A2Z Rocky Mountain December 2015

Vol. 8, No.6 Nov/Dec 2015

Rocky Mountain Edition (CO, UT, ID, MT and WY) Your Complete Solution Provider

Offers Engineering, Automation, Design, Fabrication, And Machining To Its Customers Around The Globe

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“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.” ~Agnes M. Pahro The holidays are here, with Thanksgiving just behind us. It seems that there is such a joyous feeling in all of us that lasts through the holidays into the New Year.

With my adult children returning home for the holidays, I think about how different their generation, the Millennials, are from what Baby Boomers, like me, are.

Katie Koch, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, says, “The rise of the Millennials will have long-term investment implications.Their spending trajectory is getting steeper and increasing compared to baby boomers, who are decreasing their spending as they retire.

Their investments will be based upon different industries than baby boomers will invest in, because they prioritize instant information, quick consumption, and healthy living — themes that resonate with the 2 billion people worldwide born from 1980 to 2000.”

Studies show that Millennials are less positive about capitalism than their parents.They are more likely to support the idea of equality, especially economic equality at a higher rate.

They are the most studied generation to date. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, there are plenty of them to study, 80 million plus (the largest cohort size in history).This generation is technically savvy, almost as if it has a digital sixth sense. A wired, connected world is all that Millennials have ever known.

They are considered optimistic; with 41% satisfied with the way things are going in the country, compared with 26% of those over 30.They are more tolerant of races and groups than older generations (47% vs. 19%), with 45% agreeing with preferential treatment to improve the position of minorities.

Millennials are considered multitaskers extraordinaire. They are retraining the brain to reduce the performance deterioration of multitasking by increasing the speed of information the brain processes. This rewiring allows multiple tasks to be processed in more rapid succession.

The priorities of being a good parent and having a successful marriage are most important to Millennials. They bring a new generational personality—one of optimism, structure, team orientation, and a confidence bordering on entitlement.

What does this mean to us in business? These people are our next generation of leaders.

Millennials place a high priority in life on helping others in need, and they are more likely to thrive in a teaming environment. In your business workplace, capture their optimism and their incredible grasp of the digital world. Though we don’t understand it, embrace their ability to multitask. Rejoice and learn from their tolerance for others.

Until next issue, may your holidays be filled with happiness, health, and love. Let’s pray for a wonderful 2016. And of course, God Bless Our Troops!

Linda Daly Publisher A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Announcements & Releases

Todd Machinery Announces New Office/ Showroom in Colorado and Expansion ofTeam With Applications and Sales Engineers David Mann, owner of Todd Machinery, is pleased to announce ongoing expansion of his organization.

The company has been in business since 1951, and in 2013 David purchased it.

David says, “We have the largest group of qualified Service Technicians in the state of Utah, with additional Service Technicians in Colorado. Our latest edition, a dedicated Applications Engineer, is our next step in offering best in class service to our customers throughout the Rocky Mountain States. Please welcome Scott Oberg, Applications Engineer, pictured to the left. Scott can be reached at 801-910-1343.”

The team also just added Kyle Kafentzis to its organization as a new sales engineer supporting customers in Western Montan, Idaho, Utah, and Northern Nevada. Kyle, pictured on the right in front of his truck, has a very diverse and interesting past. He played for the Chicago Bears as a defensive back for a short while (until he was injured). He owned and operated restaurants, as well as a manufacturing company that made products for bakery packaging. He built manufacturing equipment to mass produce iced sugar cookies, and he even developed software for A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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universities to organize their compliance departments.

Kyle says he was ready to get back into manufacturing, when he was introduced to David Mann through a friend. Please welcome Kyle to your company when he stops in to see your manufacturing business.

Since David purchased Todd Machinery just a few short years ago, the company expanded from Utah, Idaho, and Montana, and they now support customers in these states plus now in Colorado andWyoming. David says business is growing in Colorado, so much so that the company made the decision to expand with an office and showroom in Commerce City, CO, conveniently located between the airport and Denver.

WhileTodd Machinery is renown for its expertise and customer support in machine tool service and maintenance, the company carries a full line of machine tools, offering CNC lathes, mills, screw machines, waterjets, EDM machines, vertical and horizontal machining centers, grinders, presses, saws, and EDM consumables.

For more information on Todd Machinery, and how they can sell you the best machine tools with superior aftermarket support, contact them at 801 294 6390 in Utah, 303 905 7548 in Colorado, and 208 960 0043 in Idaho.You can also visit their website at toddmachinery.com Announcements Continued Page 8

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GOT CIMATRON? More than 40 AMBA member companies are using Cimatron CAD/CAM software to increase productivity and shorten delivery times.

Learn more at www.bettermoldmaking.com or call 248-596-9700 ext. 237 today.

See What AMBA Members That Use Cimatron Say: “Our efficiency has been increasing incredibly. I know it has impacted our bottom line. We can take on more business, because we are not spending as much time in design. The flow from design to manufacturing is much smoother, shortening our delivery dates, making us more efficient and improving quality.”

Kent Smith, President, Diamond Tool & Engineering “Cimatron has really helped us stay ahead of the curve when it comes to creating more sophisticated molds, such as those required for products with blended curves. Without Cimatron in place, designing and producing such goods would be nearly impossible.”

Thomas LaMarca, Jr., Owner, L&Z Tool and Engineering “We believe one of the things that sets LS Mold apart from other shops is our Cimatron CAD/CAM capabilities. Cimatron really listened to our needs and it shows in how they implement our requirements in the software. The modeling package is first rate. It particularly shines in electrode creation. Customer support from Cimatron is outstanding.”

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Here is what one customers commented. “It was wonderful to see over 300 companies and share the latest machines and technology from Haas, including a new 5 axis machine, a new Haas Bar Feeder, a new air filter system, and an automatic coolant system. Haas just continues to come out with new and better machines. It is always great to have them meet the rest of the team too. When you have a chance to meet the people on the other end of the phone it really helps.”

HFO sales and applications representatives were on-hand to answer questions as guests watched live machine demonstrations running throughout the day on the Haas UMC-750, DM-1 with a Fanuc Robot, VM2, ST-20 and TL-2. Also participating in this year’s event were the industry’s leading tooling, work holding and CAD/CAM manufacturers sharing their insights and assisting customers in adapting the newest machines technology and manufacturing strategies to their shop floor.

Moncktons Machine Tools partnered with Productivity in June 2015 to become one of the largest machine tool dealers in the USA. With full time applications, automation, tooling and machine tool support they have everything the customer needs to make parts.

J.M. Grisley Awarded ‘Outstanding Distributor of the Year’ by Doosan For the 2nd Straight Year!

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Announcements Continued Haas Demo Day 22 Draws Hundreds Cimetron_CCI.indd 1

Haas Factory Outlet-Denver and Salt Lake City would like to thank all of our customers and potential customers who attended our latest Haas Demo Day. The event highlighted the capabilities of the latest machines and new options from Haas Automation.

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Lars Grisley, Managing Director for J.M. Grisley, thanks all of the company’s loyal customers for helping the company to win a prestigious award.

Lars says, “We are so thankful to our customers for helping J.M. Grisley to be chosen as Announcements Continued Page 10

We Know Long Products Improved turnaround on your production cutting orders for bar, tubing or structural shapes. Ryerson high-speed, precision carbide saws deliver close tolerance semi-finished parts in high volumes.

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‘Distributor of the Year’ by Doosan. It is the 2nd year in a row that we have been honored with this award.”

Located in Salt Lake City, UT, J.M. Grisley Machine Tools is a full service distributor of machine tools used in the metal working industry. The company sells both new and used equipment in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana and Wyoming. J.M. Grisley has been providing high quality machines and expertise to the Intermountain West for over 90 years. Just recently,the company was awarded the regions of Colorado and New Mexico for sales, service and distribution of Doosan machine tools.

J.M. Grisley offers both multi-axis CNC and manual machine tools including Machining Centers, Turning Centers, Boring Mills, Wire EDM, Sinker EDM, and Accessories for both production and prototype.The company services customers in the Aerospace, Oil Field, Medical and Job Shop applications.

To learn how J.M. Grisley can help you with your machining needs, contact them at (801)-486-7519 or visit jmgrisleymachine.com

MEP Announces The Addition Of TDMI (Technology-Driven Market Intelligence) And Tech Scouting To Their Service Offering MEP Utah a local manufacturing development company recently announced the addition of two new service offerings. TDMI(TechA2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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nology-Driven Market Intelligence)and Tech Scouting.

New or existing technology may be required in developing new products, as well as in correcting problems with products or processes.

Unfortunately, small and mid-sized manufacturers (SMEs) may not have access to, or even be aware of, available technologies.

“We are pleased to announce the addition of these services,” says Chad Parker Executive Director of MEP Utah. “These services will expand our ability to really help Utah Manufacturers grow their business!”

Successfully launching a new product or entering a new market requires real-world insight into specific barriers and opportunities (both technical and market) to make effective strategic, development, and investment decisions.

Technology-Driven Market Intelligence (TDMI) is a service that provides a systematic and comprehensive approach to technology-focused market intelligence. Unlike traditional market research,TDMI directly considers the technical and market viability of your asset and provides the customized actionable intelligence you need.

Technology Scouting uses a systematic approach to help SMEs find technology solutions. This method, combined with MEP’s extensive partnership network (access to government, university, and private sector research), allows companies to find technology solutions outside their industry. This broader perspective can result in unexpected, but effective, solutions.

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In Utah, Montana & Wyoming & Now In Colorado and New Mexico

J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc. 1485 SOUTH 300 WEST, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 801.486.7519 www.jmgrisleymachine.com

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“We are pleased to tell you that we are now operational in Colorado, and ready to handle all parts, service and sales for our new Doosan customers in Colorado and New Mexico. J.M. Grisley, in business for 90 years, has sold Doosan machine tools into Utah, Montana and Wyoming for the past 3 decades.

We additionally thank our customers for helping us to win the distinctive ‘Outstanding Distributor of the Year’ for 2 years running. In these uncertain times, you can feel confident when you purchase your Doosan machine tools from J.M. Grisley, whether your business is in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, or New Mexico. Trust your machine tool purchases from a family-run company that has been supporting the industry for 90 years now!”

Regards, Lars Grisley, Managing Director, J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc. A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Announcements Continued

Working with U.S. manufacturers to accelerate business growth is MEP’s most critical role now and into the future. MEP is doing this by providing a framework that makes possible manufacturers’ pursuit of new product development, market expansion and diversification, and increased sales and profitability.

MEP Utah works with Utah Manufacturers to identify and implement best practices that lead to increased profitability through training, certification and advising. MEP doesn’t make the products you buy, We make the companies you buy them from better! www.mep.org

Delcam Launches 2016 FeatureCAM With New High-Efficiency Roughing Delcam has launched the 2016 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software.

This includes a range of enhancements, in particular more options for the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, support for bar-fed mills, more efficient turning and user-interface improvements to make programming even easier and faster.

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ware when it was launched in 1995. Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths that give greater productivity on a wider range of machinery, including mill-turn machines, five-axis mills and wire EDM equipment.

The 2016 release includes a number of enhancements to the Vortex area-clearance strategy. Vortex gives the fastest safe metal removal from solid carbide tooling, in particular designs that give deeper cuts by using the full flute length as the cutting surface. It produces toolpaths with a controlled engagement angle and so maintains the optimum cutting conditions for the complete roughing cycle, giving faster machining and longer tool life.

The ability has now been added to adjust and fine tune the non-cutting moves of 2.5D and 3D Vortex toolpaths, with options to retract the tool and/or to increase the feedrate. These options can be set individually, or can be combined to achieve an optimum toolpath, with a reduced cycle time.

Milling of inside or outside groove features has been upgraded with a number of improvements. These include support for different types of roughing links, wind-fan approach and retract moves for finishing, better gouge checking for plunges and retracts, and tool radius and partline cutter compensation support.

Support has been added to FeatureCAM for multi-tasking bar-fed milling machines, such as the Mazak Integrex I150, and the WilleAnnouncements Continued Page 14

Best value for the money. The NEW EM Series is a high-speed VMC with a cost savings that hammers the competition.

