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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford It has been a whirlwind of shows for us these past two months, throughout the Southwest and West Coast. From Seattle, to Portland, to Denver, to Dallas, to Houston, to San Jose, we have had the opportunity to meet many new people in the industry.We’ll end the season with an AmCon Show in Phoenix. Perhaps the most enjoyable show was Design2Part, which we just returned from. At the show, we met many new inventors who brought their rough prototypes to begin the journey of finding a way to take their concept to production.

This got me thinking about how we as a country fare at inventions. The results were surprising to me. A study by MITI - Japan’s equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world’s most important inventions were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese.

The figures offered by MITI are generally agreed throughout the scientific and engineering community. However, “invention” does not immediately translate into “new product”.There is a huge journey to move from an invention to reaching the market place with a product, one that demands engineering and development skills as well as significant amounts of money.

Britain is credited with numerous inventions. One great example is the digital audio player.

The first operating MP3 player was British. But it took Apple, an American corporation to fund the development work and deliver the Ipod to market.

Television is another example:The first operating television system was made, demonstrated and put into service in the UK by John Logie Baird in the 1920s. Philo Farnsworth and RCA in the US made some significant developments and introduced commercial broadcasting in the 1930s. The US was the first to introduce color television, free market broadcasting and cable services to support multiple television channels. Most broadcast equipment is now made

by US companies with Britain and the Far East behind the US in terms of output.

Other notable US inventions include the telegraph by Samuel Morse (1832), the mobile telephone by Bell Labs (1946), the washing machine (1907), satellite communications (1960), Prozac (1972), the refrigerator (1842), respirators (1970), the zipper (1893), the blowdryer (1920), the outboard motor (1907) and cardiac pacemakers (1952).

Proudly Introducing Superior Grinding And Swiss Machining: This Issue’s Shop Profile Announcements/Releases .......................6-20 Feature Articles ..........................1,26-28,46-48 Buyers Guide Equipment .......................49-54 Buyers Guide Processes ..........................55-61 Card Gallery.............................................49-61 Index Of Advertisers....................................62 Editorial ...................................... Throughout

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A2Z Manufacturing PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@azmetalworker.com Mail Address: PO Box 33857 Portland, OR 97292

Telephone: (602) 412-7696 Website: www.a2zManufacturing.com E-mail: info@azmetalworker.com

CONTRIBUTORS Kim Carpenter Gene Wirth Chris Seay Hugh Taylor Kathy Carpenter

And let’s not forget about some of the greatest inventions; the Internet by Bob Kahn (1972), and the personal computer by Ed Roberts (1975), both in the US. And while the first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist, it was in 1879, in the US that Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed, and eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours. And while many scientists pioneered work on electronic voice transmission, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone in 1876.

Published bi-monthly to keep precision manufacturers abreast of news and to supply a viable vendor source for the industry.

While Henry ford did not invent cars, he invented a line of free-moving vehicles that did not need horses to pull it; it involved engines that were never before seen by the human eye. Facebook was an invention of sorts, founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates in 2004.

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The opportunity to invent is limitless. Generally speaking, successful inventions will eventually be manufactured. Then they will be improved. This is integral to our industry. Many of us participate in the exciting journey of making new products, or making existing products better.

In closing, keep inventing! God Bless our great country, and God Bless our troops!

Linda Daly Publisher

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Announcements & Releases Faustson on Cutting Edge with Addition of Laser Printing Technology 3D metal printing breaks through manufacturing limitations Arvada, CO – Faustson, a worldwide leader in the machining industry, announced the installation of Concept Laser’s M2 cusing Multilaser metal additive manufacturing system to its shop, further expanding its precision technology capabilities. The company put the new technology – also described as 3D metal printing – to work immediately on a challenging job for a key client.

“Staying at the forefront of technology is critical,“ said Heidi Hostetter, vice president of Faustson. “This system, combined with our proven precision machining capacity, brings new depth to our manufacturing services and helps us continue to provide our customers with the best manufacturing solutions available on the market.”

Additive metals manufacturing and other new technologies are part of what some call the “third industrial revolution,” because they allow manufacturers to respond more quickly to customer component needs while providing overall cost savings through responsible use of diminishing resources and creating more efficient components.

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Faustson’s relationships with pioneers in the 3D design and creation revolution allow the company to stay on top of trends, best practices and improvements in the technology. As part of that continuing effort, Faustson is partnering with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which has used the Concept Laser equipment for more than four years.

“From our inception, Faustson has been committed to being a pioneer in the industry, utilizing new leap-frog technology and pushing the boundaries of a traditional machine shop,” said Alicia Svaldi, president of Faustson. “Additive metals manufacturing, combined with the superior technology of five-axis mills, allows us to move from concept to completion while maintaining tight tolerances and cost-effective production.”

“Companies like Faustson represent the next step in the maturation of the addition metals industry,” said Zach Murphree, PhD, Concept Laser regional manager and technical sales engineer. “Technology is gaining acceptance within production facilities, not just with OEMs, and Faustson is on the leading edge of this wave.”

Faustson Tool, a worldwide leader in the machining industry, provides services for clients worldwide in the medical, aerospace, aeronautics, defense, semiconductor and other industries. The company, founded in 1982, provides 3-, 4- and 5-axis milling and 5-axis EDM services, as well as turning capabilities for cutting-edge custom part production, and efficient production of standard parts. Faustson Tool is woman Announcements Continued Page 8

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

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

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

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

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Hasco Oil Company Is Now Serving East Of The Rockies In Colorado It gives me great pleasure to announce Hasco Oil Company at 1390 W. Evans Avenue Building 2, Unit J Denver, Colorado 80223 phone (800) 456-8491 is our distributor now east of the Rockies in Colorado. Hasco has been a Castrol distributor over 16 years serving the Southern California basin.

They have a highly trained sales force in the areas of Metalworking, Industrial Lubrication, Wind Energy, along with Fleet sales, and Passenger Car Oils. Hasco and Castrol believe that excellent service was greatly needed in your area from a lubrication and chemical supplier. They moved to Denver in June of 2014. Hasco Oil, in conjunction with their supply partners, offers a number of services to assist our customers with process improvement, application troubleshooting and product recommendations.

In addition to standard oil analysis, a number of on-site services are available, as well as an extensive training program. Please contact them for more information.You can find these services at www.hascooil.com or call and ask for the sales department.

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Concept Laser is the pioneer in the field of generative metal laser fusing technology1/16/13 since 10:45 its’ AM founding in 2000. The LaserCUSING® process allows the additive manufacturing of direct components, tool inserts, prototypes and low-volume product run parts for the jewelry, medical, dental, automotive, and aerospace industries. LaserCUSING systems from Concept Laser process powder materials made from stainless steel, hot work tool steels, cobalt-chromium alloy, nickel-base alloy and reactive powder materials such as aluminum and titanium, as well as precious metals such as gold and silver alloys. For more information, visit the Concept Laser website at www.conceptlaserinc.com.

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Serving Southern California Since 1965 Hasco Oil Company has evolved into a complete fluids and services provider for the Southern California industrial market since our inception in 1965 as a Mobil consignee. Hasco’s association with Mobil and Castrol allows us to provide the most technologically advanced lubricants, metalworking fluids and specialty chemicals available anywhere. We also offer the Hasco brand line of products that are manufactured by our sister company, Pacific Precision Formulators, in Vernon, California.

In 2008, Hasco was recognized as a Woman-Owned business by the National Women Business Owners Corporation. By attaining this distinction, Hasco has been able to partner with their customers to support their efforts in securing contracts with unique procurement specifications. Our effort in registering ourAnnouncements Continued Page 10

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Advantage Manufacturing, A Precision Machine/Sheet Metal Shop, Announces New Services!

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Advantage Manufacturing is pleased to announce some major initiatives it completed to continuously improve their capabilities for their customers. Rob Hampson, director of sales and marketing, is pictured at a recent American Contract Manufacturers Tradeshow, where he shared Advantage Manufacturing’s capabilities. Rob says, “We are pleased to announce that we are now offering in-house anodizing, as well as auto-

Advantage Manufacturing’s services include precision sheet metal, machining, finishing, assembly, electro-mechanical assembly, final test and product fulfillment. As an ISO 9001-2008 (registered since 1996) and ITAR registered manufacturer and OEM, the company ensures excellence in all their products and services.

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The company serves a variety of industries, including DOD/military, aerospace, DOT, medical, IC manufacturing equipment, food-processing equipment (specializing in stainless processing), law enforcement, communications, heavy rail, light rail, architectural structural and sports equipment, just to mention a few.

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Methods’ Twin RoboDrill Jobshop Cell Is Ideal For A Low Mix, Medium To High Volume Of Parts Methods Machine Tools, Inc., a leading supplier of precision machine tools and automation, has introduced the Twin RoboDrill JobShop Cell featuring two FANUC D21 RoboDrill Vertical Machining Centers being serviced by a single, articulating FANUC LR Mate 200iD robot. The cell features the ability to load and unload multiple parts at one time to amortize typically longer load / unload times compared to parts that are handled one at a time.“Articulating robots are typically known as the standard for parts loading and unloading on machine tools, but have not always

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Announcements Continued been the method-of-choice when working with parts with short cycle times during manufacture. The Twin RoboDrill JobShop Cell offers an excellent solution to this fast cycle time challenge and is ideally suited for a low mix, medium to high volume of parts,” said Mr. John Lucier, Automation Manager at Methods Machine Tools, Inc. Traditionally, it might take about seven seconds to load / unload one part, but due to handling multiple parts at once with the Twin RoboDrill JobShop Cell, the load / unload process is less than one second per part.

