![]() ![]() Modern Stainless started eight years ago with four guys in a garage welding microbrewery systems for the beer industry. Modern Stainless makes custom tanks for small and major wine labels like Mondavi and Corbell. Farther along the assembly line each welder constructed a tall, shiny wine tank. Workers rolled sheets of stainless steel into an embossing machine with smooth, practiced heaves. Walking onto the factory's floor, a visitor can smell the smoldering metal. The company has been manufacturing in Dayton for about five months. It is a faster way to keep up with his partners and employees. Shulte is an energetic leader who likes to whip around the 100,000-square-foot building on a Motiv mountain bike. ![]() "If we would've stayed there we wouldn't have been able to afford it," he said about workers' compensation. After all, about 95 percent of the company's products are shipped to Central and Northern California wineries. But he must still grin and grip a relationship with the Golden State. It was enough to make the sixth-generation Californian skip over to the Silver State. It's a vicious circle that doesn't make sense." But basically what they're doing is taking jobs and revenue. "The attitude of the government is to hate us. "They treat us (corporations) like the bad guys," Shulte said. His grievances with California are many: skyrocketing workers' compensation, high corporate taxes and complicated labor laws. Dan Shulte, CEO and president of Modern Stainless & Design Inc., left California behind in the dust of his mountain bike and swore never to return. ![]()
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