales staff bring the Customers into an environment where they show Springfield's new products and the latest trends covering a broad spectrum of product without the need to travel from place to place.

　　To promote foreign trade, in 2000, the Carnahans added a show room known as the "China Marine Trade Center" to the China factory and encouraged other manufacturers to display their products alongside their own. This has shown tremendous success and plans for expansions to the showroom scheduled for early 2003.