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The cell also combines FANUC Robotics’ IR Vision System with a flex vibratory in-feed system to bring the parts into the cell. The flex feeder conveys a group of parts into the vision camera’s field-of-view for inspection, selecting the “good” parts for directing the robot to load them into the machine.

FANUC D21 RoboDrill Vertical Machining Centers include a new stateof-the-art control. The FANUC 31iB5 control features extremely fast FSSB high-speed processing.This control offers streamlined electronics to reduce the number of components and provide a very ergonomic display.

To significantly reduce the chance for downtime, the control provides efficient troubleshooting and maintenance capabilities, allowing users to analyze systems on the RoboDrills and receive notifications if any of the drives or electronics requires adjustment.

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Methods is the exclusive North American source of sales, service, and training support for FANUC vertical machining centers and wire EDM machines. For more information, contact Methods Machine Tools,TEL: (978) 443-5388, www.methodsmachine.com.

KTR Machine Announces Distribution For Fadal Machining Centers in Colorado!

Fadal Is Back!

KTR Machine Service, LLC, Russ Schreiber owner, is the Fadal Distributor and Fadal Service provider for Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Southern Nevada. KTR is the service provider for both older and new Fadal Machining Centers in the same territory. KTR specializes in the service of Fadal Machining Centers, but offers Laser and Rotary Laser Calibrations on all types of Machining Centers. Russ is certified for Laser Calibrations.

While KTR Machine is Arizona based, we have our service and sales technician, Jeff Sparks, local in Colorado and ready to provide service and sales for Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Russ Schreiber covers sales and service for Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern New Mexico.

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DCM Tech, Inc. Introduces Brian Ebbinger as Western Regional Technical Specialist DCM Tech is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Ebbinger as the new Technical Specialist for the Western United States and Canada.

Brian will support customers through the sale, installation, and service of DCM Tech’s complete line of Industrial Rotary Grinders and Magnetic Particle Inspection Equipment. Brian’s 23 year background in sales and service of electronic assembly equipment and machine tools will be a valuable asset to the DCM team.

Brian states “I’m very excited to be a part of DCM. The quality and workmanship of the products designed and manufactured at our factory in Winona, Minnesota are world class!” Brian’s experience in manufacturing processes will benefit customers looking to increase productivity and enhance product quality. Please feel free to contact Brian at DCM Tech to assist with your industrial grinding and MPI requirements.

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Brian directly at 507 254 9567 cell or email: brianebbinger@ dcm-tech.com

Delcam launches new FeatureCAM for feature-based programming Delcam has launched the 2015 R3 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software. This includes a range of enhancements to give high-quality results on all types of machine tool, including complex mill-turn equipment and five-axis machining centres, while retaining the rapid programming times for which FeatureCAM is renowned.

Full details on the new release, including video demonstrations of the main enhancements, are on the FeatureCAM Learning Zone – www.delcam.tv/fc2015/lz FeatureCAM was the world’s first feature-based programming software when it was launched in 1995. Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths that give greater productivity on a wider range of machinery, including Announcements Continued Page 15

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QualiChem Director of Metalworking, Mike Forest (L) with QualiChem President, Glenn Frank (R) present award to Russ Kurzawski (Center).

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We have been in business 25 years.

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We have Swiss Machining up to .780 Dia and CNC Mill Capabilities.

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The most significant new option is the ability to duplicate the physical constraints of the machine tool in simulations in FeatureCAM. Machine-tool limits can be added to the models to be used in the simulation for three-, four- and five-axis milling machines, for turning equipment, and for mill-turn machines, including those with multiple turrets and/or multiple spindles.

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June 24, 2015 8:00am-5:00pm Grand America Hotel Salt Lake City The day-long (8am – 5 pm) event will include presentations by FTA officials and panel discussions with public transit OEMs and companies currently in their supply chains as well as opportunities for networking.

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Employee Engagement That Will Make You Jealous!

One of the most difficult things for business owners and managers is to engage their employees in continuous improvements every day. Even the most advanced companies have struggled with this.

The problem is that companies focus too heavily on the tool side of process improvements. It’s actually more important how these tools are applied.

The secret is to focus on your employees and make them as successful as possible.

When your employees are happy, they want to do a better job for the company.

When they do a better job, your customers notice buy more stuff from you. Most companies don’t make this connection.

Rather than dictate improvements you would like your employees to make, you need to ask those who do the job day in and day out for their ideas, and help them implement them as quickly as possible.

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One of them is FastCap, a small manufacturer of woodworking products and tools.

The owner is Paul Akers, who has transformed his company into highly motivated employees that drive their own efficiency into their daily work.

Paul learned the culture of improvement from experts in the Toyota Production System, and came up with a simple and easy approach that everyone in his company could understand and participate in, called “2 Second Lean” (2secondlean.com).

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Colorado-based Advanced Assembly (www.aa-pcbassembly. com) was growing fast and realized it needed a new business management system if it was going to accommodate a higher volume of customer orders and maintain fast lead times. The PCB assembly manufacturer chose SAP Business One, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for growing businesses. SAP Business One offers Advanced Assembly comprehensive business management functionality in addition to advanced manufacturing functionality, production, and

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For software implementation and support services, Advanced Assembly contacted local implementation partner Vision33, the number one North American value added reseller (VAR) for SAP Business One. Through a proven methodology and over twenty years’ experience working with manufacturers like Advanced Assembly, Vision33 helped the company run their business more efficiently and achieve greater profit margins. “Vision33’s certified consultants have a high level of understanding of accounting and manufacturing systems,” says IT Director Jason Gibb, “They’re more than software implementers, Vision33 consultants are business process implementers.”

By partnering with Vision33, Advanced Assembly can process orders faster and with higher quality.

With a new Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in place, Advanced Assembly has streamlined operations and delivers 80% faster turnaround times than the competition.

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Ben says, “ I am proud to be part of Scottrade Bank Equipment Finance.

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Bar Puller Needs No Adjustment Accudyne Corporation’s latest bar puller called the BigEZ, has a range of 1.625” to 3.00” for round stock.

This self-adjusting bar puller is used in CNC lathes to provide automatic operation of the machine. The design of the BigEZ allows the programmer to accommodate different bar sizes just by changing the first “X” end position in the bar pulling routine of the program.

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standards and certification body, and the Gene Haas Foundation (GHF), have teamed up to support a new scholarship opportunity to help schools prepare more students for success in manufacturing careers. The scholarship program has launched with a $100,000 investment from the GHF. The GHF-NIMS Credentialing Scholarship Program will provide eligible secondary and post-secondary institutions with scholarships to build high-quality technical programs by providing funding to support implementation of industry-recognized credentials.

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Seco Unveils Universal PCBN Grade for High-Volume Roughing The new CBN600 universal PCBN insert grade from Seco Tools, LLC brings cost-effective performance to high-volume rough turning operations that involve grey cast iron, high chrome iron and high manganese steel workpiece materials.

This solid insert combines 90 percent cBN content, a multi-modal grain size and an Al ceramic binder to easily tackle abrasive workpiece materials, heavy cutting forces and high levels of thermal shock for varying depths of cut conditions.

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Permanent R&D tax credit is a step closer to reality Businesses say making the research and development tax credit permanent will encourage them to invest more in innovation.

The House voted 274-145 to simplify the research and development tax credit and make it permanent, giving businesses more incentive to invest in innovation.

The White House, however, has threatened to veto the bill because the House didn’t offset the $180 billion in tax revenue that would be lost over the next 10 years.

If the Senate also passes the legislation, however, President Barack Obama may think twice about going through with a veto since he agrees that making the R&D tax credit permanent would make it more effective.

Despite bipartisan support for the R&D tax credit, Congress has extended it only for short periods of times, and has even let it expire eight times before reviving it.

“For far too long, entrepreneurs and small businesses have had to wait for Congress to pass short-term extensions or retroactive fixes to the credit, which ultimately restrains investment,” said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.

Plus, Kerrigan added, the House bill would make the R&D tax credit more useful for small businesses and startups by allowing them to use the credit to offset tax liability, including the alternative minimum tax.

Woodward, GE in joint venture for aircraft fuel systems Colorado manufacturer Woodward Inc. says it has launched a joint venture with the aviation unit of General Electric Co. for fuel systems for GE’s large commercial aircraft engine lines.

The 50-50 joint venture “will design, develop, source, supply and service the fuel system, including components from the fuel inlet up to the fuel nozzle,” for GE Aviation’s GE90, GEnx and GE9X commercial engines and all future large commercial engines it develops, Fort Collins-based Woodward said in a statement.

Woodward said will receive $250 million in cash from GE as part of the joint venture, and the two companies “will participate jointly in the operating results of the respective programs.” Woodward said it will be the preferred supplier to the joint venture.

Woodward said it will use that $250 million in capital to buy back outstanding shares over the next 12 months.

The deal, subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to close near the end of the year.

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The planemaker is seeing renewed interest in the freighter version of the 7478, best known for its humpbacked fuselage, as the global air cargo market rebounds from a prolonged slump, CEOJim McNerney said.

“We actually have a pretty good pipeline right now of cargo discussions going on,” McNerney told reporters after Boeing’s annual shareholder meeting in Chicago. “It’s premature to say we’re at the end of the program. I don’t think we are at all.”

While the 747-8’s fate has been in question amid dwindling demand for four-engine jets, the International Air Transport Association said this month that airfreight volumes jumped 12 percent in February.The trade group credited Asian Lunar NewYear holiday shipments and congestion in U.S. ports with accelerating an increase that began last year.