It delivers more bang for your buck and increases your production capabilities. The series is engineered with efficiency to satisfy the need for large quantity machining. Choose from three models: EM1620L, EM2033L and EM2040L. Pricing starts a $48,500 for EM1620L. The major parts of the machine are constructed of high-quality Meehanite cast iron, which offers superior stability. The machine's base is supported by full-travel, enabling it to be suitable for high-speed machining. All three axes are built with high-speed linear ways providing smooth quick movement without delay. The series ranges from 16" x 20" to 20" x 40". The series has a table load of up to 1,320 lbs. with an overall table dimension of up to 47" x 20". Travel on the X, Y and Z axes are up to 40" x 20.8" x 20".

The series provides fast interpolation, minimizing machining time with high, rapid speed, up to 1,889.7ipm. The powerful 20HP spindle motor handles up to 10,000rpm, combining an attractive finish surface in high-speed with enough torque in lower rpm.

Another benefit is quick pick-up speed, with high-speed rigid tapping. Tool capacity is 24 ATC arm type, with a random tool change.

See what the NEW EM Series can do for you. Contact your local dealer or Chevalier for our comprehensive product line for all your machining needs. Call Chevalier's at 800-243-8253 or visit us at www.ChevalierUSA.com.

Announcements Continued men-Macodel 408T and 508T. Access to the back of the component is possible with an option to set the swivel angle of the machine, with additional cut-off operations now available that use milling tools.

Five-axis swarf machining has been made more flexible with a new option to control the upper and lower Z limits of a simultaneous five-axis swarf toolpath. This is useful if there are limitations on the tool length that can be used or if the stepdown needs to be varied for different segments of the toolpath.

For users of FeatureTURN, the selection of turning tools has been simplified with the ability to use a single tool in multiple orientations.

This new automatic tool orientation categorises tooling into either outside-diameter or inside-diameter turning tools, so shortening the time taken to program parts and reducing the number of different tools required in the tool crib. For further information on FeatureCAM, please contact:-Peter Dickin, Marketing Manager; 44 (0)121 683 1081

Royal Products Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center Helps Extend the Operating Life of CNC Machines The Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center from Royal Products, a leading U.S. manufacturer of machine tool performance accessories, A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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increases the accuracy, capability and functionality of multi-tasking CNC machines, while extending their operating life.

“The Royal Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center is the perfect choice for all multi-tasking machines,” explained Brian Mecca, Director of Sales, Royal Products. “It’s specifically designed to protect the latest multi-tasking CNC machines with lower turrets and sub-spindles.”

The Royal Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center’s spring-loaded design overcomes the lack of hydraulic compensation on tailstocks, which protects lower turrets and sub-spindles against overloading or crashes. The outstanding sealing characteristics of the center’s exclusive Royal Roto-Shield™ coolant slinger and an upgraded, springloaded neoprene shield that’s resistant to abrasion, high temperatures, and virtually all metalworking fluids also give it a bearing life superior to other spring-type live centers.

The Royal Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center is extremely accurate, with runout guaranteed to +/-0.0001” TIR or better. It also incorporates a heavy-duty bearing configuration and optimized spring-pak, which makes it ideal for all multi-tasking CNC machines.

For more than 65 years, Royal Products has designed and built precision metalworking accessories to help manufacturers maximize the performance of their machine tools. An ISO-registered company, Announcements Continued Page 16

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For more information about the Ultimate™ Multi-Tasking Live Center, visit www.RoyalProducts.com or call 800-645-4174.

Haas – the Official Machine Tool of Haas F1 Team Haas Automation, Inc., is proud to announce that it is the official machine tool supplier of Haas F1 Team, and will be along for the ride when the team takes to the track in 2016.

Desert EDM Announces Expansion “We’re On The Move” To New Location!

Desert EDM is pleased to announce its expansion in Arizona. It has moved from its old Fountain Hills location to its New Location in Tempe, AZ (1419 West 12th Place #103, Tempe).

Brett Ellenson, Regional Director for the company, says, “Our new location is much more convenient for our customers. We are hearing a resounding appreciation, as now it is much easier for them to stop in for EDM consumables.”

With the expansion, the company acquired a new delivery truck for customer deliveries. Brett says, “In addition, our new larger facility has More Than Doubled our warehouse space than in our previous facility.”

He continued, “We have the room to stock Machinery now, aligning us with our business model in WI, and today, we have 2 EDM machines and a CNC Router available on our floor.”

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Announcements Continued Haas F1 Team will make its debut in the FIA For mula One World Championship in 2016, becoming the first American-led Formula One team in 30 years. Already, many of the precision parts and assemblies that go into building the team’s Formula One car – as well as into the related equipment needed to run the global, 21race schedule – are being made on Haas CNC machines.

At Haas F1 Team’s U.S. headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina, the machine shop is constantly buzzing, with complex, high-precision parts, large and small, being made by American machinists using Haas CNC machines. The team currently has 17 Haas machines in its 7000-square-foot shop, including three UMC-750SS 5-axis universal machining centers, four 5-axisVF-5TR andVF-6TR trunnion VMCs, a 50-taper VF-11 VMC, four Haas ST-seriesY-axis turning centers, and a 5-axis GR-712-5AX gantry router.

An additional UMC-750SS and four other Haas machines will also be installed at Haas F1 Team’s European headquarters.

Nelson Engineering Named Honeywell’s Supplier of the Year for 2015 Recently, Nelson Eng ineer ing was named Honeywell’s Supplier of the Year for 2015. This acknowledgment was in response to our exceptional quality and delivery metrics combined with our ability to react to several critical need situations during the past year. Out of over 1900 Honeywell suppliers including large, multi-national corporations, we were one of two that received recognition.

Nelson Engineering would like to thank our employees and vendors for making this achievement possible.

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New Romi C420 x 40” CNC/Manual combination lathe is being shipped to us right now. 16.9” swing over bed, 4,000RPM 10HP motor. Great Tool Room or prototype lathe.

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Mazak QTN-250M-Y turning center. 35 H.P. main spindle motor, “Y” axis milling capability, 12 station VDI turret, 3.0” bar capacity.

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United Performance Metals Recognized For Supplier Excellence United Performance Metals was honored to be recognized for outstanding performance in quality and on-time delivery by their valued customer, ACMT,AdChem ManufacturingTechnologies, Inc. The combined efforts of sales, purchasing, and production within United Performance Metals and its specialty divisions, Aerodyne Alloys and Vulcanium were acknowledged by ACMT, and a Certificate of Achievement was presented to United Performance Metals as a token of this valued Announcements Continued Page 18 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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from manufacturing companies across North America.

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customer/supplier relationship.

United Performance Metals is a leading supplier of stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, nickel alloys and cobalt alloys. The company’s comprehensive inventory of high temperature, high strength and corrosion resistant alloys includes sheet, coil, strip, plate and near net shapes that can be processed to customers’ exact specifications using its proprietary FIRSTCUT+® Services.

For more information on United Performance Metals and its specialty divisions, visit www.upmet.com.

New Mazak SmartBox and the Industrial Internet of Things captivate attendees

Mazak’s SmartBox is described as the industry’s first – “launch platform for easy and highly secure entrance into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).” With MTConnect technology at its foundation, the open-protocol SmartBox facilitates connectivity of machines and devices, while allowing for enhanced monitoring and analytical capabilities. SmartBox also introduces advanced cyber security protection resulting from a key partnership between Mazak and Cisco Systems Inc. for the development of the SmartBox. Such openness gives the SmartBox adaptability and flexibility in terms of a user’s application, existing facility software and operational needs. The strategy of non-exclusivity with any one software platform allows users the freedom to choose any software based on performance levels and capabilities and select the package that best fits their needs and fulfills their particular analytical expectations.

During DISCOVER 2015, Mazak showcased the power of SmartBox in one of the automated cells that are part of the company’s own manufacturing operations. This offered attendees a firsthand look at the device in action within an actual manufacturing environment and facility network.

Download the white paper to learn more about the Mazak SmartBox, and visit Cisco’s blog to learn more about the partnership.

Northern UtahTooling and Machining Association Announces New Board Members And Invites You To Their Meeting on 12/10

The Northern Utah Tooling and Mazak Corporation asserted its leadership in manufacturing technology at its recent DISCOVER 2015 Machining Association (NUNTMA) event where attendees flocked to see the company’s new SmartBox technology along with over 30 of the is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 industry’s most advanced machine tools. The technology and education event held Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 3-5 at the company’s North American Manufacturing Headquarters in Florence, Ky., welcomed attendees Announcements Continued Page 20 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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IBC Welcomes Bilz Tool Co. USA as its Newest Prefer red Supplier IBC is pleased to announce the addition of Bilz Tool Co. USA, as the organization’s newest Preferred Supplier. Bilz tool clamping systems are used worldwide on a broad variety of machines and in a multitude of applications. The company prides itself in its continual process of development – a commitment that leads to ongoing improvement of existing product lines plus innovative new products.

With U.S. headquarters in Lombard, Ill., and subsidiaries in England, Italy, France, and India, Bilz manufactures clamping tools in the fields of tapping and high-performance tools. A trusted partner in the automotive and machine tool industry for over 90 years, the firm has 430 employees in Asia and Europe who develop and produce high-quality, modern solutions for tool clamping applications in 34 different countries.

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NUNTMA Board. Please contact any of the board members to see how you can benefit from the association.

Steve Van Orden-President, Paramount Machine Shop Bry Davis-Vice President, Brendell Manufacturing Rick Strehl-Outgoing President/Chapter Support, Tool Design Travis Zollinger-Treasurer, Apex Machine Reid Leland-Trustee/NRL, Leanwerks Manufacturing Broc Bryson-Recruiting, MSC Kyle Ellis-Secretary, Blue Sun Manufacturing Matt Wardle-Workforce Development,JD Machine

In addition to its high manufacturing standards, Bilz emphasizes application support and customer service. For instance, tools are often customized to suit individual customer requirements. In June, the company introduced a new Diebold product called CentroGrip®, which combines cutting tool run-out (TIR) with maximum flexibility. An ultra-high precision collet system, CentroGrip provides maximum tool accuracy with excellent collet interchangeability.

Andrea Marquez, Controller, said Bilz recently launched a new branding campaign with the tagline, “Your Connection to Performance.” As part of that overall effort, the company aligned itself with IBC in order to better service the members it was already working with while also

Maddie Wardle, Chapter Executive, says, “There are so many benefits to joining The NUNTMA.Come check out our next meeting - it will be held on 12/10 at noon.” The meeting will feature presenter: Jeff Francis from the Manufacturing Extension Program, presenting on ‘The Power Of Kaizen’. It will be held at the OWATC - 200 N. Washington Blvd, Ogden, UT, Union Building (UB 107-108). Contact Maddie Announcements Continued Page 22 at chapterexec@NUNTMA.ORG for more information.

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Announcements Continued reaching out to new ones.

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The organization provides multi-location customers a streamlined, cost-effective, dynamic purchasing source for national and regional contracts. IBC provides its Independent Distributors and Preferred Suppliers with the tools, resources, and market access needed to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace, including a unique collaboration forum. IBC is a Hispanic Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).To learn more about Bilz Tool Co. USA, call (847) 734-9390, or visit the company online at http://www.bilzusa.com.

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Glen James came to us with a wealth of experience from highly regarded manufacturers with well over 20 years of operating CNC mills and lathes. He can apply several popular machine controls, streamline machining processes and has strong editing skills.

He had responsibilities for setting up jobs, the selection and presetting of tools.

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FABTECH 2015 Celebrated Manufacturing Strength and Innovation in Chicago FABTECH 2015, North America’s largest collaboration of technology, equipment and knowledge in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industries, welcomed more than 1,700 exhibiting companies and a total of 43,836 attendees from over 90 countries.

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You likely know CAID Industries as a premier metal fabrication company that can manufacture complicated projects or extremely large parts. Since 1947, the company has been renown for this unique capability.The company has extensive experience designing, fabricating, and erecting a large variety of industrial and commercial projects. Some examples of projects include industrial plant work, architectural features, structural trusses, repetitive manufacturing, mining product technologies, processing plants, municipal art, and R&D rapid prototyping.The company is a closely held corporation, owned and operated by its key employees, with an ESOP. Its products are shipped throughout the world, with literally 50% of their business outside of the US. The CAID headquarters campus is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it sits on 30 acres of fenced-in yard and over 260,000 square feet of office and production facilities. The campus is so expansive that each building houses several bicycles, which the employees utilize to get around.

