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Vol. 8, No.6 DEC / JAN‘18 Front Cover Story Pages 24-25

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Editor’s Corner The holiday season is here. This is the time we ponder what we are thankful for, what we have done productively throughout the year and we are thankful for our health and our families. We also ring in a New Year and hope for a continued bright future. It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

In this busy era, work is plentiful and 2018 has sailed by like an F-35 in the horizon, very fast!

Here are some good things that continue to be the theme in 2018 and I hope we continue them on in 2019.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers was unchanged on a seasonally adjusted basis; rising 2.2 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in November (SA); up 2.2 percent over the year (NSA).

Compensation costs increased 0.8 percent for civilian workers. Over the year, compensation rose 2.8 percent, wages and salaries rose 2.9 percent, and benefit costs rose 2.6 percent.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 155,000 in November, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. Job gains occurred in health care, in manufacturing, and in transportation and warehousing.

The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.1 percent in November, as prices for final demand services increased 0.3 percent, and the index for final demand goods decreased 0.4 percent. Prices for final demand advanced 2.5 percent for the 12 months ended in November.

Productivity increased 2.3 percent in the nonfarm business sector in the third quarter of 2018; unit labor costs increased 0.9 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 1.0 percent and unit labor costs decreased 1.2 percent.

Real average hourly earnings increased 0.3 percent over the month in November, seasonally adjusted. Average hourly earnings increased 0.2 percent and CPI-U was unchanged. Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.1 percent over the month.

In closing we would like to thank you for your continued support of the magazine and we would like to invite you all to contact us with your input on ways we can improve.

We wish you a healthy and prosporous holiday season!

Thank you and God bless our troops!

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Announcements & Releases AS9100 Certified Laube Titanium a Division of Laube Technology Celebrates 70 Years In Business Laube Titanium is a prominent supplier of high-quality titanium products -- including titanium bars, sheets, plates, and tubes -- to leading manufacturers in the aerospace, medical, and commercial industries.

Founded in 1948, we have built a reputation as a trusted titanium supplier through our precision, punctuality, and with premium-grade products.

Anthony Padilla, Vice President of Laube Titanium, says,We have strong relationships with both international and domestic titanium partners, which translates into cost savings that allow us to offer you competitive prices.

Laube Titanium has: • Nearly 70 years of experience in the metals supply business • The ability to supply a full line of titanium mill products as well as custom-designed components • Multiple warehouse locations for quick turnaround delivery • Strong relationships with international and domestic titanium mills.

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Seasons Greeting From Fahey Machinery Company Inc.!

The holiday season is upon us and the festive spirit of same reminds us of how thankful we are for loyal customers, supportive vendors and of course our own wonderful employees.

This year each member of our service team benefited from spending a week visiting two of our key vendor manufacturing facilities allowing them to see the complex machines they work on in the field in various stages of development.

We also brought a long-desired concept to fruition of having a first responder and operator support technician for our line of Laser cutting machines. This new program is already showing great promise.

These experiences and investments have further strengthened an already

Announcements Continued strong bond with these vendors.

Parts and tooling sales remain as strong as machine Sales with the office staff working hard to support all. While it may seem like all work and no play nothing could be further than the truth. It’s a cheerful place to work with plenty of laughter to get us through each day.

CONSISTENT, ACCURATE & REPEATABLE PARTS

Our showroom/shop is an everchanging carousel of new and used machinery so be sure to check our website often!

It’s been a great year and as 2018 comes to a close we see 2019 already showing great promise.

Speaking of 2019… Happy New Year Everyone!

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Albina Co., Inc. Celebrating 80 Years in the Steel Bending Industry!

Cheers to 80 Years! Albina Co., Inc., located outside Portland, Oregon, has been providing customers with innovative, quality curved steel services and products since 1939. A family owned and operated, third generation business, currently run by Brian Smith, specializes in structural steel bending, tube bending, pipe bending, plate rolling and fabrication. Albina produces virtually any metal component that needs to bend or curve without the use of pre-formed fittings.

Albina is an industry leader in research and development and in 2018 alone, Albina acquired many pieces of new equipment and made many advancements in process development. Albina purchased an MCP30 by Davi, the first type of bending machine in the United States with a “iRoll” smart camera system, allowing operators to view the part being bent compared to a radius template on the control screen.

The machine also has the ability to “learn and remember” how different materials bend, where the rolls need to be positioned, and how much spring back is associated with a bend / material. The MCP30 will allow Albina to bend up to 8” x 8” angle, 9”

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Most recently, Albina purchased a Bend-Tech Dragon A400 Plasma Cutter, a commercial grade CNC tube cutting, engraving, and marking machine with the world’s most powerful CAD/CAM software. Other new equipment included new welders, new jib cranes, new induction heating coils, an electric forklift and almost 40 sets of tooling for both the A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Albina not only has one of the newest, most technologically advanced machines on the market, Albina also has one of the oldest, custom made bending machines ever created! In honor of the 80th Anniversary, Albina has created a museum on site, called “The Smith-sonian”, which honors the family name and houses one of the first ever pieces of equipment that Albina owned and used to bend materials. John Smith, Brian’s grandfather, built the “Model-T” bending machine in the early 1940’s utilizing the transmission and differential from a “Model-T” Ford. This machine was used to roll/bend various materials such as pipe, tube, and square and rectangular HSS (hollow structural steel).The machine would pull material around a bend die resulting in a smooth radius finished good.

The “Model-T” was in operation at Albina until the 1990’s when it was replaced by more efficient bending equipment. “The Smith-sonian” is ready for visitors. Stop by to see us! Cheers to 80 Years!

For more information on Albina contact them at: 503-692-6010, www.albinaco.com

6th Annual NTMA Southwest Conference to be Held in Costa Mesa, CA Seven chapters from Texas to California are firming up content for their industry regional conference to be held February 8-10 at the Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa in Orange County, California. The industry education will feature state of the art digital manufacturing, lean manufacturing, key updates on government regulations, programming skills, effective leadership, and more. Keynotes include content by CultureShoc, Leadership Development, and Franklin Partnership, experts in Government Relations. There is an early Bird Discount that ends November 30th .

Announcements

The chapters of the NationalTooling & Machining Association participating in the event are Los Angeles, North Texas, Arizona, Houston, Rocky Mountain, San Fernando Valley, New Mexico, and San Francisco. There are still sponsorship opportunities open for companies that would like to get in front of precision tooling & machining companies who participate.

The three-day conference is slated to be a comprehensive review for tooling and machining businesses so vital in U.S. manufacturing today.

Manufacturing in the southwest has enjoyed a strong resurgence over the last decade.The event’s presenters will not only address technical subjects but also the management skills owners and managers of firms need for efficient and profitable business.

Other sessions will cover management personnel handling of stress, filling the skills gap, eliminating waste, prospering in the new tax environment, minimizing litigation, scaling apprenticeships, and more contemporary directions for good management.

Visit www.lantma.org to become a sponsor or to register as an attendee for the conference.

New Seco Steadyline® Tooling Additions Deepen Turning Capabilities

SecoTools has expanded its long-reach turning and boring solutions with additions to its well-known series of Steadyline® vibration-damping turning/boring bars and their respective heads.The new additions include 1.00” (25 mm) diameter Steadyline® bars, GL25 turning heads and 4.00” (100 mm) diameter Steadyline® bars, along with a range of rough and fine boring heads for Steadyline® bars.Where conventional solutions fail, Steadyline® delivers accuracy and confidence in long overhang operations, reducing spindle stress, increasing metal-removal rates, creating smooth surface finishes and extending tool life.

Steadyline® turning bars use the most-effective passive damping system in the industry for easy turning and boring operations to depths up to 10xD in small and large holes. A dynamic passive system acts as anti-resonance inside the holder’s body as a damped mass counter vibrates against the first vibration. Working together with the Steadyline® damping system, the short, compact GL heads maximize vibration absorption, making it possible to use extended lengths without tool chatter or work interruptions.

With Steadyline®, users can exchange turning and boring tool heads quickly and effortlessly using the unique Seco GL connection. The GL connection mounts heads to Steadyline® bars quickly and firmly, with centering accuracy and repeatability of 5 microns and 180° head orientation capability if required.

For more information contact Seco Tools, LLC, 2805 Bellingham Drive, Troy, Michigan, Tel: 248.528.5451, or visit www.secotools.com.

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This loader features a magazine capacity of 30 linear inches for lights-out unattended running. The Rebel automatically adjusts pusher force for bar size and has accurate positioning without a mechanical stop. It also features spindle liner storage on rear of the stand, and standard X axial shift device with Z optional. All electric operation, no shop air is required. Big on features, small on price.

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U S SHOP TOOLS 2019-20 MASTER CATALOG Anaheim, CA- Supplying America’s machine shops and manufacturers for over 25 years, U S Shop Tools is proud to announce the release of their 2019-20 Master Catalog. The all-new 572 page catalog contains information and pricing on the company’s large offering of metalworking tools and supplies, including lathe and mill workholding, cutting tools, carbide tooling, cutting fluids, abrasives, measuring tools and toolroom supplies.The catalog features products from trusted brands such as Kurt, Kitagawa, Strong, Bison,YG-1, Lyndex, Carmex, Micro 100, Tool-Flo, Royal, Starrett, 3M, Kingston,Tungaloy, JET, Palmgren, Rustlick,TMX and many other nationally recognized brands. With warehouses in Anaheim, CA, and Warren, MI, most shipments can reach customers A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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U S Shop Tools, celebrating its 26th year, has built their reputation by offering the largest selection of lathe chuck jaws in the United States.With a product line that includes Lathe Workholding, CuttingTools, Retention Knobs, MillingToolholders, ER,TG, DA & AF Collets, Abrasives, MeasuringTools, Cutting Fluids and Safety and Shop Supplies, U S Shop Tools has established themselves as the low price leader in the metalworking industry.

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GE Names New Leadership For Its Power Units, John Rice Returns To GE

cycle business, will allow the unit to stay “closer to customers and markets while operating with more transparency and accountability.”The business will include GE’s record-breaking line of air-cooled gas turbines, the HA, among other technologies.

GE said that it intends to split Power into two units: GE Gas Power, comprising the Gas Power Systems and Power Services divisions, and GE Power Portfolio, which will hold Power’s Steam, Grid Solutions, GE Hitachi Nuclear and Power Conversion operations. The company also announced that it intends to consolidate the current Power headquarters structure into GE Gas Power to create a more simplified business structure that can best serve its customers..

“Our technology produces a third of the world’s electricity,” Culp said.

“We are providing safe, efficient, reliable and affordable power. This work matters.”

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The company said that John Rice, a retired GE vice chairman who spent almost four decades at the company, will return to serve as chairman of the GE Gas Power business. Scott Strazik, an 18-year veteran of GE and current president and CEO of GE Power Services, has been named CEO of the GE Gas Power business, reporting to GE Chairman and CEO Larry Culp.

Russell Stokes, the current president and CEO of GE Power, will serve as CEO of the GE Power Portfolio unit, reporting directly to Culp as well.

“I am confident this is both the right strategy and the right leadership team to ensure these businesses are best positioned for success,” Culp said.

Culp said that the proposed creation of GE Gas Power, a unified gas life-

GE also named Dan Janki to lead the Transition Management Office.The company said that this office will comprise a small “tiger team” guiding the power businesses through the transition. Janki has spent more than 25 years in a variety of senior roles at GE Capital, GE Energy, GE Global Operations and the company’s corporate office. He will also report directly to Culp.

