Rocky Mountain Edition Oct 2014

Vol. 7, No. 5 Sept / Oct 2014

Rocky Mountain Edition (CO, UT, ID, MT and WY)

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“I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can’t employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States.We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.”

Douglas R. Oberhelman, CEO of Caterpillar October is an exciting month in manufacturing, as it is the month where we celebrate manufacturing in the United States.

The celebration is a growing grassroots movement of manufacturers dedicated to overcoming the challenges facing manufacturers today. The celebration is sandwiched between IMTS, which was held in September, and Fabtech, which will occur in November.

IMTS was a great success. According to the sponsors, it was the fourth largest IMTS in history and the largest six-day show ever with registration of 114,147. The Chicago event covered more than 1.283 million net square feet of exhibit space and hosted 2,035 exhibiting companies.

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Fabtech, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event will be held in Atlanta from November 11th through the 13th. The upcoming event is expected to cover more than 500,000 net square feet and anticipates over 27,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibiting companies.

PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@azmetalworker.com

“The manufacturing sector is just on fire right now,” said Brian Jones, a senior U.S. economist. “You’ve got increased demand for workers, and the more people working, and the more money they are making, the more money they’ll spend.”

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And while manufacturing is ‘on fire’, apprenticeship training is in need of revitalization in the US. Relative to our economy, the apprenticeship system is significantly smaller than that of other industrialized countries. England started 510,000 new apprentices in 2012 while the United States started 147,000, despite the U.S. population being roughly six times that of England. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, 70 percent of young people enter the workforce through an apprenticeship.

According to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, by 2020, the United States is expected to face a shortage of 5 million workers who are equipped with technical certificates and credentials. At the same time, about half of U.S. executives at large companies say they are likely to have fewer skilled workers than they need in the short term of the next one to two years. What are we doing to address this? According to the National Skills Coalition, at least 15 states have enacted legislation this year to close the skills gap. States increased access to career pathways, invested in job-driven training and sector partnerships, and set policies to coordinate activities and collect outcome data across education, workforce, and other programs.

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CONTRIBUTORS Kim Carpenter Gene Wirth Chris Seay Hugh Taylor Kathy Carpenter

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

Circulation: The A2Z Metalworker has compiled and maintains a master list of approximately 6500 people in the Rocky Mountain states actively engaged in the Precision Manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 18,000 people.

Apprenticeship is a time-tested approach to training and developing skilled labor. Research has shown that apprenticeship offers myriad benefits to employers. By investing in talent development through apprenticeship, employers gain a pipeline of loyal skilled workers, increase productivity, and improve the bottom line.

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Until next issue, I wish you well, and I encourage you to help support manufacturing with apprentice programs. And as always, God Bless Our Troops!

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For more information about the company Dave and itsJohnson products,joined please the visit J.M. our website Grisley team on September 1st. at http://www.edmperformance.com or email us at information@ Dave brings a wealth of experience, including 20 years working for edmperformance.com. and supervising machines shops, entirely in Utah. Dave’s machine shop experience spans a variety of industries, including: aerospace, oil Starrett Expands Measurement Expertise and gas, medical and commerical, working on a variety of machines.

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced a series of new turn-key systems for material testing, force analysis, force measurement and Dave says, “I have always been fascinated with the machine tool side spring testing. Marketed as Lx systems, these software-based solutions of the industry, and it is well known that Doosan is a well respected make use of the Starrett® MMS and MMD material test frames and machine tool in the industry. Also, I have heard that J.M. Grisley Starrett FMS and FMD force test frames combined with Lx software, has reputation, and especially theirTesting service team. I loadan celloutstanding sensors, extensometers testing with fixtures. capacities am delighted to have been selected to join their team.”

Lars Grisley, range from less than 500N (112lbf) to 50kN (11,250lbf).

President of J.M. Grisley, a 4th generation machine tool dealer, says, “Our customers a sophisticated, knowledgeable team to The Starrett L3 value systems are material testing solutions sales for material characterization, verification validation.

These systems are Dave used help them purchase the best and products for their specific needs. measure stress, and more. Designed istoexactly what bothstrain, we andload, our displacement customers appreciate.” for the research scientist, design engineer and quality engineer, L3 systems differ significantlycall from testing systems For more information, thetraditional office at material 801-486-7519 or visit urements and test method creation is performed graphically, since meas jmgrisley.com Announcements Continued Continued Page Announcements Page148

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Smith Machinery Welcomes the 5th Generation Into The Machine Tool Industry Clark Smith, president/owner of Smith Machinery, is pleased to announce that Spencer Smith has joined the company as a Sales Engineer. Clark says, “Like all of us in our family, Spencer grew up with our company being a major influence at family gatherings.We all worked here through school and helped clean and organize the showroom on weekends and in the summer, so he is familiar with what this business is about.”

Two years ago, when Spencer made plans to pursue a career in the machine tool industry, he started by attending Machining Technology classes at the DATC and then worked as a machinist in a Salt Lake Valley job shop. Clark wanted Spencer to have some outside experience before joining the family business.

Spencer says, “I am incredibly excited to join Smith Machinery and look forward to many years working in the industry.” Spencer is going through an extensive training program and is also just beginning to support customers.You should expect to see more of him in the near future.

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Acu-Tech CNC Owner Invents Watercraft Anchor Out of Necessity David Martindale, owner of Acu-Tec CNC, specializes in production and prototype precision machining, and the company’s customers span the commercial, aerospace and medical industries.

Recently, David added ‘inventor’ to his list of accomplishments.

David and his family are avid boaters, and on their vacations, they spend the days boating, jet skiing and swimming on lakes. David says, “One time we were on a lake in Nebraska, and a storm rolled in out of nowhere. One of our jet skis broke loose, and 2 boats also broke loose.”

He continued, “Two people, including my son, jumped into the lake and were swimming out to catch the boats and jet skis.They never would have been able to rescue the boats and jet ski, and some very kind people jumped into their boats to save them.”

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Scott says, “I have had professional and personal relationships with Jeff Glikman, Ric Rivett and Tammy Sherrill for nearly 3 decades, and worked closely with them in helping my machine tool customers obtain competitive and expedient financing. However, I never had the opportunity to become part of their team until now.” He continued, “Intech Funding helped me to be more successful in my machine tool sales career, so it is very exciting to now be able to represent the Intech product.”

David invented the patent pending ‘Auger Anchor’, which is now selling nationwide. Auger Anchors are designed and built to fill the need for a reliable cost effective way to secure your personal watercraft, something that normal boat anchors, sand bags or doggie augers can’t do.They affordably keep your watercraft off of the beach where it can be damaged and difficult to get back into the water or worse yet - drift away.

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Intech Funding Corp. is an industry leader providing financing and leasing to manufacturing companies nationwide. Unlike banks whose clients span all industries, Intech Funding Corp. specializes in one industry - manufacturing.

Scott Trumble Joins the Intech Funding Team!

Tammy says, “All we finance is machinery. Because we specialize, we can provide better rates and terms than most banks and ‘generalist’ finance companies.”

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AEI Fabrication Acquires AMADA LC3015F1 NT Precision Laser Cutting System AEI’s nearly 20 years of working closely with and listening carefully to its customers has resulted in an acquisition of a high-speed AMADA LC3015 F1 NT Laser Cutting System to fulfill all precision metal cutting processes.The AMADA LC3015 F1 NT enables AEI Fabrication to cut metal up to 1.5-inch thickness with tremendous, error-free laser precision. Even the most complex designs are simplified and executed in 3X less time by AEI Fabrication’s AMADA laser, one of a handful in the United States.

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The White Paper, Next Generation No Foam Technology Solves Production Problems, discusses the causes and effects of coolant foaming, and presents a case study on how one manufacturer was stopped in their tracks by not choosing the right coolant for their new automated high-pressure machining center.

High-pressure coolant systems can provide important benefits, especially when working with difficult metals like superalloys, titanium and stainless steel. Unfortunately, a common side effect frequently encountered in high-pressure coolant delivery systems is foaming. Foam dramatically reduces lubricity, increases coolant usage and decreases tool life, resulting in loss of productivity. It also presents a safety hazard and maintenance nightmare as foam spills over onto the shop floor.

The QualiChem White Paper cites the experience of LB Pipe, a manufacturer of couplings in Magnolia, Texas. LB Pipe had made a major investment in an OKUMA high-speed automated cell with a ChipBLASTER high-pressure coolant-delivery system. Almost immediately after being placed into service, foam started billowing out of the machine onto the floor, causing a total shutdown in production. Numerous mechanical adjustments were unsuccessful in mitigating the foam. Adding defoamer did not help. Dialing back the pressure only resulted in chip buildup in the cutting area.

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learn the illustrates Haas control, of machines, and Haas “Thethe LBbasics Pipe of story the operation critical importance of coolant programming using G&M codes.

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“Traditionally the coolant industry has formulated with defoamers to combat potential foam issues. Defoamers adjust the surface tension Please join us for an upcoming session of the Haas training. We of a fluid causing the bubbles to break faster. With high-pressure recommend registering as early as possible as class sizes are limited. coolant applications, defoamers cannot dissipate the bubbles quickly enough to22nd prevent foam: Mill buildup.

September – 24th class QualiChem has developed new coolant 20th technology addressclasses the root cause of foam which results October – 22ndto: Lathe in coolants that do not rely on defoamers as a ‘band aid.’”

Training is held at the Haas Factory Outlet - Phoenix, a Division of Ellison Machinerym located at 1610 S.evidence Priest Drive, #101,Tempe, “This case study presents compelling that buying coolantsAZ. Tobased register or for additional information, call 480-968-5335 or visit solely on price can have disastrous results,” said Forest. “Foam ellisonaz.com costs money in terms of more downtime and less productivity.”

Okuma and Boeing to present discussion Free copies of the QualiChem White Paper may be downloaded and demonstration of STEP-NC ISO standard at http://www.qualichem.com/metalworking-fluids/announceduring ments. IMTS 2014 During the upcoming IMTS 2014 show and the Trends in Advanced CNC-Pros AnMachining, Manufacturing and Materials (TRAM) Conference, Boeing nounces and Okuma will share their experiences in technologyDistribuleadership with a new implementation of the STEP-NC ISO standard. tion of Miyano Ma-

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Things just changed for the two partners when they bought their Commercially available a universal CAM business back, and renamedimplementations it CNC-Pros. Rayact says,as“The acquisition in was some ways what MTConnect does allow for data bytranslator, a nationalsimilar company good fortoour business, but it didn’t Thisour allows end users to leverage multiple suppliers ustransfer. to expand machine tool service business into tooling other growth using a variety of CAM packages that provide optimized cutting paths opportunities.” resulting in reduced cycle times and increased tool life by taking advantage thehave latest in asked tooling technology.