“It’s going to require some new airplanes,” McNerney said. “So, I’m feeling better about it.”

The new craft are needed because the freight industry shrank after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, with some operators going out of business and under-used aircraft being taken out of service. The 747 is the only commercial cargo-hauler with a nose that flips open to load awkwardly-shaped freight.

Boeing has just 35 unfilled orders for 747s, according to its website.

That’s sufficient to keep the assembly line humming for about two years at the current pace of 18 a year. Boeing plans to slow output to 15.6 jets a year in September.

Speculation of the 747’s demise has risen over the past year after dwindling sales prompted Boeing to pare production and temporarily store “white-tail” models that were built and remain unsold.

Triumph Group Inc., which builds frames for the hulking jet, reported a $152 million accounting loss in January saying the production cut, announced a month earlier, would wipe out profit on a contract through 2019.

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Last year marked the first sales shutout for the four-engine plane since it became available in 1966, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Boeing ended the drought in January when Azerbaijan’s Silk Way West Airlines bought three of the jets.

Are other sales poised to follow? “Yes, potentially,” McNerney said.

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Latin America will be a major growth region, especially Brazil, as will the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.

Add to that the ever-shrinking number of used jets on the market, and the increasing pricing on those aircraft and what Donnelly said is stable pricing on new models, and the market shows positive signs for a growing number of new sales.

Textron CEO sees positive signs for increasing jet sales

“As we see those residual values rebound, we definitely think it bodes well,” he said.

Though jet deliveries dipped slightly in the first quarter for Textron Aviation, the CEO of parent company Textron Inc., Scott Donnelly, said that he sees positive signs that sales will increase.

Donnelly also said that as the company’s Cessna Citation Latitude continues to progress, with flight testing now complete customer interest in the new model should help add to a backlog that dropped $99 million from the end of last year.

Donnelly, speaking to investors following the release of the company’s first-quarter earnings results, said that customer conversations about new sales are increasing, even during the traditionally slow first quarter of a year.

“Customer activity is as strong as we’ve seen in awhile,” Donnelly said.

And, he said, he also expects some conversions from Hawker customers — one of the brands folded into Textron Aviation following Textron’s purchase of Beechcraft last year, but no longer being produced — to newer Cessna products like the Latitude and eventually the Citation Longitude.

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SpaceX-United Launch Alliance push for reuse in rockets is part of larger space trend Pushed by tight budgets and growing concern about orbits increasingly littered with debris from past missions, companies have started getting serious re-using things where it makes sense and designing space systems to be sustainable, not single-use and disposable.

SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Elon Musk’s rocket company, has made the biggest splash about re-using technology by trying to land its spent rocket booster on a floating barge in the ocean so it can explore what salvageable parts can be used again.

But SpaceX isn’t alone in looking to re-use rocket parts.

At the Space Symposium, United Launch Alliance revealed its designs for a new line of rockets it plans to build, called Vulcan, and it features re-using its booster engines in an effort to bring launch costs down to $100 million.

Rather than land a booster, ULA plans to have the first-stage rocket engines descend back into the atmosphere on a parachute to be caught by a helicopter and recovered for later refurbishing and re-use.

“SpaceX made one choice on re-usability, and we made an entirely different one,” said Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA. “And at this point it was made entirely on the economics of it.”

SpaceX’s landing the entire first-stage booster rocket for re-use requires the booster to launch carrying landing legs, hydraulics, extra fuel and extra avionics to the edge of space in order to have the ability to fly back and land.

ULA’s approach has Vulcan jettison its engine, which would start descending protected by a heat shield, then have an air-foil parachute fly the engine in a smooth descent during which a helicopter will fly by and snag it.

Recovering just the engine allows for the re-use of the rocket’s most expensive single component without having to manage the complexities and added expense of recovering a whole booster.

“Our studies, NASA’s studies, other people’s studies, have all found that you need to use a re-usable booster seven times, roughly, to break even,” Bruno said. “You aren’t going to go through all that work just to break even; you want to do it so it really pays to take that approach, which would mean using it 15 times, and that is super hard.”

“Our approach completely shatters that math,” he said. “We think that, depending on what engine we use, we can break even on two or three re-uses, and we can really then start seeing an attractive return on five to seven.”

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Re-use isn’t new Such rocket engine re-use isn’t a new idea. NASA’s space shuttle program recovered boosters from the ocean and the booster engines were re-used. And, of course, the rocket-powered shuttle vehicles

themselves were re-used repeatedly.

The earliest Atlas rockets built decades ago, when rocket engines weren’t as powerful, had several engines in them to get high into atmosphere, then the rocket jettisoned a couple of the engines when the rocket no longer needed as much thrust.

Catching something upon re-entry into the atmosphere has been done, too.

In the 1960s, the U.S. military’s Corona reconnaissance satellites dropped the film from their spy cameras back into the atmosphere, where they would parachute down and then be caught in mid-air by a passing plane.

Today, the U.S. Air Force, which purchases most military and spy agency space launches, is open to the idea of re-use in rocket launch, especially if it makes space launches more affordable, said Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of U.S. Space Command, based outside Colorado Springs.

But how the Air Force would certify re-used parts as reliable enough for national security missions has yet to be figured out.

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That’s similar to the thinking of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., based in Jefferson County, in the technology it’s proposing for a NASA contract for cargo resupply of the International Space Station.

Space tug Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS) has deigned a craft called Jupiter that, after being launched into orbit on a rocket, would haul a cargo vessel to the ISS. Then Jupiter would stay in orbit and be available to do other tasks, such as run science experiments, host instruments for Earth observations like a satellite, or Jupiter could deploy small satellites into orbit.

LMSS engineers began exploring the Jupiter tug idea long before the ISS cargo contract came up, said Jim Crocker, vice president of LMSS’ international business. They were thinking through the eventual deep-space exploration missions of the Orion space capsule LMSS is developing for NASA. LMSS realized that many of the things LMSS would want a Jupiter craft to be able to do for Orion are similar to things NASA needs for the ISS. ”It could come out of the commercial resupply programs and it wouldn’t have to be a new start or new funding or new money.”

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Proudly Introducing Superior Grinding And Swiss Machining Superior Grinding and Sales, Inc. has some very exciting news to announce!

They are renaming themselves – to Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining. The Woman-Owned, HUB Zone Certified Company, has been in business for 25 years now. More than one year ago, they saw a demand from their customers for Swiss screw machining, and they purchased their first Swiss screw machine, a Tsugami.

This year, the company added their third precision Swiss Screw machine; they now have two Tsugamis and one Hanwha.

Wendie Flitton, founder of the company, says, “There are so many reasons why you should bring your precision grinding and Swiss screw machining work to Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining. One our Swiss machines has front and rear ejection capabilities, along with 5 axes, and this means for example we can do part threading on both sides simultaneously.” She continued, “ We do not want to compete with our many machine shops - we just want to offer them a better solution to these types of jobs.With our Swiss Machining capabilities, we can cut up to .787 diameters.” She added, “We are reducing the steps in outsourcing for our customers with our Swiss Machining capabilities. We can buy the material, grind it, machine it, and send it to heat treat, and then finish OD or centerless grind the part. Our Swiss Screw Machine capabilities will allow us to cut costs on many parts that need to be machined and ground.”

Certified Woman-Owned Company 25 years ago, Wendie started grinding blades for the printing industry. Back then, it was a 2-person company. Wendie handling sales and the finances, and her sole employee, Bryant Bennett, would do the grinding.Through the 25 years the company has evolved adding many other types of Grinding and Machining. Bryant is still working with Wendie at Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining today! For companies who have a need to allocate a percentage of the contracts to Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Wendie and her team fit this category as an official Woman-Owned Company.

Certified HUB Zone Company Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining is a certified Hub Zone Company. The Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zone) program helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities. In order to qualify as a HUB Zone business, 35% of a company’s employees must reside in a HUB Zone. Once a HUB Zone business has been awarded a contract, it must “attempt to maintain” the 35% level. This means that the business is permitted to slip below 35% without withdrawing from A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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the program, and without losing its contract. For companies who have a need to allocate a percentage of the contracts to Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Wendie and her team fit this category as both an official HUB Zone and a Woman-Owned Company. With Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining, you hit a double when you are checking off your allocation of business to a Small Disadvantaged Business!

Full Service Precision Grinding and Swiss Machining Jeff Flitton, Wendie’s husband, joined the family business 15 years ago. Prior to this, he was a fire fighter. Jeff says, “Many of our customers require all types of material to be precision ground in our Centerless Grinding Department. When the bar stock is ground to a certain size and tolerance it runs smoothly through the machining center collet systems. This speeds up the time it takes to machine parts. It decreases material clogging and can cover the OD size on many parts. The company is renowned for its ability to do precision grinding. It can hold tolerances of +/- .0002 with nearly any alloy.

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says, “To win business in these industry segments, we knew that we would have to be ISO9001: 2008 Certified.

And we did so beginning in 2010. And more recently, with our plan for continuous improvement, we hired a full time inspector, Brian Jaensch,.” Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining plans to add AS9100 Certification to their list of qualifications in the near future.

Approved Government Supplier A few years ago, about the time Wendie and Jeff purchased their first Swiss screw Machine; they made a decision that they were going to take their business to the next level. Jeff says, “This is about the time we hired Brian as our Quality Inspector, and we also hired a full time production manager, Rhonda Butrick.” Wendie believes that things happen for a reason, and she says this is the case with Rhonda. “We knew Rhonda from years

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ISO9001: 2008 Certified Superior Grinding’s customers in the early years were in sharpening and Sales of knives, blades and tools for many industries including the Printing industry. Over the years, as these industries shrunk, Jeff and Wendie prepared themselves for new industries that required very high precision parts – Aerospace and Medical.Wendie A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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past, and we knew that she had such a great manufacturing background that she would be an asset to our growing company.” Wendie and Jeff were talking one night about how they might go about finding out where Rhonda was. Days later, Jeff received an email from Rhonda saying she was looking for a new position!”