GE has been hard at work rebuilding its Power business. In early November, the research company McCoy Power Reports released its latest analysis of the global gas turbine market. In the third quarter of 2018, GE led other major competitors with 51 percent of market share by gigawatts across all segments. It also led the way in unit count, capturing 35 percent of gas turbines ordered during the first nine months of the year.

The company said that its flagship HA gas turbine remained the fastestgrowing fleet of turbines in the world today, with 83 orders by 35 customers in 16 countries.The Power units have an order backlog of $94 billion, including $69 billion in service.

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Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center To Train Next Generation Of Skilled Workers In A Region With Strong Industry Roots Manufacturing can be likened to the key that revs Oregon’s economic engine.According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the industry represents 21.8 percent of Oregon’s total output, ranking the state as the second most dependent in the nation on manufacturing.

In 2017, Oregon was home to nearly 6,200 manufacturing establishments, representing 189,000 jobs — more than 10 percent of the state’s employment according to the State of Oregon Employment Department. And this number is projected to grow; between 2014 and 2024, an uptick A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Yet while the sector’s wages are well above the state average, its demographics jeopardize the industry’s long-term viability. Compared to other industries, a relatively large percentage of Oregon’s manufacturing workers are age 55 or older.

Acknowledging the “silver tsunami” on the cusp of retirement, all nine of Oregon’s local workforce development boards have made manufacturing a priority in their regions.

Mirroring this focus is the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center – OMIC for short – based in Scappoose.

The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center represents a collaboration of industry, higher education and government seeking to combine applied research and development and workforce training.

Modeled after the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in England, OMIC represents a collaboration of industry, higher education and government seeking to combine applied research and development and workforce training, in the metals manufacturing industry. The effort will serve advanced manufacturers in the region while giving area residents access to living-wage careers in a growing industry sector.

“OMIC will be transformational for Columbia County and northwest Oregon, and I am excited to see it continue to grow and move forward,” said U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici, whose congressional district includes Columbia County. “Advanced manufacturing has a bright future in Oregon.”

The effort has thoughtfully integrated both research and development and workforce training, to ensure long-term success.

OMIC’s R&D partnership (www.omic. us/) operates out of a facility owned by the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech). Near-term manufacturing challenges are addressed through applied research and advanced technical training led by faculty

from OregonTech, Portland State University and Oregon State University.

Complementing the R&D collaborative is workforce training directed by Portland Community College. Within the next year, Oregon’s largest postsecondary institution is slated to build a training center near the R&D facility, housing such programs as computer numerically controlled operation, machining, welding, and mechatronics. Its programs will be based on an apprenticeship model, giving students work-based learning experience as they complete certificates or associate degrees, then move directly into advanced manufacturing jobs or pursue advanced degrees.

“One of the greatest take-away learnings from our study of AMRC in England was the importance of connectivity between workforce training and R&D,” said Marc Goldberg, associate vice president for Workforce Development and Continuing Education at PCC. “Students, business and industry, and research flourished there because of the proximity to one another, and the sharing of knowledge and resources.”

Last month PCC greenlighted a purchase and sale agreement on more than 17 acres of property near the OMIC R&D facility.

Construction for the training center is anticipated to begin in summer 2019, with Mortenson Construction and Hennebery Eddy Architects tapped as the facility design build team. Until the center opens, estimated to be fall 2020, courses will be taught at temporary locations, including at Scappoose High School.

Earlier this year PCC saw the formation of a Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee made up of representatives from Vigor, Evraz, Rightline Equipment and JC Customer Machine & Design. JATCs add legitimacy, establishing standards for occupations that align with nationally recognized credentials and developing apprenticeships – and in PCC’s case, contributing to the approval of its first OMIC registered apprenticeship standards, for machinists, by the Oregon State

Apprenticeship and Training Council.

“PCC’s training center will provide workers with both the classroom and on-the-job learning they need to fill high-demand, living wage jobs in advanced manufacturing,” said Bonamici, who attended OMIC’s “Makers Gone Pro West” event in October. Offering hands-on activities for participants to learn about the manufacturing industry, the event attracted nearly 300 local area high school students, manufacturers and robotics teams, making it a well-received, educational method to entice the next generation of makers – and impress Bonamici.

“I am proud to be a champion for OMIC and will continue to support efforts that use education to strengthen our local economy.”

PCC is the largest postsecondary institution in Oregon and provides training, degree and certificate completion, and lifelong learning to more than 73,000 full- and part-time students in Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas, and Columbia counties.Learn more about OMIC and apprenticeships at Portland Community College at www.pcc.edu. By Kate Chester – Director of Community Engagement, Portland Community College A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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AeroVironment Gets $3.2M Defense Deal For Unmanned Aircraft Systems AeroVironment Inc. has received a $3.2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide RQ-20B Puma AE II small unmanned aircraft systems.

Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment said it received the firm-fixed-price contract on Sept. 14 to provide the drone systems, as well as training and support to an allied nation in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) area.

The company said it expects delivery by March 30.

“The vast, diverse landscape of the INDOPACOM area of operation demands small unmanned aircraft systems that can support ground, riverine and maritime operations effectively,” Kirk Flittie, vice president and general manager of AeroVironment’s unmanned aircraft systems business unit, said in a statement. “The combat-proven Puma has demonstrated its unique effectiveness in a wide range of operating environments, from mountains to deserts, from the Arctic to Antarctica, on land and on the open ocean, delivering actionable intelligence to help customers proceed with certainty.”

AeroVironment said its family of small drones comprise the majority of all unmanned aircraft in the U.S. DoD inventory and its international customers include more than 45 allied governments.

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The AeroVironment Puma is designed for land-based and maritime operations.

The company said the all-environment Puma, with its Mantis i45 sensor suite, is capable of landing in water or on the ground, giving the operator extended flight time and a level of imaging capability previously unavailable in the small UAS class.

AeroVironment’s small unmanned aircraft systems include the RQ-11B Raven, RQ-12 Wasp and RQ-20A/B Puma. They operate with a common ground control system and provide increased capability to the warfighter that can give ground commanders the option of selecting the appropriate aircraft based on the type of mission to be performed. This increased capability has the potential to provide significant force protection and force multiplication benefits to small tactical units and security personnel, AeroVironment said. By I-Chun Chen – Correspondent, L.A. Biz

3D Printing Among Methods Advancing Heart on a Chip Technology An organ on a chip is a tiny cell culture that mimics the structure and function of human tissue – a micro-organ, if you will, that allows scientists and medical professionals to test pharmaceuticals and other treatments. In a paper entitled “Heart on a chip: Micro-nanofabrication and microfluidics steering the future of cardiac tissue engineering,” a group of researchers discusses the use of 3D bioprinting and other techniques to create a heart on a chip.

The researchers present a thorough look at the many ways in which cardiac tissue engineering has been approached.

“Optical lithography, soft lithography and plasmas have provided tools for structural

and chemical modification in planar two dimensional fashion,” they state. “Lasers, electrospinning and 3D bioprinting have provided the capability to advance the fabrication even further, by providing the tools to fabricate structures into three dimensions. In several cases the combination of these techniques is employed, where additional functionalities or capabilities are needed from the construct. These approaches focused on culturing cardiac cells in a biomimetic environment in order to create a functional cardiac tissue.”

In these approaches, the main objective was to recapitulate the ECM that support cardiac cells; thus, the substrates or scaffolds are made from polymer materials. Depending on the method, cardiac cells were seeded on top of micro-nanoengineered materials in 2D or 3D structures or encapsulated within the polymeric matrix.

“The 2D structures have provided with useful information on the effect of geometries on cardiac cells structural properties,” the researchers state. “The 3D scaffolds have been applied, although in a limited number, for cardiac cell therapy by means of implantation in animal models carrying a specific cardiac disease. The idea of this therapeutic direction is on restoring some functionality in heart scarred regions by providing a new pool of functional cardiac cells.

This application falls under the category of cardiac regenerative

medicine with final target the clinical trials by implanting the cellularized scaffolds to patients.”

3D printing makes sense as a way to create a heart on a chip, as cardiac cells can be taken from patients and deposited in a layer-by-layer approach that allows them to grow into a micro-organ. This allows scientists to study the cardiac pathophysiology and test drugs in vitro, and can also lead to individual patient-targeted therapy.These hearts on chips can also provide useful information about treatments that should not be used to treat cancer, for instance, because they are found to cause cardiac cell toxicity in the miniature culture. These discoveries offer more value than testing on animals, whose physiology does not always respond in the same way to drugs as does that of humans.

Microfluidics are also a big part of the creation of hearts on chips.The researchers point out that the technology is starting to be used to mimic specific diseases such as pathological cardiac hypertrophy and ischaemia.

“Actually, some of the described micro/nanofabrication technologies have been incorporated to the microfluidic systems, such as microcontact printed molded structures, as well as bio-printed 3D scaffolds, even though these cases pose the minority,” the researchers explain. “We envisage that the prior knowledge and the correct translation of the information extracted from the use of micro/nanoengineering in cardiac tissue engineering can lead to the development of multi-diverse ‘Heart on Chip’ systems tackling a wide spectrum of cardiac diseases.”

Authors of the paper include Maria Kitsara, Dimitrios Kontziampasis, Onnik Agbulut and Yong Chen.

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Inside Boeing’s T-X Design It was a competition too close to call, but in the end, Boeing took the T-X prize after offering to deliver up to 475 advanced jet trainers and 120 simulators to the U.S.Air Force for no more than $9.2 billion— less than half the $19.7 billion the service estimated it would cost to replace its 1960s-vintage Northrop T-38 Talons. The initial $813 million delivery order covers engineering and manufacturing development of the first five aircraft and seven simulators and supports initial operational capability by 2024. Source: Graham Warwick | Aviation Week & Space Technology

United Technologies Says It Will Split Into 3 Companies United Technologies plans to split into three separate companies, the industrial giant said Monday. The breakup, to be completed by 2020, signals a shift away from a kitchen-sink approach to industrial manufacturing in favor of generating returns by specializing in a single area of business.

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One of the entities will be called United Technologies, with a focus on aerospace, wrapping up t h e c o m p a n y ’s Collins Aerospace Systems and Pratt & Whitney units.

Another will be Otis, manufacturing elevators and escalators, and the third will be Carrier, making heating and cooling equipment among other products.

“Our decision to separate United Technologies is a pivotal moment in our history and will best position each independent company to drive sustained growth,” the company’s chairman and chief executive, Gregory J. Hayes, said in a statement.

Last month, Chinese regulators approved the company’s $30 billion purchase of Rockwell Collins, a manufacturer of airplane parts, providing the final green light for a deal struck last year.

With the acquisition, the company added the scale it needed to establish a stand-alone business in aerospace systems, analysts said.

Formed in 1934, United Technologies spent decades getting

bigger and broader in reach, and for the most part making a lot of shareholders richer along the way.

But in recent years, the company “struggled to make the conglomerate model produce the same kind of financial outcomes,” said Carter Copeland, an analyst with Melius Research, citing stagnant growth in earnings per share. “Separating allows them to focus on what each business needs to do to be successful on its own.”

After all, Copeland said, producing airplane engines requires a different strategy than making air-conditioners. The aerospace business operates on decadelong timelines, while cooling equipment requires a shorter-term outlook.

The company had conducted a review of its operations and promised to make a decision on a breakup before year’s end.

Hayes, for his part, had dropped hints that he wanted to split up his $103 billion conglomerate.