Cornel says,of “We been over the years by some builders to represent their lines. We view our service business as a specialized Any CNC program can be optimized by modernizing its tooling, repair business, and we didn’t want to represent a commodity style but the optimizer must meet all the design and manufacturing line of machine tools.” He continued, “When Miyano approached us requirements. G-code alone does not have this information, so tointake on their line in Arizona and Southern California, we were 2012 the Organization for Machine Automation and Control delighted accept.”

(OMAC)to issued a call to develop standardized CAM files. In response,

new ISO standard interfaces have been added to CATIA, NX and The Miyano philosophy is explained by Keiichi Nakajima, president Mastercam, and in May of 2013 Sandvik Coromant and Iscar started ofcloud Citizen Machinery Miyano.programs He says, “Inusing the manufacturing services to optimize the new files. field of the 21st century, there are two extreme trends; one is ‘mass production and mass sales’the caused by commoditization and standardization.

Research from OMAC led team has shown that optimizing Another of many in small quantitiescan and/or processes using the models STEP-NC ISO standard achieve machiniisng‘production Announcements Continued Page 15

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IMTS 2014 has been a great success and thank you for visiting Ganesh IMTS booth Ganesh Machinery would like to thank you for investing your time with us at the recent IMTS 2014 in Chicago. We hope the time you spent with us was beneficial to you and your company. Sometimes in a busy show environment we are not able to address every issue or answer all of your questions.

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Many people stopped by to look at the prototype of our newest machine, the Cyclone-78 MSY that will be available next year. We very much appreciate your comments and words of encouragement on this 6-axis mill/turn center.

There are just a few changes to be made before we go into production with this subspindle machine that we are adding to our line of innovative “Done-In-One” machines to address the needs of our customers .

One of our smaller Big-Bore Oil-Field machines, the Ganesh GTW-3060 with 10” spindle bores front and rear was shown with the SMW chucks, mounted front and rear with 10” bores, and showing the very important Thread-Repair-Cycle. We also had our 9-axis Cyclone-52 BY2 with the more powerful Mitsubishi M720 control machining separate Y-axis features on the part simultaneously as well as using the “B”–axis to cut several different angular features in the part using the 12-variable angle programmable tools.

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Air Force orders more Global Hawk UAVs The U.S. Air Force has ordered three more Global Hawk UAVs. The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $240.7 million contract modification for three Block 30M RQ-4B Global Hawks. Each UAV will be equipped with the Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite and Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload, plus two additional ASIP sensors as retrofit kits. The total value of the contract is valued at $354. 8 million, according to a Department of Defense contract announcement.

Data Point to an Encouraging Correlation While last month’s surprise jump in the Chicago Business Barometer was almost too good to be true—the production component jumped the most in nearly a decade—it raised the odds that an even more closely watched indicator wasn’t a fluke.

When investors return from the long weekend, the first data point they will have to digest is the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index for August. July’s figure came in at 57.1, the strongest since April 2011. Soon after that earlier date, the intensification of the debt crisis in some European countries put an end to several strong monthly readings.

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LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank AG, raised his August projection to 57.5 from 56. A Wall Street Journal survey of 14 economists puts the likely figure at a still-robust 56.8.

Although the ISM is a diffusion index based on a questionnaire that asks if various measures are the same, better or worse, it has shown a surprisingly strong relationship with economic growth. And, while it doesn’t do a very good job of predicting what it will be in the future, the ISM is timelier, more a “nowcast” than a “forecast.” The first estimate of this quarter’s economic growth, subject to revision, won’t be released by the government until the end of October.

Assuming the economists’ consensus is right, the average reading of about 57 this quarter would signal one of the strongest three-month periods of the recovery so far. The ISM survey’s average of 55.2 in the second quarter was considered consistent with about 4% gross-domestic-product growth. A government estimate last week put it at 4.2%.

The upshot of two consecutive 4%-plus quarters of growth would be that the Federal Reserve, on schedule to end its bond-buying program around the time of the first GDP estimate for the third quarter, could feel even more comfortable about its next step: raising short-term rates from zero.

Any break in recently torrid job gains might change that.

But, again, ISM data are encouraging: July’s employment component rose to the highest in over three years.Source: Spencer Jakab at spencer. jakab@wsj.com

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“GE and Parker Aerospace are both world-class aviation businesses and this joint venture will allow us to further evolve our existing relationship and offer best-in-class design, manufacturing and program management for these critical components,” said Mike Sims, GE Aviation Combustor General Manager.

The facility will be a center of excellence in lean manufacturing and fuel-nozzle development. Leanne Collazzo, current site leader of the Parker facility, has been named the general manager for the new Advanced Atomization Technologies, LLC. “Parker is excited to enter into a joint venture with GE Aviation to ensure the future of the Clyde facility through growth and increased synergy with our customer,” said Manuel Bajaksouzian, General Manager of the Parker Aerospace GasTurbine Fuel Systems Division.

Pairing Parker’s fuel nozzle technology and GE’s advanced TAPS combustion technology will dramatically reduce engine emissions while increasing fuel efficiency; two of the most important elements for enhanced engine performance. Joint development and manufacturing expertise will result in superior fuel nozzles in future products.

GE Aviation is currently developing a new family of engines for the aerospace industry including LEAP (in partnership with Snecma), GE9X and Passport.

These important new programs are expected to fuel growth for the joint venture and generate strong production orders and a robust services business.

Parker Hannifin Corporation and GE Aviation announced that they have reached an agreement to form a joint venture, Advanced Atomization Technologies, LLC, to enhance the development Cimetron_CCI.indd 1 10:45 AM and manufacture of commercial aircraft engine fuel nozzles. This represents a critical1/16/13 addition Advanced AtomizationTechnologies will to the comprehensive GE fuel management team. represent the latest in a line of strategic GE Aviation joint ventures that includes The 50-50 joint venture — created specifically to produce fuel nozzles for current and future CFM International, the highly successful GE Aviation commercial engine platforms (including aerospace and aero-derivative engines) engine partnership with Snecma, plus — will be located in the Parker Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division facility in Clyde, New York. partnerships with Aircelle, BAE, Safran, The joint venture will employ approximately 300 skilled assemblers, technicians, engineers, SKF and NCK. A2Z METALWORKER •

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Energy Production Boosts Manufacturing Sector The New York Times reports that a series of economic indicators “shows momentum building in the manufacturing sector” as a result of a surge in domestic oil and gas production.

The production in the energy sector is turning around manufacturing by increasing employment and lowering production costs. In particular, the article notes that places in the Rust Belt are once again seeing economic growth in the manufacturing sector as a result.

Northrop Grumman developing reusable space plane for lifting spacecraft into orbit A preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for an experimental space plane with a reusable booster is being developed

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Sikorsky, Boeing Selected To Build Technology Demonstrator For Future Vertical Lift Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Boeing have been selected to build a helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator Phase 1 program (JMR TD), paving the way for the next generation of vertical lift aircraft.

The U.S. Army Aviation Technology Directorate (AATD) selected the Sikorsky-Boeing team to continue the development of the SB>1 Defiant, a medium-lift helicopter configured to Sikorsky’s X2™ coaxial design, through flight testing. First flight for the program is expected in 2017.

“Defiant will use Sikorsky’s proven X2 technology to overcome aircraft design challenges, which will be critical requirements on future vertical lift aircraft,” said Mick Maurer, Sikorsky president. “The Sikorsky-Boeing team’s integrated approach has created a unique blend of expertise, innovative spirit and customer commitment that are unmatched in the industry. The complementary capabilities of each team member have delivered a design that will provide the best future vertical lift solution to the U.S. Army, and the flexibility A2Z METALWORKER •

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The Defiant aircraft will feature counter-rotating rigid main rotor blades for vertical and forward flight, a pusher propeller for highspeed acceleration and deceleration and an advanced fly-by-wire flight control system.

“Our team brings leadership and new ways of thinking to aircraft development,” said Shelley Lavender, president of Boeing Military Aircraft. “As the original equipment manufacturers for both the Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, we bring tremendous technological breadth and depth to the customer. I believe our technical capabilities and experience in development and flight testing of complex rotorcraft systems were a key factor in the customer’s decision.”

To date, Sikorsky and Boeing collectively have delivered more than 3,000 helicopters to the Army in support of its challenging missions.

The JMR TD program supports the Department of Defense’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program to deliver the next generation of vertical lift aircraft with greater performance, reliability and affordability. The Defiant aircraft packages evolutionary technologies in a new, innovative and affordable design that flies faster, farther and with more payload.

The JMR TD Program offers Sikorsky and Boeing the opportunity to partner with the U.S. Government in demonstrating the maturity of advanced and enabling future vertical lift technologies. Sikorsky and Boeing formed their JMR team in January 2013, and each company has invested significantly in the program.

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Manpower: Denver and Colorado employers have strong Q4 hiring plans Employers in Denver and Colorado expect to hire at a brisk pace during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released last month.

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From October to December, 21 percent of the metro Denver companies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 28 percent of employers statewide plan to make more hires.

Only 8 percent of metro Denver employers plan to reduce staff in the fourth quarter; 7 percent of employers statewide plan to cut staff, Manpower found.

Taking the percentage of employers planning to hire and subtracting those who plan to make staff cuts yields a net employment outlook of 17 percent for the state and 13 percent for metro Denver.

“According to employers, job prospects [in Denver] are expected to decline compared to quarter three when the Net Employment Outlook was 18 percent,” said Sunny Ackerman, Manpower spokeswoman.

“Compared to one year ago when the net employment outlook was 8 percent, local employers expect a brighter hiring forecast.”

For the coming quarter, job prospects in metro Denver appear best in: Construction; durable goods manufacturing; Transportation and utilities; Wholesale and retail trade; Information; Financial activities; Education and health; and Services and leisure/hospitality Nationwide, 19 percent of the more than 18,000 employers surveyed expect to hire more employees in the fourth quarter, while 7 percent expect a decline in their payrolls.