Earlier this year, CAID industries acquired Black Box Engineering, Inc. of Logan, UT. BBE is an engineering, automation, integration and fabrication company that serves oil & gas, medical device, plastic processing and thermal spray industries. The acquisition was a natural fit in CAID’s long term growth plan and when combined with the existing engineering team in Tucson will help position CAID to be a leader in the field of packaged and integrated systems.

Black Box Engineering founder Zac Humes, says, “The integrity and direction the leadership of CAID are in direct alignment with what we have strived for at BBE which makes the acquisition a clean and logical move for both companies. It has been a great opportunity to work with CAID for the last couple of years. The talent and facilities of CAID are among the most unique and impressive I have had the pleasure to work with. I am honored by their trust and I believe the growth of both companies will be magnified greatly as a single team.We at BBE look forward to a long and bright future of the Engineered Systems Division and CAID as a whole.”

CAID Industries now promotes itself as “Your Complete Solution Provider” through its 5 synergistic business divisions. The Fabrication and Mine Technology divisions are the legacy divisions but now are complemented with 3 new divisions that have been created over the last 4 years; • Engineered Systems • Machining Services • Automation A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Engineered Systems Division The Engineered Systems Division specializes in designing and manufacturing turnkey engineered packages for the handling and measurement of fluids or gases within several industries, including oil/gas, mining/materials, chemical processing and water. The Engineered Systems division successfully delivered 91 packaged skid systems during its first year in 2014, which demonstrated CAID’s agility on bringing online a new division and new services to market. The competitive advantage CAID has in packaging complex systems into skid systems is its vertically integrated capabilities. After the packaged system is engineered and designed, CAID’s other divisions execute on their portion of the project from fabrication to machining to automation controls to the final integration and testing.

CAID’s 3 new divisions are proving to be a sound business decision for the company. It has expanded its team across the globe to ~300 employees, 250 in Tucson, Arizona, and the remaining 50 between Chile and its new location in Logan, Utah. Rob says, “Our new business required a much larger team of Engineers, which spans the Mechanical, Electrical,

Structural, Software and Process disciplines of engineering. Today we have around 30 degreed engineers on staff, with 8 PEs.” “Our best in class staff combined with world class facilities and equipment truly sets us apart from others. It allows us to be an industry leader”, says Rob Assenmacher.

Automation Division In 2012 the company launched the ‘Automation Division’, which offers design, engineering, and development of automatic, semi-automatic and robotic production and testing equipment for the biotechnology, medical, automotive, manufacturing, and mining industries.

Juan Cardenas, Vice President of Sales and Applications for CAID Automation, says, “Our customers come to us to solve complex manufacturing problems through automation.

Since every project is unique, CAID Automation relies on innovation and experience in order to design and build robotic machines that have never been built before. Our unique machines cover a vast range of applications, from assembling a miniscule medical device for insulin delivery to the high pressure testing of large fracking tools.We not only provide our customers with quality and innovation, but also with complete transparency and integrity.”

Since automation systems require more of a factory clean environment, the Automation Division today resides in a separate 15,000 square foot facility, about a mile from the CAID campus. The division will remain there until CAID’s next building expansion is completed, which is slated to be built in 2016.

Machining Services Division While CAID has long had a small machine shop (generally used for internal consumption), in 2013 they made the decision to add a dedicated machine shop as its own profit center, and this meant that CAID would actively support customers with machining needs, machining very small precision parts to extremely large parts.

Jeff runs this division today, and he says, “We purchased a number of CNC machines for the new shop, including horizontal and vertical mills and lathes, much like you could see in many machine shops.” He continued, “But we didn’t just procure traditional CNC machines — we purchased some of the largest machines in theWestern United States. Our Shibaura 5-axis horizontal machine can machine parts that weigh 200,000 lbs. and has travel ranges of 118” =Y x 420”=X x 63”=Z with 360 degree rotary capabilities. Our Phoenix CNC vertical turning machine with live tooling spans 103” x 94”. At CAID, we like huge parts.” Jeff says their cranes can move parts/products as heavy as 120,000 lbs.

CAID’s machine shop supports a wide range of materials, from plastics, foam, aluminum, copper, carbon steel and stainless steel.

The CAID machine shop has grown from 3 machinists just 2 years ago, to 23 today, and it achieved profitability in its first year of operation while supporting the growth and needs of other CAID divisions.

Success Factors √ Planned Growth - Aggressive well planned out growth is a key factor in CAID’s success.

The company is expert in vertical integration, and they seek out large projects where the end product or solution requires large sizes and complexity. √ Certification - CAID has the certifications that their customers require, including ASME Code stamps for shop and field welding of tanks, pressure vessels, piping, and boilers, AISC and UL508A, and ISO 9001.Today, CAID has more than 50 ASME certified welders on staff. √ Financial Strength - Since its inception, CAID has utilized its revenue stream to fund its growth. Jeff says, “One of the reasons I came to CAID was because of its financial stability.” The company owns all of its land, buildings, and equipment. √ In-House Processes - CAID brings processes in-house when they feel it will improve quality and delivery. Today, the company offers in-house paint and sand blasting, and its plans for the near term are to add in-house heat-treating. √ Always Put Employees First - CAID has very low attrition with its workforce and many tenured employees. “Our employees are our most important asset and we work hard every year to take care of them through our corporate culture and strong employee benefits program”, says Bill Assenmacher, CEO. √ Giving Back To The Community - Rob says, “Supporting local communities has been a CAID priority since the company was founded in 1947. CAID’s direct contributions and in- kind donations help over 30 charities annually. Our leadership has supported numerous capital projects for the Habitat for Humanity,The University of Arizona Medical Center, Ronald McDonald House, St. Mary’s Hospital, the YMCA and several churches.”

To learn more about how CAID Industries can help you with your complex projects, whether they require design, automation, large fabrication, and/or machining, contact them at 520-294-3126 or visit Caid.com.

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Boeing’s Insitu Drones Tested For Inspecting Rail Lines Insitu, the unmanned aerial systems subsidiary of Boeing, recently began a weeklong trial using its ScanEagle surveillance drone to inspect a 132mile stretch of railway in New Mexico.

In partnership with BNSF Railway, a series of flights between Clovis and Belin, N.M., is planned as part of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) program to develop regulations for the commercial use of drones.

The ScanEagles will allow BNSF to inspect its rail infrastructure in isolated areas.

“The capabilities these aircraft have to gather additional intelligence that can then be fed in real-time to track inspectors on the ground will fundamentally enhance our program and the safety of the our railroad while helping to keep our people safe in harsh and extreme conditions,” said Greg Fox, BNSF executive vice president for operations.

In two parallel trials, the FAA will work with CNN to research how drones might be used for newsgathering in urban areas; and with Raleigh, N.C.-based drone developer PrecisionHawk, to test the use of drones to survey crops in rural areas.

Colorado’s ULA Makes Launches Cheaper, More Flexible As It Faces SpaceX Competition United Launch Alliance appears to be fulfilling its pledge to reduce costs and better compete on price with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. NASA awarded Centennial-based ULA a single-launch contract to have an Atlas V rockets lift a space communications satellite into orbit.

NASA’s cost for ULA’s services: $138 million. That’s more than twice the $61 million price that Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX -- also known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. -- publicizes for a standard Falcon 9 rocket.

But the price ULA is charging NASA for the 2017 launch of its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M is 15 percent lower than the cheapest launch in ULA’s current five-year contract from the U.S. Air Force to launch military satellites.

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That bulk buy of 36 rockets, reached at the end of 2013, reduced the Air Force’s cost for the launches by a total of $4.4 billion across the contract.

The cheapest launch in the bulk buy, according to ULA, was projected to be $164 million.

NASA’s latest buy shows ULA is now able to go cheaper than that for single launches. ULA’s doing it for other customers, too. Source: Denver Business Journal

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Penton’s Aviation Week Network Finds Commercial Aircraft Deliveries Expected to Exceed $3 Trillion Worldwide Over Decade

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ATK Launch Systems Wins Air Force Contract ATK Launch Systems Inc., Corrine, Utah, has been awarded a $790,300,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, maximum ceiling contract for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) propulsion subsystem support. Contractor will provide sustaining engineering support and program management support services for the ICBM propulsion subsystem.

The primary focus will be to ensure any modifications or changes to the propulsion subsystem will maintain and improve system-level performance.

Work will be performed at Corrine and Magna Utah, and is expected to be complete by Nov. 4, 2016.This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with three offers received. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $6,025,800 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8214-16-C-0001).

Colorado, Denver Benefit From California Companies Moving, Says Report

Colorado ranks fourth on a list of states that California companies are moving to, according to a relocation company’s new report.

Colorado ranks No. 4 behind Texas, Nevada and Arizona in states where California companies are moving and the Denver area ranks No. 7 in metro areas where they’re moving. Austin, Texas leads the metro list.

Colorado and the Denver area have benefited from 9,000 California companies that have moved out of that state, according to a new report.

The 378-page report, “Businesses Continue to Leave California: A Seven-Year Review,” was compiled by Joseph Vranich, who operates Spectrum Locations Solutions, a relocation company based in Irvine, California.

How does Vranich come up with 9,000 companies have left California? He said 1,510 companies have left and their departures are public record. The rest? “Site selection experts I’ve been in touch with conservatively estimate that a minimum of five events fail to become known for every one that does,” Vranich says in his executive summary of his report.

Why are companies leaving California to come to places like Colorado? “There are three answers and they relate to California’s business environment: Regulations, taxes and anxiety.”

Last year, cloud-computing provider Granicus received a Colorado Economic Development Commission grant to move from San Francisco to Denver.

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Two Colorado aerospace companies will have to wait to learn if they get a piece of $14 billion in NASA contracts for delivering supplies to the orbiting International Space Station.

Awarding what is NASA’s biggest current contract opportunity was scheduled for last month, but NASA instead said it needs more time and would award contracts before Jan. 30, 2016.

Billions of industry dollars hang in the balance for three local aerospace employers. It’s the second delay by NASA. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (LMSS), based in Jefferson County, and Louisville-based Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems both bid for some of the work.They, like bidder Chicago-based Boeing Co., proposed using rockets made by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance.

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Praxair Expands Production Capacity in Utah to Meet Regional Demand

Boeing found recently its bid is no long being considered, spokeswoman Kelly Kaplan confirmed.

Praxair, Inc. announced that it will upgrade its air separation liquefaction capabilities in the Salt Lake City, Utah area to meet demand in the region. A new liquefier will be added to Praxair’s plant, which will nearly double the production of both liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen.The project is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017.

It’s believed LMSS was dropped from consideration last month, though the company isn’t confirming that.

This additional liquid capacity will serve the growing requirement of customers across a variety of end-markets, including food, aerospace and refining.

“Demand for liquid products in the area, including Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada continues to grow,” said Armando Botello, west region vice president of Praxair’s U.S. industrial gases business. “Our investment will further position Praxair to efficiently supply the growing demand from existing and new customers throughout the region.”

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“SNC received notification this morning that the government has decided to re-open discussions with (bidders) in the competitive range,” the company’s statement said. “SNC was selected to re-open discussions regarding its CRS2 proposal.”

Two private rocket companies still competing for the next round of NASA’s cargo business — Elon Musk’s SpaceX, based in Hawthorn, California, and Orbital ATK, based in Dulles, Virginia — currently deliver ISS cargo for NASA under contracts awarded in 2008.

But each company had rockets explode during their last mission and have yet to return to flight.

Orbital ATK has contracted its next two ISS cargo flights to ULA. It confirmed Thursday its bid for new cargo contracts is still being considered by NASA. SpaceX — also known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — has stated it hopes to be launching rockets again by year’s end. It’s not known how its accident investigation affects NASA’s risk assessment of its bid proposal for the next round of cargo contracts.

SpaceX declined to comment ahead of NASA’s contract award, said spokesman John Taylor.

NASA originally intended to award the contracts in June. It put off the decision then and again in September saying more time was needed to assess complex proposals.

The cargo resupply work is considered crucial for SNC Space Systems’ Dream Chaser.

The company, a division of Sparks, Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp., has won past NASA funding to develop the space plane, which is designed for cargo and to fly astronauts. But SNC lost out on NASA’s contract awarded last year for taking astronauts to the ISS. Winning cargo ferrying work is considered its best source of funding for SNC Space Systems to finish the Dream Chaser development and start regularly flying it.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that NASA eliminated LMSS’s proposal due to its complexity and expense. That has not been independently confirmed. LMSS has not commented on the report, and it wouldn’t say Thursday whether the LMSS proposal is still in the running.