At a Fortune conference in September, Hayes said that the board and investors had asked: “Will these businesses be better as a part of United Technologies as a conglomerate, or better as stand-alone, focused business.” He added his two cents: “My view is: Focus ultimately leads to success.” Source: Natalie Kitroeff – The New York Times

Building Immortal Machines Many electricity-generating turbines have an official life of 30 years, yet some of the machines that GE maintains have been operating for twice as long — one is still running after 82 years. Colin Parris, vice president of software research at GE’s Global Research Center, is taking the kind of life extension that occurs by happenstance and turning it into a formal engineering practice. The idea is to make more efficient machines that last forever.

The forever turbine: The project involves combining three important technologies: computer simulation, artificial intelligence and 3D printing. For instance, if a part fails and needs to be replaced, GE engineers could use the opportunity to design and 3D-print a better, more highly customized component that enables the machine to perform better.

The engineers could also run simulations on virtual versions of the turbines called digital twins, which use machine learning to predict how the turbine will function in the years to come. “Normally a model will describe how a turbine works, but every machine degrades in different ways depending on a variety [of] factors,” Parris said.

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stay away from land. It’s trying to stay safe.”

In fact, the rocket does land, but slowly tips over in water.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk explained via Twitter that it appeared the rocket was undamaged and transmitting data.

Yes, it was a failure to land, but it also was a success in showing just how ready the rocket is in case something goes wrong. However, SpaceX still is conducting a diagnostic to figure out any other issues and is coming up with a plan to prevent future mistakes.

Musk gave a bit of insight into improvements that may happen: “Pump is single string.

Some landing systems are not redundant, as landing is considered ground safety critical, but not mission critical. Given this event, we will likely add a backup pump & lines,” he said via Twitter.

Koenigsmann echoed those thoughts. “I’m pretty sure it is going to result in potentially adding a backup to supply the grid fins with hydraulic power.”

Announcements & Releases Continued Successful Failure: Why Spacex Booster Mishap Shows Its Readiness SpaceX’s failed attempt at landing its Falcon 9 rocket Dec. 5 proved the company is prepared when things go off the rails.

Meanwhile, the actual mission of sending the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station was a success and is on track to reach its destination Saturday morning.

The capsule is carrying 5,600 pounds of cargo to the ISS and is filled with more than 650 pounds of science experiments.

Additionally, the astronauts at the ISS will be pleased to know the cargo includes food for a holiday feast such as candied yams, turkey, corn, green bean casserole and Christmas cookies, said Joel Montalbano, NASA deputy International Space Station program manager. By Matthew Richardson – Staff writer, Orlando Business Journal

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During the rocket’s expected landing at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1, the booster’s grid fin hydraulic pump stalled, so the rocket began to spin out of control and landed in water two miles from the shore. To viewers, it seemed like a mistake for the rocket to land in water, but it was actually the rocket’s safety sequence. Had it landed at its designated zone, it might have suffered a lot of damage or worse.

Arcimoto President and CEO Mark Frohnmayer isn’t sweating a recent plunge in the company’s market capitalization.

“It actually targets a landing spot in the water if it loses control,” explained Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of build and flight reliability during a post-launch press conference on Dec. 5. “It’s trying to

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“My confidence is confirmed every time we come to a different city, every time I drive down the road in my (Fun Utility Vehicle), every time I look for parking, every time I smell exhaust (from other vehicles).”

Frohnmayer recently backed up his faith with a big pile of cash, heavily supporting a secondary stock offering of 504,900 shares at $3 apiece.

He bought 139,903 shares on Nov. 19, a $419,709 outlay. Three Arcimoto directors also purchased a total of 133,334 shares, according to securities filings.

The value of Arcimoto’s shares quickly slid, bottoming out at $2.02, leaving the company’s market cap under $30 million. That was about one-third where it stood after the company went public in September 2017. Generally over the past year, the market cap has hovered in the range of $50 million to $60 million.

By Pete Danko – Staff Reporter, Portland Business Journal

Advent International Acquires GE’s Distributed Power Business For $3.25 Billion

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GE and the private equity group Advent International completed Advent’s $3.25 billion acquisition of GE’s Distributed Power business today. The unit, now rebranded as INNIO, is best known for manufacturing the Jenbacher and Waukesha gas engines that generate electricity for towns and factories around the world.

Workers in the Austrian Alpine town of Jenbach, the birthplace of the Jenbacher,

have been making gas engines there since 1957. GE acquired the company in 2003.Today there are more than 20,000 Jenbacher gas engines in more than 100 countries, burning a variety of fuels including landfill gas, flare gas, sewage gas and biogas. One hospital in Wisconsin, for example, uses biogas produced from cheese whey and brewing waste as well as landfill methane to power its Jenbacher engines. Prominent, one of the largest tomato farmers in Holland, is using 53 Jenbacher gas engines, some equipped with sensors and apps, to generate 150 megawatts of electricity, as well as heat to keep its greenhouses warm.

In 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, a Jenbacher gas engine on the island of Cebu that survived the storm’s 150-mph winds became the center of community life. People used it to recharge their phones, and the engine supplied power to hospitals and evacuation centers.

The Jenbacher gas engines can also consume energy-rich synthesis gas, or syngas, which contains methane, hydrogen and carbon monoxide. GE also announced today that it would sell its gasification business, which makes systems that generate syngas, to Air Products. The deal includes GE’s share in a joint venture with a subsidiary of the China Energy Group.

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Ford And Walmart To Test Driverless Car Deliveries Ford will partner with Walmart to test ways to deliver groceries by driverless car, as the Detroit carmaker struggles to dispel the perception it is trailing rival General Motors in the race to make money from autonomous vehicles.

The carmaker announced that it would set up a pilot program with Walmart and Postmates, the delivery start-up, to “explore how selfdriving vehicles can deliver many everyday goods such as groceries, diapers, pet food and personal care items”.

Ford is looking at different types of partnerships to help build a selfdriving car business. Last month Sherif Marakby, the head of Ford’s autonomous car unit, told the Financial Times the carmaker was open to working with rivals to expand self-driving services internationally, adding weight to speculation it may partner with Volkswagen on driverless cars.

Separately, it is partnering with retailers such as Walmart to gain consumer insights and “strengthen our effort to successfully deploy self-driving vehicles in a way that people actually want to experience — whether they are ordering takeout, groceries or anything else they might need,” Ford said in a corporate blog post. No cash changes hands in the transaction, a spokesman said.

“Like us, Walmart believes that self-driving vehicles have an important role to play in the future of delivery, and that true success comes from first learning how individuals want to use them,” Ford said.

Walmart said in a corporate blog post: “We’re still learning — it’s a pilot — but we want to make sure we stay on the cutting edge of grocery delivery by exploring what’s new and next.”

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Ford is using a fleet of what it calls “simulated autonomous vehicles” to deliver pizzas in Miami.The cars are driven by a human whose presence is disguised to make the vehicle appear driverless.The goal is to gather information about how consumers and retail staff interact with the vehicles of the future that lack a human operator.

Walmart has a grocery delivery service that it expects to be available by the end of this year in 800 stores across 100 metropolitan areas in the US, with the number of stores set to double next year.

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Ford has completed more than 1,000 deliveries of goods from flowers to dry cleaning as part of the initial phase of building its driverless business, the company said.

Deliveries from a supermarket will be “larger and more varied”, it said,

“so we’ll be exploring different vehicle configurations or modifications . . . to accommodate perishable goods or scenarios where our vehicles end up making multiple deliveries on a single trip”.

The announcement came as Ford laid out the scope of its driverless car ambitions in Miami, where it plans to demonstrate self-driving test vehicles in real world conditions for journalists on Wednesday.

Ford is widely seen as lagging on self-driving cars behind GM, which recently announced a $2.25bn investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund and a $2.75bn investment from Honda in Cruise, its self-driving car unit.

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For Eugene’s Arcimoto, The EV Production ‘Starting Line’ Is In Sight A year into its run as a public company, Electric vehicle maker Arcimoto says it’s on course to begin retail production of the three-wheeled Fun Utility Vehicle by the end of the year.

And the head of the Eugene company doesn’t anticipate camping out at the factory, Elon Musk-style, in a rush to meet the goal.

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“The important point is that we’re not sprinting to get to a finish line here,” Frohnmayer added. “This a marathon, and the Retail Series is actually the starting line.”

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Arcimoto said it completed a 15-car Beta Series in the recently completed third quarter and was onto a 25-car Pilot Series, the final step before retail production.

The Pilot Series is significant, Frohnmayer said, because the vehicles will be the first made with custom frame and chassis components made fully in-house, taking advantage of the company’s investments in factory automation.

Arcimoto netted more than $18 million in a public offering that closed in September 2017. The company, founded in 2007, leased factory space in Eugene shortly thereafter.

As of June 30, it had invested $4.3 million into tooling and manufacturing equipment and expected to spend another $500,000.

It’s also spending more on personnel, with the workforce rising from 22, pre-IPO, to 78.

The company aims to boost production over the course of 2019, to 200 vehicles per week by year’s end. By Pete Danko – Portland Business Journal

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the ups and downs inherent in the firearms industry. We knew that if we wanted to take our business to the next level, we would have to diversify.”

Thanks to a robust economy, the past few years have been very good for those in the United States who are engaged in manufacturing.

But at a shop in the city of Wood Village, just outside of Portland, Oregon, business growth has been nothing short of remarkable. Bob Grover founded his company, which he named Grovtec 12 years ago. Bob had learned everything about manufacturing from his longterm employer, Michaels of Oregon. When the manufacturer of sling swivels was acquired by a leading optics manufacturer in 2005, Bob was tasked with supporting their offshoring of manufacturing to China; even taking several trips overseas to support the company’s manufacturing efforts. Bob says, “We had some issues with offshoring, from quality struggles to time to market delays.” Bob knew that in order to continue to be successful and to support his family, it was time to make a drastic change in his career.

He went to his employer’s management team with a proposal. It called for Bob to purchase their machining equipment, and become a supplier, supporting their transition. Bob would accomplish this with the company he was about to form, called Grovtec.

They agreed to Bob’s proposal, and Grovtec was founded in 2006 as a small disadvantaged business.

In the family run company, Bob’s wife Debbie, Debbie’s sister Pam, and his sons Tyler and Chris supported the business, and are all still active today. Grovtec was 100% a firearms accessories manufacturer but during a down tick in business in 2013 Grovtec made the decision to open their doors to other industries offering production screw machining services and precision swiss turning.

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Diversification was first achieved with Grovtec’s acquisition of another screw machine company in 2013. The acquisition offered the company additional machines as well as new customers, customers outside of the firearms industry.

The following year, Bob’s son Tyler launched Grovtec’s Contract Manufacturing division (Grovtec Machining), a wholly owned division of Grovtec that would support all customers in many different industries, including medical, dental, automation, aerospace, and defense. Bob says, “Through Tyler’s direction, the Grovtec CM achieved sales of several hundred thousand in its first year, and has seen year over year growth ever since. Today, the CM business is more than 10-fold what they were a short 5 years ago, and it now represents more than 40% of the company’s overall revenue.

Today, Grovtec is an ISO 9001: 2015 / AS9100 Revision D certified business as well as being ITAR registered. It resides in a 68,000 square foot building that the company purchased and moved into in 2016. “We make new machine purchases every year”, Bob says, “and today we have more than 200 machines on the floor.”

What factors make Grovtec more successful than the industry as a whole? In our interview, there were several differentiators that stood out.

