{"id":489,"date":"2014-02-19T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/02e25f9.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:15:04","slug":"message-from-the-ceo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/careers-old\/message-from-the-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/careers-old\/message-from-the-ceo\/walter-koppelaar-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Walter-Koppelaar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11726\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Walter-Koppelaar-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walters Group has come a long way from the business my father founded in 1956. Every morning when I walk through our lobby, I pass by a Peddinghaus Ironworker that was purchased new in 1960. While long out of commission, this machine represents an early progressive step in mechanizing Walters. It always reminds me of where we started, and how far we have come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walters Group has come a long way from the business my father founded in 1956. Every morning when I walk through our lobby, I pass by a Peddinghaus Ironworker that was purchased new in 1960. While long out of commission, this machine represents an early progressive step in mechanizing Walters. It always reminds me of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11539,"parent":487,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Message from the Chairman - Walters Group Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waltersgroupinc.com\/careers-old\/message-from-the-ceo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Message from the Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Walters Group has come a long way from the business my father founded in 1956. 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