The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey is conducted quarterly to measure employers’ intentions to increase or decrease the number of employees in their workforces during the next quarter. Source: Denver Business Journal

2 companies apparently chosen by U.S. Army for Joint Multi-Role program The U.S. Army has apparently chosen Sikorsky-Boeing and Bell Helicopter Textron for government-funded Joint Multi-Role program technology demonstrations set to begin in 2017.

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This year’s show, to be held at the Georgia serviceand engineers the machine Aleksandrov, who is a graduate of Spokane Community College’s World Congress Center in Atlanta on Nov. 11-13, 2014, is expected to tool dealer theyElectrical were both working Automation and Maintenance program. bring together an anticipated 27,000 attendees andbusiness, 1,400 exhibiting at to start up an independent machine service which they companies. called R&C Service Solutions.

The 2 owners of this new business entity Lambie Engineering invests in training and in cutting edge design were Ray Beauregard Jr. and Cornel Loghin. software to continuously improve its ability to provide innovative “The record attendance we expect at FABTECH 2014 in Atlanta insolutions for its customers. dicates the manufacturing sector U.S. today is by strong and R&C that Services was so successful thatinitthe was purchased a national growing,” said John Catalano, show co-manager at SME. “With more company in 2012, when it was just 7 years old. jobs to fill, Engineering, manufacturing employers looking for new sources Lambie LLC, 3020 are N. Sullivan Rd, Suite A of talent while, at the same time, many former members of our armed Things just changed for the two partners when they bought Spokane Valley, WA 99216, www.lambieengineering.com their forces are looking forrenamed work.

Weit868-3100 are pleased toRay support for business back, and CNC PROS. says,Workshops “The acquisition 509 Warriors at FABTECH this year, an organization that combines these by a national company was good for our business, but it didn’t allow

efforts and gives American veterans the skills U.S. manufacturing employers need.”

At no cost to veterans,Workshops for Warriors provides a program of industry-leading training, nationally recognized, and portable credentials.

In addition, the organization offers valuable work experience and assists with job placement.

Workshops for Warriors has a 100% placement rate for graduates.

“Veterans need and deserve our support as they transition back to civilian life,” said Ana Cláudia Guedes, Executive Vice President at Workshops for Warriors. “What we’ve found is that veterans are an excellent fit for careers in advanced manufacturing because they are self-starters by nature who are driven to succeed and trained to problem-solve. For many, the ability to work with their hands is also a selling point. By providing these veterans with industry-leading training and credentials, we are able to help them into life-sustaining careers that can rebuild American manufacturing.

It’s a win-win.”

Guedes continued, “Workshops for Warriors does not receive any government funding so the support of FABTECH and the advanced manufacturing industry is absolutely instrumental to our continued success. We are honored to be the beneficiary of this year’s FABTECH Expo.”

“One of the great features of FABTECH is the sense of community that exists among attendees who have a common interest in promoting the future of American manufacturing,” said Mark Hoper, show co-manager at Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International. “This year’s FABTECH Expo Cares campaign is an extension of that community, offering a unique opportunity to support American veterans and our manufacturing sector here at home.

Workshops for Warriors has a waiting list of hundreds of veterans who are hoping to enroll in classes.Together, our donations will expand their ability to meet the demand.”

The FABTECH Expo Cares charity campaign was first launched in Chicago during the 2013 show after a series of deadly storms devastated the city ofWashington, IL and other areas of the state. The campaign exceeded its goal, raising more than $21,000 from the manufacturing community for the storm victims.

FABTECH has set up an online donation page

ORLANDO - PHOENIX - CHICAGO - DALLAS NEW ARIZONA OFFICE

ReSell CNC is proud to announce the opening of our new west coast office in Phoenix, Arizona and welcomes Mike Mills, a 22 year veteran of the CNC industry to our team.

ReSell CNC West 15010 N. 78th Way, #103 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 1-844-478-8181 www.resellcnc.com

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1-844-478-8181 www.resellcnc.com through the secure online fundraising site CrowdRise. The link to the donation page is www. fabtechexpo.com/fabtechexpocares. The FABTECH show partners have set a minimum $20,000 fundraising goal and encourage all exhibitors and attendees to contribute. Donations to Workshops for Warriors through CrowdRise are 100% tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donors will automatically receive an email receipt that meets IRS requirements.

The five FABTECH co-sponsors represent a wide variety of expertise and include: SME, the American Welding Society (AWS), the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA), the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), and the Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI).

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Announces World Class Thread Rolling Capabilities You Cannot Find Elsewhere The Ron Grob Team Announcing some exciting news!

If your products have round components, range in diameter from 1/16” to 5”, length from 1/16” to 30”, and require very tight tolerances, you will absolutely want to contact the Ron Grob Company.

The company, based in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, is proud to announce its newest machine tool purchase.This exciting new addition is a custom built thread rolling machine, manufactured to specification by the US manufacturer Tesker, headquartered in Wisconsin. Harold Huffaker, VP and General Manager of the Ron Grob Company, says, “Our Tesker machine took 9 months to manufacture, and it incorporated some new features that can only be found on our machine, so we have the most advanced machine in the world.”

The Tesker 645 thread roller is impressive to see. At 22,000 pounds, with 235,000 psi (pounds/square inch) of power, it’s Siemens control is custom modified by Tesker. Harold says the machine took only 2 days to install, and Kyle Ranous, who attended the one-week training session at Tesker’s headquarters, says, “It was easy to learn how to use this new state of the art machine, it was just so intuitive.”

Though the machine has only been on Rob Grob’s shop floor for just over a month, production has greatly improved. Harold says that the Tesker uses cold forming to make the threads (versus cut threads, which is the traditional methodology), and in essence

uses positive material displacement. Cold (thread) forming results in threads that are 30% stronger than cut threads, which is ideal for industries that require lead screws and worm screws, Harold says. He adds that it is the machine of choice for larger parts.

Ron Grob’s customers are already seeing the benefits of the Tesker thread rolling machine. Prior to receiving parts threaded on the new Tesker, one customer was prematurely wearing out the punches they used to stamp aluminum cans.When Ron Grob manufactured the punches using the new technology, it doubled the life of the customer’s punches.

Ron Grob is quite an extraordinary company, both in its history and in its future. Knowledge of both is essential to understanding the company.

Ron Grob’s History The man behind the name, Ron Grob, is a degreed mechanical engineer whose hands on experience came from years working for his Father, Ted Grob and at Hewlett Packard. He founded the company 49 years ago and has paved the way for the success of the company today. One of Ron Grob’s earliest machines was a Grob RM-28x thread roller. The Grob machine name isn’t a coincidence, as Ron’s ancestors hold numerous patents for their Grob thread rolling machines.

Since it’s inception, Ron Grob built its reputation as a job shop that excelled in thread rolling and centerless grinding.

In the early 1990s the company expanded its capabilities to include CNC Swiss screw machining and CNC vertical machining. As the shop continued to expand, it quickly earned a positive reputation in the Front Range as a one-stop shop.The Ron Grob Company became the premier manufacturer of complex parts that other shops have trouble producing consistently well.

Even after diversifying into machining in the 1990s, Harold says the company retains its reputation for its early core competencies, yet there are still people who don’t know how much Ron Grob can do for them across all areas of machining.

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Nearly a decade ago, in 2005, Ron welcomed Harold Huffaker to the team. Harold had left Woodward Governor, where he had spent 20 years as a machinist and subsequently machine shop supervisor. Harold’s time at Woodward made a substantial impact on him both personally and professionally. He continues to express his gratitude for the mentorship and financial support he received which allowed him to earn his business degree.

Although, in the end, Harold realized that he really wanted to be part of a small company for the next chapter of his life.

Harold started with Ron Grob as a centerless grinder operator and Ron

quickly realized that Harold had the talent, attitude, and education to contribute much more to the Ron Grob Company. Harold soon moved into the quality department, and was instrumental in the company’s certification to ISO 9001 in 2006. The company has since certified to ISO 9001:2008.

joined the company in March as Human Resources Manager and also oversees accounting functions. Harold admits that it is not unusual for the management team to be found in the conference room (“war room”) at 8 pm on any given work evening, where detailed company objectives and tasks are displayed and discussed.

It is readily apparent that passion is a necessary ingredient to become a management team member at the new Ron Grob Company.

Harold admits the Ron Grob team is phenomenal. They are collectively juggling daily operations and fostering a profit, all while simultaneously driving the Ron Grob Company to the next level of precision machining.

After several promotions, from Quality Manager to General Manager to Vice President/Stockholder, in 2010 Ron and Harold put together a formal succession plan for the Ron Grob Company.

The management team recognizes that success would not be possible without the expertise of their skilled machinists. Even with the addition of new technology, the company’s greatest asset is its people. One of the company’s core values is to not be just a good place to work, but a great place to work.

To learn more about how the Ron Grob Company can help your business, contact them at 970-667-5320 or visit their website at rongrob.com.

Today Ron is 75 years of age, Harold and Kyle at the Tesker Thread and he is anxious to pursue his Rolling Machine Hear From A Couple of Ron Grob’s Customers hobbies, especially skiing and flying his plane. After several years of preparation, this transaction will “Ron Grob has been a supplier of ours for more than 5 years now. soon be complete and Harold will be sole owner of the Ron Grob Company.

They do a lot of rolled and turned components for us, and I have to say they are one of the very best in the Denver area.

Welcome To The New Ron Grob Harold is a gifted machinist. He says he got ‘the bug’ when he was 15, when he was given the opportunity to work at Schaal Brothers Machine, a shop owned by friends he met through church. But he isn’t just great at machining; he also understands the complexity of managing a business. He values the business degree he earned years ago and how it has enabled him to understand business fundamentals.

They are very competitive in their pricing for our centerless grinding and rolled products, their lead times are good (what you would expect), and they are outstanding at communicating when there are any issues. I wish more shops were as good in their communication. I highly recommend Ron Grob.”

Joel, Industrial Equipment Manufacturer

Four years ago Harold hired a business coach, one who would develop an individualized leadership training program specific to Ron Grob and Harold’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT), much like many hire a personal trainer when they want to get into shape athletically.

“We have been working with the team at Ron Grob for more than 5 years, and they are indeed a premier grinding shop.

Harold says, “I continue to utilize Laurie Taylor at igniteyourbiz.com, as my business coach, and I have extended her reach to coaching the entire management team at Ron Grob.”

