Noah Katzenstein is an experienced Operations Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the machinery industry. He has strong operations professional skills in operations management, manufacturing operations, sales, and business development. He has a proven track record of growing the e-commerce brand.
He has held key positions at The Artus Corporation, including Sales and Marketing, Business Developmentand Operations Manager, where he successfully led the company’s digital rebrand and ecommerce launchbuilding sales and exploring new business opportunities.
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Chris Santomassimo: Welcome back to The Think Factory podcast powered by OGC Solutions. I’m your host Chris Santomassimo from OGC Solutions and I’m here in a super interesting place in Englewood, New Jersey at The Artus Corporation and I’m sitting across the table from Noah Katzenstein who’s the Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
I’m excited because this is another example of a company in our own backyard here in New Jersey with a really rich family history doing some things that are certainly modern in many ways, traditional in others, but really just an example of American manufacturing at its finest. So welcome to the podcast.
Noah Katzenstein: Thank you Chris, appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Chris Santomassimo: So I think we got to know each other a little bit from some publicity about your company.
I think your anniversary was coming up. But I would love for folks to get to know Artus—about what you do, family history, etc. So take it away and give us an intro.
Noah Katzenstein: Sure, appreciate it. Yes, you mentioned that we have an anniversary coming up. 2026 is going to be 85 years, which we’re very proud of. So we’ve been here since 1941.
We actually started our first location was actually on Wall Street, believe it or not. Times were very different then. I don’t remember the exact year when we moved out here to Englewood, but we’ve been here for some decades now. We produce color-coded shims, gaskets, shim stock, and other precision flat pieces that you may need for any sort of industrial or mechanical application.
Chris Santomassimo: Tell folks in terms of the shim business, it’s not just the wood shim that you’re used to.
Noah Katzenstein: It’s a piece of furniture. It’s a lot more specialized. Yes, that’s correct.
If you Google shim, likely the first thing that you’ll see would be a wood shim for a door or a construction shim, something like that for windows. What we do is we work with a lot of in the power transmission industries or automotive and stuff like that, where you have rotating parts. In order to do exact alignment on a gearbox or something like that, you need to have the gears exactly aligned.
So we work in the fine precision. That’s what we like to say. Our tagline is “the color tells the thickness”, and we work from half a thousandths all the way up to an eighth of an inch. Now, for most people, an eighth of an inch seems really, really thin. In our industry, an eighth of an inch is like, “Whoa, that’s thick!” because we’re working in the fine precision area.
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