• The company is competing with manufacturers overseas for many of the large volume, small parts that it manufactures today. “We are committed to our lean

journey”, Bob says, “and when we planned for the build out in our new facility, we enlisted the recommendations of our employees.The layout of the new building is designed to maximize our productivity.”

The company has also implemented‘lights out’ manufacturing with its acquisition of automation equipment and focusing on tool life management.

• Finding superior employees is a challenge for every manufacturer in the US. Grovtec has taken some very innovative approaches to hiring. Tyler is a millennial himself, and he knows what makes others of his age engaged in this type of work. Tyler says, “We offer flexibility in our workforce, we encourage cross training (which makes everyone’s jobs more interesting), and we have taken some of the best millenials and promoted them into leadership roles.

The combination of the senior management team which is comprised of mainly Baby Boomers with the midlevel management team made up of mainly millennials is working very well for us.”

• Networking and actively participating in community associations whose goals are to increase the interest and awareness of career opportunities within the manufacturing sector. Today, Tyler sits on the board of the Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition, and is active on such initiatives such as assisting the Center for Advanced Learning on their NIMS accreditation. He is a Co-chair of the East Metro STEAM business engagement team and is also an Ambassador of ‘Gateway to College’, a program designed to help disconnected youth earn a high school diploma and meaningful postsecondary credential.

•Grovtec views its employees as its most important asset, and as such, the company offers such employee benefits as tuition reimbursement, profit sharing, and medical, amongst others. Tyler says, “Bob really enjoys rewarding employees with a personal touch – as an example, we had 2 back to back record months, and for each of these months, Bob handed each and every employee a brand new $100-dollar bill to thank them.”

•Versatility is a key attribute you will see at Grovtec. Bob says, “We have so many different machines here that when we get a new job, there is likely 2 or 3 different ways we can approach it, giving us an advantage to be the most efficient.” In fact, the company is so focused on supporting their customers’ design/engineering efforts that they have just established their ‘R&D/Prototype’ department, a fenced area that is cordoned off in the building and is equipped with milling/turning capabilities as well as a 3D printer.This department will be dedicated on fixtures and design work so that production cells aren’t effected and we can help support this growing demand.

Grovtec is a case study in what we need in US manufacturing. Their phenomenal growth isn’t an accident; it is the result of a company that doesn’t just accept change; it embraces it; it thrives on it, and its customers, employees, and the industry all benefit from its initiatives. Preparedness meets opportunity at Grovtec. To learn more about Grovtec’s USA designed and manufactured firearms accessories, visit Grovtec.com. For more information on how Grovtec Machining can support your machining needs, visit Grovtecmachining.com or call (503) 557-4689.

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The facility is next to the Long Beach Airport and also has two manufacturing buildings, including a 1.1-million-squarefoot main assembly building in addition to other structures. The first bids are due in mid-December, per the report.

Douglas Aircraft Co. constructed the factory in 1980s, prior to its name change to the McDonnell Douglas Corp. Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in the late 1990s along with the Long Beach site. Boeing, in turn, sold a large section of the property in 2012 to Irvine developer Sares-Regis Group. A portion of the site is now taken by Virgin Orbit.

Last month, Boeing reported robust thirdquarter earnings on defense business and commercial aircraft production. The company also upped its 2018 earnings forecast, its full year revenue could exceed $100 billion for the first time.

CEO Dennis Muilenberg said during the earnings report that Boeing garnered billions in military contracts during the summer, calling them “important new defense business,” per CNBC. The Navy chose Boeing to develop its MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system and the Air Force gave Boeing $9.2 billion to build its T-X trainer aircraft and $2.4 billion for the MH-139.

Boeing delivered 190 commercial aircraft during the quarter, total deliveries are now at 568. By Gina Hall – Correspondent, L.A. Biz

:2015 Boeing Puts Long Beach Facility Up For Sale Boeing Co. last month put its Long Beach, California facility up for sale, the site where the company once built its C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane.

SolarWorld Americas officially began a new chapter last month with the close of SunPower’s deal to acquire the Hillsboro solar panel maker.

The Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer said the move to find a buyer was “being coordinated with city of Long Beach stakeholders to provide the best opportunity for new businesses in the city,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

SunPower, largely reiterating what it outlined when it announced the acquisition in April, is retooling the SolarWorld plant to manufacture a lower-cost SunPower line of panels beginning in 2019’s first quarter.

In the meantime, the factory, which opened under German ownership 10 years ago this month, will continue to make SolarWorld

The move could signal the end of Boeing military aircraft production in Southern California for the time being.

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“This acquisition is an important step in helping to reshape solar manufacturing in America,”Tom Werner, SunPower’s CEO and chairman, said. “With a dedicated and experienced Hillsboro workforce and our advanced P-Series solar panel manufacturing technology ... we’ll be able to sell high-performance American-assembled panels to serve our strong U.S. market demand.”

SunPower put the Hillsboro workforce at “more than 200,” a far cry from the peak of 1,000 it reached in late 2010 before a first wave of cheap Chinese solar panels began depressing prices.

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SolarWorld fought for trade protection and rebounded in the middle of the decade, but the factory’s future was thrown into grave doubt in spring 2017 when German parent SolarWorld AG declared bankruptcy.

The Hillsboro operation quickly downsized from 800 employees to around 300, then sought rescue in another trade case — and the Trump administration came through in January.

Less than three months later, SunPower, with most of its manufacturing in Asia and seeking a U.S. manufacturing outpost, announced the deal.

Throwing a lifeline to the American factory seemed to earn SunPower points with the Trump administration, which weeks ago granted the company an exclusion from tariffs on some of the high-efficiency solar cells and modules it produces overseas. By Pete Danko – Staff Reporter, Portland Business Journal

Boeing Supplier Esterline Technologies Is Being Sold For $4 Billion Esterline Technologies Corp. is being sold to TransDigm Group Inc. in a $4 billion deal.

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Bellevue-based Esterline is a major Boeing supplier. The company and its subsidiaries make avionics and flight control systems, specialized sensors and systems, and advanced materials for aerospace and defense.

Esterline is on track to collect $2 billion in revenue in 2018.The company employs over 12,500 employees in more than 50 locations.

Esterline and Cleveland-based Transdigm have already done one deal together this year. Esterline sold its Kirkhill affiliate in California to Transdigm for $50 million in March. That was about $30 million less than what Esterline paid to acquire Kirkhill in 1998. By Greg Lamm – Digital Editor, Puget Sound Business Journal A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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St. Louis Company Takes Over 37-Year-Old Stainless Tank Manufacturer Big With Brewers Faced with cash flow, sales and other challenges, longtime stainless steel tank fabricator JV Northwest has handed over the reins to St. Louis industrial engineering firm ICC Inc. ICC will continue JV Northwest’s operations in Canby as ICC Northwest, preserving close to 100 local jobs and adding several more.

“We are very excited about it, mostly because we were able to not only save all of the 98 jobs that were in the place, but in fact to begin employing additional people,” said Alex Alexandrov, CEO of ICC Northwest.

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Alexandrov said the two companies, which had worked together before on projects for the Balcones Distillery in Texas and the Templeton Rye Distillery in Iowa, began discussing joining forces a year ago. ICC considered an acquisition, but Alexandrov said a lack of cash, sales and direction kept that from happening.

Instead, ICC made a significant cash infusion — nor th of $1 million, Alexandrov said — to keep the operation afloat and now operates the company under an interim management services agreement.

ICC Northwest is leasing the former JV NW plant in Canby from the building’s owner. It is also leasing equipment from JV NW. ICC Northwest has already hired an additional eight employees for the new operation. Alexandrov said they are seeking more steel fabricators and welders as ICC Northwest sets its sails for expansion. By Jon Bell – Staff Reporter, Portland Business Journal

Less Than 1 Billion Lack Access To Electricity For the first time in history, the total number of people who lack access to electricity has fallen below 1 billion, according to the World Energy Outlook 2018. In 2017 alone, over 120 million people worldwide gained electricity access.

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Almost 95% of households in Indonesia now have access to electricity, up from 50% in 2000. About 80% of the population in Bangladesh have access to power, up from just 20% in 2000.

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Other companies will use the carbon fiber material to make new products like laptop cases, car parts and other electronics accessories, the companies said.

Boeing said its agreement with ELG is a first for the aerospace industry and will reduce its carbon fiber solid waste by more than one million pounds a year.

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One Voice submitted comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on negotiation objectives for a trade agreement between the U.S. and Japan, focusing on the removal of non-tariff barriers, particularly in the automotive and medical device markets, currency manipulation, and market access. Nearly half of One Voice companies are direct exporters of goods, however, 82 percent manufacture a product whose end use is for a finished good that is exported. Unfortunately, a significant imbalance remains for our members’ products, which we hope to see addressed in an Agreement.

Japan is the third largest auto market in the world, yet one of the most closed to U.S. manufacturers. Imports into Japan account for less than 10 percent of all vehicle sales compared to 55 percent in the U.S. Similarly, the National Trade Estimate report indicates with medical devices, U.S. exports to Japan account for only 23 percent of the $22

billion market. Historically, the Japanese Government has restricted market access by setting discriminating reimbursement rates for U.S. and European medical devices limiting their sales and availability in the Japanese marketplace.

Currency manipulation by Japan remains a major concern for U.S. manufacturers and is a significant contributor why many U.S. exports to Japan lag behind those of other nations. Japanese intervention in its currency is an indication of a state-managed economy and gives its manufacturing exporters a significant subsidy and a competitive advantage in the U.S. market.

In addition, One Voice’s comments advocated that any agreement must immediately lift tariffs on steel and aluminum from Japan, prevent 232 automotive tariffs, and address existing countervailing and antidumping duties in place on tool steel.The price of steel in the U.S. is now nearly double that of China and $310 more per metric tonne over Western Europe for hot-rolled band steel commonly used in the automotive industry. Most of our members source their raw materials domestically, however, many specialty metals are not available domestically, particularly for tool and die makers and medical device and aerospace manufacturers. An Agreement should also review duties imposed by the Department of Commerce on imported Japanese raw materials in short supply in the U.S. and not further disrupt established supply chains.

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U.S. and China Agree to Suspend January Tariff Boost After a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit between the U.S. delegation led by President Trump and the Chinese Delegation led by President Xi, the countries agreed to a 90-day trade truce, suspending scheduled tariff boosts from 10 percent to 25 percent on $200 billion in Chinese goods scheduled for January 1, 2019. However, the rate on these 5,745 items will increase on March 1, 2019, to 25 percent if the President does not believe enough progress is made. In return for the U.S. tariff suspension, the Chinese agreed to purchase an unspecified amount of American agricultural, industrial, energy, and other products.

During this 90-day trade truce the countries plan to reach a broader trade agreement by its March 1 deadline. Currently, negotiators are working on an agreement where China, over the next several years, will increase purchases of American goods and services by as much as $1.2 trillion. While negotiators seem optimistic a deal will be reached in time, actions by either country during this period, like last week’s arrest of a Chinese national over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions, could make reaching an agreement that much harder

U.S. to Impose Duties on Chinese Aluminum Sheet Imports The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled unanimously that imports of Chinese common alloy aluminum sheet unfairly injured the U.S. aluminum industry.The action allows the Commerce Department to issue antidumping and countervailing duties. Sources indicate the antidumping duties will range from 49.85 to 59.72 percent and the countervailing duties will range from 46.48 to 116.49 percent.