What I value most is their versatility, their ability and willingness to go the extra mile. They are truly an organizaiton with the highest standards and integrity!”

Katherine, Precision Manufacturing Company

Part of the Ron Grob strategy was to diversify the customer base, both in industries served and in number of customers. “Today, we have jobs from 50 different customers on the shop floor on any given day and this includes customers large and small.” He continued, “We build parts for companies in the medical, water management, firearms, military, as well as the gas and oil industries.”The Ron Grob Company has found that these particular industries benefit greatly from the services they provide.

The new Ron Grob Company required a management team that was in sync with the upward direction the business was heading in. Key team management members Dave Maxwell, who oversees quality and quoting, and Tara Martin, Controller and Production Coordinator, act as Harold’s right and left hands.Amanda Smith, newest member of the management team,

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Total hiring “jumped 81,000 to 4.87 million, the highest level” since the recession began in 2007, meaning “companies are more likely to fill their open jobs.” The numbers indicate “the job market is making progress” despite last week’s report.

Niobium Based Alloy, C-103, Commonly Used for Aerospace Applications, is Successfully 3D Printed With, by MTI Space travel and 3D printing are two technologies, which up until a couple of years ago, were rarely ever mentioned in the same sentence. Now it seems that NASA as well as SpaceX are all Niobium over the new method of digital mti-1fabrication, called 3D printing/additive manufacturing. Whether it’s NASA who is taking the first 3D printer to Space later this year, or Elon Musk’s SpaceX who is using an additive manufacturing process to fabricate several crucial parts of their new engine thrusters, 3D printing is now a major player within current and future space missions.

As both public and private research expands into the uses of additive manufacturing in space, one of the main objectives will be to find and produce new metal-alloy materials which are capable of withstanding the harsh environments outside the Earth’s friendly atmosphere, while also remaining cost effective and light-weight. Both NASA and SpaceX

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As we move forward into further applications of 3D printing within the aerospace industry, new materials will begin to be adapted to function in a powder form, with laser sintering machines. This is already beginning to occur.

Metal Technology (MTI), a company with a long history of manufacturing metal components and parts for space applications, has recently announced that they have successfully 3D printed test coupons out of a metal alloy known as C-103. C-103 is a Niobium based alloy which is widely used is aerospace applications because of its incredible heat resistance, as well as its light-weight, cost, reliability, and ability to stand up to intense vibrations and cryogenic temperatures. It was actually first used in space decades ago by NASA, within the Apollo command module.

“This project began in January, 2014 when we decided to pursue additive manufacturing as an additional capability to our operations. It’s a natural evolution of our work with C-103, to provide customers quicker delivery and more complex geometries,” said Steve Smith, MTI’s Director of Sales & Marketing.

The exact composition of C-103, excluding the main element of Niobium is as follows: Hafnium: 10.0% Titanium: 0.7%-1.3% Zirconium: 0.7% Tantalum: 0.5% Tungsten: 0.5% The alloy has a melting point of 4260 ± 90ºF, and a density of 0.320 lbs./cubic inch, making it ideal for use in space, as well as for components used within super-heated

thrusters, and rocket engines.

MTI powdered C-103 could open up doors for the company within the manufacturing chain, particularly in supplying parts to other companies such as Aerojet Rocketdyne, ATK, Boeing, European Space Agency, Honeywell, JAXA, Lockheed Martin, Moog, NASA, Orbital Sciences, Pratt &Whitney, Sierra Nevada Corp., SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, UTC Aerospace and others.

For those who were wondering, the sintering of this powdered alloy was accomplished on a 3D Systems’ ProX 300. Let’s hear your thoughts on this new method of printing an alloy, which has many far reaching uses within the aerospace industry, in the C-103 Niobium 3D printing forum thread on 3DPB.com.

Tesla May Pair With Toyota On Another Project, Says Elon Musk Bloomberg News reports that Elon Musk indicated to reporters recently that the company may form another partnership with Toyota Motor Corp. A spokesman from Toyota declined to comment on Musk’s remarks, but the comments come after both companies recently paired up on the RAV4 EV, which had “mixed results.”

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The accelerating momentum in plastics machinery demand that emerged in the second half of 2013 was sustained through the first half of this year, according to statistics compiled and reported by the Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association.

Shipments of primary plastics equipment (injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and thermoforming equipment) for reporting companies totaled an estimated $299.3 million in Q2. This was slightly below the strong total of $300.3 million in Q1 of this year, but it represented a gain of 10 percent when compared with the total from Q2 of 2013. For the year to date, the total value of primary equipment shipments is 10 percent ahead of last year.

A closer look at the CES data show that the shipments value of injection molding machinery increased 9 percent in Q2 of 2014 when compared with the total from Q2 of last year. The shipments value of single-screw extruders slipped 2 percent, but the value of shipments of twin-screw extruders (which includes both co-rotating and counter-rotating machines) jumped 63 percent.The shipments value for blow molding machines edged down 2 percent in Q2.

The CES also compiles data on the auxiliary equipment segment (robotics, temperature control, materials handling, etc.) of the plastics machinery industry. New bookings of auxiliary equipment for reporting companies totaled a record-breaking $108.0 million in Q2.

This represented a spike upward of 21 percent when compared with the total from Q2 of 2013.

This solid gain in the CES data on plastics machinery shipments corresponds with the gains in the two major data series compiled by the

U.S. government that measure activity levels in the industrial machinery sector.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, business investment in industrial equipment rose by 13 percent (seasonally-adjusted, annualized rate) in Q2 when compared with Q2 of 2013.

The other important machinery market indicator, compiled by the Census Bureau, showed that the total value of shipments of industrial machinery jumped 35 percent in Q2.

“The manufacturers of plastics machinery that anticipated strong demand and then allocated resources accordingly are being richly rewarded for their efforts in 2014, especially in North America,” according to Bill Wood, the plastics market economist who analyzes and reports on the plastics machinery market sector for the CES. “Those companies that hired new workers, increased production capacity, invested in inventories, or all of the above are reaping large returns on those investments this year. As I said before, we are entering the sweet spot of the capital expenditure cycle. It is a good time for plastics manufacturing in the U.S.,” said Wood.

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There is a solid consensus that North America is the global region where the strongest gains are expected. Expectations for Latin AmerDrones could revolutionize farming, experts ica and Mexico declined when compared with the responses from say last quarter. Expectations for Asia and Europe improved. As for the major end-markets, the respondents to the Q2 survey expect that automotive and medical will remain strong in terms of demand for Once they have clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration, plastics products and equipment. Expectations for the other major drones could aid farmers in a way that dramatically improves how end-markets call for mostly steady conditions in the coming year. crops are grown, drone experts predict. “I think it’s going to change agriculture as we know it in North America,” said Scott Shearer, a professor at Ohio State University and an expert in precision agriFounded in 1937, SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association proculture. “It’s definitely going to allow producers to become much motes growth in the $373 billion U.S. plastics industry. Representing more efficient.” nearly 900,000 American workers in the third largest U.S. manuISO 9001 & AS 9100

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April 2018, the Defense Department said Singapore tapsEmerging Honeywell for CH-47SD health available, as it is in through the United States.

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Future Of General Aviation Aircrafthealth and usage monitoring The Singapore air force has tapped Honeywell’s system “All of these factors have many analysts predicting the wide spread

(HUMS) for its Boeing CH-47SD Chinook helicopter fleet.

Boeing throughout won a $2.1general billion aviation,” contract in February to adoption of diesel engines Schaeffer said.

With several major aircraft and engine manufacturers announcing build the first batch fuel of 16 P-8A Poseidon long“Some are even suggesting the increased efficiency and lead-free “Our HUMS technology provide [Republic Air Force] operators with the development of newwill diesel aircraft engines,oftheSingapore general aviation range maritime spy planes for the Navy, which emissions information that’sUS needed to keep fleet safe and diesel efficient,” says Mark Burgess, seniorfrom new diesel engines may be the biggest change in light industry in the appears to betheir entering a new evolution came on top of $300 million in funds awarded aircraft engines in many years.” director, Defense and Space, Asia Pacific, Aerospace. phase, said Allen Schaeffer, Executive of theHoneywell Diesel Technology Forum. earlier for certain materials that take longer to

Engines Already Power Other Transportation Sectors procure, suchAll as titanium.

“The operational efficiencies of this will increaselike aircraft safety andDiesel availability, In just the past month, aircraft andtechnology engine manufacturers Cessna, while reducing maintenance man-hours and Aircraft, parts costLycoming for the military Continental Motors, American Champion and branch.”

“Today, diesel technology powers based the most spectrum of The aircraft, on diverse Boeing’s 737-800 DeltaHawk Engines have announced new diesels for general aviation equipment from the world’s construction Honeywell adds that it provides HUMS for Singapore’s fleet of AH-64D Apache attack rangingcommercial aircraft,largest will replace the U.S.machinNavy’s aircraft in the U.S.,itSchaeffer said.same support infrastructure as the CH-47Ds. ery, passenger andP-3 racespycars, cruise and cargo ships,inagricultural helicopters, which says uses the planes, which have been service for equipment, trucksmore and than buses, and even submarines,” Schaeffer 40 years.

“Having major aircraft and engine manufacturers Cessna and HUMS uses sensors to monitor aircraft systems, andlike is intended to enable preventative said. “It’s fitting that diesel technology is now accelerating its adContinental Motors makesays strong commitments to diesel engines is maintenance.

Honeywell the system allows users to fix maintenance issues before into general aviation and even in the use of unmanned vancement Silatronix Has Raised $2.8 Million. a major step in the future expansion of diesel technology in a new they arise. aerial systems (drones). arena,” Schaeffer said.

