About Us

1976

Wayne L Nash had to act quickly when the spring company he worked for went out of business.

1977

Wayne (with help from some friends) starting his own company. With a couple of fourslide machines he rented a small building on Remembrance Rd. on the west side of Grand Rapids.

1980

Having purchased some more used equipment, Wayne needed more space so he leased an existing building at 0-379 Lake Michigan Dr. in the Standale area. The business continued to grow slowly and added some vertislide machines and a handful of employees.

1984

Due to the needs of his tool makers, Wayne added an EDM machine and hired a skilled technician to operate it for internal and external tool steel burning. Apex took the name “Apex EDM & Manufacturing”

For many years Apex supplied clips, clamps, wire forms and misc. parts for the appliance industry and grew to add office furniture customers.

1989

The EDM machines were sold but still intent on growing the business and our customer base. With the addition of Toni torsion machines we were able to make coil, compression, and torsion springs for the first time.

1990

Apex diversified its customer base to include automotive, recreational vehicles, electrical and other industries.

1993

In order to better service customers and grow our customer base. Apex began the process of expanding our quality department and system to achieve national standards and pursued
ISO Certification.

1994

A pivotal year in our history, Apex purchasing its first Press machine. We changed our name to “Apex Spring & Stamping Corporation” to better reflect what we offered.

Wayne hired Dennis Bhaskaran as General Manager after consulting as a CPA for several years. Together they planned to continue to grow Apex. In the fall of 1994 Apex achieved IS0-9000 Quality System Registration becoming the first spring company in Michigan to attain this status.

1997

With a lot of hard work, Apex started to realize the current facility was not large enough to meet our needs. Plans for a new building were drawn and the land was purchased.

1998

Dennis Bhaskaran bought into partnership with Wayne Nash. Ground was broken at 11420- 1st Avenue NW in the industrial park off Lake Michigan Dr. in Standale.

1999

In mid march Apex made the big move to our brand new 48,000 sq. foot factory.

2000-2004

Apex continued to grow adding several new employees and buying more and more spring machines. A few new presses were added along with a new EDM machine to support our tooling staff internally. During this time frame, even with the changes and challenges in the economy, Apex continued to meet the demands of current and new customers.

2004

Apex purchased a building in Howard City, MI to house our assembly processes. The facility on 1st Avenue was filling up quickly so this additional space gave us plenty of room to set up assembly equipment and hire new staff in an area where good jobs were needed.

2007

The market slow down did not deter our Senior Management. They decided to prepare for the planned increase in demand for springs and wire forms and built an additional 30,000 sq. ft. on the back of the factly to better accommodate the spring equipment and staff.

2012

Apex purchased property across the street from our facility on 1st Avenue to build the first phase of our solar farm.

2014-2015

Wayne Nash decides it’s time to retire. In addition, Ben Nash, his son, is promoted to Vice President and part owner.

Apex continued to succeed in the various markets and doubled the size of our solar farm.

2017

Additional property was purchased next to the solar farm to add a warehouse and extra docks for shipping and receiving, alleviating some of the traffic at our main manufacturing facility.

2019

The warehouse at 11381 – 1st Avenue was completed and the 44,000 sq. feet was quickly filled. An improved inventory and material handling system was added to streamline activities.

In December, 2019 Apex received its IATF certification that reflected our Quality process improvements. This distinction opened the door to serve new industries. A third solar farm was added to generate the electricity for the new warehouse.

2020

Apex provides its first parts to the EV industry.

2022

Apex celebrates 45 year anniversary.

An additional 5,000 sq. feet was added to the original building to add storage.

2023

Apex comes out of the “pandemic” strong and with the team in place ready to pivot quickly to meet the needs of our customers and looking forward to our next milestone.