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(800) 481-6271 www.pmplating.com CONTRACTS The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, California, is awarded a $26,663,956 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide the U.S. and United Kingdom Trident II (D5) maintenance and rebuilding and technical services in support of the Navigation subsystem. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach, California (75.0 percent); and Heath, Ohio (25.0 percent), with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2020. United Kingdom funds in the amount of $1,512,629 are being obligated on this award. Subject to the availability of funding, fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $25,151,327 will be obligated. Funds in the amount of $25,151,327 will expire at the end of fiscal 2019. This contract was a sole-source acquisition pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1)&(4). Strategic Systems Programs,Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N-00030-19-C-0002).

Lockheed Martin Space, Sunnyvale, California, has been awarded a $45,430,528 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00131) to previously awarded contract FA8810-13-C-0002 for space-based infrared system contractor logistics support for studies and modification projects. This modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $1,381,777,416. Work will be performed on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado; Buckley AFB, Colorado; Greeley Air National Guard Station, Colorado; and Boulder, Colorado. Work is expected to be completed

by June 27, 2021. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $45,430,528 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Peterson AFB, Colorado, is the contracting activity.

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Nasco Aircraft Brake Inc., Gardena, California, has been awarded a maximum $41,955,000 firm-fixed-price, requirements contract for aircraft consumable and reparable parts.This is a five-year base contract with one five-year option period.This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Location of performance is California, with a Sept.

29, 2023, performance completion date. Using customer is Defense Logistics Agency. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Richmond, Virginia (SPE4AX-18-D-9453).

General Atomics, Poway, California, was awarded a $441,634,278 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for procurement of technical services for U.S. Army Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept.

30, 2023. U.S.Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal,Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-19-D-0001).

The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $1,051,818,540 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to contract FA880219-C-0001 for Federally Funded Research and Development Center support. This contract is for general life-cycle systems engineering and integration for the national security space community. This contract provides planning, systems definition, and technical specification support, analyzes user needs, design and design alternatives, interoperability, manufacturing and quality control. It also assists with test and evaluation, launch support, flight tests, orbital operations and integration of space systems. Work will be performed in El Segundo, California, and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2019. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, California, is the contracting activity.

AeroTurbine Inc., Stockton, California, has been awarded a $128,757,513 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and firm-fixed-price contract for overhaul services of J85-GE-5/-21 engine components. Work will be performed in Stockton, California, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 24, 2020. Fiscal 2018 defense working group funds in the amount of $9,185,439 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Sustainment Center,Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (FA8122-17-D-0001).

General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $263,403,355 firm-fixed-price contract for MQ-9 Reaper production. This contract provides for the production of the MQ-9 Reaper aircraft in the fiscal 2018 production configuration. Work will be performed at Poway, California, and is expected to be complete

by Nov. 30, 2021. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition.

Fiscal 2017 and 2018 aircraft procurement funds in the amount of $263,403,355 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-19-F-2374).

Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, has been awarded an $11,532,469, competitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the research and development of Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays (MIDAS) Defense

Advanced Research Projects Activity program. The contractor will address the MIDAS program goals through innovations in digital tile architecture and integrated, scalable apertures with groundbreaking transmit and receive components. Work will be performed in El Segundo, California, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 4, 2020. Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $2,928,098 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA865019-C-7993).

Universal Propulsion Co. Inc., Fairfield, California, has been awarded a $10,688,524 contract for supply of Modernized ACES II Electronic Sequencer for the ejection seat on some U.S. and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) aircraft. Work will be performed in Fairfield, California, and is expected to be completed by May 31, 2019. The contract involves foreign military sales to Oman, Portugal, Poland, Bahrain, Romania, Denmark, Singapore, Greece, Egypt, South Korea, Netherlands, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition.

Fiscal 2018 funding in the amount of $3,436,768; and FMS funding in the amount of $7,251,756 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8213-18-C-0002).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded $11,900,000 for modification P00002 to a previously awarded costplus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-18-C-1009) to provide continuing operations and maintenance efforts in support of the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance - Demonstrator Program (BAMS-D) program.

This modification will allow the BAMS-D unmanned aircraft system to remain fully compliant with U.S. and overseas air traffic control authorities by modernizing the transponder and adding the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast capability to the aircraft.Work will be performed in Rancho Bernardo, California (75 percent); and Patuxent River, Maryland (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2020. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,900,000 are being obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is awarded $9,044,214 for modification P00127 to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive, firmfixed-price contract (N00019-14-C-0067). This modification provides for incorporation of P-8A change proposals 809-05553 “Optical Sensor Capability”; and 809-05450 “A-Kit and Aircraft Updates” into 18 full-rate production Lot 7) P-8A aircraft for the Navy. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, Florida (93 percent); and Seattle,Washington (7 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2021. Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,044,214 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Space, Sunnyvale, California, is awarded $333,299,488 for cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification P00014 to a previously awarded contract (N00030-17-C-0100) for new procurement of Trident II (D5) Deployed Systems Support. The work

will be performed in Cape Canaveral, Florida (29.06 percent); Sunnyvale, California (26.58 percent); Kings Bay, Georgia (13.8 percent); Bangor, Washington (13.64 percent); Denver, Colorado (5.14 percent);Titusville, Florida (3.48 percent); Magna, Utah (3.08 percent); Orlando, Florida (1.54 percent); and other various locations (less than 1.00 percent each; 3.68 percent total) with an estimated completion date of Feb. 4, 2020.

Subject to availability of funding, fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $315,899,488 and United Kingdom funds in the amount of $17,400,000 will be obligated. Funds in the amount of $315,899,488 will expire at the end of fiscal 2019. Strategic Systems Programs,Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Space, Sunnyvale, California, is awarded $103,919,058 for fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification PZ0001 to a previously awarded un-priced letter contract (N00030-18-C-0100) for new procurement of Trident II (D5) missile production, D5 Life Extension production, and D5 Deployed Systems Support. The work will be performed in Kings Bay, Georgia (43.59 percent); Bangor, Washington (42.44 percent); Sunnyvale, California (4.52 percent); Cape Canaveral, Florida (3.97 percent); and other various locations (less than 1.00 percent each; 5.48 percent total) with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2023. Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $33,789,468, United Kingdom funds in the amount of $3,746,000, and fiscal 2018 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $351,680 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Subject to availability of funding, fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $66,031,910 will be obligated on this award. Funds in the amount of $66,031,910 will expire at the end of fiscal 2019. Strategic Systems Programs,Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

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to 52 per month this summer, resulting in about $2 billion worth airplanes without parts and engines being parked outside the Renton factory and at Renton Municipal Airport in late July.

Asked if he’ll lead the new joint venture once Boeing completes the deal to acquire 80 percent of the new joint-venture company for $4 billion, Slattery was coy on what future role he may play at Embraer after the deal.

Boeing delivered 29 of its 737 jets to airlines in July, its lowest monthly tally since 2012. Boeing delivered 48 of the jets in August and 61 in September.

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Muilenburg said fuselage deliveries from Spirit AeroSystems are back on track, but deliveries are still late of CFM-Leap 1B engines, made by a GE Aviation and Safran joint venture.

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We still have work to do there,” he said about engines, before saying that Boeing nevertheless expects a full recovery to 57 jets per month by year end.

He said Boeing expects to deliver 737 jets at a higher rate than production in the final weeks of December.

He added Boeing maintains its forecast of 810 to 815 total aircraft deliveries in 2018. The majority will be single-aisle 737s, but that total will also include widebody jets like 787 Dreamliners and 747 and 767 Freighters.

Muilenburg also said Boeing is sticking with its plans for another 737 production increase to 57 jets per month sometime in 2019. By Andrew McIntosh – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal FUTURE OF ELECTRICITY

Bad CO2, Good CO2: GE Scientists Use Climate Change Culprit To Make Cleaner Electricity

by Fred Guterl It’s one thing to design something on paper, another to build it. GE engineers got that first thrill of seeing their designs take shape in San Antonio in October, when GE partner Southwest Research Institute broke ground on a two-year-old project to build the world’s first 10-megawatt power plant using supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of steam.

“Supercritical” refers to the state of the CO2 that circulates through the system, pushing against the blades and turning the turbine. Carbon dioxide is a gas at room temperature and forms “dry ice” when it freezes. At high temperatures and pressures, it is dense like a liquid but expands like a gas to fill the available space. Smaller pilot projects suggest that supercritical CO2 turbines could be petite enough to fit on a conference table and generate electricity at higher efficiency than steam-powered turbines.

The San Antonio plant, developed in partnership with Southwest Research Institute as part of a $119 million project with the U.S. Department of Energy, will be the largest carbon dioxide turbine ever built. It will generate 10 megawatts — enough to power 10,000 U.S. homes — and operate at 700 degrees Celsius. That’s a hundred times more electricity than the 100-kilowatt CO2 plant now operating at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, and 200 degrees hotter.

Southwest Research Institute has broken ground on a $119 million project to build the world’s first 10-megawatt power plant using

supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of steam. “We’re hoping to prove that we can operate at scale with good safety and control systems,” says GE Global Research engineer Douglas Hofer, who developed the turbine. Above images credit: GTI.Top image credit: GE Global Research The purpose of the new facility is to demonstrate that smaller CO2 turbines can scale up to industrial-size plants. “We’re hoping to prove that we can operate at scale with good safety and control systems,” says engineer Douglas Hofer, who developed the turbine at GE Global Research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York.

The team will be looking closely at half a dozen control variables that determine how efficiently the turbine is being run — things like the temperature of the CO2 as it enters the turbine, pressure at key valves and the status of materials at key joints and seals.

One important goal of the project is to work out precisely how to start the turbine. Just as a turn of the ignition key on a car triggers a series of events — a squirt from the fuel injector, an ignition spark and so forth — starting a gas turbine is a multistep operation. Of course, ramping up a CO2 turbine from room temperature to high temperatures and pressures puts a great deal more stress on components than anything that happens in a car engine. “It’s a thermodynamic power cycle, so the whole thing starts out cold,” Hofer says. “You have to warm it up in a controlled way, avoiding stress on various components.You have to get the right amount of CO2 at the right temperature.When in this sequence do you start rotating the turbine? How do you avoid having liquid CO2 condense, or form dry ice? We’ll be looking at all these things.”

Because of the efficiency of supercritical CO2 as a thermal medium, the turbomachinery can be one tenth the size of conventional power plant components, providing the potential to shrink the environmental footprint as well as the construction cost of any new facilities. The new STEP facility will be significantly smaller than today’s power plants.

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Once operators have the turbine up and running, the next issue is how to balance the load on the grid, matching output moment by moment to fluctuating demand for electricity. Both conventional and CO2 turbines can adjust their outputs by raising or lowering the temperature of the gas (steam or CO2) that enters the turbine. Operators of CO2 turbines can also adjust the amount of CO2 that turns the turbines. “Because we have the option of changing the amount of CO2 in the loop, which changes the circulation rate, we can get a lower power output with the same turbine inlet temperature,” says Hofer. “That allows us to operate at a wide range of outputs at high efficiency levels.”

Hofer expects that GE will start getting data from the new plant in 2020 and finish in 2022. Beyond that, the company may look to applying the lessons learned to concentrated solar plants and next-generation nuclear plants, which use similar closed-loop thermodynamic systems.

Although the GE team is two years into the six-year program, research for the CO2 turbine goes back to early work on components as part of a Department of Energy contract begun in 2012. “Our journey,” says Hofer, “has been longer than two years.”