Madison, WI start-up Silatronix Inc. “is aiming Flightglobal’s Ascend fleets database shows that Singapore operates 16 CH-47SDs and Diesel Light Duty Are Also Increasing U.S. Due to to Sales make lightweight lithium ioninbatteries much 17 AH-64Ds. “The same attributes that have made diesel engines the power behind Higher Fuel Efficiency, Longer Range & Better Performance more efficient and safe. The company has raised virtually all modes of surface transportation now has the potential to Than Gasoline Autos $2.8 million, according to a filing with federal Boeing wins initial deal for 12 more P-8 spy transition the future$296 of the million aviation industry. securities regulators.The funding is part of a planes “It’s interesting thatproposed the new developments in aviation are very simi$4.2 million round Silatronix is trying lar to America’s light duty vehicle market where major automobile “The manufacturers are reporting the new diesel engines have lower to raise. Silatronix “is based on technology Boeing Co has wonand an increased initial contract $296performance million to buy needed for are introducing new clean in the U.S. fuel consumption range worth and better at parts manufacturers developed numerous by chemists at thediesels University of production of 12 more P-8A spy planes, including eight for the U.S. Navy and four for market and the diesel market share is showing steady month-to-month altitude – some very significant improvements that are being welWisconsin-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory the government of Australia, the Pentagon announced recently. growth. And like the aviation industry, makersLLC, and drivers are comed by the general aviation industry.The industry is also facing an in Argonne, Ill., andauto Quallion a Palo Alto, saying diesels popularity is based on the better fuel efficiency, better increased scarcity of 100 low-lead avgas, not only in the U.S., but The contract, which kicks off funding for a second batch of full-rate production jets, runs Calif., battery maker.” range per tank of fuel, and better performance over gasoline vehicles. also in the European and Asian markets, where diesel fuel is readily 50

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Foremaster Tool, in business for 44 years now, continues to see robust business, and they are thankful for their loyal customers. They are diversified in the industries they serve; their parts span the automotive, oil and gas, medical, aerospace and defense, and entertainment industries.Their customers number in the dozens, with some regionally and national well-known entities including; ATK, TD Williamson, Peterson, Kimberly Clark, AutoLiv, and Parker Hannifin, to name a few.

The company’s success is built upon a number of factors, but a few critical points stand out as key factors;

• Longevity of employees - Brian Foremaster, 2nd generation owner of the company, says that approximately 25% of the employees have been with the company for more than 15 years. He says, “They care about the products we make, and it shows.” What is not published in the company’s marketing brochure is some of the reasons employees remain at Foremaster Tool. One company employee applauded the company’s flexibility. He said, “We have people who start work at 5 am, and we have people who come to work each day at 9 am. Brian and the team recognize that employees’ family schedules are key to their lives, and our business can accommodate these different schedules.

Not only is it good for employee retention, it means that we are open more hours for our customers.”

• Communication - As anyone in the industry can attest, shipping complex parts on the dates requested by dozens of customers inevitably means that some dates will slip, particularly when you factor in the number of outside processes that go into completing many parts. Couple this with the fact that, by nature, we avoid conflict, and this means that many shops do not communicate schedule delays to their customers in a timely manner. Lynn Hadley, Process Planner for the company (and 18 years tenure), says, “About A2Z METALWORKER •

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a year ago, we began providing our customers with daily reports on the status of their products. We are continuing to evolve these communication ‘Job Status’ reports, and we are now providing them to 3 of our largest customers.”

He continued, “The feedback we are getting from our customers is that this is a very valuable tool. Not all parts are needed on the date specified on the PO, and we are able to reallocate priorities when customers know what our scheduling looks like.”

• Investment in technology - Brian says that his father, Peter Foremaster, who founded the company, believed in buying new machine tools and believed in buying high quality machine tools. He says, “Peter bought his first machines from Tracy Smith of Smith Machinery.” He continued, “Since I have taken over the business, I continue to purchase from Smith Machinery, now from Tracy’s son Clark Smith.” Brian values the fact that Mazak is manufacturing a many of their machine tools here in the United States, in Florence, Kentucky.

Foremaster Tool Precision Machining’s Entree Into 5 Axis Machining Brian and the team at Foremaster Tool Precision Machining have long wanted to move to the next level in precision machining -- which naturally meant purchasing a 5 axis machining center.

Though they could machine the parts their customers sent to them, they were doing it with 3 and 4 axis machining, using fixturing, and necessarily the part took more set-ups than it would take with 5 axis machining.

Brian says, “A few years ago, the price to procure a high quality 5 axis machining center just wasn’t in our budget.” He continued, “But that changed when Mazak introduced a more budget friendly 5 axis machine. It is the space-saving Vertical Center Universal (VCU) 400 5X vertical machining center with a 5-axis rotary/tilt table that is made in Mazak’s U.S. factory .”

Though Foremaster Tool is a Mazak shop (they do admit they have purchased a few machine tools other than Mazak -- when the Mazak isn’t available in the timeframe or in the features they need), Brian was just a little apprehensive about purchasing such a new product that Mazak offered.

He says, “The VCU-400 5X is an entry level 5-axis machine, and it was new on the market.” He continued, “It hit my price point, but I wanted to be sure it would meet my expectations.” Brian contacted some machine shops on the east coast that were using the machine, and when he heard how satisfied they were, Brian and the team at Foremaster Tool made the decision to buy their first 5 axis machine, the MazakVCU-400 5X. Lynn says that this machine is a space saving machine with a 5-axis rotary/ tilt table.

a high-value solution for those considering simultaneous 5-axis technology for the first time. The machine also handles machining processes on all 5 sides of a part in one set-up to eliminate multiple set-ups, it lowers lead-times and dramatically improves work piece accuracy.

Brian says, “With Smith Machinery, we were able to purchase two Mazak 5 axis machine tools at a price point that worked for our business.” He continued, “We have always prided ourselves on our quality of products, and now we can achieve even better metrics with our 5 axis machine tools.”

A Customer Speaks About Foremaster Tool “We have been using Foremaster Tool for more than 2 decades now. I support my company in the R&D department, and so most of the work I do with them is for prototypes. We do sometimes send production work to them.

We value our relationship with Foremaster for a number of reasons; their pricing is competitive, their quality is outstanding, and their on-time delivery is good.

This past year, they began sending us a daily spreadsheet with all of our projects and the status on the each project. We can then review the schedule of all of our projects real time and move projects around for their schedule, based upon our priorities at the time. This is working so well for us, and they are the only machine shop that has offered this kind of direct/daily communication via a formal system.”

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Lynn says that the Mazak VCU-400 5X VMC resulted in such significant set-up reductions and quality improvements that the company made the decision to purchase their second 5-axis machine just 6 months later.

To learn more about Smith Machinery and their line of precision machine tools, contact them at 801-263-6403 or visit their website at smithmachinetools.com

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BoeingLines: hintsCommercial, at boost in 737 production Blurred Defense Sectors Begin To Blend

S&Pa 500 dropped percentplan, to 2,002.28 at the close in New York. keystone of its0.1business and a look at its catalog makes it clear that will continue. Boeing saw its total company revenue climb Manufacturing Overseas nearly $5 billion from 2012 to 2013. But its defense business has Boeing Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith hinted this week that the fallen from 38.4 percent of total company revenue in 2012 to 36.9 manufacturer may accelerate production of the 737.

Boeing makes 42 As companies continue to turn their eyes toward the Middle East and Asia for The news on manufacturing was less positive overseas. U.K. factory percent in 2013. of the narrowbody jetliner per The month and earlier said itand could new business, a trend has emerged: linesnow, between commercial defense growth slowed more than forecast last month and Italian manufacraise thatare toincreasingly 52 per month. businesses blurring. turing as Europe suffered the fallout weakening demand “Theshrank commercial derivatives market is a realfrom competitive differentiator and mounting geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East, other for us,” Chris Chadwick, president and chief executive officer of All butcontinue one company the top 10 ofdemand,” this year’sSmith Defense 100 — our “We to seeinvery strong saidNews at anTop investors’ reports showed this week.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security, told reporters. annual ranking of the largest global defense firms — saw the percentage of conference. “In particular on the 737, there is more pressure on the their defense or remain 2013.Thales, at No. 9, was the upside, andbusiness we willdecline address that in flat theinmonths to come.”

Source: been dealing with thePentagon fragile European recovery years The company has two major programs — the P-8for maritime only company in the top 10 that saw growth in the percentage of its business “We’ve Reuters now, and we seem to be moving right through it,” Bradley Holcomb, patrol aircraft and KC-46A tanker — which are based on commercial generated by defense. theversions ISM survey saidand in 767 an interview.

There’s a chance the of thechairman, Boeing 737 jetliners, respectively.

Defense-heavy companies, such as US giant Lockheed Martin, which is once U.S. won’t see a “discernible impact,” though if things escalate, that U.S. Manufacturing Grows at Fastest Pace again at the top of the list, are diversifying their businesses. Lockheed is entering could “[W]e’re trying create this track record of success in this area where change, he to said. in Three Years the commercial marketplace in areas such as air traffic management, aviation we bring to bear an improved ‘One Boeing’ approach to servicing our Thecustomers’ median forecast in a Bloomberg surveysaid. of 78 economists was 57 training and simulation, energy, and advanced manufacturing. needs worldwide,” Chadwick Gains in manufacturing boosted the U.S. expansion in August, led for the U.S. ISM index. Estimates ranged from 55 to 58.5. Readings byMaryland-based a surge in orders for plastics and metals that fall powered the world’s The company saw defense revenue more than $4.3 billion greater “It’s going very interesting than to 50beindicate growth. to see how market dynamics play out largest 2012 economy slowdown. between and past 2013,a global however the company’s overall revenue fell only over the next 10 years,” Chadwick said. “I can’t predict the future, but $1.8 billion.

I think market willsurveyed dictate that who can provide Seventeen of 18pressures industries bythe thecompany purchasing managers’ more capability at less led cost,byadapt fromfurniture an innovative The Institute for Supply Management’s index unexpectedly climbed group grew last month, plastics, andperspective metals. and Those who thelevel industry coming, companies bring capability onto current platforms in a very seamless way at the to 59, thewatch highest sinceagree: MarchChange 2011, isfrom July’sand 57.1, beating that don’t react appropriately couldsurvey get leftofbehind. right price, will end up on top at the end of the day.” all forecasts in a Bloomberg economists.The orders gauge ‘Broad-Based’ Gain was the strongest in a decade, the Tempe, Arizona-based group “As a generalization, the defense industry and the defense industrial base Commercial companies are investing “tremendous amounts of money reported recently. gainstarting in manufacturing broad-based,” Holcombcyber, said would be well served by an industry whose structure had more exposure to Theand to encroachwas the “so defense world” in ISM’s areas including conference reporters. commercial markets and commercial technologies than our mostly pure-play on adata analyticscall andwith drones, he said.There is not one particular driver, “it’s just sort of a continuation of the trend that we’ve had since January.”