“As this is still a pending procurement, our statement isn’t changing,” said Allison Rakes, an LMSS spokeswoman. “We won’t comment on our status.”

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Selle Royal to Open New Facility in Utah The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), along with Selle Royal group, is pleased to announce that Selle Royal group will be opening a new facility in Utah, with a plan to generate 65 jobs in the next 7 years.

“Utah is truly a global hub for outdoor products,” said Val Hale, executive director of GOED. “It’s wonderful to see an established international company like Selle Royal group recognize this and join the ranks.We look forward to the contributions they will make to our outdoor recreation industry.”

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Selle Royal group has indicated that the expansion will create up to 65 jobs over the next seven years. The total wages in aggregate are required to exceed 110 percent of the Weber County average wage.The projected new state wages over the life of the agreement are expected to be approximately $16,195,500. Projected new state tax revenues, as a result of corporate, payroll and sales taxes, are estimated to be $1,360,515 over seven years. The project is expected to generate up to $4 million in capital investment.

Selle Royal group may earn up to 20 percent of the new state taxes they will pay over the seven-year life of the agreement in the form of a post-performance Economic Development Tax Increment Finance (EDTIF) tax credit rebate. As part of the contract with Selle Royal group, the GOED Board of Directors has approved a post-performance tax credit rebate not to exceed $272,103. Each year as Selle Royal group meets the criteria in its contract with the state, it will earn a portion of the total tax credit rebate.

Northrop Gets Defense Lifeline in $80 Billion Bomber Contest Northrop Grumman Corp., shut out of prime contracts for U.S. warplanes since the B-2 in the 1980s, won a Pentagon sweepstakes valued at as much as $80 billion to build the Air Force’s LongRange Strike Bomber.

In beating a team of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., Northrop overcame the world’s two largest defense contractors and secured a financial lifeline stretching into the 2020s.The plane, still highly classified after years of planning, will be the military’s first new bomber since the Cold War and one of the biggest U.S. weapons systems of the next decade.

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“There was a David and Goliath situation going on,” said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst at consultant Teal Group. “This is disappointing for Lockheed Martin, pretty bad for Boeing, but transforma-

tional for Northrop Grumman. They go from being a collection of operating units to a first-tier prime with a strong central core.”

The new plane will join the B-2 and is due to be deployed in the mid-2020s as the successor to the 37-year-old B-1 and the Eisenhower-era B-52.The Air Force wants a durable, stealthy aircraft that can fly deep into enemy territory to attack hidden or mobile targets.

What that plane will look like is still unknown, at least to the public.

A Northrop commercial during the Super Bowl subtly tried to link its jet -- shown as a shrouded flying-wing shape -- to past aviation glories such as the B-2, which entered service in 1989. But there has been no indication whether the new jet will resemble that shape or some other design.

Northrop’s proposal is “the best value for our nation,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a news conference at the Pentagon.

“Northrop has won ‘the’ military aircraft award of the decade, and assuming that it goes to plan this will be a key driver of revenue growth for at least the next 10 years,” Robert Stallard, an RBC Capital analyst, said in a note to clients.

Northrop’s “legacy experience with the B-2 helped them understand what was required,” Rubel said in a telephone interview. The company also has major contracts building drones with advanced technology for the military.

Northrop’s bomber will employ a family of secret, strike technologies including munitions; sensors needed to find targets; jamming capabilities to suppress enemy radar; and communications able to survive the electromagnetic pulses from nuclear detonations. The first planes will be piloted and outfitted with conventional weapons, followed by a version that can carry nuclear arms. A drone version may follow.

Also still secret: subcontractors such as engine suppliers. Citing national security concerns, the Pentagon said they wouldn’t be identified. The Air Force did disclose recently that Congress has appropriated $1.9 billion since 2011 on projects to reduce the risks of some technologies to be used in the aircraft.

“As the company that developed and delivered the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, we look forward to providing the Air Force with a highly-capable and affordable next-generation Long-Range Strike Bomber,” Chief Executive OfficerWes Bush said in a statement. “Our team has the resources in place to execute this important program, and we’re ready to get to work.”

Three main issues helped drive the government’s decision: Costs were given the same weight as payload and range for the competing designs, said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute. Boeing and Lockheed have contributed to the institute.

The price tag per plane would soar if far fewer aircraft are built than the fleet envisioned by the Pentagon. Costs for the B-2 skyrocketed to $2.2 billion apiece as a projected fleet of 132 bombers was slashed to 21 after the Cold War ended.

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The shift is due to a change in the mix for aircraft expected to be delivered to customers, Brian Foley Associates analyst Brian Foley told attendees at the recent SpeedNews 21st annual Business and General Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference in Los Angeles.

Demand for the biggest, most-expensive business jets is expected to soften, as demand for less-costly small and medium jets recovers and increases, he said.

Dollars, rather than number of units, have always been the more-relevant metric of the health of the business-jet market, Foley told attendees.

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Seven previously unannounced companies have accepted state tax breaks to bring 1,371 jobs to Colorado, boosting industries ranging from energy, to information technology, to advanced manufacturing, officials learned at the Colorado Economic Development Commission meeting recently.

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“That is great,” said Dick Monfort, EDC chairman.

Michelle Hadwiger, director of global business development for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, said the following companies accepted the state’s incentive offers: • “Project Photograph,” a publicly traded company that provides energy solutions for residential developments, has agreed to move its headquarters and primary operations from California to Denver in exchange for $85,000 in strategic-fund incentives.

• “Project Dartmouth,” a Colorado-based information technology firm with about 500 workers in the state, has agreed to add 186 jobs in Westminster rather than in Tennessee for $2.9 million in job-growth incentive tax credits. Hadwiger did not say when an announcement would be made.

• “Project Elbow,” a privately held advanced-manufacturing company that makes customized injection products and sells them worldwide, will add 141 jobs in Larimer County. An announcement will be coming later this year, Hadwiger said.

• Avitus, a Montana-based company that provides human-resources support to businesses, will relocate its headquarters to Aurora and create 128 jobs. It will receive $320,000 in strategic funds.

• Unify Energy Systems, a Houston company that provides web-based energy-management systems for retail and commercial properties, has chosen to add 50 jobs in Thornton rather than in Wyoming. It will receive $411,000 in job-growth incentive tax credits.

• An unnamed Milwaukee start-up company will establish a 27-person malting operation in Rio Grande County to provide locally sourced raw

materials for craft brewers. It can receive $439,403 in tax credits; and, • “Project Six,” an IT company that provides software for the healthcare industry, will add 26 people to a roughly 200-person existing workforce in Broomfield and receive $749,930 in tax credits. Hadwiger did not say when an announcement would be made.

Meanwhile, the two companies receiving new incentive offers are: • “Project Chalet,” a privately held Europe-based investment management firm that is looking to create a hub for the majority of its U.S. employees, which could receive $4.4 million in tax credits; and, • General Assembly, a privately held company that provides technology training for workers, which is considering opening its 10 location in Colorado and could receive $306,571 in tax credits. Source: Denver Business Journal

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F-15s and F-16s are now expected to serve until 2045, when an allnew aircraft will be ready, and plans to modernize F-16s with active electronically scanned array radars and other improvements are being revived.

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The service is looking at a three-tier force, with 300 F-16s and some F-15s being modernized “to augment the F-35 and F-22 in a high-end fight” and others assigned to low-end operations, while the contemplated 72-aircraft buy (an Air Force wing) would sustain force numbers and provide additional modern aircraft.

Although “the last time we looked, this was more expensive than buying F-35s in bulk,” the senior leader says, the issue is being re-examined.

The production phase of the Combat Avionics Program Extension Suite (Capes) upgrade for the U.S. Air Force F-16 force was canceled under the fiscal 2015 budget, but development of its major elements is continuing for Taiwan, with South Korea and Singapore expected to join the project. The U.S. Air Force plans to seek money to upgrade its fleet in small batches, according to the service leader.

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The $671 million probe will complete its year-long mission taking measurements detailing the red planet’s loss of atmosphere.

MAVEN is performing well and showing no signs it can’t keep going, researchers say.

NASA and Bruce Jakosky, the CU-Boulder researcher who proposed and leads the MAVEN project, recently held a press conference summarizing the findings from the first six months of data MAVEN collected and beamed back from Mars.

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MAVEN is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. It was conceived by Jakosky in 2003 and funded by NASA in 2008. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which has been involved in several prior NASA missions to Mars and other planets, designed and built the overall probe at its headquarters campus in Jefferson County.

MAVEN reached Mars in September 2014, following a 442 million-mile, 10-month journey that was launched on a rocket made by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance.

After having to be hidden to protect it from a close-passing comet, MAVEN’s instruments were turned on, calibrated and started its main mission. Nov. 16 will mark the 1-year anniversary of data collection.

The probe is meant to help scientists understand why — given all the surface evidence Mars was once a wet, warm planet — today Mars has an atmosphere only 1 percent as thick as Earth’s and is an arid, cold planet where liquid water would quickly freeze or evaporate.

MAVEN’s instruments in its first six months found that solar winds have been stripping away Mars atmosphere at a rate of a quarter-pound each second, a process that’s been going on for billions of years.

MAVEN’s instruments documented how charged particles in solar winds hit the Martian atmosphere at 1 million miles-per-hour, arriving with enough energy to knock elements out of Mars’ upper atmosphere to be swept away.

Researchers suspect Mars lost the vast majority of its atmosphere early in its history, when the solar system itself was younger and when scientists believe the sun was more active than it is today.

MAVEN’s instruments saw in March how a spike in solar activity tempo-

rarily increased Mars’ atmospheric loss more than 100 times its normal rate.

And MAVEN’s finding suggest the process isn’t likely to occur on our planet any time soon.“We don’t have anything to worry about in terms of our atmosphere on Earth,” Jakosky said.

Unlike the Earth, the core of Mars is thought to have cooled early in its evolution, slowing planet’s rotation and leaving it with minimal gravitational fields surrounding the planet.

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“This year is already a record year, and we believe that 2016 will continue to be very active, and likely above the rolling ten-year average, which will be approximately $25 billion after 2015,” said ScottThompson, who heads PwC’s U.S. aerospace and defense practice.

The report said that the total number of deals for 2015 was worth $64 billion, more than a 190 percent increase from the $22 billion for the whole of 2014.

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In August, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc bought Precision Castparts Corp for $32.3 billion, the largest deal ever in the industry.

Earlier last month Lockheed Martin Corp announced that it would take over helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft for $9 billion.The deal is waiting for regulatory approval from China.

British aircraft services company BBA Aviation Plc also bought Landmark Aviation for more than $2 billion in September.

Thompson said he did not expect the fourth quarter mergers and acquisitions to be particularly high given the record setting third quarter. “But I do think that the broader trend is that, you know, we are in a robust environment where we will probably see activity above the average level next year,” Thompson said in an interview.

The report said that so far in 2015, 20 percent of the deals worth more than $50 million involved financial investors. That was higher than the 15 percent in 2014.

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The company also secured a munitions order from the Netherlands and a $634 million deal for work on sensors and autonomous systems for the U.S. Army.

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Volvo already has radar and camera-based technology that detects pedestrians and cyclists and automatically brakes to avoid a collision. 1 It says the system reacts even more quickly than human drivers.

Volvo has tested the technology on slower moving animals like moose and cows in its home market of Sweden. Now, it’s studying kangaroos, which move more quickly and erratically.

The company booked $158 million for work on an air defense center for Qatar, extending an overseas push that has helped counter the slowdown in U.S. defense spending. Domestic sales fell last year to 71 percent of Raytheon’s total, the lowest share of revenue since at least 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

A team from Volvo traveled to a nature reserve near Canberra this week to study kangaroos’ roadside behavior.

Raytheon bolstered its growing cyber capabilities this month with the acquisition of Herndon, Virginia-based Foreground Security. Earlier in the year, it agreed to invest $1.57 billion in a new cybersecurity firm, combining a Raytheon unit with Vista Equity Partners LLC’s Websense Inc.

Ball Buys Rest Of Brazilian Subsidiary For $400M

Raytheon will continue to pursue “targeted, smaller, niche-type of acquisitions” under $1 billion, O’Brien said.

Volvo Studying Kangaroos To Prevent Crashes Volvo Cars is working on a kangaroo detection system to avoid costly car crashes in Australia.