Rhonda wears many hats at Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining. Among them is her experience in securing government contracts.

Rhonda says, “I regularly search the Government data bases for work that fits our capabilities. When we were awarded our first Government contract, we were listed as a ‘Moderate Risk’, since we were new as a supplier.” She continued, “After we were awarded our second contract, and both of our awards were completed on time and with the highest quality, our listing on the Government Supplier website was upgraded to ‘Low Risk’.

Extremely Skilled Team In our industry, we recognize that precision grinding is a rare skill. At Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining, with the exception of their 2 latest hires, full time inspector, Brian Jaensch and full time production manager, Rhonda Butrick, every employee has more than 7 years of tenure with the company. Wendie says, “We are fortunate to have such a superior, skilled team that has remained loyal to our company.” She continued, “This is an invaluable asset to our customers. It is known that companies that have high turnover struggle with retaining the quality of their products, as their people, their most valuable asset, leave.”Wendie and Jeff are hoping that the investments they have made will allow them to offer their employees a higher pay rate and a more secure place to work. Their daughter, Kellie and her husband are integral members of the Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining team.

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Quality at Superior Grinding is ‘Superior’.” Precision Machine Shop in Utah “We have been working with Wendie and Jeff for more than 10 years. They do a substantial amount of centerless grinding, and we just started using them for some screw machine work.

Their quality is outstanding, and their pricing is very competitive.We use some suppliers outside of the United States, and their pricing is competitive with international suppliers, plus their end product is better than we can get overseas. Their customer service is just outstanding.”

Purchasing Manager, International Manufacturer To learn more about how Superior Grinding and Swiss Machining can help you with your precision grinding and machining requirements, contact them today at (801)4879700 or visit their website at www.superiorgrinding.com.

U.S. Air Force sees launch prototype contracts as soon as September The U.S. Air Force said it could award contracts for prototypes of new U.S.-fueled launch vehicles as early as September, a key step to ending U.S. reliance on using Russian rocket engines to launch military and intelligence satellites.

Air Force Secretary Deborah James told a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Air Force planned to use a different contract type called “other transactional authority,” instead of a standard defense contract to accelerate the process, given the urgency Congress has put on developing a homegrown engine.

Potential bidders include United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co and the current sole launch provider; privately-held SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Inc; and Orbital ATK, each supplying its own engine or teamed with a separate company, said Air Force Space Command Commander General John Hyten.

James urged committee members to support a change in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow ULA, to use all the Russian-built RD-180 engines it had ordered - but not paid for - to compete for future national security launches.

James said the change would allow ULA to compete for 18 of 34 competitive launches between 2015 and 2022 against Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, which is owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk, versus just five launches.

The Air Force expects to certify SpaceX to compete for at least some of the launches now carried out exclusively by ULA by June. But unless Congress changes the law, ULA might be effectively kept out of post-2018 competitions since its other rocket, the Delta 4, is not “price competitive,” James said. Source: Reuters

Colorado 3D printing company bought by Arizona firm Tempe, Arizona-based PADT bought Stratasys selling rights from Boulder-based CADCAM last month.

Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies Inc. (PADT), a Tempe, Arizona-based 3D printing firm, has bolstered its hold in the Four Corners region by acquiring the Boulder-based Stratasys reseller CADCAM Systems.

The acquisition involves PADT purchasing CADCAM System’s right to distribute Stratasys 3D printers, says Eric Miller, co-owner of PADT. There will be no changes to employment numbers or office locations for either firm, Miller said. PADT will maintain its five locations across Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico and CADCAM’s sole location in Boulder will remain.

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The company estimates it will produce enough energy to prevent 145 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, or 156 million tons of coal that will not be burned to produce energy annually, according to the release.

Tennis said the developers try to keep as much local as possible, from the subcontractors, equipment rentals, general laborers and supplies, and even food services.

“The power from this plant will be produced in Utah, by the people of Utah for the most part, and will stay in Utah,” he said. “It will be fed into the Rocky Mountain Power grid and used by their customers.”

Construction of the project began in January and completion is slated for Nov. 5, where after some testing and finalization it should be fully on the RMP grid by Dec. 18, Tennis said.

Reed Erickson, Iron County planner and special services director, said it is nice to see the jobs the plant is generating, but the tax money Iron County will receive will benefit the county as well.

Swinerton, an employee-owned company since 1888 and headquartered in San Francisco, was brought in for engineering, procurement and construction operations.

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Bill Nye is building a spaceship that runs on sunbeams

“Science rules” might have been Bill Nye the Science Guy’s tagline, but it’s more than just a catchy phrase: this guy is serious about science and is building a spaceship to prove it.The LightSail system is a privately funded effort to push the boundaries of space travel via this solar sail technology.

A solar sail functions by harnessing the infinite energy of the sun, in essence using the sun’s rays and radiation as wind to propel it forward through space.

This latest galactic brainstorm was actually proposed on The Tonight Show by legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan back in 1976, as Nye explains in this video announcing the project’s near-completion: The sails are made of Mylar and are formed in four triangular sections. At the middle of the sail formation is a small lightweight satellite which deploys each of the sail’s four arms. As the arms expand outwards, they capture the solar winds and are propelled forward using little-to-no onboard energy.

The idea is not to necessarily control the movements of the craft but to allow it to fly further into the universe than we ever have before.

While there’s no need for massive on-board fuel reserves, the craft does need propulsion to exit Earth’s atmosphere. For its first test flight, scheduled sometime this month, the LightSail will be attached to an Atlas V rocket. The final version will be sitting inside the Prox-1 satellite set to be rocketed to space by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy in 2016.

The LightSail’s simplicity means that its price pales in comparison to other spacecraft.The first iteration, LightSail-1 cost only $1.8 million and the entire program has a budget of $4.5 million. For comparison, NASA’s budget for the Mars Science Laboratory comes in at a cool $2.5 billion.

Nye continues his explanation in this extended video, which highlights how the Planetary Society’s member-driven efforts have led to this new spacecraft that could expand our reach within the universe.

Artist Price Davis Installs Three-Story Denver Lily Sculpture at Denver International Airport Price Davis, Denver-based master craftsman and artist, recently installed the Denver Lily, a nearly 30-foot-tall sculpture, at Denver International Airport.

The three-piece, three-story sculpture, comprised of a base, flower pot and a stemmed flower with pod and leaves, is made of hand-forged sheets of steel that were stained and powder-coated. The sculpture is part of Davis’s “Global Peace Through Art” initiative, which is a grassroots effort to raise awareness of our creative class. Davis continued to describe the Denver Lily. “The work I create invites participants to pause and encounter a playful, lighthearted experience,” said Davis.

“The Denver Lily embodies the components I strive to include in my art: conceptually simple, accessible and interactive. The purpose of art is to inspire, and I hope this work contributes to global inspiration in some way.”

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“The best aspect of the Progress Eagle would be its capacity to generate its own energy,” says Vinals. He adds that the flight would also be “noiseless.”

Vinals also envisions the plane, which would carry up to 800 passengers (275 more passengers than the largest aircraft today could handle), would have a new passenger class in the front of the plane.

The “pilot class” would have panoramic views. There would even be the potential for private rooms, shops and restaurants.

“Twelve hours in an airplane could feel more like a select hotel,” says Vials. “It would reduce the stress of a long flight.”

At the moment, the concept is little more than, well, a concept. Vinals acknowledges that the technology needed to implement his design is still a ways off.

“Today we have about 40% of the technology needed to build it,” he admits.

“Quantum solar cells, nanowires to kinetic power, micro radio wave harvesters -- these technologies only exist in a limited scale at the best laboratories around the world. But in a few years, we could overcome our limits and build anything imaginable.”

Is this three-deck, zero-emissions super jumbo plane the future of flight?

Designer and aviation enthusiast Oscar Vinals is slightly addicted to crafting concept planes.

Last year, he came up with the design for the AWWA Sky Whale, a futuristic aircraft that he said would revolutionize green air travel and carry an astonishing 755 passengers. Now, he’s bested himself.

With his newest design, the AWWA-QG Progress Eagle, he imagines the future of travel as a triple-decker aircraft with zero carbon emissions.

Rather than relying on traditional fossil fuels, the plane (which he envisions taking to the skies in 2030) would rely on six hydrogen engines to lift the plane off the ground. The aircraft would also be fitted with a rear engine that would double as a wind turbine, and solar panels on the roof and wings.

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Designer and aviation enthusiast Oscar Vinals has designed a triple-decker concept plane called the AWWA Progress Eagle, which he imagines could be implemented by 2030.

Air Force considers competitive bids for F-35 upgrade William LaPlante, the Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition, says the service will try to pursue competitive proposals for upgrades to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The upcoming post-service-entry upgrade is the first candidate for competition.

Source: Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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Lockheed Martin lands commercial satellite order from Saudi company A Saudi Arabian company has ordered the first pair of modernized commercial communication satellites that Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. will make in metro Denver.

The Arabsat order, finalized April 9, is the first since LMSS moved its commercial satellite division to its Jefferson County headquarters campus last year. It’s also the first order for an updated design for LMSS’ longstanding satellite body it calls the A2100.