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More Contracts Honeywell International Inc., Torrance, California, has been awarded a maximum $10,028,200 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SPRPA1-19F-LH07) against a five-year basic ordering agreement (SPRPA1-14-G001Y) for heat exchangers. This is a two-year, six-month contract with no option periods. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Location of performance is California, with an April 29, 2022, performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 through 2022 Navy working capital funds.The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

HRL Laboratories LLC, Malibu, California, was awarded a $9,155,987 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) millimeter-wave GaN maturation project. Work will be performed in Malibu, California (97 percent); and Huntington Beach, California (3 percent), with an expected completion date of April 2020. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,208,000 are being obligated at time of award. This contract was a competitive acquisition off the MicrosystemsTechnology Office office-wide broad agency announcement HR001116S0001, with 138 offers received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington,Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR0011-19-C-0006).

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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Woodland Hills, California, has been awarded a $60,638,210 modification (P00011) to contract FA854014-D-0001 for Embedded Global Positioning Systems and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). The contract modification is to extend and increase the ceiling of the current indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, consisting of platform integration, modernization, diminishing manufacturing sources, flight test support, technical support following integration efforts, training, engineering support/studies, contractor depot repair, spares, and data for the INS. Work will be performed in Woodland Hills, California, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2019. This modification involves foreign military sales and no funds are being obligated at the time of award. Total cumulative face value of the contract is $260,638,210. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Woodland Hills, California, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $59,120,543 contract for engineering, manufacturing and development of the Embedded Global Positioning Systems and Inertial Navigation Systems. Work will be performed in Woodland Hills, California, and is expected to be completed by Sept.

30, 2019. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition and one offer was received. Fiscal 2018 and 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $28,969,066 is being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8540-19-C-0001).

(Awarded Nov. 28, 2018) Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, San Diego, California, is awarded a $21,327,364 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification for contract (N00024-14-C-5128) for continued platform systems engineering agent support of the ship elf defense system MK 2.Work will be performed in San Diego, California and is expected to be completed

by June 2019. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test, and evaluation

(Navy); fiscal 2019 other procurement (Navy); fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $21,327,364 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

Aretè Associates Inc.,* Northridge, California, is awarded a $17,083,516 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N61331-18-D-0012) to exercise an option for coastal battlefield reconnaissance and analysis (COBRA) systems.Work will be performed in Tucson,Arizona (35 percent); Destin, Florida (35 percent); and Santa Rosa, California (30 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2021. No funding will be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be obligated as delivery orders are issued. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, Panama City, Florida, is the contracting activity.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $26,718,824 option (002620) to a previously awarded contract (FA8620-15-G-4040) for MQ-9 contractor logistics support phase three.

The contractor will provide an additional period of contractor logistics support for the French Air Force. Work will be performed in Poway, California, and is expected to be completed Dec. 31, 2019. This contract involves 100 percent foreign military sales to France. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contract activity.

The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, has been awarded a $158,950,309 firm-fixed-price modification (P00003) to contract FA8609-18-F-0006 for one KC-46A Japan aircraft. This modification provides for the exercise of an option for an additional quantity of one aircraft being produced under the basic contract. Work will be performed in Seattle and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2021.This modification involves foreign military sales to Japan.Total cumulative face value of the contract is $449,375,855.

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Parker-Hannifin Corp, Irvine, California, is awarded a $39,026,578 modification to contract FA8109-18-D-0004 for 12 additional spare national stock numbers items and the remanufacture of 11additional national stock numbers to support the A-10, B-1, B-52, C-135, C-5, C-130, C-17, E-3, F-15, F-16, and HH-60 aircraft. These items also support the TF33, F100, F101, F110, and F118 engines. Work will be performed in Irvine, California; Glendale, Arizona; Mentor, Ohio; and Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is expected to be completed by April 5, 2027.This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. This is a requirements contract, so no funding is being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity.

Parker-Hannifin Corp., Irvine, California, has been awarded a maximum $14,202,759 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order (SPRRA1-19-F-0113) against a three-year contract (SPRRA1-19-D-0031) for hydraulic manifolds. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Location of performance is California, with a Nov. 30, 2023, performance completion date. Using military service is Army.Type of appropriation is fiscal 2019 Army working capital funds.The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation,

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got people who have come from a variety of backgrounds and have had to re-sculpt their thinking and learn new engineering practices.We wanted to create a learning environment because there’s no playbook for this.”

Mark Twain allegedly claimed that when the end of the world came, he wanted to be in Cincinnati “because it’s always 20 years behind the times.”

The quip is funny, but his strategy to ride out Armageddon in the Queen City would backfire today. A case in point is GE’s Additive Technology Center located along Interstate 75 as it bisects the northern suburb of West Chester Township. From the outside, the building looks like many of the low, gray boxes in this industrial area. But step inside through large glass doors and you’ll enter what might easily be the world’s largest and most advanced 3D-printing facility and development center.

“It’s not hard to walk into this building every morning and go to work,” says Eric Gatlin, a general manager for GE Aviation focusing on additive manufacturing. “A lot of the things we do here, we are doing for the very first time. I think that breeds a certain amount of excitement, a certain amount of energy, and requires a certain culture.”

3D printing allows engineers to make parts that would be difficult or impossible to manufacture any other way. This example shows a 3D-printed heat exchanger. Image credit:Tomas Kellner for GE Reports.

by Tomas Kellner

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, allows engineers and designers to print complex metal parts directly from a computer file. The printers here produce intricate fuel nozzles for the GE9X, the world’s largest jet engine; ribbed gearbox covers for the GE Catalyst, the company’s new turboprop engine; alien-looking fuel heaters honeycombed with vessel-like channels; and many other items. The parts are built, step by tiny step, by fusing together super-thin layers of fine metal powder with lasers or electron beams. With the GE Catalyst, the technology allowed the company to combine 855 parts into just 12, reduce weight, simplify the supply chain and maintenance, and improve the engine’s performance.

As recently as 2015, the ATC, as GE calls it, was an empty shell that once held a Dell Computers distribution center. At that time, GE had already acquired Morris Technologies, an American additive manufacturing pioneer based in Cincinnati, and used 3D printing to develop an intricate tip for a fuel nozzle in a new jet engine called the LEAP. In 2016, the company followed that acquisition by taking majority stakes in Concept Laser, a German maker of 3D printers, and Arcam AB, which makes printers as well as the special metal powders used for printing. These companies now form the core of GE Additive.

Today, the ATC holds close to 90 3D printers, including six of the largest metal printers in the world, and employs 300 designers, machinists and engineers. The site belongs to GE Aviation, but about half of the employees come from GE Additive, a new GE business unit that makes 3D printers and the materials used for printing.

Like a skilled matchmaker, GE laid out the ATC in a way that would make these interactions as natural and easy as possible. For example, the facility’s center is a large octagonal office area for workers, who zip in and out to the machines and workstations surrounding it like bees in a beehive. “This is a new industry,” Gatlin says. “You don’t have tenured engineers with 20 years of experience in additive manufacturing.You’ve A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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One recent example is a 3D-printed bracket for the GEnx jet engine, which powers many Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Grimm and Gatlin are particularly proud of this project because it involved using additive manufacturing to redesign an existing part, rather than developing a new component from scratch. “It really represents the power of additive,” Gatlin says. “People sometimes think that 3D printing doesn’t make sense unless you can combine parts into a system. In many cases, that is absolutely where you get the maximum benefit, but there are also instances where simplicity rules. This is one of those cases.”

Each GEnx engine has two of these brackets, which hold the engine covers open during maintenance. The traditional method of making them requires suppliers to mill away material from a solid block of aluminum. It works, but it also results in a lot of waste. “We were being charged a significant amount for these parts,” Gatlin says.

That’s why last October he and Grimm asked the team at ATC to explore whether they could redesign it, print it on a Concept Laser machine and take it to production in less than a year. “We actually rejected it at first because it seemed too simple,” Gatlin says. “But the more we looked at it, the more we realized the value it represents.”

Ten months later, they handed off the production process to the Auburn 3D printing plant. Grimm says they make the bracket on a printer for less than the original price and can now apply that savings to the 2,200 GEnx engines on order. The process, which allowed them to radically reduce waste, also led to a lighter bracket, an important factor for the aviation industry. “The team has been able to find places where they could take material off areas you couldn’t reach with traditional subtractive manufacturing,” Grimm says, adding that a lighter bracket will also lead to fuel savings for airlines.

In addition to troubleshooting the production process for existing parts, workers at the ATC are also helping designers develop new parts, vet new machines and test new powders used for printing. “We are making lots of prototypes the designers can test on a test stand and iterate on the design,” Grimm says. “3D printing allows them to move very fast.”

The ATC also holds a research and development space where engineers test new features and applications for Concept Laser and Arcam printers. For example, the ATC houses the largest cluster of Concept Laser’s X-Line units anywhere in the world. These machines are the world’s largest industrial printers for metals, but GE Additive is already working to surpass them with Project A.T.L.A.S., a printer that will be able to make part as large as 1 meter in all three axes.

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and inventory storage. They also added strategically placed air and electrical drops from above. The upgrades have reduced technician fatigue and enabled them to improve workflow efficiency and triple their output to 100 motors a week to meet increasing demand.

EP Carry is now available through three marine distributors including Seattle’s longtime regional favorite, Fisheries Supply.

It is also available on the EP Carry website, and at many boat shows throughout the year. On that note, you can visit, fondle, and purchase the latest iteration of EP Carry at the upcoming Seattle Boat Show, January 25 through February 2, 2019. For the latest information, performance stats, and the whole fascinating

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Congratulations for the first year of manufacturing success! EP Carry, the manufacturer of the revolutionary and award winning electric outboard motor, is celebrating their resoundingly successful first year of production.

EP Carry is rapidly becoming the number one propulsion choice for dinghies, prams, day sailors, inflatables, kayaks and more. And rightfully so. Since their first production release in September of 2017 EP Carry has garnered two prestigious awards: the 2018 Boating Industry Top Products Award and the 2018 Miami Innovation Award at the Miami International Boat Show.

EP Carry is not just a lightweight outboard motor.

It is an innovative hybrid propulsion system. The EP Carry’s motor, internal electronics and battery weigh in at just under 21 lbs. with the battery weighing 6 of those pounds. Both battery and motor come in their own packable cases.

