... that today is Going Metric Day? In 1973, Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs
along Interstate 71. These new signs showed the distance in both miles and kilometers.

The metric system, though standard in many nations around the world, never quite caught on in the United States,
except on major-league baseball stadium fences -- and on that highway in Ohio.

And that is why Richard and Joan Parker in the Summer of 1973 decided to call our company Metric Machining
when the company began on September 1, 1973. We wanted to be on the cutting edge...
guess the rest of the country never caught up!