American factories are benefiting from a rebound in auto sales and [defense] companies that comprise the top tier of the industrial structure today As Lockheed looks to move more into a commercial market, it will stronger business spending on new plants and equipment that are have,” said Steven Grundman, a former Pentagon industrial policy chief now center “around core competencies thattheweboost have istoday,” Hewson said.

Another report today signaled some of probably coming helping industries rise above the political tensions weighing on Euwith the Atlantic Council. from the building industry. Spending on construction projects inrope. Faster wage growth is now needed to sustain the advance and The recent purchase of a company in the cyber infrastructure business Hebroaden warns that the dayspurchases of pure defense firms are endangered. creased 1.8 percent in July, the most since May 2012, led in part by household beyond automobiles. serves as an example. “It lines right up with the cybersecurity work increased work on factories and power facilities.The value of privately “Being a pure-play defense company works great when the defense budget is we are doing,” Hewson said. “It just broadens our portfolio capabilities funded spending on non-residential projects reached a five-year high.

“The manufacturing sector is just rightside now,” saidcoin Brian Jones, growing at 6 to 8 percent a year, butonthefire other of that is that when that we can provide. It opens up new markets for us.” a senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, whose ISM growth stops, you’re fully exposed to a flat market,” Grundman said. “I don’t increase in have the ISM group’s new orders gauge forecast was the highest in healthy the Bloomberg “You’ve got for TheCompanies alsoindex beencame takingas athe commercial approach when think thereatis58.5 as much room in the defense survey. industrial structure climbed to 66.7, the highest since April 2004, and its measure of increased demand for workers, and the more people working, and developing new defense products in anticipation of less government pure-play defense companies as we have today. orders waiting to betypes filledof also advanced. The group’s production the more money they are making, the more money they’ll spend.” funding for these efforts.

The clearest example of the growing link between the defense and commercial gauge rose to the strongest since May 2010.

For example, Textron’s Bell Helicopter has been developing V-280 sides comes, from 500 the largest US aerospace company.

Stocks fell,perhaps after theunsurprisingly, Standard & Poor’s Index had its best month Valor, a tiltrotor it has pitched for the Army’s Black Hawk replacement figures follow data last week that showed the economy expanded since February, as energy sankexploited with the its price of crude.The Boeing, No. 2 on the list, hasproducers increasingly commercial division, Theprogram.

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a 4.2 pace to in the second quarter after “If atyou arepercent going toannualized take a decade develop something, you shrinking are going 2.1 percent in the first three months of the year. to spend a lot more money to develop,” Scott Donnelly chairman, president and CEO of Textron, said in an interview. “I think we can Consumer show that weSpending can do things and get aircraft in the air in two years. We can take it to production at a fraction of the cost.”

Consumer spending, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the economy, started the third quarter soft footing.

Purchases Textron, which saw its defense revenue fallon slightly from $4.29 billion retreated in July for the first time in six months as wages failed to to $4.24 billion in 2013 and is No. 17 on this year’s list, is looking accelerate, a recent report showed.

At the same time, a healing job at projects “in a more commercial sense and not go through long” market could momentum goingheforward: engineering andprovide development program, said. The economy has added more than 200,000 jobs for each of the six months through July.

“Time is money,” Donnelly said. “I cannot afford those budgets. I do not People confidentareingoing theirtoemployment prospects may be think any who of ourare customers have the budgets to go through more willing to take on big purchases such as automobiles.

Cars that process anyway.” and light trucks sold at a 16.4 million pace in July, a slowdown from 16.9 million June that was the fastest rate since mid-2006, figures Preparing forinthe Future from Ward’s Automotive Group show.

In recent years, companies have been preparing for the decline in Gains in business investment help make up for some though of the government defense spending,may restructuring themselves shortfall among households.

New orders for durable goods soared downsizing, facility consolidation and other overhead-cutting measures.

22.6haspercent in July 2.7 percent gaincuts, in June was This softened the after blow aofrevised the defense spending butthat “there’s bigger than to Commerce Departprobably not previously a whole lotestimated, more theyaccording could really do to significantly mentmargins data issued week. boost fromlast here,” said Byron Callan, an analyst with Capital Alpha Partners.

Though the surge was driven by demand for aircraft, bookings for motor vehicles andsaid partsthe alsocompany climbed.has Revised for June Boeing’s Chadwick cut $4data billion overreflected the past improving demand for a broad array of items, including three years with another $2 billion planned in the comingcomputers, years.“It’s electrical difficult.

It’sequipment painful, butand it’smachinery. a necessity, so that we can have that agile cost structure that we have to have to compete over the next decade,” Sales heComputer said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. last month fiscalbusiness third-quarter While the split between defense andreported commercial seems sales to be that topped analysts’ estimates, by improving personal-comtrending toward the latter, it doesfueled not mean commercial business has picked Callan noted. puter up, sales.

“ItCorporate may not necessarily bePCs indicative really lift successful commercial spending on has alsoofhelped the results of other diversification strategies,recently. it’s just that defense because of therevenue Budget technology companies Intel Corp.— in July forecast Control Act and the war-related declines — has been shrinking at a that exceeded analysts’ estimates for the current quarter, while Micfaster pace than some of these commercial businesses,” Callan said. rosoft Corp. said it’s seeing signs of improvement in the PC market.

While many company executives speak of diversifying, some might look “We continue to see customers looking to refresh their aging” comto shrink to become more focused in core business areas.

puters, Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Palo Alto, Califor“Some of the changes to individual companies may also be thinking ahead,” nia-based Hewlett-Packard, said on an Aug. 20 earnings call.

Callan said. “They may be shrinking in size, but they’re shrinking to“We get believe we can gain share in PCs, despite the challenges more focused oncontinue particulartomarkets.” in this market as it consolidates.” Source: Bloomberg Business News On the military side, companies have looked to offset US cuts with international business, particularly in the Middle East and Asia.

Lockheed platform simulates at-sea conditions for C4ISR L-3 Communications, No.systems 11 on the list, which saw its defense business revenue decline $502 million between 2012 and 2013, is in the midst of aLockheed commercialMartin diversification itself. has a test platform that can simulate at-sea conditions L-3 postedsystems double-digit growth its commercial and international forhas C4ISR before theyinare business, Michael Strianese, the New York-based company’s chairman, deployed. president and CEO, said in an interview.

In a recent of the Strianese touteddemonstration the company’s first sale of night-vision equipment to Maritime Test Bed, Lockheed Martin the United Arab Emirates last year. He also applauded the Defense and showed “how theprogress Navy could fuse control reform and reducing State departments’ with export simulated Aegis radar data with other bureaucracy. integrated intelligence, surveillance Speaking about the international market, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor data Chadwick said: “What you’re seeing is thata we’ve got to move from of [being] an exporter to [being] a to provide comprehensive picture global presence more we have news in the past. So, you’re seeing where the battlespace,” saidthan a company we’re investing.

We’re partnering.” release.

“Throughout the scenario, the test bed collected, analyzed and processed the data, then distributed to simulated platforms at sea Decline defense has created interesting bedfellows for the and on in shore.

Thisspending collaborative atmosphere allowed users to operate few major US defense on access the horizon.

Helicopter maker more efficiently, since programs all units had to integrated ISR-related Sikorsky has teamed with Boeing for the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter activities, which in turn improved situational awareness and battle replacement and Boeing has teamed with Sweden-based Saab, managementprogram planning.”

No. 29 on the list, for the Air Force’s new jet trainer.

The test bed can be linked to the Secret Defense Research and Increasing the number of military aircraft based on commercial ones could Engineering Network (SDREN) and the Defense Research and Enhave a trickle down effect into the global maintenance and sustainment gineering Network (DREN). market as well, Chrisman said.

College Ranks Colorado School Of “You can look Factual at commercial opportunities, you can look at vertical operations, you can look at sustainment.School The international sustainment Mines or Best Engineering opportunity for US companies, particularly US [original equipment manufacturers], is something they are considering and ought to be The Denver Post reports that the group College Factual recently considering more.” released a ranking of top engineering schools in the US, noting that the Colorado School of Mines took top honors, eclipsing such noted A plane based on commonly flown aircraft, like a 767, could make schools as MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology. sustainment easier and cheaper, he said.

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Roots of a High-Tech Revolution Chuck Hull, the inventor of the 3-D printer, learned determination growing up on a Colorado farm; strenuous chores and building model planes led to a passion for engineering.

Chuck Hull took six months in 1982 to create a machine that turns computer-generated images into hard objects, like the stools he is pictured with.

Chuck Hull, 75, is co-founder and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the 3-D printer, which recently celebrated its 31st anniversary. He spoke with Marc Myers.

I didn’t know it at the time, but growing up in a remote area of Colorado was perfect training for an inventor.

I was born in Clifton, Colo., in a small, one-story, two-bedroom farmhouse that was down a dirt road from the main highway. As a teen, my days were spent at school or doing farm chores. I was responsible for things like cleaning and digging irrigation ditches, helping with the fall harvest and chopping firewood. When the chores were done, there were lots of things to do, like hunting, fishing and hiking.

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My fondest memories were working on airplane models. I loved the process of laying out all the parts and working meticulously to finish something that would turn out perfectly.

During the early years of World War II, my family had to move to Gateway, about 50 miles away. In Gateway, my father worked in a mill that ground down uranium ore for the government. The first place we lived was in an Army tent that the company provided to new employees. Then we shared a small house with another family. But in 1944, when the mill closed down, all the men who had worked there were drafted into the Army, including my dad, so the rest of the family returned to our Clifton farmhouse. My father suffered a great deal of trauma in the war, and when he returned home in 1945, he had trouble sleeping. But he was vocal about his experiences, which helped him let go of them.

Eventually, my father developed breathing problems from his time at the uranium mill and had difficulty working. Around 1950 he leased the farmland to another farmer, but we continued to live in the house.

By the time I graduated from high school in 1957, I no longer saw myself as a farmer. My teachers encouraged my passion for science and math, and urged me to think about a career in engineering.

When I left for the University of Colorado, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.

In college, I was trained to see problems and find ways to solve them. By the late 1970s, I developed several technical industrial

inventions while working for the DuPont Co. in California. But in 1980, I decided it was time for a change. I took a job at a smaller company that specialized in using ultraviolet light to process tough coatings for tables.

Sometime in 1982, I realized that ultraviolet technology might help speed up the process of turning plastic-part designs into working prototypes. The company was intrigued and gave me a lab where I could work during my off hours. In those days, transforming prototype designs into plastic parts was time consuming. It could take months to go from blueprints to injection moldings.