The battery case is also a flotation device. If it goes overboard you won’t lose your battery! All circuitry and electrical systems are watertight. It sets up in less than one minute and you’re off and running with the electronic fingertip controls! The best part – it’s manufactured locally in North Bend, WA. Manufacturing a complex unit with a high part inventory and a low production head count requires careful planning and use of tight work space. The EP Carry production facility recently concluded a remodel. The modifications included improved lighting, wider aisles, moveable benches, work stations,

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Industrial Metal Supply Co.___ 818-729-3333 North-South Machinery_____ 562-690-7616 Hydmech Sawing Solutions____ 714-620-5560 Band & Cut Off Saws Metal Marking Systems Kloeckner Metals________ 480-389-2883 Laser Cutting Services, Inc____503-612-8311 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc.___ 503-620-9031 Kwik Mark Inc___________ 815-363-8268 Ryerson Corporation______ 425-204-2601 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____ 360-434-8844 Swift Tool Co, Inc.________ 800-562-0900 Notchers United Performance Metals__ _888-282-3292 KNUTH Machine Tools______ 847-415-3333 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc.____ 503-620-9031 Titanium Plate, Rod, Bar, & Wire North-South Machinery______562-690-7616

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EZ-ACCESS____________ 800-258-8503

Gentec Manufacturing.______ 408-432-6220 TMM Precision _________ 800-448-9448 Gillaspie MFG___________ 360-921-3973 Glass Bead Clean

Group Mfg Serv__________ 480-966-3952 Byington Steel Treating, Inc.___ 408-727-6630 Industrial Machine Svcs______ 503-240-0878 Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648 Petersen Inc.____________ 801-732-2000 Fabrication: Custom Metal Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 QUAL-FAB, Inc.____________206-762-2117 EZ-ACCESS____________ 800-258-8503 SMH Inc LLC____________ 360-341-2226 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Gentec Manufacturing._____ 408-432-6220 Liquid Painting Solid Form Fabrication______ 503-435-1400 Group Mfg Serv_________ 480-966-3952 Weiser Engineering________ 303-280-2778 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Industrial Machine Svcs_____ 503-240-0878 MPI International________ 956-631-6880 Tube & Pipe Bending Fabrication Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 QUAL-FAB, Inc.___________206-762-2117 Albina Co., Inc. __________ 866-252-4628 Passivation SMH Inc LLC___________ 360-341-2226 Bending Solutions, Inc.______ 360-651-2443 Coating Technologies_____ _623-581-2648 Valley Machine Shop, Inc.____ 425-207-5951 EZ-ACCESS_____________ 800-258-8503 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 FINISHING Polishing Wrico______________ 480-892-7800 Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700 Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 Arizona Hard Chrome_______ 602-278-8671 Forming & Fabrication Powder Coating Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Coating Technologies_______ 623-581-2648 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Bending Solutions, Inc._____ 360-651-2443 Gold Tech Industries________ 480-968-1930 CLS Fabrication Inc_______ 800-426-0721 EZ-ACCESS____________ 800-258-8503 PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906 Sandblasting Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000

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Oven/Aluminum Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 HONING/LAPPING MESCO_______________626-303-5680 PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906 Byington Steel Treating, Inc.___ 408-727-6630 Evans Precision__________623-582-4776 Superior Grinding_________801-487-9700 Industrial Precision Grinding___310-352-4700 TCI Precision Metals________800-234-5613

Shot Peen PAS Technologies_________480-487-1906 Silk Screening

Steel Services Grinding______800-662-0126

Grinding: Tool & Cutter

Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701

Arizona Finishing________ 602-438-4443 Superior Grinding_________801-487-9700 Swift Tool Co, Inc.________ 800-562-0900 TCI Precision Metals________800-234-5613 GUN DRILLING FIXTURING Grinding, Centerless Evans Precision__________623-582-4776 Real Axis Machining________360-723-5386 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.__ 805-583-9966 HEAT TREATING GASKETS Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432 3-D Plastics, Inc.__________503-720-0572 Ron Grob Co___________ 970-667-5320 Byington Steel Treating_____408-727-6630 GRINDING Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Controlled Thermal Tech_____602-272-3714 AZ Hard Chrome__________602-278-8671 Grinding, Double Disc Evans Precision__________623-582-4776 AZ Tool Steel____________877-795-1600 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.__ 805-583-9966 MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 ChemResearch___________602-253-4175 Industrial Precision Grinding___310-352-4700 PAS Technologies_________480-487-1906 Cogitic_______________ 719-473-8844 Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Phoenix Heat Treating______602-258-7751 Evans Precision__________623-582-4776 TCI Precision Metals________800-234-5613 Thermal-Vac Technology_____714-997-2601 Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Grinding: OD Cryogenics Industrial Machine Svcs______503-240-0878 Arizona Hard Chrome_______602-278-8671 Phoenix Heat Treating_ ______602-258-7751 Industrial Precision Grinding___310-352-4700 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.__ 805-583-9966 Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100 MESCO______________ 626-303-5680 Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432 Mountain View Machine_____ 435-755-0500 Precision Tech__________ 801-285-7288 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Ron Grob Co____________970-667-5320 Ron Grob Co___________ 970-667-5320 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Steel Services Grinding______800-662-0126 Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Sun Grinding___________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding_________801-487-9700 Heat Treating/Aerospace Superior Grinding_________801-487-9700 Grinding: Surface TCI Precision Metals________800-234-5613 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.__ 805-583-9966 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Grinding, Blanchard Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 AZ Tool Steel____________877-795-1600 Industrial Precision Grinding___310-352-4700 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.___805-583-9966 PAS Technologies_________480-487-1906 Diversified Metal Services_____801-972-6093

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Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 HYDRAULIC REPAIR Arizona Hard Chrome_______ 602-278-8671 INJECTION MOLDS Plastic Injection Molding______509-531-2634 INJECTION MOLDING Plastic Injection Molding______509-531-2634 LASER CUTTING CLS Fabrication Inc________ 800-426-0721

dtiEXACT______________ 360-866-1337 SW Waterjet & Laser________480-306-7748 United Performance Metals____888-282-3292 Weiser Engineering________303-280-2778 Wrico_______________480-892-7800 LASER MARKING Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700

Laser Cutting: 3D SW Waterjet & Laser________480-306-7748 LEVELING United Performance Metals____888-282-3292 MACHINING Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________ 928-636-2115 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Central Valley Machine______435-752-0934 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Faustson______________303-420-7422 Gentec Manufacturing.______ 408-432-6220

Grovtec US, Inc. __________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machine____ 801-619-9850

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Larkin Precision Machine_____831-438-2700 Petersen Inc.____________ 801-732-2000 Machinists Inc.___________360-202-7342 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 MESCO_______________ 626-303-5680 Strom Manufacturing_______ 503-447-1021 Petersen Inc.____________ 801-732-2000 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 Systems Integrators ________ 623-434-3136

Real Axis Machining________360-723-5386 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Ron Grob Co____________970-667-5320 Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821 SMH Inc LLC____________ 360-341-2226 Machining: Ceramics Advanced Sunshine Metals__________ 714-225-4972 O’Keefe Ceramics_________ 719-687-0888

Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821

Machining: Horizontal Boring Machinists Inc.___________360-202-7342 Central Valley Machine_____ 435-752-0934 Sunshine Metals__________ 714-225-4972 Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Systems Integrators ________623-434-3136 Machining: Proto-R & D Weiser Engineering________303-280-2778 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________ 928-636-2115 dtiEXACT_____________ 360-866-1337 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344

TVT Die Casting__________800-280-2278

Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Faustson______________303-420-7422 Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821 Accutech Machine Inc_______ 801-975-1117 Central Valley Machine______435-752-0934 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 Machining: Large Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Gentec Manufacturing.______ 408-432-6220 Gentec Manufacturing._____ 408-432-6220 Machining: 5-Axis

Clings Aerospace_________ 480-968-1778 Newport Tool.___________ 801-295-7411 Gillaspie MFG___________360-921-3973 Accutech Machine Inc_______ 801-975-1117 Gentec Manufacturing.______ 408-432-6220 Petersen Inc.____________ 801-732-2000 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. __ 253-395-7381 Petersen Inc.____________ 801-732-2000 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 Howard Precision Machined Prod._801-619-9850 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Strom Manufacturing_______ 503-447-1021 Real Axis Machining________360-723-5386 Larkin Precision Machine_____831-438-2700 Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821 Ron Grob Co____________970-667-5320 Layke Inc.____________ 602-272-2654 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 Machinists Inc.__________ 360-202-7342 Machining: Aerospace Strom Manufacturing_______ 503-447-1021 NW Metalcraft Industries____ 888-280-7080 AATC________________ 602-268-1467 Systems Integrators ________ 623-434-3136 Micropulse West, Inc.______ 480-966-2300 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. __ 253-395-7381 Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821 Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________ 928-636-2115 TVT Die Casting__________800-280-2278 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 dtiEXACT______________ 360-866-1337 Real Axis Machining_______ 360-723-5386 Machining: CNC Milling Flex-Pro Manufacturing.______ 623-466-6866 Accutech Machine Inc_______ 801-975-1117 Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838 Gentec Manufacturing.______ 408-432-6220 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________ 928-636-2115 Savage Machining Inc.______805-584-8047 Larkin Precision Machine_____831-438-2700 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 Layke Inc._____________602-272-2654 Strom Manufacturing_______503-447-1021

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Petersen Inc.____________801-732-2000 Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 Machining: Medical Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Flex-Pro Manufacturing.______623-466-6866 Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Petersen Inc.____________801-732-2000 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Machining: Production

Accutech Machine Inc_______ 801-975-1117

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Cascade Engineering Tech ___ 503-266-1300 dtiEXACT_____________ 360-866-1337 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 Gentec Manufacturing._____ 408-432-6220 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod._801-619-9850 Larkin Precision Machine____ 831-438-2700

Newport Tool.___________801-295-7411 Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700

Strom Manufacturing______ 503-447-1021 Systems Integrators _______ 623-434-3136 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________928-636-2115 dtiEXACT_____________ 360-866-1337 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod._801-619-9850

Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing_ 503-557-9407

Layke Inc._____________602-272-2654 Group Mfg Serv__________480-966-3952 Petersen Inc.____________801-732-2000 Larkin Precision Machine_____831-438-2700

Weiser Engineering________303-280-2778 Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing Cascade Systems Technology___ 971-330-8054 Machining: Turning Large Metal Polishing By Timothy____503-253-5294 PHOTO CHEMICAL MFG Petersen Inc.____________801-732-2000

Personal Collectables Polishing Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 Metal Polishing By Timothy____503-253-5294 MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED Production Polishing Contract Manufacturing

Metal Polishing By Timothy____503-253-5294

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Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________928-636-2115 dtiEXACT_____________ 360-866-1337 Faustson_____________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 Gentec Manufacturing._____ 408-432-6220 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod._801-619-9850 Larkin Precision Machine____ 831-438-2700

Milco Wire EDM,, Inc._______ 714-373-0098

Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 Petersen Inc.____________801-732-2000 Plastic Injection Molding______509-531-2634 Real Axis Machining________360-723-5386 Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 Molds: High Volume Class 100 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 Systems Integrators ________623-434-3136 Advanced Mold Technology____ 714-990-0144 Strom Manufacturing_______503-447-1021 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Systems Integrators ________623-434-3136 Treske Precision Machining ____ 503-625-2821 Bridge Molds Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting__________800-280-2278 Advanced Mold Technology____ 714-990-0144 Industrial Manufacturing Valley Machine Shop, Inc._____ 425-207-5951 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Albina Co., Inc. __________866-252-4628 Machining: Ultra Precision Insert Molding Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing__503-557-9407 Advanced Mold Technology____ 714-990-0144 Machinists Inc.__________ 360-202-7342 Machining: Turning With Live PC BOARDS Turnkey Product Services Tooling Aero Tech MFG___________ 801-891-2740 Surface Mount & Thru Hole

Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Accutech Machine Inc_______ 801-975-1117

Arizona Finishing________ 602-438-4443

Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Controlled Thermal Tech _____ 602-272-3714 Albina Co., Inc. __________866-252-4628 MOLDING: RUBBER Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. __ 253-395-7381 Molds: Plastic Injection Bending Solutions, Inc.______360-651-2443 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 CLS Fabrication Inc________800-426-0721 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 dtiEXACT______________360-866-1337 MOLDS Flex-Pro Manufacturing.______623-466-6866

PLASTIC MACHINING Portland Precision Manufacturing_503-253-6700 PLATING PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906

PLASTIC MOLDING 3-D Plastics, Inc.__________503-720-0572 Plastic Injection Molding______509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC____________360-341-2226 Mold Making