The satellites are being made to carry TV, Internet, phone and secure communication signals for Arabsat customers in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Launch for the satellites is scheduled for 2018.

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Technology Investment and Development Co. to explore future joint satellite construction, as well as aerospace workforce and technology development in Saudi Arabia.

The two new satellites ordered will add to Arabsat’s existing fleet of 10 satellites providing TV, broadband and communications to millions of people around the region.

“We selected Lockheed Martin to build these satellites due to the impressive technical capabilities and proven track record of the A2100 satellite,” , said Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkheyour.

LMSS moved its commercial satellite division headquarters last year from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Jefferson County outside Denver. About 350 commercial space division employees relocated to renovated buildings on the 4,000-employee campus.

About 30 percent of LMSS’ commercial satellite workforce moved with the commercial division, Hamel said, which LMSS considers a success.

“That’s very, very good by most relocation standards,” he said. “It means we can depend upon having many decades worth of experience in our business line forming the core of our engineering and activities in Denver.”

The division is also hiring to add to its commercial satellite work force and getting LMSS engineers from other divisions involved.

Winning contracts from regional and national commercial satellite fleet operators around the world is key for the LMSS commercial satellite division re-establishing itself.

Military satellite construction has been a bigger line of work for LMSS in the past 10 years. Military satellite construction has been traditionally done in Jefferson County and its campus in Sunnyvale, California.

The division spent the past three years redesigning the A2100 satellite to at-

tract more commercial business. LMSS has only recently begun selling operators on the refreshed version of the A2100.

During the transition, LMSS has been working on an Australian communications satellite, which is about 75 percent complete.

It’s also preparing to deliver the WorldView-4 satellite it built in Sunnyvale for delivery to Longmont-based DigitalGlobe in preparation for a 2016 launch.

Only about 25 commercial satellite contracts are bid each year, globally.

“We are being very aggressive, as we re-establish our business base and leadership, about actively pursuing quite a few opportunities on a worldwide basis,” Hamel said. Source: Denver Business Journal

Airbus has begun 3D printing parts for its planes Will the wonders of 3D printing ever cease? With each passing day, something revolutionary seems to come off the machine’s printing bed, be it a lifesize Ultron helmet (OK, maybe that’s not revolutionary), a prosthetic shell for a tortoise or a Shelby Cobra sports car. This time, it’s more than 1,000 airplane parts for the Airbus A350 XWB jet.

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For DanYalon, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Marketing, and Vertical Solutions at Stratasys, the 3D-printed parts represent the future of airplane production. He said: “Our additive manufacturing solutions can produce complex parts on-demand, ensuring on time delivery while streamlining supply chains. Additive manufacturing also greatly improves the buy-to-fly ratio as significantly less material is wasted than with conventional manufacturing methods.”

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Michaels pointed to about half a dozen new MRO ventures either set up or announced in the last few years, such as the long-anticipated entry of Lufthansa Technik, which is slated to open a new facility in Puerto Rico and has announced customers. He says that in 2012-13, no country saw more heavy MRO facilities announced or established than the U.S.

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The “rightshoring” of work—including MRO heavy maintenance— has been predicted for some time. Among the drivers: rising labor costs in places like China, which has grabbed a disproportionate share of heavy checks from airlines in mature markets, and rates for U.S. labor at third-party MRO facilities that have hovered around $50-55 since the late 1990s, ICF International data show. Since then, comparable rates in mature Asian markets rose to almost $50, from around $30, while rates in emerging Asian markets have climbed from the mid-$20s to the mid-$40s.

This is driving a mindset change that places the lowest costs behind other factors, such as being close to your customers. For equipment suppliers, this means setting up shop to support new production lines in places like Charleston, South Carolina, where Boeing is building 787s, and Mobile, Alabama, where Airbus plans to start rolling out new A320s in 2016. This has helped drive investment in the Southeastern U.S. by suppliers like GKN and Safran.

For MRO providers, it means being where your customers are—and the North American fleet, while not growing much, is still the largest among the world’s regions. It will remain so for several more years, until growth in Asia-Pacific markets pushes that region into the top spot, sometime around 2020.

Asia-Pacific’s projected growth means that investment will continue in places like China, Singapore, and India. Asia-Pacific’s fleet size is projected to increase from 6,400 today—second, behind North America’s 7,420—to nearly 11,700 in 2025, Cavok data show. But even anemic growth in North America—Cavok’s numbers show the region’s fleet growing by just 700 aircraft by 2025—will still leave

a sizable fleet in need of support.

Add in the new manufacturing facilities from Airbus, Boeing, and a few others, and North America’s draw for suppliers and aftermarket providers should remain strong.

One major aftermarket sector that is not shifting much is component support, Michaels notes. The propensity toward pooling means that the most important factor in setting up effective component support is a convenient, efficient transportation hub. Places like London, Miami, and Singapore are prime examples of places where spares pools can be located to deliver parts quickly throughout airline networks.Source: Aviation Daily

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The company said it would buy control of Websense Inc. from private-equity firmVista Partners LLC. Raytheon said Austin,Texas-based Websense, which has 21,000 data-security clients, half of them overseas, will form the core of a new cyber joint venture with forecast sales of $500 million this year and margins of around 20%.

Raytheon Chief ExecutiveTom Kennedy said the threat of cyberattacks such as the one suffered last year byTarget Corp. is increasing as cloud computing and mobile services make companies more vulnerable to costly electronic intrusions by state-sponsored hackers, terrorists, organized crime or insiders.

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The is valued at $31.5 property in the commercial sector. million with all options exercised. The first of the new TGS systems is scheduled for delivery during the third quarter of 2013.

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Websense CEO John McCormack, who will head the new Raytheon venture, said the focus of commercial cyber has shifted from deterring threats to limiting their damage. “The days are gone when you can prevent intrusion,” he said in an interview.

He said Websense has outperformed a global commercial cyber market, growing at around 8% a year, with a top 10 market position in monitoring Web gateways and providing data-loss protection.

Raytheon predicted the joint venture would deliver high-single-digit revenue growth next year and mid-double-digit growth in 2017, and would be profitable from day one. Raytheon will have an 80% stake in the new cyber venture, with Vista Partners LLC holding 20%.

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“Our approach to job creation is a model for the nation,” said Gov. Gary R. Herbert. “Utah’s economy is doing remarkably well because of sound fiscally conservative principles that empower the private sector to create jobs and grow the economy.”

Figures released last month show total job growth of 4.0 percent while private-sector job growth is 4.6 percent. Utah’s unemployment rate of 3.4 percent remained more than two percentage points below the national rate of 5.5 percent.

The Utah unemployment rate held constant from last month and the state’s labor force expanded at 2.5 percent, a pace unseen since the year 2013. For more information visit jobs.utah.gov.

Vivint Solar Will Be Recruiting Partner In President Obama’s Plan To Train 75,000 New Solar Workers Vivint Solar is a recruiting partner in the national solar energy initiative presented by President Obama April 3 at Utah’s Hill Air Force base.

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Northrop Grumman pursues Long-Range Strike Bomber Northrop Grumman wants badly to win the biggest prize in aerospace defense contracting, the U.S. Air Force’s $55 billion Long-Range Strike Bomber program. Northrop is also looking to maintain its position as the manufacturer of the stealth bomber, T-X trainer and ground surveillance aircraft. Source: National Defense

Top-Performing Companies Prove Their Business Prowess A funny thing happened on the way to the aerospace and defense industry’s maturation.The companies became good businesses—maybe too good.

Twenty years ago when Aviation Week started its annual review of Top-Performing Companies, the concern was that Western A&D companies did not operate well as businesses, at least not compared with other sectors and Wall Street benchmarks. While they provided amazing weaponry, airliners and spacecraft, when it came to operating performance, A&D enterprises seemed to lag by decades automotive, oil and gas, and other industries in basic business prowess.

A look at this year’s TPC rankings and results indicates they have learned their lessons well. Not only did A&D as a whole post record revenue for 2014, but many companies simply became operationally better. What is more, this change came about despite two years of socalled sequestration spending restraints, the historical halving of the price of a barrel of oil, the dramatic strengthening of the U.S. dollar, airliner disasters and international volatility such as in Ukraine.

“The core of the big primes and the U.S. defense industry continue to do really well despite all the angst and observable trauma,” says TPC adviser Jacob Markish, principal at Renaissance Strategic Advisors.

“Another measure that was unsurprising is that the well-focused and disciplined mid-tier, whether in electronics or in one of the commercial parts of the components sector, continues to do very well.”

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whole sector. “The story last year, in 2014, was commercial,” says Tom Captain, vice chairman and global A&D sector leader for Deloitte and a TPC adviser. “The story will be the same in 2015.There is no bubble.”

TPC rankings of publicly traded A&D contractors are the result of composite scoring of four equally weighted performance categories that place significant emphasis on operating excellence. They are: return on invested capital (ROIC), measuring investment decisions; earnings performance, i.e., revenue quality and expansion; asset management, or how efficiently a company employs its resources; and financial health, as in a company’s strength, including overall solvency.

In turn, the TPC council of advisers this year identified several common attributes among companies that can claim success in the rankings. For starters, A&D companies appear better managed from the top down; even defense units are run as much like commercial operations as possible. Next, companies are increasingly focusing on areas of expertise, becoming dominant players in niches and shedding non-core operations.

“The thing that keeps coming back at me, year after year, is the companies that do well have a proprietary position; they know what business they’re in,” says Harlan Irvine, a TPC adviser and Deloitte principal. “The folks that have a defensible position, either they own a program of record or they own intellectual property that they can lever.They do a decent job of running the business according to the levers that are relevant.”