So I started developing a way to harden acrylic photopolymers faster by exposing them to ultraviolet light.

Within six months I developed an idea for a machine that could turn a design generated on a computer into a hard-plastic prototype in minutes.When a test I ran worked, I immediately called my wife, Anntionette, at home and insisted she come over right away.When Anntionette arrived, I showed her the prototype my machine had created in just 30 minutes—a small blue eyecup used by optometrists. She was amazed and still has that cup. It was the birth of the 3-D printer.

I guess my drive as an inventor came from that farmhouse. Farm life taught me the importance of sticking to something and seeing it through. All of the farmers I knew were self-reliant and never doubted that what they believed was possible if they put their shoulders into it and kept at it. Source:The Wall Street Journal

Nevada Lures Tesla With $1.3 Billion in Tax Breaks Nevada offered Tesla Motors as much as $1.3 billion in tax incentives to build the world’s largest lithium-ion battery plant, a facility that officials said would boost the state’s economy by $100 billion over two decades.

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Follow the Leader- Cascade Systems Technology Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a cutting edge design and contract manufacturing leader and an employee owned company that holds true perfection as their goal with 100% inspection of every assembly they make, every day, all the time.

The company started in Steve Batti’s (President, CEO of CST) house with humble beginnings; Steve’s business started with a dream to build his own product with $5000.00 startup money from Grandma, and 2 rooms in his house converted to cable harness tester work stations, with Steve’s children helping and learning to solder components.

Steve Batti is an electrical engineer and graduated from Purdue University in 1973. He started writing software as a consultant and designed some products that he was going to sell. Steve said, “ I didn’t know how to do marketing, but I designed the products and engineered what I felt was a solution. I really didn’t know how to sell the products but I knew they were needed and that they worked well. I had quit my job at Miles Laboratories to develop the business, but was unable to make it work, and within seven months, I had to find a job. After taking a job at Phillips, I wound up on the team that developed what is now the CD (Compact Disk).”

He continued, “After a few years, Phillips decided to move our development team to Knoxville so, I decided to move on and got a job at Arrow Electronics first as outside sales, and then later, in a few months as an applications engineer.

There, I learned how to sell. That was kind of a trial by fire; I was thrown in the field and told to sell. Previously, as a bench engineer, I had no experience at selling or, how to network so I was really out of my comfort zone. I learned to sell by asking questions and asking potential customers what they needed help with. I then worked hard to come up with solutions.”

While working for Arrow, Steve spent evenings and weekends designing products that went into pizza ovens and other food products. Steve designed great ideas and then the customer asked who was going to make it for them. That’s how Steve got into business. Steve said, “I moved from my house business setting in Indianapolis into A2Z METALWORKER •

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a real building where I had to buy real equipment to build production. In 1989 our Indiana based company branched out to build an Oregon facility with the profits from the Indianapolis facility.”

Both companies eventually were sold in 1994 and Steve stayed on as division president and ran the Oregon branch from Indianapolis. In 1996 he bought back the Hillsboro, OR operation and moved to Oregon full time. He says, “It was a great move and I always wanted to live in Oregon.”

Mary Lou, (CST General Manager) had been running production at the Oregon facility since 1991. While running production, getting new accounts and keeping accounts from the inside, quoting, and supporting the customers, she took care of purchasing, and wore most of the company hats. Mary Lou says, “In those days we all just did what ever we had to and made it work. We have really grown and we continue to grow and growth means hiring quality employees to handle jobs we all used to do when we were a smaller company. We are very proud of what our team has built.”

Steve said, “Most times an entrepreneur is a great visionary but he or she is often terrible at things that are happening right now, multitasking, and being in the trenches. Most entrepreneurs cannot be both of those people. Mary Lou was instrumental in growing this company from that side because I could not do it and I still can’t do it.”

Mary Lou, agreed and said, “Steve’s the future, and I’m the ship it now person.”

Steve goes out to the customer and works with the engineering teams and Mary Lou runs the day-to-day operation from inside the business. Today Mary Lou has recruited help for various functions like purchasing, and production so that she can focus on the growing business.

Julie Moore (Field Sales Manager) came

on board to become an integral team member of CST 8 years ago. Julie says, “When I came to Cascade Systems I was given such a great opportunity to get hands on manufacturing training. I came from distribution sales and I did not have the manufacturing knowledge Steve and Mary Lou have, so it was wonderful to get my hands dirty so to speak and learn. I was taught by the best and I truly mean that.

Steve is a genius with many patents under his belt and Mary Lou is amazing, she has literally run this company single handedly in time past doing many of the jobs we have recently filled with talented people Mary Lou has hired. I am proud to be a member of this great team.”

Steve continued, “CST is a leading edge technology company.We invest heavily into cutting edge technology and we really welcome projects that are very difficult.We listen to what the customer needs and where they are going and we will design a solution, prove the solution, and even design a testing system and procedure to propel them into a successful production mode. This adds new vertical markets for us and still allows us to maintain all of our core competencies.We are very diverse and we work with our customers to pioneer new directions and we rise to the occasion by developing new, high tech alternatives, like nanotechnology for example.”

With electronics packages getting smaller and smaller, CST’s machinery is very versatile and flexible and they can handle all size technologies from micro to large, from hard to near impossible. CST loves to rise to the challenge.

Steve says, “As long as you stay in your comfort zone you don’t learn anything new and you don’t grow or hone your skills.”

Another example of CST’s company model of pushing themselves to the next level is evidenced in their early history where the company was making through-hole technology PC boards (a standard type of printed circuit board at the time) for one of their customers.

In the mid 80’s Steve and his team saw the next wave of technology on the horizon, (SMT) surface mount technology. SMT assembly was easier to automate, faster, a much smaller package, and a very cost effective way to produce printed circuit board assemblies. They invested time and money into re-designing their customer’s through-hole PCB’s to SMT boards and

started production very soon after their re-design as a state of the art surface mount device manufacturer.

Part of the message is value; the CST Team takes the customers’ design, R&D, fixturing, testing, and shipping over as the customer’s partner. They take products from conception to the delivered, tested, boxed and shipped assembly direct to the customer’s customer.

People like working at CST and are proud to help their customers be successful. CST is an employee owned company (an ESOP company) and this team owned company has one goal with their concerted effort, to make their customers successful, period.

To meet this goal of helping their customers the CST Team is highly trained, both internally with a designated company mentor and education through classroom time. All employees live and breathe quality manufacturing electronics training through IPC-A-610, a world class training specification. IPC (originally known as the Institute for Printed Circuits) is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a standards developing organization and is known globally for its standards.

It publishes the most widely used acceptability standards in the electronics industry.

Quality is generally maintained with a degree of control. CST turns up the heat of quality by maintaining document control throughout the company with read only monitors at every workstation. Practical process improvement is lived and is a CST motto. There is no substitute for quality. A company can be the best at delivery, and a fair market price is always sought after. But, if you lack quality everything else is for naught.

CST lives in quality.

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is not ridged. If a customer doesn’t fit the company mold CST doesn’t say, sorry we don’t do that or our business model doesn’t support this. Instead, CST asks, “what can we do to help make your company be successful?” From customer managed inventory to packaging solutions, CST is there to help.

Ultimately CST is their customers’ partner, their business extension, and an integral part of the customer’s team! Mary Lou, said, “If it’s easier for our customers to do business by us taking over their purchasing, inventory, shipping, or any facet of their business we step up to the challenge and take it on. Ultimately we make it easy for our customers to do business.”

Steve says that at CST every customer is issued a program manager to take care of every detail that the customer might need from start to finish, complete customer care.

He continued, “We are very flexible and we follow through! We are innovative and we are looking at that next market trend for our customers. Stay on the cutting edge of technology and know what your customers are going to want in the near future so you can be there first for them and by so doing we create great jobs for our employees.”

Hear What A Few Of CST’s Customers Have To Say About Their Great Service “CST provides our company with high quality product and great customer service. Their quoted lead times are consistently reliable.

They can be depended on for providing product inside of lead time when we experience spikes in demand.”

- Buyer-Planner, From A Life Technologies Company In WA “Mary Lou and her team have consistently exceeded expectations. Over the years, I have taken them some complex, innovative technologies along with unrealistic timelines and they always came through.

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assembly and modifications, nothing fazes them and they always supported us with professionalism and an attention to detail.You simply cannot do better at what they do.”

- Product Engineer, From A Major US Semi-Conductor Company “The integrity and quality of people that make Cascade what it is are exceptional in my experience. Steve Batti and Mary Lou Parker are an asset to the entire industry.

I can not say enough good about the people that make Cascade Systems what it is. From the top management to the technicians involved there they all have a sense of ownership and pride in what they do.

I love working with them.”

- A Business Professional At A Major Diagnostic Company Cascade Systems Technology enjoys what they do, the pure satisfaction of a job very well done, for every customer.

The bright horizon for the future brings a new larger site to support their growing number of customers, new technologically advanced machines, and higher certification to support aerospace customers. CST is in process of becoming ISO certified for their engineering department and AS9100 Rev C certified for the entire manufacturing facility.

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Jonathan Levine, who pointed out the straight monthly gain. It is also the index’s highest reading since September 2007. sion: NFIB said in technical and bureaucratic obstacles its release, “This is one of the best readings since mid-2007, with the exception of a few months The tools and experiments include the first 3D printer for space operations, • The space station looks which prevent widespread construction in early 2012 when the economy made an attempt to pick up the pace of economic growth.”

NASA’s ISS-RapidScat environment package, a group of Earth science ISS-RapidScat of solar roads.

Still, NFIB warned that the index remains well below where it should be this homeward. far into a recovery. experiments from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space is the first scientific Earth-observing instrument specifically designed and (CASIS) and fruit flies. CASIS manages the research onboard the ISS. developed to mount on the exterior of theto International Station.

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This includes geopolitical events, a cautious consumer and labor shortages, among other concerns. Still, it is nice to see the sector hitting on all cylinders, and the outlook for strong growth over the coming months remains positive.”

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The tax treatment of the financing arrangement is an important consideration in choosing between a lease and a loan. A loan provides you with the depreciation tax benefit; with a lease, the lessor owns the equipment and realizes the tax benefit, which is usually reflected in a lower monthly rent payment for your business as well as the ability to expense the payment. In many instances, if your business cannot use the tax benefit, it makes more sense to lease than to purchase through a loan because you can trade the depreciation to the lessor in exchange for better cash flow.

