When John Lindstedt entered the Navy several decades ago, he was selected for the Nuclear Propulsion Program to support the submarine program.

That meant classes 8 hours a day straight for six months, with multiple exams in between to weed out those who weren’t cut out for the stringent engineering requirements.

“I’m told it’s the equivalent of a master’s degree in seven months,” says Lindstedt, who left the Navy in 1974 to return to Milwaukee to work for his father at what was then known as Artistic Plating.

Renamed Advanced Plating Technologies, Lindstedt is retired and has his two sons running the operations: Matt is President of the company, and James is Vice President and Engineering Manager.

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