In defense, companies are trying to develop or harness commercial technology—like Rockwell Collins and its Pro Line Fusion avionics—to the extent possible rather than the Cold War approach of government-first. And, paradoxically, when focusing a company, Top-Performing Companies are buttressing revenue by diversifying customer types and sources, such as by boosting international sales, finding new clients for current offerings, and even tiptoeing into adjacent markets.

Surpassing these trends, however, is the idea that the companies in general are leaner, more efficient and more productive, per worker.

If possible, major assets and inventories are placed or left in the hands of others, e.g., shipyards with the government instead of defense shipbuilders, or Tier 1 aerostructure providers instead of the nameplate original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Liabilities such as pensions,

once proverbial albatrosses around the neck of industry, are being optimized. Finally, free cash flow, the money generated and left over after assets are dealt with, is maximized and most of it is returned to shareholders and investors.

“It has to do with the treatment of assets,” says Steven Grundman, a TPC adviser, George Lund Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and former assistant secretary of defense for industrial affairs and installations. “Utility-style companies that manage assets well and generate cash succeed in this model.That does not tend to be a thing we all celebrate.”

For John Stack, managing director and aerospace leader at the McLean Group, and other advisers, the true measure of a company is in what it makes beyond the financial reports.

What the numbers show and what industry executives and analysts can point to can be different and worthy of consideration. “It should be about value creation,” he says.

Take Boeing, which won both its TPC category ($20 billion or more in annual revenue) and scored the best among all companies (97 this year, and a five-year average of 93).

Captain points out that the leading OEM looks to be on the verge of reaching $100 billion a year in revenue in a couple of years, and maybe even next year when the company marks its 100th anniversary. If no new airliners were ordered this year due to a cataclysmic event—think a 9/11-type terrorist attack or pandemic flu, which shuts down air travel—the backlog would slip to just an eight-year wait-list.

“Boeing is a fundamentally unique company,” Markish says. “Their commercial operations

effectively constitute half of a hugely valuable duopoly and [it] has consistently known how to make money.” -Results from 2014 do not represent a new era or new direction “It is -business as usual at a macro level.”

Yet while the OEM and Pentagon prime is eyeing or pursuing new programs like a “middle-of-the-market” 757-replacement airliner or the U.S. Air Force Long-range Strike Bomber, these are seen more as derivative innovations. Boeing Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney last year famously declared no more “Moonshots” when it comes to development efforts, and the company has been reaping the benefit of its steady market dominance for years.

TPC advisers recognize that it took Boeing a lot of investment and innovation—as well as some course corrections—to reach this point.

Five to six years ago, the company’s problems with major programs and customers were headline news, and TPC advisers at the time criticized both management execution and program performance. Now it is “smooth sailing,” one adviser says.

The company is not only reaping the benefit of earlier investments and corrective actions, the learning curve is being extended into other programs. In February a reorganization of Boeing Defense, Space and Security was announced that resulted in a new entity—the BDS Development office. Modeled after a similar unit in Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the office “will address development risks and affordability.” Six programs now managed elsewhere in BDS will be the first to be overseen by BDS Development, including the USAF KC-46 aerial refueling tanker and NASA Space Launch System rocket.

Still, for an industry that can claim hypersonic vehicles, landing humans on the Moon, and helping to build—here in the U.S.— what is arguably the most powerful military on Earth, the emphasis on shareholder value maximization and relatively lower independent research and development are less inspiring to many observers. It also comes as Pentagon officials are pushing their socalled Third Offset strategy for technology development, with a soon-to-be-unveiled Long-range R&D Plan crafted with industry in mind.

TPC advisers such as Byron Callan, a director at Capital Alpha Partners, say they see potential changes coming to industry’s makeup as managers and directors shift their focus to longer-term positioning. In 2016-18, the “overwhelming” investor focus on defense contractor capital deployment could give way to accommodation of the Pentagon’s changing acquisition practices and emerging competition.

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Vestas lands 2 big orders from Berkshire Hathaway, Sempra Vestas Wind Systems recently landed nearly 500 megawatts’ worth of wind turbine orders, including an order from Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables LLC for the company’s Grande Prairie wind farm in Nebraska.

The Danish wind turbine manufacturer, which has four manufacturing plants in Colorado, announced two separate orders last month.

Vestas’ Colorado factories will be involved in supplying wind turbines for both orders.The company currently has nearly 3,000 full-time employees in Colorado, “and we are hiring,” said Adam Serchuk, a Vestas spokesman.

Vestas said it will supply 200 of its V110-2.0 megawatt turbines, collectively capable of generating up to 400 megawatts of wind energy, to Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The company owns a portfolio of energy businesses including the U.S. utilities PacifiCorp, MidAmerican Energy Company and NV Energy.

Vestas also said it had landed an order to supply Sempra U.S. Gas & Power LCC with 39 of its V110-2.0 megawatt turbines, collectively capable of generating up to 78 megawatts of electricity. Sempra is buying the machines for its Black Oak wind farm in Minnesota.

The announcement between Vestas and Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables is the first supply contract between the two companies, Vestas said.

Businesses in Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s portfolio own wind farms capable of generating more than 4,000 megawatts worth of electricity across the West and Midwest, Vestas said.

Tom Budler, President of the wind division of BHE Renewables, said Vestas is the sole provider of turbines for the Grande Prairie project.

“When completed, Grande Prairie will be the largest wind project in Nebraska and will have a major impact on Nebraska’s economy and energy future.”

Delivery of the wind turbines for the Minnesota and Nebraska wind farms is expected during the second quarter of 2016, with operations starting in the fourth quarter of 2016, Vestas said.

Congress in December 2014 granted a one-year extension of the federal wind “Production Tax Credit,” which gives a credit of $23 per megawatt hour of power to the owners of the wind farm for the first 10 years of the farm’s operation.Source: Denver Business Journal

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That was the message from Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk this week while discussing, for the first time, the early response to his new product line of storage batteries designed for use in homes and businesses. The numbers are impressive. In the first few days of reservations since the battery announcement on April 30, Tesla took orders worth roughly $800 million in potential revenue, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg Business.

If those numbers were realized, it would be almost as much as the company took in from car sales in the entire first quarter of 2015. “It’s like crazy off-the-hook,” Musk said during an earnings presentation.

“The sheer volume of demand here is just staggering.”

Before anyone gets too excited, it’s important to note the biggest caveat: reservations don’t necessarily convert to sales. That’s especially true for the home storage batteries sold under the name Powerwall.

Anyone can go online and place a reservation, years in advance, with no money down and no commitment to buy. To reserve a Tesla Model X vehicle, by contrast, requires $5,000 up front.Tesla declined to clarify what constitutes a “reservation” for a business or utility-scale project.

There’s also no way for Tesla to keep up with the level of demand

reflected by the early reservations.The company is sold out of storage batteries until mid-2016. Musk claimed the production of storage batteries alone could “easily” take up the entire capacity of Tesla’s $5 billion factory in Nevada, which is scheduled to open next year. The massive facility was originally slated to devote about two-thirds of its output to electric-vehicle batteries. “We should try to make the factory bigger,” Musk said.

As for profit, Tesla is probably making very little from early battery sales. Musk said the gross margins will initially be “low” but will rise to “somewhere around 20 percent” after production ramps up at the new factory.

Here’s the Math on Tesla’s $800 Million Storage Battery Even with the caveats, interest in Tesla’s new batteries is massive. Cheap electricity storage is something utilities have pursued for years with little success—a product that has the potential to bolster the power grid and increase the spread of solar power. But Tesla hasn’t been willing to publicly put a dollar figure on the reservations. Here’s how Bloomberg Business crunched the numbers behind the $800 million: Musk said the company has received 2,500 reservations for the commercial-scale batteries and that the typical installation comes with “at least 10 Powerpacks.” So that’s 25,000 units totaling 2.5 million kilowatt hours. Musk used Twitter last week to disclose pricing for the Powerpack at $250 per kilowatt hour. Total Powerpack Orders So Far: $625 million.

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ARUP Laboratories Adds Romi Machine To Its Portfolio Of Manufacturing Technology Tools

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development.

A nonprofit enterprise of the University of Utah, ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests. The lab is one of the largest medical reference laboratories in the world.

“Some 30,000 to 35,000 tests and test combinations flow through ARUP on a daily basis, all connected to a patient somewhere in the country— often test results that will inform physicians to immediately begin life-saving treatments ranging from cancer patients, those with rare diseases, to newborns,” points out Peta Owens-Liston, an ARUP Public Relations Specialist.

ARUP Laboratories is featured in the A2Z Manufacturing magazine because their life-saving efforts are supported by new and innovative manufacturing technologies.

When Engineer Chris Semrow joined ARUP several years ago, his priority program was to automate ARUP’s laboratory environment. Chris says, “Our automation project was introduced 7 years ago, and it took 5 years from conception to completion.”

Today, ARUP automates sorting, labeling, capping and decapping of test tubes of every type. Prior to automation, all of these tedious tasks were done manually. Chris’ team was chartered with the buildout to make the automation possible. “After we did the design work in house, we relied upon machine and fabrication shops throughout Utah and Colorado A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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to make the parts,” says Chris. He adds, “It took weeks or longer for us to get the completed parts. Naturally, we weren’t a high priority for our suppliers, since the parts we needed were relatively small in quantity.”

Chris and his team made the decision to open a machine shop in-house, one whose sole purpose was to machine and fabricate needed parts for ARUP. The new machine shop would require a very experienced machinist, since the first machine shop hire would have to run the machine shop by himself. Chris knew of Dan Valdez through a colleague at a previous job, and so he approached Dan to head up the new machine shop.

