Kovach Sees Potential if Younger Workforce Steps Up | 40 Years of The Business Journal 9-16-24

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - City Machine Technologies, an industrial service company, started in 1985.
“We’re doing pretty much the same as we originally started doing only on a much larger scale,” Michael Kovach, president of City Machine Technologies says. “And that’s catering to power plants, both coal fired - which are diminishing - gas fired, hydro and also nuclear, and steel mills and heavy industry.”
The company specializes in providing engineered services and manufacturing for a wide range of industrial applications. It also maintains ventilations systems in large shopping malls, food businesses and the auto industry.
“We definitely need a younger group of people, employees in the area,” he says. “If you look at demographics, the ages, we’re a little bit older than we really should be for the potential this area has.”
The mentality needs to change, he says, noting that some people still think back to the 1950s and ’60s, the area’s heyday when steel mills were booming. But that was a dirty industry, he says.
“We’ve conquered all of that,” Kovach says. “Those dinosaurs are gone. Really, we’ve got clean industry now, good companies, and we just need a good workforce.”
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