Volvo says there are more than 20,000 car-kangaroo accidents in Australia each year. Source:The Associated Press

Ball Corp. said it was buying the remaining 40 percent of its Brazilian subsidiary for 6 million shares of its stock.

Ball established the Latapack-Ball beverage unit in Brazil in 1995 and supplies cans to the Brazilian market from four manufacturing facilities.

“Latapack-Ball is one of the most successful joint ventures in our company’s history, and this exchange allows us to further leverage, simplify and streamline our business and business decision-making in Brazil, as well as across the broader Ball metal beverage business,” said John Hayes, chairman, president and CEO, in a statement.

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Elon Musk On Electric Aircraft: ‘I Have A Design In Mind For That’ Tesla may have made progress in the field of battery-powered automobiles, but it may be time for SpaceX to catch up. In an interview, Elon Musk, the CEO of both companies, stated his vision for the future includes electric airplanes becoming commonplace.

How would it feel like to fly over the Atlantic on electric power alone?

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“Aircraft and ships, and all other modes of transport, will go fully electric — not half electric, but fully electric,” Musk affirmed.

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Tesla leads the vanguard of eco-friendly, albeit expensive, vehicles. Its newly released sedan, the Model S, sports the most efficient engine so far. In September, the company revealed the Model X, the first fully electric SUV, and it seems to be as nice to look at as it is sustainable.

Some criticize Musk’s approach to automotive power, however.They point out that even if the electric cars run on batteries, majority of the batteries are fueled by a power grid running on conventional fossil fuels.

When asked if the electrical current will be the main power source of the future, Musk believes there is “no question” about that. Source: Tech Times

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The Apprentice School trains students in various aspects of shipbuilding and supports Newport News Shipbuilding. A division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the company builds, among other things, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and submarines.

The tuition-free school partners with a host of community colleges and four-year colleges, and receives about 4,000 applicants per year for just 230 apprenticeship slots. Once accepted, students can earn an associate or bachelor’s degree in subjects like mechanical or electrical engineering. Over the course of four years, they’re trained in one of 19 trades essential to the shipbuilding industry.

This type of work-and-learn model is at the center of an ongoing discussion about the future of higher education – the same one that prompted GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to say during last week’s Republican debate that the country needs more welders and less philosophers.

The country needs “to make higher education faster and easier to access, especially vocational training,” he said. “For the life of me,

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I don’t know why we have stigmatized vocational education.”

To nudge that process along, a diverse coalition of industry representatives published a guidebook laying out the nuts and bolts of how companies can jump-start their own apprenticeship or worker-learner programs and profiling several successful programs already in existence.

Dubbed the National Network, the coalition includes organizations like the American Welding Society that collectively are expected to account for 75 percent of the country’s projected job growth and an estimated 30 million jobs by 2020, according to the Business Roundtable, a pro-business association representing CEOs of leading U.S. companies.

Huntington Ingalls invests more than $110 million each year on workforce training and partnerships, providing services available even before students start kindergarten. It also runs a similar apprenticeship program on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, at the Haley Reeves

Barbour Maritime Training Academy.

“Our philosophy is, if you sit there and wait for the folks to come out of the pipeline without investing in it, then you’ll get exactly what you invested,” says Jerri Dickseski, corporate vice president of communications for Huntington Ingalls. “Workforce demographics at Huntington Ingalls are and will be changing very dramatically. The boomers are about to retire and there’s a smaller and less experienced pool of millennials.”

One of those millennials is 33-year-old James Miller.

Miller graduated from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor’s degree in 2006. But when he moved back to his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, he couldn’t land a job in the field he had studied – marketing – and turned to The Apprentice School.

“The economy was bad when I graduated and I couldn’t really find any steady employment,” Miller says. “Initially I was a little apprehensive because I didn’t have any experience with that type of work – manufacturing or shipbuilding. I said, ’What the heck, it seems like a pretty good opportunity.’ So I applied and was fortunately accepted and it’s turned out to be a great thing for me.”

Miller began his apprenticeship program in the shipfitter track but ended up graduating from the four-year cost estimator program – one of the advanced apprenticeship tracks – in March 2015. He began working immediately at Newport News Shipbuilding, where starting salaries for his position are about $60,000.

Indeed, according to a Business Roundtable survey of its members, which included more than 200 CEOs, more than 95 percent reported a skills shortage within their companies.“It’s becoming less about the piece of paper you do or don’t have and more about the competencies, the knowledge, the behavior, skills and abilities you can demonstrate,” an industry expert says. Source: U.S. News & World Report A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

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A Start-Up Company Introduces Some of the Most Innovative ARs In The Industry, and Manufactures Their Products In Saint George, Utah With State-of-The-Art Machine Tools

Cobalt Kinetics introduced its first AR-15 (Armalite Rifle) products in the beginning of this year — at the Annual ‘Shot Show’ in Las Vegas. Literally 11 months ago.To say this company is seeing phenomenal success is an understatement. The company opened as a business in April of 2014. Surprisingly, though the founder and his partners were gun enthusiasts, all knew little about how to make or sell guns. But they had a business model, and that was to design and manufacture ARs that were better than anything out on the market, both in design and in function.This was not an easy task as AR-15s have been around for more than a half-decade, with the first being built in 1959.

Whereas most machine shops seeking to get into the AR market begin by manufacturing specific gun components, Cobalt Kinetics boldly intended to enter the market with a complete AR. For 8 months prior to the 2015 January Shot Show, a very small team of designers, engineers and machinists worked around the clock to prepare their first rifles for the unveiling. Cobalt’s goal and vision was not to simply package another AR-15 but to create a better AR-15.The company launched with its flagship rifle, the BAMF (Billet Aluminum Modern Firearm). Lance Sizemore, one of the start-up’s first machinists, says, “We purchased several manual machines to build our first ARs. We did nearly everything in house, with just a small amount of outsourcing of components as we were nearing the deadline to get our ARs completed for the show.”

Jeremy Lamph, Director of Sales and Marketing for the company, and previously co-owner of a gun shop, says, “For the BAMF, we designed a totally new and unique operating feature called the ‘Dual Drop’. In essence, it is an ambidextrous forward assist and simultaneous bolt release integrated and incorporated into the upper receiver.The forward assist is mirrored on both sides of the upper.The forward assist buttons have been linked through a secret mechanism in the upper receiver, so each button actuates the other. Our patented pending Dual Drop design is impressive for more than its functionality. It is extremely difficult to come up with a patent on a product that has been around for more than 50 years, as you would assume everything that could have been improved already occurred.”

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Today, the small company’s expansion is explosive – the team numbers nearly 3 dozen - and the company is hiring on a regular basis.

From their introduction to the industry back in January’s Shot Show, the company has signed on 35 dealers around the United States to sell their products. They still use the original manual machines that helped them to manufacture and launch their BAMF, but the machine shop has expanded with 2 new Mazak vertical mills and a Mitsubishi wire EDM, and their ‘by design’ offsite R&D shop has its own Mazak machine as well as a couple of 3-D printers. They also purchased a 1940 shaper machine for specific components. Lance says, “We use it for broaching, and if we didn’t find this shaper, we were going to have to build our own custom machine.” Lance comments on their rationale for buying such an old machine, “You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you’ve been.”

(Shapers were very common in industrial production from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th. Though not widely used today, the basic function of a shaper is still sound; tooling for them is minimal and very cheap to reproduce; and they are simple and robust in construction, making their repair and upkeep easily achievable.)

Machine tool dealers in Utah called on Cobalt Kinetics nearly as soon as they opened for business. Lance says, “We wanted topof-the-line machine tools for our business – it takes the best to make the best – and Cobalt Kinetics’ ARs are superior manufactured products.” He continued, “We also needed a machine tool dealer that would be very available to service and support us after the sale. Being located in Saint George, Utah, a couple of hours from LasVegas, and about 4 hours drive from Salt Lake City, Utah, the machine tool dealer’s service capabilities was one of our key criteria in our purchase decision.” Ultimately, the team at Cobalt Kinetics selected Smith Machinery,

located in Salt Lake City, for their machine tool purchases.

Lance says, “Klaus Lassig, our sales engineer from Smith Machinery, is so knowledgeable about machine tool products. We valued his input, as he too was a machine shop owner prior to selling machine tools.” “Since purchasing the 3 Mazak (VCN-530C) vertical mills and the Mitsubishi Pro III EDM from Smith Machinery”, Jeremy added, “We are very pleased with their service and support. Smith Machinery sent their applications engineer, AJ Tucker to our facility for one week for hands-on training for our machinists, and they get back to us immediately when we have a question. Smith Machinery’s support has just been outstanding.”

Lance says, “The Vertical Mazak NEXUS 530C vertical machining center combines advanced technology, productivity and value for a wide variety of applications, and it works well in both our R&D lab and in our production machining environment. Klaus says that Mitsubishi is the #1 selling EDM machine in all of North America.

Though Saint George is a relatively small town, hiring qualified people hasn’t been a problem for the company to date. Jeremy says, “People come to us looking to work here. Not only are we such a great employee-centric company, with barbeques and other perks, but who wouldn’t want to work for a wildly innovative company that is building incredible new ARs!” What’s next for Cobalt Kinetics? A new building to house their rapidly growing business is one thing they could say. They couldn’t give us any specifics on the new ARs they will be unveiling at the interview, but they could say one of their new ARs will be black. Up until now, the company hasn’t produced a black AR, though black is ubiquitous with standard ARs. Jeremy says, “Our black AR is targeted to the law enforcement and military industry.”They are also partnering with such superior companies as Rolls Royce, where they will plan to attend an event planned in North Carolina for Rolls Royce owners. Their first new AR will be announced on Cyber Monday, and their second will be announced on December 18th.Then gun enthusiasts who attend the Shot Show in January in Las Vegas can see Cobalt Kinetics’ latest innovations first hand.

To learn more about Cobalt Kinetics’ superior line of ARs, visit CobaltKinetics. com or call (435) 656-0599.

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Excerpts From AR Industry Experts Regarding Cobalt Kinetics’ Products.

“The AR-15 rifle we hold in our hands looks unlike any AR we have ever laid eyes on. It’s straight out of a sic-fi flick. Its what might happen if J.J. Abrams and George Lucas got together for a drink and asked, “What if?” Cobalt Kinetics is responsible for this cocktail-napkin fantasy. The rifle in question is called the B.A.M.F. Edge, and it most assuredly lives up to its name.”

Ballistic Magazine “Just as ARs were getting a bit boring and starting to all look the same — Mil-Spec in either black or FDE — along comes the futuristic B.A.M.F. (Billet Aluminum Modern Firearm) from Cobalt Kinetics. This rifle has an attitude summed-up best by Felex Yukhtman, owner of Gun Point in Bradenton. “It’s like an Imperial Storm trooper’s Star Wars rifle,” he said. “But it’s a great AR!” “The proprietary muzzle device, a “Cobalt Compensator,” is aggressive, and a perfect match for the two rail sections mounted above and below the barrel. Ergonomics were great — these rifles are well balanced. I can’t wait to take one to the range.”

Lee Williams – The Gun Writer “Cobalt’s rifles are held to a standard of perfection.The receiver’s internal tolerances and surface finish are tightly controlled to a far greater degree than Mil-Spec demands. The receivers are tracked and recorded through every step of the manufacturing process; from the delivery of the bar stock to the final assembly of a complete rifle. The receivers are inspected for tolerance, function and appearance at multiple stages throughout the process. Upper to lower fit are held at between zero and two thousandths of an inch.The magazine wells are cut by the slowest, but most precise means – wire EDM. Cobalt Kinetics: “ ‘The Cure for the Black Rifle.’ For some people, the look of a standard AR can become kind of boring. Most look strikingly similar and it’s not that uncommon to go to the range and see a guy with a very similar AR to the one you brought. If you find yourself wanting to have an AR that stands out in a sea of Black Rifles, you might want to check out Cobalt Kinetics.

They have some extremely unique AR’s with very cool lines and even a new feature or two.” David Lake - AR15News. com blog A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Details of how the heat exchanger system chills incoming air from more than 1,000 deg. C, to minus 150 deg. C. in less than 1/100th of a second, were revealed in detail by Reaction for the first time at an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics spaceplanes and hypersonics conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in July. The pre-cooled air emerges from the heat exchanger through a turbo-compressor and into the rocket combustion chamber, where it is burned with sub-cooled liquid hydrogen. Reaction revealed its design avoids the pitfall of ice clogging by cycling a water-methane mix through the pre-cooler and re-injecting it at several points further upstream in the system.