Dan says, “I came from a machine shop that was highly advanced in its utilization of state of the art machine tools. At the time I interviewed at ARUP, there was one manual mill in a closet.” During the interview, Dan saw the vision of the team at ARUP and knew he could build a superior machine shop that would help ARUP to build the parts they needed for automation. “At ARUP, we have a culture of innovation and this culture motivates and rewards innovation in its employees,” explains Dan. “Another reason I’m committed to my job is the awareness that my work ultimately helps patients.What we design and build

The ROMI C 420 CNC Lathe that the company purchased offers great versatility for machining different types of parts, with great power levels, speed movement and machining precision. Dan says, “I looked at a number of machines, and the Romi was the best decision for a few key reasons: 1) We didn’t need a production capable machine tool with accessories we wouldn’t use. We do R&D prototypes (quantities of 1-10) and other small quantity machining.

The Romi fit this requirement.

2) We did require a machine that could make high precision parts. The Romi afforded us the ability to machine parts with tight tolerances, particularly the custom lab threads that were needed. Chris says, “These threads are custom – you can’t just buy them off the shelf.”

3) We needed a machine that was intuitive and easy to program. Dan had some previous experience with a Romi machine tool and he knew that it would be relatively easy to learn.

4) Support was key. Dan says, “We had some really good onsite training when we first purchased the Romi machine, and since then, we can call Smith Machinery or Romi at any time. We have sent snapshots of the controls and they are able to help us quickly and professionally.”

here is to make peoples’ lives better and healthier.” He points to some test tubes chugging through the machine: “Each one of these represent a person and their families who are waiting answers from ARUP.” “I have been a machinist for many years, almost all in aerospace and defense. I was so excited to work for a company in the medical industry,” says Dan. “At ARUP, we help make peoples’ lives better.” He added that other key factors in his decision to hire on with the company and to still be working for ARUP nearly 5 years later included excellent benefits and an environment that fosters innovation.

“We have been awarded ‘The Best Companies to Work For’ in Utah; we even have an onsite day care center and a gym to work out in,” adds Dan.

The Romi has proven to be a superior cost savings device for ARUP. Dan says, “We used to have maintenance contracts for our machines and for the equipment in our automation line. Today, we take worn-out components, we reverse engineer them, and then we redesign them so that they last longer and work better than we would get from our builders.” Typical machine parts that ARUP’s machine shop makes on their Romi include: screws, shafts, knobs, trays, spacers, and pipette holders, to name a few.

Today, ARUP not only has a machine shop that is dedicated to supporting ARUP internally, but they also opened a fabrication/precision sheet metal shop with three full time machinist. Chris says, “We fabricate and weld steel frames

As Dan began the task of upgrading the machine shop, he first upgraded the manual mills the company had acquired, equipping them with CNC controls. “We were sending out a substantial amount of turning work, and so our next machine shop upgrade was going to be turning machine so we could bring this in house.”

Dan contacted a number of machine tool dealers in the Salt Lake City area. “That was in 2013, and one of the first people I spoke to was Clark Smith, owner of Smith Machinery Co. Inc,” says Dan, adding that Clark was outstanding in his follow-up and his product knowledge.

In the end, Dan chose the Romi machine tool, and he purchased it from Smith Machinery. “The Romi came highly recommended from one of my previous colleagues,” says Chris.

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and other products that go into the automation center.”

Chris says that on large projects, the ARUP machine shop has to bid on a job, much like they were an outside contractor. “The contracts require software, integration, and labor. We have won contracts against 3rd party bids based upon our pricing, but also, we can additionally always provide much better turnaround times, since we know the products and we are doing it all in-house.”

Dan provides an example of how the ARUP machine shop can support the company’s automation. “ARUP has many centrifuge machines that spin at very high rpm used for testing samples, but on a particular centrifuge the company they purchased this machine from did not make spare parts for it anymore. The main shaft failed and the knob holding it in broke spinning at 14,000 rpm, so the machine could no longer run. The machine shop reverse engineered the shaft and knob and machined the precision shaft and knob with the Romi lathe and the centrifuge is in use today, helping lab techs making peoples’ lives better.”

Today, ARUP is still outsourcing specific machining processes that they don’t do in-house today. Dan says, “Once it becomes more cost effective to bring it in-house, we do.” The company’s next machine is a Mitsubishi EDM machine. Dan says, “I looked at other EDM machines out on the market, and the Mitsubishi is the best one out there.” Clark says, “The new Mitsubishi MD+PROIII has made some substantial improvements over previous generationWEDM machines. It is faster and more responsive in the cut, it reduces wire consumption by 40% over older designs, and it reduces power consumption up to 55%. In essence, the new Mitsubishi MD+PROIII greatly increases the performance and dramatically lowers the operating costs over earlier generationWEDM machines.”

Chris says that the company estimates that the internal machine shop and automation team has saved the company in excess of $1 million dollars to date, largely driven by manufacturing parts in house and eliminating all maintenance contracts.

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did a superior job and kept our close tolerances needed. The Romi has been a great machine tool for us.”

ARUP continues to grow and innovate. If you are a superior machinist with programming experience, with the following characteristics: you thrive in a creative and innovative environment, you value great employee benefits, you want to be a part of a team at a great place to work, there may be an opportunity for you. If you see a current job opening that fits your qualifications, contact the Recruiting Specialist at (801) 583-2787, ext. 2813.

To learn more about the Romi machine and about Smith Machinery Co. Inc.’s fine line of machine tools, contact them at 801-263-6403 or visit smithmachinetools.com ARUP’s Culture Rooted In Early History Internal innovation is encouraged by supervisors and rewarded by the company’s leadership with recognition and monetarily.

The culture, which keeps a lot of the employees here and attracts new ones, stems partly from the philosophy of ARUP’s founders including Dr. Carl Kjeldsberg, MD, one of the company’s early leaders and a very interesting man in his own right.

Dr. Kjeldsberg, who grew up in Norway, recalls as a boy tagging along with his dad throughout his workday. His father ran a well-established family business going back generations.

He recalls his father telling him that they had a meeting with the janitor the next morning.

“What’s the big deal about meeting with a janitor?” replied the boy.

He promptly replied: “Look at the floors, are they clean?”Young Kjeldsberg nodded.

“Are the rooms nice and warm?” Another nod.

“Well the janitor got up at 4 am to come in here to make it this way. The janitor is just as important as me in this company; we are all on the same team,” his father emphasized. Adding, “Take care of the employees and the employees will take care of the business.”

This philosophy was integrated into Dr. Kjeldsberg’s leadership at ARUP when he was the CEO and carries forward today within the culture of the company.

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Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Olympic Olymp Metals _____303-286-9700 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 OGP __________ 480-889-9056 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Ryerson _________303-227-6310 Optical Comparators Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340 Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 United Performance Metals888-282-3292 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Particle Inspection Mach Alloys: Corrosion Resistant DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Video Measuring Systems Alloys: High Temperature Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 Alloys: Nichel & Cobalt HARDWARE United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Horizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957 Aluminum Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Utah Metal Works, Inc. _ 801-364-5679 Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700 METALS & MATERIALS O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 Armor: Military & Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061 Commercial Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __303-424-1030 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

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Quality New & Used CNC Machine Tools (303) 651-6545 sales@automatics.com www.automatics.com

An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer

Automatic Barfeeds of all Types

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

Denver, CO 303.654.0300

Brass Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Bronze Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Carbon Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 Copper Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Flat Rolled Metals O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Garnet Abrasives GMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300 Metals: Bar & Plate AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

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Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 Mold Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Nickel Alloys AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801 Ryerson _________303-227-6310 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Plate-Precision Saw Cut Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061 Pre-Honed Tube Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Rubber Marzee Inc.________602-269-5801 Stainless Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals Corp _ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310

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

Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC_______ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Marzee ___________ 602-269-5801 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030 Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613 METAL DISTRIBUTORS Erickson Metals ______877-543-6061 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030 Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Drilling/Tapping Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 CNC Mills Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777 Hartwig Inc. _______ 303-373-9450 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390 Tornos USA ________951-695-0342 Triad Machine _______303-424-0268 CNC Lathes Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900

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

AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery _800-543-7666 Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777 J.M. Grisley ________ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley ________208-861-8991 Jend Machiney _____ 303-775-3697 Hartwig Inc. ________303-373-9450 Hurco ___________ 800-634-2416 King Machine_______208-345-9600 KTR Machine _ _____303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools __303-571-4933 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co ___801-263-6403 Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390 Triad Machine _______303-424-0268 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 EDM Machines Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Fabri S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Plate Rolls Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 Press Brakes AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Shearing Machines Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 Welding Equipment: Spot Welders AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 OTHER ACCESSORIES Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330

EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply___ 480-836-8330 End Mills Helical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422 Micro Hole Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 NEW MACHINERY FABRICATION Band Saws AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Bar Feeders Edge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824 Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Cold Saws PALLET SYSTEMS Fabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342 Automatic Pallet Systems CNC Punching Centers Midaco __________ 847-593-8420 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Automatic Door Opener Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Iron Workers AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 Robotic Part Loading Systems S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Laser Cutters PRODUCTS Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 Guns AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Layke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654 Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070 Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Delcam __________ 877-35-2261 Pipe &Tube Benders/Notchers Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654 Amada America _____ 303-549-9167 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461

PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go_______801-380-7935 RECYCLING Recyclable Metals Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600 SAFETY Fire Protection Systems Rotarex _________ 480-689-8756 SERVICES AS9100 Certification ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Consultants, Health & Safety CKC Services LLC ____ 303-905-2371 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Contract Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Measure Sol__ 480-626-8131 Education Ogden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795

