ANODIZING
From there, SAF continued to expand and grow, buying
a line of commercial metal roof edge products in the 1990s
called Perimeter Systems, while at the same time beginning to
coil anodize in its Nashville plant, producing both toll-coated
and anodized aluminum coil products.
New Facilities
The SAF-West facility has added batch
lines after opening as a sales office.
builders preferred coming to SAF for their "one-stop" fabrication needs, and its customer base grew. That also led the
company to purchase an anodizing line in North Carolina, its
first location outside of Georgia.
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In 2003 SAF moved its custom fabricating and Perimeter
Systems manufacturing to a new, 78,000-sq-ft facility in
Winston, about 30 miles from its downtown Atlanta headquarters, where the company increased fabrication capabilities using computerized CNC fabricating equipment. Three
years later, SAF added a conveyor run paint line to the fabricating building and closed its older paint plant in Atlanta.
Penn McClatchey says the addition of almost 20,000 sq ft of
painting facility made SAF one of the few architectural fabricators with its own in-house paint line, and the company was
able to roll newly made parts directly to the paint line without
the problems of packing cost and freight damage.
In addition to growing and expanding SAF's physical plants,
the McClatcheys have also put in place a proper succession
plan for company leadership. John McClatchey retired as
president of SAF in late 2012, although he will remain chief
financial officer until 2014. His brothers, James and Penn,