On Friday, it was a fun day to be an employee at Ring Precision Components.

The business, located at 2980 Turner Road, held its annual employee appreciation day with games, food and free T-shirts. Melissa Himes, Ring human resources coordinator, said it was the third year the business held the event. Activities for first-shift employees included a water balloon toss, corn hole, a closest-to-the-pin golf competition and the use of a paintball gun.

”It helps the employees know we appreciate what they do. Without them we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” Himes said. ”It is a good time to let employees know we care. It is a nice time to talk to people you usually don’t get to see.”

Employees during the first shift received an extra-long lunch break, which is usually 30 minutes, but on Friday it was two hours.

Himes said the activities also included a Chinese auction. She said company vendors donated items for the auction, which included a golf club bag, chair, cooler, blanket and gift bags with a variety of items. She added the money from the auction will go toward the employee appreciation fund.

Ring Precision Components manufactures custom components for a wide variety of markets including injection molding, munitions, medical-pharmaceutical, compaction, steel stamping and metal-forming industries. The business’ cutting-edge manufacturing equipment and quality-control procedures ensure consistency on each and every piece, according to the company website

ringprecision.com.

Every component supplied by Ring Precision Components is manufactured to the most exacting specifications, utilizing a wide-range of equipment and processes essential for projects with unusual requirements, complex shapes, tight tolerances, special hardness and intricate machining, the website states. The end result is consistent production of replacement components year after year.