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

Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

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

Online Training For www.streamingteacher.com

Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Financing IEC __________ 303-593-0403 Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208 Scottrade Bank Equip Fin _ 206-948-0022 US Bank __________ 909-466-5020 US Bank __________ 507-5328437 First Article Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Heavyhaul IRH ___________801-972-5581 Injection Molding 3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935 ISO900/AS9100 Audits American Global Standards 617-838-4648 ISO900/AS9100 Registration American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Inspection Services Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Insurance Services Sentry Insurance ____ 877-373-6879 Lean Consulting ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 Machine Repair/Servicing Jorgensen Machine Tools_800-952-0151 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Process Improvement/ Audit ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Rocky Mountain Mountain

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Serial Port X-Ray Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

Software:CNC Networking American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Transportation Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045 IRH ____________801-972-5581 MEP ____________801-863-7001 SOFTWARE Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 CAD/CAM/CAE Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 ISO Registrar American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Business Mgmt Software Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Lean Manufacturing Consulting/Engineering MEP ____________ 801-863-7001 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Machine Tool Rebuilding TOOLING EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Arc Cutting Tools Process Improvement BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Helical Solutions______866-543-5422 Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 Precision Toolholding Products Reverse Engineering Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Advanced Coord. Tech __ _303-469-6161 Tooling Systems Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Rigging & Transfer Live Tool Holders Atlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 IRH ___________ _801-972-5581 Static Tool Holders Spindle Rebuilding Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679 TRAINING Setco-Pope Spindles_____866-362-0699 CAD/CAM Training Staffing Resource Mfg________801-265-1999 Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 CNC/Conventional SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION Hardware: USB Machining Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483

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

Machining Software Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 USED MACHINERY Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666 EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782 Jorgensen Machine Tools__800-952-0151 King Machine________208-345-9600 K.D. Capital Equipment___480-922-1674 KTR Machine________303-659-6690 Methods West________602-437-2220 New West Mchine______801-561-2001 ReSell CNC West_______480-694-9919 S&S Machinery Sales____602-368-8542 WATERJET CUTTING MACHINERY Action Machine_______303-532-2900 Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342 Flow International_______800-446-3569 Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 Jend Machinery_______303-775-3697 Jorgensen Machine Tools__800-952-0151 King Machine________208-345-9600 OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Triad Machine______ _ 303-424-0268 Abrasives/Blast Media GMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300 Fives ____________909-263-9282

Late Breaking Addition NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Mills/Lathes New West Machine Tool 801-561-2001

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes ISO9001:2008

Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com

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

Jeffrey Peterson 801-710-7891

3063 North 575 East North Ogden, UT EliteMachineSales@Gmail.com

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com

mikeb@dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 mikeb@dolphincasting.com

602-272-6747 Ext. 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

ASSEMBLIES Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245 Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 JD Machine _________801-782-4403 Stacy Machine & Tooling __303-465-3922 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 Electronics Assemblies Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Welded Assemblies Weiser/Mile High Precision 303-280-2778 BAR CODING Western Sintering _____509-375-3096

BENDING LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 H& S Machine _______ 801-755-7627 AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

DIES JQ Enterprises_________801-975-0777 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 EDM BROACHING COMPOSITES Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 EDM: Drilling Small Hole Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Our S.A. company Composites logo _________ 970-776-3877 EDM Express_______800-780-7075 Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 CUTTING Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 CASTINGS Metal Die Casting EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Plasma Cutting Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Precision Investment Casting Font Verdana sizePlastic 9 (I dropped in this cell Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 because Investment Castings” BandsawtheLLC“Precision ________ 303-744-7181 Prec. Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676 COATING on the logo is not very clear.

ImageTek __________ 303-806-8111 EDM: Wire Coating: Liquid Saw Cutting Custom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668 Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 www.dolphincasting.com EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Coating: Nickel/Teflon/ Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265 Chrome DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 Innovative Precision ____ 801-334-6317 Font Verdana Size 9

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Paramount Machine

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

Micropulse ulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 QualTek ________ 719-598-3394 X31 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 ELECTRONICS Contract Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Design Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Kitting Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Prototype Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 ELECTROPOLISHING QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Stacy Machine & Tooling _303-465-3922 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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FABRICATION Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Custom Auto/Truck/Bike H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Fabrication: Filament Winding S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Enclosures Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Fabrication: Medium & Large Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419

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Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 303-744-7181 EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778 Fabrication: Plastic ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Fabrication: SheetMetal Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Steel Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181

EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 FINISHING Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Precision Mach’d Prod___ 970-482-7676 QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Liquid Painting Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Passivation Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

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Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 FOUNDRY May Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931 GALVANIZING Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Galvanizing: Hot Dip Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

Galvanizing: Zinc Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 GAS NITRIDING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 GEAR CUTTING Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252 Gear Hobbing Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 GRINDING AzMark __________480-926-8969 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679 Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 800-234-5613 Grinding, Centerless Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Grinding, Double Disc TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Grinding: OD AzMark __________480-926-8969 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Surface ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720 Passivation

Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 IDENTIFICATION Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Silk Screen Polishing Gold Tech Industries____ 480-968-1930 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 INJECTION MOLDING Selective Coatings ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 FORMING INSPECTION AEI Fabrication ______________ Inspection, First Article 480-733-6594 Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Inspection Services JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Sustaining Edge Solutions_888-572-9642 HEAT TREATING LASER CUTTING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Laser Cutting Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Advantage Manufacturing ___ 877-727-0281 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain A2Z MANUFACTURING ROCKY MOUNTAIN

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Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com Henry Parker

HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC .

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

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

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

AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 EMI/RFI Shielding Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Laser Engraving 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 Laser Marking 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 MACHINING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278 Machining: 3D Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson __________303-420-7422 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Machining: Aerospace AzMark __________480-926-8969 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654

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Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine ____801-886-2755 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining: CNC 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 Elite Machine ______ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________ 970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool____ 801-737--0265 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505

602-272-2654 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Wrico __________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Composites Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Machining: Laser AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Gerome Mfg_______520-622-8402 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

St. Vrain Manufacturing, Inc. “Precision Machining Solutions for Industry”

Robert Bergstrom President

819 So. Lincoln Street P. O. Box 1066 Longmont, CO 80502 Website: stvrainmfg.com

CHRISTOPHER FAGNANT

Darrin J. Caschette President

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

Phone: (303) 702-1529 x 103 Fax: (303) 702-1534 Email: bobb@stvrainmfg.com RFQ Email: mail@stvrainmfg.com

Director of E.

ISO 9001:2008

Machining:Medical A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining: Milling A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Machining: Mold Base Maverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604 Machining: Mold Making R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Machining: Plastic ImageTek __________303-806-8111 Machining: Production A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595

cfagnant@qualtekmfg.com C 719 201 1661 www.qualtekmfg.com sales@aandlmachining.com

Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson __________303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265

Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331 Machining: Precision A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 4 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Teton Machining______208-642-9344 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Machining: Turning Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540

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3D Prototyping Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Custom Screen Molds: Blow ImageTek _________303-806-8111 Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260 AEIFABRICATION PROCESSING: METAL Molds: Plastic Injection RONKOTLOFF Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Founder / CEO Chemical Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Molds: DieCast Design Etching/Photochemical Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Molds: Injection Design PUNCHING Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Molds: Trim Die Design Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952 Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Molds Steel REPAIR DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Bearing Surface Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443 Hydraulic Cylinder ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Manufacturing Equipment Stacy Machine & Tooling _303-465-3922 PAINTING Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 ROLL FORMING Jet Processing ______623-869-6749 x117 Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Richards Fab_________ Fab 801-409-0392 Rolling: thread Mil Spec Painting IndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 ROUTERING, CNC PLATING Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Blanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590 SAW CUTTING ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175 Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 SHOT PEENING Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 SINTERING Anodizing Manufacturing: Electrode Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 SPINNING: METAL Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939 Production Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 SPLINES HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 Copper Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 SPRINGS LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Laser Concepts Inc. ___ 801-280-7723 Electroless Nickel Flat & Wire Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Gold/Silver Plate STAMPING Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Rapid Prototyping Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Nickel/Chrome RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Robotic CNC Copper Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Teton Machining______208-642-9344 Routering CNC Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Machining: Ultra-Precision DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Tin Plate Small Part QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Machining: Waterjet White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Colorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404 Turnkey Product Services POLISHING MANUFACTURING Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 METAL STAMPING Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 PRECISION FORMING Stamping:Aerospace AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Hi-Production Precision RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Stamping Stamping:Deep Draw Composites Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 S.A. Composites _______970-776-3877 Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Contract PRINTING Stamping:Design AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 3D Printing The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 MOLDS Teton Machining______208-642-9344 Colorado Tool Design Inc 720-218-5246 The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

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Stamping:Flat Forming SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Light Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Stamping:Precision Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Stamping:Prototype Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Stamping:Short Run Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 SWISS SCREW MCHG. Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Screwing: Lead Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 TAPPING Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 TESTING Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing __ 801-972-2146 THERMFORMING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 TOOL & DIE Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Tool & Cutter Grinding Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720 TOOLING Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Mountain View Machine _ 435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 TUBE FORMING AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Formed Tubing AG Machining _______805-531-9595

Tube Bending /Fabrication AG Machining _______805-531-9595 WATERJET CUTTING Colorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777 Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425 Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 WELDING Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Skyline Products _______719-392-9046 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Orbital Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Precision Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Welding: Robotic Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500

WIRE FORMING SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Late Breaking Addition INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE Electronic Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Gasketing EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Handles & Hinges EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Qtr Turns/Rod Controls EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111

Manufacturer of Industrial Hardware

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

Industries Served: Electrical, Mechanical, HVAC, Transportation, Data Center, Oil and Gas, Commercial Vehicles, Telecommunications, etc.

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