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BAE Systems is partnering with air-breathing rocket developer Reaction Engines as part of an agreement under which BAE will acquire a 20% share of the U.K.-based company for $31.8 million.

The surprise announcement represents a key breakthrough for Reaction in its efforts to attract major aerospace investors to accelerate development of the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (Sabre) combined cycle propulsion system aimed at bridging the power gap between air breathers and rockets. BAE’s move marks another apparent vote of confidence in the pre-cooler technology at the heart of the Sabre cycle, which earlier this year received independent validation from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

Reaction also recently received European Commission approval for a $93 million U.K. government research and development grant as it begins to transition to a production-focused company.The results of an earlier independent audit from the European Space Agency have also helped allay concerns from skeptical rocket specialists in the feasibility of the concept. Reaction claims the Sabre has six times better fuel consumption than a rocket engine, and the news of BAE’s investment decision is expected to underline broader industry belief in the validity of the propulsion cycle.

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From BAE’s perspective the link provides the aerospace company with an interest in a potentially new class of aerospace propulsion system, a pathway to both the burgeoning reusable space launch market as well as the growing interest in hypersonic vehicles. The focus of both partners is on a ground engine demonstration first in order to explore the engines’ potential, followed by a flight demonstrator.

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The new partnership also revives historic ties with the horizontal take-off and landing (Hotol) spaceplane project, which BAE Systems predecessor company, British Aerospace, began studies of 30 years ago with Rolls-Royce. By 1989 U.K. government work on launchers stopped with the decision not to join the European Ariane 5, and RollsRoyce terminated internal funding of the propulsion concept. Later in 1989 Reaction Engines was formed by Alan Bond, John Scott-Scott and Richard Varvill to continue low-level development of the propulsion and spaceplane concepts. At this stage Hotol was also renamed Skylon.

Boeing Sees ‘Healthy’ Jet Market as Deliveries Boost Cash Flow Boeing Co. reassured investors that the aerospace market remains robust after raising its full-year profit forecast amid rising jetliner deliveries and a slowdown in 787 Dreamliner costs.

The results showed Boeing’s factories are operating in high gear, and the shares rose. Investors have been seeking evidence that there isn’t glut of new planes and that expenses for the 787, the world’s first jet built chiefly of composite materials, are finally under control four years after its tardy commercial debut.

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ability, solid traffic and meaningful replacement demand,” Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg said. “Airplane order activity and customer discussions are continuing at a moderating but historically healthy pace.”

Muilenburg played down speculation that a “bubble” is weighing on wide-body sales, and disputed an assertion by Delta Air Lines Inc. CEO Richard Anderson that used 777 jets -- which list for as much as $339.6 million when new -- now fetch as little as $10 million. Anderson’s remark last week reinforced some shareholders’ concern that slowing global growth, especially in emerging markets, will choke off jetliner sales.

“That number is in the wrong order of magnitude,” Muilenburg said on a conference call. “And frankly, the value of the 777 is holding up very well.”

While Boeing still loses money on each Dreamliner it builds four years after the carbon-fiber jet’s tardy debut, the losses are shrinking. Investors focused on the company’s cash-generation potential have been charting the 787’s deferred production cost, an accounting measure that is supposed to drop as a projected gain in efficiency drives down the assembly expense.

Dreamliner costs rose $577 million to $28.3 billion, according to Boeing’s website.

That “was slightly better than expected,” Carter Copeland, a Barclays Plc analyst, said in a note to clients. He said his estimate for the increase was about $700 million.

Boeing expects deferred production costs to approach their peak in the fourth quarter, flatten next year and then tumble once output accelerates 20 percent to a 12-jets-a-month pace.

“They’re starting to figure out how to build the airplane in a really nifty way,” Howard Rubel, a managing director with Jefferies LLC, said.

Boeing also lowered its projected spending on research and development for the year by $100 million to $3.4 billion.The reduction signals “that the programs they have in development appear to be on schedule,” Rubel said. He rates Boeing as buy, the equivalent of the recommendation from Copeland.

The per-share results were for a measure that Boeing dubs core earnings, a figure the company says gives a clearer picture of its results by adjusting for market fluctuations in pension cost. Net income rose 25 percent to $1.7 billion.

While commercial-aircraft revenue rose 10 percent to $17.7 billion, earnings from operations dropped 2 percent to $1.77 billion. The unit’s operating margin fell to 10 percent from 11.2 percent a year earlier.

Revenue for Boeing’s defense, space and security unit rose 6 percent to $8.35 billion. Profit increased 19 percent and margins improved to 12.2 percent from 10.8 percent a year earlier.

The good performance is a positive development for Boeing, Robert Stallard, an analyst with RBC Capital, said in a note to clients. “However, the debate on whether Boeing will ever make back the $28 billion of 787 costs that it has incurred in excess of booked profits is ongoing,” he said. “All this assumes that the aerospace up-cycle serenely carries on to 2020 and beyond, which would make for the longest up-cycle since the Wright brothers first took to the air.”

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Mission To Mars: Lockheed Martin Is On Board At Fortune’s Most Powerful Summit, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson argued that Mars could be big business someday.

Last month, NASA confirmed that it had found the best-ever evidence that there’s water on Mars. Observations published in the journal Nature found that the dark streaks that appear and vanish seasonally on Mars are made of salty water. The discovery was no doubt a major scientific breakthrough, and for Marillyn Hewson, president, chairman, and chief executive officer of defense contractor Lockheed Martin, the finding was also a chance to tout her company’s commitment to the exploration of the planet.

Lockheed currently operates the Orbiter on behalf of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from the company’s space systems facility in Denver. Instruments and sensors designed by several universities and companies helped scientists discover the water on Mars’ surface; Lockheed Martin manufactured the spacecraft and helped to integrate those tools.

The Bethesda, Maryland-based company is also in the final stages of assembling and testing NASA’s next Mars lander, which is called InSight and will launch in March 2016. InSight’s mission is to dig into the surface of Mars with the hope of finding clues that explain the evolutionary processes that shaped the planets of the inner solar system.

The company’s space system’s sales last year were $8.1 billion, up from $8 billion in 2013.

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Without Keystone, Industry Must Find New Paths For Oil

Following the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the oil industry faces the tricky task of making sure the crude oil targeted for the pipeline still gets where it needs to go.

On stage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., Hewson said that the company is “in the midst of supporting the efforts to Mars. You saw the most recent discovery of water. We were participating in that as well with our probes and things that we have provided.”

While the company’s work on Mars’ mission is high-profile and—in some instances—history-making, it also comes with a downside: long lead times. During the on-stage interview, Fortune senior editor Jennifer Reingold asked Hewson if the company’s investors support the time frame involved in its Mars projects.

The pipeline, first proposed by TransCanada Corp. in 2008, was projected to carry 800,000 barrels a day of crude from Canada and North Dakota down to Nebraska, where existing pipelines would bring it to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

When asked if Mars represents a true business opportunity, Hewson, No. 4 on this year’s Most Powerful Women list, gave a definitive answer: “Yes, absolutely. ”

“Our investors value us for us being a high technology company,” Hewson said, “And the things that we focus on … not only help governments to protect citizens but also how we can take our satellites and launch vehicles to other parts of the world and bring back that capability to the U.S.”

Keystone XL was expected to come online toward the end of this decade. Until then a combination of existing pipelines and railroads was expected to be enough to handle anticipated production. Now the question becomes whether there will be enough pipeline capacity to move the oil and keep costs from getting too expensive.

About 80% of Lockheed Martin’s sales are to the United States government. It’s probably best known as a contractor for the Department of Defense, but it also serves civil agencies like NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration,

SkipYork, vice president of integrated energy at consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said the oil industry “didn’t need Keystone today,” but will need the capacity in the future. President Barack Obama’s decision means shipping the

Indeed, Lockheed Martin has been a part of every NASA mission to Mars, according to a company spokeswoman. It’s manufactured all three of the NASA spacecraft that are currently orbiting Mars, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which identified the presence of liquid on the planet’s surface and was launched into space in August 2005.

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oil will require “a more expensive form of transportation than it would have with Keystone XL,” he said.

At the moment, the biggest impediment to the flow of oil is low prices. Oil has averaged about $50 this year, making many projects in the Canadian oil sands uneconomical.

According to Wood Mackenzie, projects totaling about 485,000 barrels a day have been delayed this year. Canadian oil producers still expect production to rise to 5.3 million barrels a day in 2030, up from 3.7 million barrels a day in 2014, even after lowering their forecast to take into effect the impact of lower prices.

The U.S. imports more crude oil from Canada than from any other country, about 3.4 million barrels a day as of August, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Tim McMillian, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Oil Producers, is concerned that the rising cost of getting oil to market could hurt the Canadian industry’s competitiveness. Last month, Shell abandoned an oil sands project in Alberta, and its CEO pointed to concerns about high costs and insufficient pipeline capacity for the decision.

McMillan said other proposed pipeline projects should be able to help make up for lost shipments via Keystone XL. About 100,000 barrels a day of the oil that was supposed to move through Keystone XL would have come from North Dakota, where a boom in unconventional drilling has propelled it to become the No. 2 producing state in the U.S. behind Texas.

A sign is posted in front of TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline facilities in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada. Following the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the oil industry faces the tricky task of making sure the crude oil targeted for the pipeline still gets where it needs to go.

Keystone XL would have reduced some of the dependence on rail and truck shipments, said Kari Cutting, vice president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, which represents more than 500 companies working in the state’s oil patch.

North Dakota produces about 1.1 million barrels a day, with about half of it moved by rail, down from about 70 percent a year ago. Recent derailments and fires involving North Dakota crude — including an explosion in Quebec two years ago that killed 47 people — have drawn criticism from lawmakers and the public about using trains to move oil.

Keystone XL would have replaced at least one, mile-long oil train each day, state and industry officials say.

Now, not having the pipeline built means railroads will get to keep much of the business they’re already hauling and compete for new production as it comes online. Even with safety concerns, oil producers have become more comfortable shipping by rail, although it costs more than shipping by pipeline.

“Five years ago or eight years ago very little oil left Canada by train.Today it is commonplace for us to see unit trains moving oil to market,”

McMillan said.

Even if the Keystone XL had been built, oil would have continued to be shipped by rail because oil production exceeds pipeline capacity in North Dakota and oil producers have come to like the flexibility railroads offer. Shipping by rail allows oil producers to send their product to different markets to obtain the best price.

Keystone was supposed to expand the market for Canadian crude on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Refineries there are better equipped to refine the so-called heavy crude that comes from Canada’s oil sands.

“The Keystone XL decision does not mean less oil sands overall but it may complicate oil sands access to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where there is substantial refining capacity for heavy types of crude,” added Jim Burkhard, vice president at IHS Energy.

Burkhard sees Venezuela and other countries that ship heavy oil to the U.S. as benefiting from the Keystone XL rejection.

Venezuela heavy crude “will continue to be consumed by U.S. refineries in the absence of access to Canadian crude oil,” he said.

For many proponents of Keystone XL, that aspect was the most perplexing when considering the rejection.

“The most baffling part of this decision is that this administration would rather continue importing oil from countries that fund terrorism than from our very own resources and our Canadian allies,” Cutting said.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a report that Utah is number four in the nation for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. Citing a robust tax climate and solid industry rank, the report exhibits the work that Utah is doing to create a friendly, magnetic atmosphere for aerospace manufacturers.

“We’re proud to have created a strong set of aerospace manufacturing partnerships,” said Ben Hart, managing director of business services at the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). “For this important industry to continue to flourish, we’re working to train a workforce that will fill the current gaps. With vested stakeholders at all levels, we plan to have initiatives in place to accomplish our goals.”

Utah’s aerospace industry is playing an active role and taking preliminary steps to respond to workforce development challenges. Boeing, Harris, Hexcel, Janicki, Orbital ATK and Hill Air Force Base have all come to the table with ideas and initiatives that they agree will help fill the pipeline and ultimately create the strongest aerospace manufacturing workforce in the nation.

Recently Gov. Herbert will met with workforce stakeholders during the Governor’s Economic Council (GEC). The GEC will consider legislation, potential appropriation, initiatives, incumbent worker training and custom fit training programs. All topics discussed may be moved forward to the 2016 legislative session for consideration.