3-D Plastics, Inc.__________503-720-0572 Gentec Manufacturing.______408-432-6220 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Plastic Injection Molding______509-531-2634 G & G Custom Metal Fab_____503-931-7069 Advanced Mold Technology___ 714-990-0144

Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, & Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 geoffs@askogroup.com A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906

PLATING Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700

Coating: Dry Film Lube

Arizona Hard Chrome_______602-278-8671 Leadtek Plating__________ 503-682-4410 ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052

ASKO Group____________ 206-947-4052 Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648

NAD CAP & Boeing Approved

ChemResearch___________ 602-253-4175 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906

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EPSI________________ 714-519-9423

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome

Foresight Finishing________ 480-772-0387 Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648 Leadtek Plating__________ 503-682-4410

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Precious Metal Plating Co._____800-481-6271 Nickel-Bright

PLASMA CUTTING G & G Custom Metal Fab_____ 503-931-7069 PRECISION FORMING Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919

Gillaspie MFG___________ 360-921-3973 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 Pacific Tool, Inc__________ 425-882-1970 Foresight Finishing_______ 480-772-0387 QUAL-FAB, Inc.___________ 206-762-2117

Gold Tech _____________ 480-968-1930 Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 SpringWorks Utah_________ 801-298-0113 PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906 Savon Plating, Inc________ 602-252-4311 Precious Metal Plating Co._____800-481-6271 Wrico_______________ 480-892-7800 Anodizing Copper Tin / Zinc Plate Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700 PROCESSING: METAL ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 ChemResearch___________ 602-253-4175 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 Chemical Leadtek Plating__________ 503-682-4410 Foresight Finishing_______ 480-772-0387 EPSI________________714-519-9423 Gold Tech ____________ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties___________ 602-269-7612 Electro-Polishing PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906 PROTOTYPES ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 Bright Tin Foresight Finishing________ 480-772-0387 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410

Savon Plating, Inc_________602-252-4311 Cascade Systems Technology___ 503-640-5733 NW Rapid Mfg.__________ 503-434-8557 Titanium Nitride (TiN)

Embrittlement Relief EPSI_______________ 714-519-9423 Titanium Coating Services____ 562-548-2550 Precious Metal Plating Co._____ 800-481-6271 Titanium CarboNitride (TiCN) Savon Plating, Inc________ 602-252-4311 Chem Film Titanium Coating Services____ 562-548-2550 Electroless Nickel PAS Technologies_________ 480-487-1906 ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 Titanium Aluminium Nitride (TiAlN) Savon Plating, Inc_________ 602-252-4311 Titanium Coating Services____ 562-548-2550 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 Chromate\ Passivation Foresight Finishing_______ 480-772-0387 Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 Chrome/Nickel/Palladium Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 AZ Hard Chrome__________ 602-278-8671 Silver Plating Savon Plating, Inc________ 602-252-4311 EPSI________________ 714-519-9423 ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 Gold Gold Tech _____________ 480-968-1930 ASKO Group___________ 206-947-4052 EPSI________________714-519-9423 Savon Plating, Inc_________ 602-252-4311 EPSI_______________ 714-519-9423 Gold Tech ____________ 480-968-1930 Coating Foresight Finishing_______ 480-772-0387 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 Coating Technologies_______ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech ____________ 480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co._____800-481-6271 Controlled Thermal Tech _____ 602-272-3714 Leadtek Plating_________ 503-682-4410 Savon Plating, Inc_________602-252-4311 Coating: Black Oxide Tin Plating Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271 Coating Technologies_______ 623-581-2648 Precious Metal Plating Co._____800-481-6271 Hard Chrome Leadtek Plating__________ 503-682-4410

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PUNCHING AEI Fabrication__________ 480-733-6594 CLS Fabrication Inc________ 800-426-0721

Group Manufacturing Serv____ 480-966-3952 QUAL-FAB, Inc.___________ 206-762-2117 Weiser Engineering________ 303-280-2778 RECYCLING MATERIALS Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Bin Service Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Excess Material Handling Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Full Service Scrap Management Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284

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Perry Pallet Co._________ 360-366-5239 REPAIR CNC-PROS_____________602-344-9753 ROLLING Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 SANDBLASTING Advanced Precision Anodizing___503-661-6700

Byington Steel Treating, Inc.___ 408-727-6630 Production Sawing Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.__ 805-583-9966 SEWING Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 SHEARING United Performance Metals__ _888-282-3292 SIGNAGE & DISPLAYS Milco Wire EDM,, Inc._______714-373-0098 SILICONE 3-D Plastics, Inc._________ 503-720-0572 SINTERING Western Sintering________ 509-375-3096 SLITTING United Performance Metals__ _888-282-3292 SPINNING Evans Precision__________623-582-4776 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services_____ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS Ace Wire & Spring Form______412-458-4830 SpringWorks Utah_________801-298-0113 SPRINGS: CUSTOM Extension/Compression/ Coil Ace Wire & Spring Form______412-458-4830 STAMPING PRECISION AEI Fabrication_________ 480-733-6594 Gillaspie MFG__________ 360-921-3973

NW Metalcraft Industries____ 888-280-7080

CUTTING FAB

Precision Die & Stamping____ 480-967-2038 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 SpringWorks Utah_________801-298-0113 Bending Solutions, Inc._____ 360-651-2443 Stamping:Design

Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778

SpringWorks Utah_________801-298-0113 EZ-ACCESS____________ 800-258-8503 WATERJET CUTTING Stamping:Flat Forming Gillaspie MFG__________ 360-921-3973

Accutech Machine Inc_______801-975-1117

NW Metalcraft Industries____ 888-280-7080 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 SpringWorks Utah_________801-298-0113 dtiEXACT_____________ 360-866-1337 Stamping: Light

Milco Waterjet__________ 714-373-0098

EZ-ACCESS_____________800-258-8503 WIRE FORMING Ace Wire & Spring Form______ 412-458-4830 Evans Precision__________ 623-582-4776

Gillaspie MFG__________ 360-921-3973 Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838 SpringWorks Utah_________801-298-0113 SW Waterjet & Laser_______ 480-306-7748 Systems Integrators _______ 623-434-3136 United Performance Metals__ _888-282-3292 5-Axis Waterjet Cutting Stamping: Production/ Precision

Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838

Precision Die & Stamping____ 480-967-2038

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Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838

Cascade Systems Technology__ 503-640-5733

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Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000

Cogitic_______________719-473-8844 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 Thermal Shock Testing Weld Metal Works________ 503-788-5701 Cogitic_______________719-473-8844

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THERMAL SPRAY Medium & Large Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432 Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714 NADCAP Welding and Services TOOL & DIE DESIGN

Level III NDT Svcs________ 602-578-8109

Newport Tool.___________801-295-7411

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Industrial Machine Svcs_____ 503-240-0878 EZ-ACCESS____________ 800-258-8503 Lambie Engineering______509-868-3100 Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 Mountain View Machine_____ 435-755-0500 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 Welding: MIG-TIG Newport Tool.___________801-295-7411 Real Axis Machining_______ 360-723-5386 Petersen Inc.___________ 801-732-2000 TUBE BENDING &

Evans Precision_________ 623-582-4776 A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Index of Advertisers 3D-Plastics...33,47 AATC...47 Accutech Machine, inc...51 Ace Wire & Spring Form...52 Advanced Precision Anodizing...49 Aeroform, Inc...50 Aero Tech Manufacturing...48 Albina Co, Inc...7,47 Altemp Alloys...14, 45 Application Specialties Inc...40 Arizona Finishing...49 Arizona Hard Chrome...51 Asko Group...51 Bar-S...48 Barton International...46 Bending Solutions...53 BMSC...28,40 Bralco...44 Buds Equipment Sales...42 Byington Steel Treating...49 C & M Precision Spindle, Inc...44 Cascade Engineering Tech...50 Castrol...55 Cimatron...45 CLS Fabrication Inc...48 CMR Manufacturing...51 Coast Aluminum...19,41 Coastal Metals...6,41 Coating Technologies...5,48 Controlled Thermal Tech...51 Creative Aero Design...43 Current EDM, Inc....44 Curtis Wright...49 Cycle Time Solutions...42 Desert EDM...33,40 Desert Machine Sales...40 Doosan...15,40 dtiEXACT...36,47 EDM Network...20,40 EDM Performance..40,41 Edge Technologies...10,41,43 Ellison Technologies...15,40 EMAG...41 EPSI...50 Evans Precision...53 EZ-ACCESS...51 Fahey Machinery...17,41,43,44 Faustson...48 Flex-Pro...37,48 Flow...40,41 Foresight Finishing...50 Frontier Group...47 A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Fry Steel...42 Ganesh...41 Gentec Manufacturing...47 Gillaspie...50 GMA Garnet Group...12,42 GMN...37,42 Gold Tech...49 Gosiger in WA...42,43 Gosiger in CA...40 Graphel...46 Group Manufacturing...48 Grovtec...1,22,24,25,47 Hangsterfers...40,42 Hexagon Metrology...43 Horizon Carbide...42 Howard Precision Mach. Prod...34,52 Hurco...21 Industrial Metal Supply Co....36,45 Industrial Precision Grinding...52 KD Capital...44 King Machine...45 Kloeckner Metals-Temtco...22,41 Larkin Precision...51 Laube Titanium Mill Prod....

Layke Inc...50 Layke Tactical...50 Leadtek...52 Level III NDT Consulting SVC...53 Machine and Fabrication LLC...23,51 Mario Pinto...42 MESCO...48 MET-TEK Inc...48 Methods Machine Tools Inc...41 Metro Metals Northwest, Inc...50 Micropulse West...49 Micro-Tronics...1,24,25 Midaco Corporation...42 Milco...52 Mountain View Machining...49 MP Systems...43 Multitool-USA...27,43 Newport Tool...52 North-South Machinery...13,40 Northwestern Machinery...43 Okeefe Ceramics...34, 47 ONA EDM USA...45 Optical Gaging Products Inc...43 Pacific Swiss...12,53 PAS Technologies...48 Performance Machine Tools...8,44 Perry Pallet...45 Petersen...9,47,51

Phoenix Heat Treat...49 Pinnacle Precision...49 Portland Precision...50 Precious Metals Plating...32,53 Precision Die & Stamping...18,48 Production Machine Tools...41,43 Real Axis Machining...50 RENISHAW...5,40 ReSell CNC...44 Revolution Machine Tools...42 Rio Fasteners...35 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...45 Rosco Precision Machinery...21,40 Rotarex...46 Royal products...30,41 Ryerson...23 S.L. Fusco...55 Selway Machine Tool Co...40,42 Sentry Insurance...44 Setco Spindles & Slides...53 SigmaNEST...52 SMH Inc LLC...39,47 Specialty Steel...48 Spring Works Utah...48 Star Metal Fluids...41 Steel Services Grinding...49 Strom Manufacturing...47 Sunbelt Turret Steel...23 Sun Grinding...48 Superior Grinding...47 Sustaining Edge...43 Swift Tool...2.3.30,40,41 Systems Integtrators...50 TechnoERP...34,41 Teton...50 TFC Plating...49 Thermal-Vac...50 ThinBit...31,40,56 Toolnet...45 Tool Technology...45 TVT Die Casting...29,47 United Performance Metals...16,44 US Carbide...46 US Shop Tools...11,44 Valley Machine Shop...48 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc...41 Weiser Engineering...49 Western Sintering...26,47 Wrico Stamping...52 Zeiss Metrology...40

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