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The deliveries, worth about $270 billion are a 3 to 5 per cent reduction over the value noted in the 2014 forecast, Honeywell Aerospace Asia-Pacific’s Shanghai headquarters said.

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Brazil, Russia, India and China retain a very strong near-term demand profile with 48 per cent of new purchases scheduled for the next two years, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.

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Blue: What were the top things you learned from that experience?

Woods:You must build from a very sound financial and business plan, plus a strategic technical and innovative plan. Be sure you have the right advisors that will honestly tell you if you need to rethink your strategy.

Blue: That’s an excellent point because CEOs tend to latch onto an idea and go running with it, thinking it’s the right thing to do, before really looking at it closely.

Woods:That was actually my high and my low in getting the company to the size we did — having 150 people working for me and then having to close the company back in 2006.

League of Extraordinary CEOs: Reasons To Be Optimistic About Manufacturing Thanks to the “maker movement” and a new emphasis on careers in skilled trades, manufacturing has come into vogue with a new generation of kids eager to design and create.

Douglas Woods is the CEO of the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), which represents and promotes U.S. builders and distributors of manufacturing technology — the high-tech equipment, devices, machinery and software that enables advanced manufacturing.

Based in McLean, Virginia, the association specializes in providing targeted business assistance, extensive global support and business intelligence, and promotes initiatives and policies that best support U.S. manufacturing.

One other important key attribute is creating four core principles: passion, pride, family and fun. If you don’t have passion and pride about what you are doing, you shouldn’t be there.

Blue: What is AMT all about?

Woods: AMT’s job is to understand what’s happening in the manufacturing industry, communicate that to our members and provide them with the services to leverage it.

We also communicate the importance of policies and programs that encourage research and innovation, and the development of educational initiatives to create tomorrow’s workforce.

Every two years in Chicago, AMT runs the largest manufacturing trade show in the hemisphere, the International Manufacturing Technology Show, and also we provide technology centers in China, India, South America and Mexico.

Steve Blue: Tell us about your background.

Doug Woods: My grandfather started Alliance Tool and Die Company in Rochester, NewYork in 1947 and grew it into a $100 million manufacturing company by 1979. It was acquired by Gleason Corporation, one of the biggest gear equipment manufacturing companies in the world, and I worked within their enterprise.

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Blue: I can’t imagine why any company involved in manufacturing technology wouldn’t want to join. Since you’ve been at AMT, have you refocused or enriched it?

Woods: We looked at what manufacturing really needs to do and achieve, and from that created the manufacturing mandate. It’s a strategic plan that lays out what manufacturing needs to succeed: innovation in R&D, global competitiveness and building an educated smart force.

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Woods: Manufacturing in the U.S. has been on an extremely positive roll for about four years, now welcoming in a generation of kids who want to create something physical. Now they have all the tools to do that and it’s making manufacturing hip, cool and new. Data, analytics, augmented reality, adaptive learning systems, and collaborative robotics are going to be key. The technologies that will drive manufacturing in the next decade or two are areas we excel at here in the United States. Source: Steve Blue, Contributing Writer, Denver Business Journal

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Xcel filed its request to run the two tests last month with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, which must sign off on the plan. The tests would be conducted via the utility’ Innovative Clean Technology program. The PUC has approved the program, but most also approve individual projects.

Most people think of battery storage systems to provide back up power for solar power installations, but they can do more, Eves said.

Test projects done under the program give Xcel the chance to see if new technologies can work in a commercial setting before being implemented on a wider scale, Eves said.

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Do you think China has a policy limiting sales of armed drones, LaPlante asked? No. He said he’d held bilateral talks with Jordan, Saudia Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others about their interest in buying US weapons. “But our partners are saying, even if it [a Chinese weapon] doesn’t work, I can buy theirs. even if it doesn’t work that well and works about a third of the time. It’s still worth it,” LaPlante said they told him.

“Those guys are at war and it’s existential for them.”

So I asked the head of Air Force acquisition how he would speed things up. He was honest and said we wouldn’t like the answer. He doesn’t have one, at least not yet. In the meantime, he asked for help from industry and other experts to press the case with Congress and the press.We need your help, LaPlante told them.

DoD Officials Near Decision on Future of Patriot Missile System Key Pentagon officials met recedntly to make critical decisions on the future of the Army’s air and missile defense architecture, and while the service is not making recommendations in favor of any one radar for the system, the way forward must include an ability to target threats from 360 degrees — something the current Patriot system can’t do.

Sell US Weapons Faster Or Allies Will Buy Chinese: LaPlante The head of Air Force acquisition, just back from the Dubai Air Show, said the United States must act fast to make it easier and quicker for allies to buy US weapons through the Foreign Military Sales

(FMS) system.

Raytheon’s Patriot has been the Army’s cornerstone air-and-missile defense system for 40 years. But the service wants to replace the stovepipe system over time with a more integrated one.

It’s clear from Army slides outlining findings from an analysis of alternatives conducted over the past year that the preference is to develop a newer 360-degree radar that meets emerging requirements and would keep pace with the more challenging threat environment expected in the future.

But developing a new radar, rather than upgrading the Raytheon-made Patriot, would cost more than the Army has in its budget for such an effort, according to the slides — marked “for official use only” and obtained

by Defense News. The full analysis of alternatives is classified as secret, according to the documents.

If we don’t, Bill LaPLante said at an event put by on the Lexington Institute, a Washington thinktank, then we have to accept that our allies will buy Chinese weapons, even if they are copies of US gear and don’t work nearly as well as US weapons.

The Army can afford to modernize Patriot and give it 360-degree capability, the slides show, but it is predicted that the missile wouldn’t be able to keep up against a wide range of modern and future threats even with a baseline upgrade.

“US stuff is in incredibly high demand. Overseas people are desperate, they are desperate for our stuff,” Bill LaPLante told an event put on the Lexington Institute, a Washington thinktank. “We need to do something about it. It’s urgent.”

The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) would have to give the Army more money if the Pentagon reaches a consensus that it should develop a newer radar instead of upgrading its Patriots with Raytheon’s game-changing gallium nitride (GaN) active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, currently in development.

LaPlante made his case bluntly and with force: “Guess who’s over there selling stuff? I don’t know. China???” Their reconnaissance drone looked just like the Reaper. Their new fighter looks just like the F-35. Are they are as good, he asked rhetorically? Probably not. But LaPlante pointed to the intricate US system of approving Foreign Military Sales. It requires A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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The Army is budgeted in its five-year plan to start a competition for the radar in fiscal year 2017.

The analysis considered the baseline option of a Patriot system with an AESA radar, a Patriot AESA radar with three antenna arrays (enabling Patriot to see behind itself), a multifunction fire control radar (MFCR), an MFCR with a surveillance radar, and the Marine Corps’ Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) made

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The Army looked at the risk and the cost associated with each alternative in order to fully integrate them into its future Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). Northrop Grumman is developing and will field IBCS — the brains of the future missile defense system — in fiscal year 2019.

And the analysis considered the growth potential for each option to defend against an evolving lower-tier threat, according to the slides.

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The Army also evaluated the cost based on 91 procured radars — four prototypes and 87 production assets — and 485 launchers consisting of four prototypes and 481 production assets.

The service figured the program schedule would reach initial operational capability ideally by fiscal year 2026 and procurement quantities would stay at 15 battalions as described in a Nov. 7, 2014, materiel development decision.

To assess capabilities, alternatives were weighed against the most stressing tactical ballistic missile threat to the front, according to the document.

Overall, the Army determined the baseline Patriot option had the highest operations and maintenance costs. However, the Patriot upgrades stay within the Army’s cost target and would show improvements over the baseline option in addressing threats.

Replacement alternatives with X-band interceptor communication arrays were determined to be the most costly, exceeding Army cost targets. But they “have the most improvement” over the baseline Patriot, according to the slides.

G/ATOR’s average procurement unit cost is between $147 million and $254.6 million, MFCR is predicted to cost $223.9 million per copy and the MFCR with a surveillance radar is estimated to cost $326.4 million.

The G/ATOR system — which would need 118 months to move through the acquisition cycle — was assessed as having high schedule risk in both the technology maturation and risk reduction phase (TMRR) and the EMD phase. The program could see schedule slippage, the Army predicts, anywhere from 14 to 18 months.

The Army concluded that upgrades and replacement radar options take nearly the same amount of time to field. The baseline Patriot would reach initial operational capability in fiscal year 2027, upgraded Patriot in early fiscal 2028, MFCR and MFCR with surveillance capability in late fiscal ‘28. G/ATOR would take the longest to reach initial operational capability, according to the slides, reaching the milestone past fiscal 2029.

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CU will have a student research cubesat aboard that first flight in 2017, ULA said.

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www.chironamerica.com

Division of Curran Manufacturing Corporation

200 Oser Avenue Hauppauge, NY 11788 U.S.A.

Tel:

www.royalprod.com

orders@royalprod.com

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1-631-273-1010 1-800-645-4174 Fax: 1-631-273-1066 1-800-424-2082

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65 South Cottonwood Street (300 W) 6577 Salt Lake City, Utah 84107 Sa

Gage-Lab Products G

Protective Computer Enclosures for the Industrial Environment www.bytebox.com sales@bytebox.com 888-bytebox

Dimensional Gaging Specialists

Tim Zimmerman

tz@gagelabproducts.com

phone (801)716-2972 fax

(8 (801)716-2975

c cell

(8 (801)918-8798

www.gagelabproducts.com

FREDERICK C. HUTH serving Northern MT and ID

Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Horizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Dielectric Fluid Hangsterferʼs _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterferʼs _______ 760-580-1357 Drills Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Wohlhaupter________ 937-503-4708 Dust Collectors, Filtration Equip.

Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Castrol __________ 800-894-7773 DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM Materials & Supplies Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM: Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Filtermist Mist Collectors Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Grinding Wheels Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Knives: Replacement Superior Grinding _____ 801-487-9700 Laser Accessories Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Live Centers Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Lubricants / Systems Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773

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Hangsterferʼs _______ 316-640-2462 Ha Hangsterferʼs _______ 760-580-1357 Qualichem, Inc. ______ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Machine Tool Accessories Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterferʼs _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterferʼs _______ 760-580-1357 Hasco Oil__________ 562-595-8491 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Milling and Turning Products Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Parts Washing Equipment Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 R8 Quick Change Tool System Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Solvents /Degreasing Agents Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterferʼs _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterferʼs _______ 760-580-1357 Hasco Oil__________ 562-595-8491 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

Northwest Regional Manager

Spindles GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679 Setco Spindles & Slides __ 866-362-0699 Tooling Systems Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Vices and Vice Jaws Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Waterjet Cutting Abrasives GMA Garnet ________ 828-243-9300 Work Holding Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 CALIBRATION SERVICES Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422 GRINDING Grinding Machines DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933

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801.863.8637 info@mep.org www.mep.org ACCUDYNE CORPORATION Daniel R. Kenner

2835 S. Raritan St Englewood, CO 80110 303 303-991-1500 (Ph) 303 303-991-1921 (Fax) Web: www.ezpullerusa.com E E-Mail: Dan@eztram.com THE

Gage Ga Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Indust. Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422 CMM Probes Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Coordinate Measuring Mach.

Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Gauging Equipment Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Low Temp Instrumentation High Precision Devices _ 303-447-2558 Metrology Instruments Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871

Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Aircraft brake rotor DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Grinders, Rotary Silicon & Quartz DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Manual Lathes & Mills AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Pedestals for Grinders Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Sawing Machines AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Saw Replacement Parts Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Tool Grinders Punch & Die DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 OGP __________ 480-889-9056 Optical Comparators INSPECTION EQUIP Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340 A2Z Manufacturing

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Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Particle Inspection Mach DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Video Measuring Systems Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 HARDWARE Horizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Utah Metal Works, Inc. _ 801-364-5679 METALS & MATERIALS AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061 Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Ryerson _________303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282

TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 United Performance Metals888-282-3292 Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Alloys: Corrosion Resistant United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: High Temperature United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: Nichel & Cobalt United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Aluminum Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 Armor: Military & Commercial Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883

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An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer

Automatic Barfeeds of all Types

Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Denver, CO 303.654.0300

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308 jklimowicz@qualichem.com www.qualichem.com

Ogden, UT 801.399.5700

www.ofrmetals.com

TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 Brass Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Bronze Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Carbon Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 Copper Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Flat Rolled Metals OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Garnet Abrasives GMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300 Metals: Bar & Plate AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

Dix Metals _________800-477-4349 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 TW Metals _________800-203-8000 Mold Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Nickel Alloys AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310 TW Metals _________800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Plate-Precision Saw Cut Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061 Pre-Honed Tube Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Stainless Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals _________800-477-4349 Kloeckner Metals Corp __480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals 303-654-0300 OʼNeal Flat Rolled Metals801-399-5700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310

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Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC_______ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030 Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613 METAL DISTRIBUTORS Erickson Metals ______877-543-6061 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals _________ 800-477-4349 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030 Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Drilling/Tapping Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 CNC Mills AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390 Tornos USA ________951-695-0342 Triad Machine _______303-424-0268 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Lathes AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery _800-543-7666

Scott HAISCH Sales Manager Cell: 1(480) 689-8756 haisch.scott@rotarex.com 221 Westec Drive – Westmoreland Technology Park I Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666 – USA – www.firedetec.com

J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machiney _____ 303-775-3697 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 King Machine_______208-345-9600 KTR Machine _ _____303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Routers Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 EDM Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946

Global EDM Supply___ 480-836-8330 Press Brakes AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 End Mills Helical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Micro Hole Drilling S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Machines Shearing Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Swiss Screw Machines King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 NEW MACHINERY Welding Equipment FABRICATION Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 Band Saws AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Welding Equipment: Spot Welders Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 OTHER ACCESSORIES Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 Tooling Systems Bar Feeders Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Edge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824 USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330 Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Cold Saws PALLET SYSTEMS Fabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342 Automatic Pallet Systems Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 CNC Punching Centers S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Automatic Door Opener Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems Iron Workers Midaco __________ 847-593-8420 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Robotic Part Loading Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Laser Cutters AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 PRODUCTS MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 PRODUCTS CASES PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 PlaSteel __________ 888-752-7899 Guns Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Layke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654 Pipe &Tube Benders/Notchers PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD Amada America _____ 303-549-9167 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700 Delcam __________ 877-35-2261 Plate Rolls Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654

SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go_______801-380-7935 RECYCLING Recyclable Metals Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600 SAFETY Fire Protection Systems Rotarex _________ 480-689-8756 FOD Prevention PlaSteel _________ 888-752-7899 SERVICES AS9100 Certification ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Consultants, Health & Safety CKC Services LLC ____ 303-905-2371 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Contract Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Measure Sol__ 480-626-8131

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Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development 10530 E. 59th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46236 T: 317/826.4414 • TF: 877/240.2462 • F: 317/823.6822 jeff@trustycook.com • C: 317/946.1235 trustycook.com

Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

Cell: 937/503-4708 Office: 937/885-1878 E-mail: hn@wohlhaupter.com Wohlhaupter Corporation 10542 Success Lane Centerville, Ohio 45458

Online Training For www.streamingteacher.com

Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 S Education SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION Ogden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795 Hardware: USB X-Ray Engineering Services Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Serial Port ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Financing BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Software:CNC Networking IEC __________ 303-593-0403 Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208 MEP ____________801-863-7001 Transportation Scottrade Bank Equip Fin _ 206-948-0022 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 IRH ____________801-972-5581 US Bank __________ 909-466-5020 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 SOFTWARE ISO Registrar US Bank __________ 507-5328437 CAD/CAM/CAE American Global Standards 617-838-4648 First Article Inspection SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 Lean Manufacturing Business Mgmt Software Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 MEP ____________ 801-863-7001 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Heavyhaul Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Consulting/Engineering IRH ___________801-972-5581 Machine Tool Rebuilding Injection Molding EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935 ISO900/AS9100 Audits Process Improvement TOOLING American Global Standards 617-838-4648 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Arc Cutting Tools ISO900/AS9100 Registration Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 Helical Solutions______866-543-5422 American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Reverse Engineering Precision Toolholding Inspection Services Advanced Coord.

Tech __ _303-469-6161 Products Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Diversifi ed Metal Services __ 801-972-6093 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Tooling Systems Insurance Services Rigging & Transfer Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Sentry Insurance ____ 877-373-6879 Atlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 Lean Consulting Live Tool Holders IRH ___________ _801-972-5581 ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Spindle Rebuilding Machine Repair/Servicing GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Setco-Pope Spindles_____866-362-0699 Static Tool Holders Process Improvement/ Audit Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Staffing ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Resource Mfg________801-265-1999 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Rocky Mountain Mountain

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Business insurance solutions for the precision manufacturing industry 1-877-373-6879 businessproducts_direct@sentry.com sentry.com

TRAINING CAD/CAM Training Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 CNC/Conventional Machining Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 Machining Software Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 USED MACHINERY Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666 EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782 King Machine________208-345-9600 K.D. Capital Equipment___480-922-1674 KTR Machine________303-659-6690 Methods West________602-437-2220 New West Mchine______801-561-2001 ReSell CNC West_______480-694-9919 S&S Machinery Sales____602-368-8542 WATERJET CUTTING MACHINERY Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342 Flow International_______800-446-3569 Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 Jend Machinery_______303-775-3697 King Machine________208-345-9600 OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Triad Machine______ _ 303-424-0268 Abrasives/Blast Media GMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300 Fives ____________909-263-9282

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes ISO9001:2008

Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com

444 W. 21st Street / Suite 101 / Tempe, AZ 85282 (480) 966-2300 / Fax (480) 966-2323

ZAC HUMES

VICE PRESIDENT FLUID SOLUTIONS GROUP

c 435.890.8823 zhumes@caid.com www.caid.com

ADDITIVE MFG/ 3 D PRINTING Faustson __________303-420-7422 ASSEMBLIES Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245 Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 CAID Industries _______435-890-8823 Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 JD Machine _________801-782-4403 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 Electronics Assemblies Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 CAID Industries _______435-890-8823

CUTTING Metal Jeffrey Peterson Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 801-710-7891 www.dolphincasting.com Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 mikeb@dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER Plasma Cutting Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 3063 North 575 East Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 mikeb@dolphincasting.com North Ogden, UT 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC Plastic EliteMachineSales@Gmail.com ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 COATING ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Welded Assemblies Saw Cutting Coating:Abrasive Blasting Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 BAR CODING Coating:Black Oxide DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 Bar-S Machine _______ 928-636-2115 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Our company logo BENDING H& S Machine _______ 801-755-7627 Coating:Chemfilm AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 DIES LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 BROACHING Coating: Liquid EDM Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 EDM: Drilling Small Hole Precision Machʼd Products 970-482-7676 Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome EDM Express_______800-780-7075 Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252 Coating Technologies Font Verdana size 9 (I___623-581-2648 dropped in this cell LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 CASTINGS because the “Precision Investment Castings” Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Die Casting on the logo is not very clear.

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Technologies ___623-581-2648 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Coating Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com COMPOSITES Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Precision Investment Casting Elite Machine ________ 801-710-7891 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 S.A. Composites _______ 970-776-3877 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Font Verdana Size 9

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www.paramount-machine.com sales@paramount-machine.com Office: 801.886.2755 Fax: 801.886.2759

Prec. Machʼd Products ___ 970-482-7676 EDM: Wire Custom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265 Innovative Precision _____801-334-6317 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755 Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 ELECTRONICS Contract Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Design Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Kitting Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Prototype Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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ELECTROPOLISHING Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AzMark __________480-926-8969 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 RAM Company ______435-673-4603 Solenoids/ Valves RAM Company ______435-673-4603 FABRICATION Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Star Precision _______303-926-0559

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Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Custom Auto/Truck/Bike H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Fabrication: Filament Winding S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Enclosures Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Fabrication: Medium & Large Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Fabrication: Plastic ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Fabrication: SheetMetal Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 AzMark __________480-926-8969 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Steel Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823

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Photochemical/Etching VACCO Industries _____ 626-443-7121 Powder Coating Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 EMJD Corp ______ 303-761-5236 Silk Screening Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 FINISHING Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Precision Machʼd Prod___ 970-482-7676 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Passivation Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23

Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 FOUNDRY May Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931 GAS NITRIDING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 GEAR CUTTING Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252 Gear Hobbing Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Grinding, Centerless Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Grinding, Double Disc Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Grinding: OD AzMark __________480-926-8969 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Surface ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720 Passivation

GRINDING AzMark __________480-926-8969 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679 Prec. Machʼd Products _ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930

Polishing Gold Tech Industries____ 480-968-1930 Selective Coatings ImageTek __________303-806-8111 FORMING AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 HEAT TREATING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443

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HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC .

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

Quality Work Delivered On Time Mike Hirsh Tel: 303.530.3131 Fax: 303.530.5242 Email: mike.hirsh@hppi.com

INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE Electronic Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Gasketing EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Handles & Hinges EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Qtr Turns/Rod Controls EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 INJECTION MOLDING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 INSPECTION Inspection, First Article Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Inspection Services Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Sustaining Edge Solutions_888-572-9642 LASER CUTTING Laser Cutting Advantage Manufacturing ___ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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6420 Odell Place Boulder, CO 80301 www.HirshPrecision.com

Henry Parker

EMAIL: HenryParker4me@comcast.net

Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Laser Engraving 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Laser Marking 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 MACHINING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447

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RRadtech adtech _________ 303-789-4247 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining: 3D Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson __________303-420-7422 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Machining: Aerospace AzMark __________480-926-8969 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine ____801-886-2755 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Precision Machʼd Products 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: CNC 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 Elite Machine ______ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________ 970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Foremaster Tool____ 801-737--0265 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

sales@aandlmachining.com

Darrin J. Caschette President

888-280-7080 | djc@metalcraftind.com www.metalcraftind.com

ISO 9001:2008

RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Wrico __________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Composites Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Machining: Laser AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Gerome Mfg_______520-622-8402 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining:Medical A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: Milling A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Prec. Machʼd Products__970-482-7676 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

Machining: Mold Base Maverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604 Machining: Mold Making R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Machining: Plastic Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Machining: Production A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414

Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech __ ______303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson __________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031

S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877 The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331 Machining: Precision A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 4 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

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AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO

TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

480.733.6594 480.733.6596 Ron@AEIFab.com www.AEIFab.com 1113 W. Birchwood Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85210

Robotic CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Routering CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Small Part Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 METAL STAMPING AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Hi-Production Precision Stamping Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 MOLDS Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Molds: Blow Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260 Molds: Plastic Injection Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Molds Steel DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443 ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414

LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Tin Plate Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 PRECISION FORMING AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 PRINTING 3D Printing The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 3D Prototyping The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 Custom Screen ImageTek _________303-806-8111 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Etching/Photochemical VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

PUNCHING JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 REPAIR Bearing Surface Machining: Waterjet M Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Colorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404 PAINTING White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Hydraulic Cylinder MANUFACTURING Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Machining: Turning A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Jet Processing ______623-869-6749 x117 ROLL FORMING Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Rolling: thread PLATING Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Blanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952 ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 ROUTERING, CNC Electromechanical Design Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 SAW CUTTING EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093 Anodizing Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 SHOT PEENING Composites Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 SINTERING Contract HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 SPINNING: METAL Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Copper LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425 SPLINES Manufacturing: Electrode Electroless Nickel Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591 Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 SPRINGS LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Production Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Flat & Wire RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 Gold/Silver Plate SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 STAMPING Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Nickel/Chrome/ AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Copper Rapid Prototyping Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Machining: Ultra-Precision Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Madisen Wardle Training & Recruiting NUNTMA Chapter Exec. w 801.337.7097 m 801.710.5535

Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 SWISS SCREW MCHG. Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Screwing: Lead Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 TESTING Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing __ 801-972-2146 THERMFORMING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 TOOL & DIE Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Tool & Cutter Grinding Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720

WELDING Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Skyline Products _______719-392-9046 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Orbital Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Precision Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Welding: Robotic Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500

TOOLING Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Mountain View Machine _ 435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 TUBE FORMING AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Formed Tubing AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Tube Bending /Fabrication AG Machining _______805-531-9595 WATERJET CUTTING Colorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 WIRE FORMING Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 ASSOCIATIONS Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748 N. Utah NTMA _______ 801-337-7097

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EMKA Incorporated 1961 Fulling Mill Road Middletown, PA 17057 Phone: (717) 986-1111 Fax: (717) 986-1080 www.emkausa.com info@emkausa.com

660 W. Palm Ave El Segundo, CA 90245 Cell: (310) 529-2199 Fax: (310) 333-0710 c.pinkham@emkausa.com

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Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Aerospace Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Stamping:Deep Draw Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Design The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Stamping:Flat Forming SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Foil Forming Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping: Light Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Precision Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Stamping:Prototype Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Stamping:Short Run Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

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