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The plans are detailed in a story by the Wyoming Business Journal.

Magpul, angry over new gun laws that included a ban on ammunition magazines larger than 15 rounds, decided to move its corporate headquarters to Texas. Initially the company planned to build a manufacturing plant in Cheyenne.

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Utah Company Gets Grant From DOE For Fuel Cell Research The Salt Lake (UT) Tribune reports Materials & Systems Research, Inc. “has received $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for fuel-cell technological research.”

Materials & Systems Research’s “research program is one of 13 that will split $33 million the Energy Department has made available to develop ‘cost-effective, intermediate-temperature fuel cell technologies to improve grid stability and enable integration of renewable energy into the system.’”The company “is in a three-year, $2.8 million project to develop low-cost fuel cell technologies.”

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US Solar Industry Booming In 2014 The National Journal reports “the U.S. solar market hit a major milestone in the second quarter of this year with more than half a million homes and businesses now generating solar energy.” GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) Q2 2014 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report says “the U.S. installed 1,133 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the second quarter of this year.”

The commercial and residential “segments accounted for nearly half of all solar PV installations in the quarter.” The article notes “the residential market has seen the most consistent growth of any segment for years, and its momentum shows no signs of slowing down.”

Across the US “cumulative PV and concentrating solar power (CSP) operating capacity has reached nearly 16 gigawatts (GW), enough to power more than 3.2 million homes.”

Machine Tool Business Gears Up Makers of factory-floor equipment predict an upswing in U.S. demand next year on an improving U.S. economy and rising sales of cars, appliances and jets, all requiring metal cutting and shaping machinery.

Machine shop operators crowded the floor this week at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, which drew an estimated 110,000 visitors through the 4th day of the show. Many were collecting price sheets and quotes in a sign a recent downturn may be grinding to an end.

“I’d like to get something going by the end of the year,” said James Martin, owner of Martin Sheet Metal Inc. in Cleveland, who was looking for robotic painting and welding equipment to make cabs for forklift trucks.

John Johnston, owner of Electro-Way Co. in Fraser, Mich., said he

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Mr. Johnston said his business has been booming recently from industrial customers that use Electro-Way to bore holes in very small metal parts.

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“There’s a need [for equipment] out there,” he said while taking a break from customer meetings at the show. DMG Mori Seiki supplies metal cutting machines for auto makers and others. A shortage of capacity at some larger machining companies has them shipping work to smaller shops, boosting the need for machinery, he said.

Brian Papke, president of Mazak Corp., the U.S. arm of Japan’s Yamazaki Mazak Corp., another machinery maker, is preparing for a rebound. Mazak is expanding its factory in Florence, Ky., to about 800,000 square feet from 600,000, a $40 million project. “We’re great believers in manufacturing in North America,” Mr. Papke said.

Equipment makers entered the year expecting a rebound after a 5.4% order drop in 2013 in the about $5 billion a year U.S.

business. The severe cold early in the year helped extend the slump. Through July 31, U.S. orders for machine tools and related equipment used to cut and transform metals and other raw materials were down 2.3% from a year earlier, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology, a trade group.

In part, industry executives cite jitters over the sustainability of the economic upturn for some of the past reluctance to invest. Some U.S. manufacturers remain nervous about prospects for the economy, and others are shopping for used machinery to hold down costs, they said.

Gretchen Zierick, president of Zierick Manufacturing Corp., a family-owned maker of electronic connectors in Mount Kisco, N.Y., with annual sales of more than $10 million, said she is hesitant to invest heavily in equipment because she thinks a sluggish economy won’t lead to much demand growth. She also finds turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East unsettling. “Every day there is something new,” she said. “None of it is good.”

Ms. Zierick may buy a used metal-cutting machine instead of a new model, which would cost around $250,000.

Gardner Research says its surveys of metalworking equipment buyers indicate spending may jump 37% next year to the highest level in seven years.

The resurgence will be led by automotive, aerospace, pump- and plumbing-products makers and industrial motors, said Steven Kline Jr. , director of market intelligence for

Gardner. Based on past patterns, the market is likely to hit a cyclical peak in 2015 or 2016 and then weaken again, Mr. Kline said.

Herb Miller, owner of Miller Machine Inc., is expecting to purchase computer-controlled metalworking equipment for his shop in Scales Mound, Ill. “We’re looking to buy this year,” he said. “We’ve already selected one or two models and we’re comparing features and prices.”

Doug Conrad, co-owner of Metal Technologies Inc. in Bloomfield, Ind., said his company has already purchased 20 Makino-brand machining centers this year, raising the company’s total by about 30%. Metal Technologies, which employs 270 people in its machining operation, specializes in cutting and shaping aluminum. As the automotive industry switches to lighter-weight aluminum from steel, Metal Technologies is busy machining engine blocks, cylinder heads and other cast aluminum components used by auto makers.

“We’ve been at it since the mid-1990s and this is the biggest growth spurt we’ve seen,” he said. Source:Wall Street Journal

3-D Printer Headed To Space Station For Testing In Zero-Gravity The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports SpaceX will be transporting a 3-D printer to space in the hopes that astronauts will be able to print replacement parts during extended space missions.The printer headed to the station has been modified to function in zero-gravity and is the brain child of Made in Space, the company behind the project.

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During the worst of the Great Recession, U.S. factory jobs were disappearing at a furious pace.As 2007 began, about 14 million Americans were working in manufacturing. Three years and one frightful recession later, only 11.5 million were. But since 2010, employment has been ticking back up, with companies adding about 400,000 jobs.

One reason for at least a small portion of that growth: the return of factory work from overseas. Experts say it’s difficult to accurately measure the number of jobs tied to work returning from other countries, but some employers say they know it is happening. Reversing A Herd Mentality Howard Hauser, a vice president with Hiawatha Rubber Co., says for a long time, manufacturers followed a herd mentality of sending work offshore. They all wanted components produced in low-wage, emerging markets like China. “They were looking at the piece price.

And it looked like, ’We’re going to save a lot of money,’” he said. “But the bottom line was they didn’t save nearly as much as they thought. And with the quality issues, they’re just not getting product that’s acceptable for the customer.”

Now Hiawatha, based outside Minneapolis, is getting those contracts. And Hauser has himself decided to “reshore” production of a component that was being made in China. The move will result in three new hires at his plant. He says the part was not difficult to make, but the Chinese factory kept botching the job. He says Hiawatha, which makes rubber components for equipment such as printers and pumps, can do it better.

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Micro 100 _________ 208-888-7310 Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Chucks Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Cleanroom Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Shop Tools, Inc. ______ 303-375-9190 CNC Collet Chucks Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 CNC Lathe Accessories Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 CNC Spindle Liners Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Collet Fixtures Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Coolant Systems AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095 DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. Since 1946

Fluid Power / Mechanical / Tool Products ISO 9001:2008 Certified

Brandon Anderson President

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DIRECT: 763.682.0322 PHONE: 763.682.3122 FAX: 763.682.3954

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Shop Tools, Inc. ______ 303-375-9190 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Dielectric Fluid Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Drills Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Dust Collectors, Filtration Equip.

Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Castrol __________ 800-894-7773 DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM Materials & Supplies Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095 Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM: Dielectric Systems /Filtration Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM: Tooling Systems EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Filtermist Mist Collectors Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174

Filtration Equipment Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 Gaging Shop Tools, Inc. ______ 303-375-9190 Grinding Wheels Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Knives: Replacement Superior Grinding _____ 801-487-9700 Laser Accessories Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Live Centers Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Lubricants / Systems Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095 Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Qualichem, Inc. ______ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 TAPIT All Lubricants ____ 719-200-9141 Machine Tool Accessories Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095 Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

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Pedestals for Grinders Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Sawing Machines AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Saw Replacement Parts Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Tool Grinders Punch & Die DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 INSPECTION EQUIP Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Indust. Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422 CMM Probes Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Coordinate Measuring Mach.

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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 Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 United Performance Metals888-282-3292 Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Alloys: Corrosion Resistant United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: High Temperature United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: Nichel & Cobalt United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Aluminum 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 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 Armor: Military & Commercial Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 Brass Coastal Metals _____ 800-811-7466 A2Z METALWORKER •

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

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Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 Mold Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Nickel Alloys AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 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

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Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 303-286-9700 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 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 Washers LeeSpring ________480-539-5704 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 Hartwig Inc. _______ 303-373-9450 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933

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 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 J.M. Grisley ________ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Hartwig Inc. ________303-373-9450 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 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 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 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 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 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 PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 Band Saws AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Bar Feeders Edge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824 Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Cold Saws Fabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342

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CNC Plasma Cutters Desert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128 CNC Punching Centers PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Iron Workers AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutters Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

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EDM: Wire Custom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265 Innovative Precision _____801-334-6317 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755 H&R Precision ________801-975-7400 Jet Processing _______ 623-869-6749 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 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 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 A2Z METALWORKER •

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ENGINEERING/DESIGN AzMark __________480-926-8969 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010 Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922 FABRICATION 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 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 GBC ____________303-988-6450 Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010 Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 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

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 GBC ____________303-988-6450 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010 Fabrication: Composites Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Fabrication: Enclosures Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Fabrication: Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Medium & Large Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778 Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236 Fabrication: Steel EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064 EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236 GBC ____________303-988-6450 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 FINISHING Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Fabrication: Plastic ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Fabrication: SheetMetal AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Precision Mach’d Prod___ 970-482-7676 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

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Finishing: One Stop Precision Industrial Painting--602-256-0260 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Hand Deburring: Precision Potting/Encapsulation H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Liquid Painting Wet Paint/CARC Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Precision Industrial Painting_602-256-0260 Passivation Aluminum (Medium & Large) Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 FOUNDRY Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 May Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931 Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117 GALVANIZING Powder Coating Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Galvanizing: Hot Dip Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Galvanizing: Zinc LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 GAS NITRIDING Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Silk Screening Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 GEAR CUTTING Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Kelly Martinez Machine Shop Lifetime Products, Inc. P.O. Box 160010, Freeport Center, Bldg D-11 Clearfield, UT 84016 T: 801.726.5312 F: 801.728.1979 email: kmartinez@lifetime.com

Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252 Gear Hobbing Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __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 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Superior Metal Products__303-791-7550 Grinding: Surface ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Passivation

GRINDING AzMark __________480-926-8969 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 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 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 Polishing Superior Metal Products__303-791-7550 Gold Tech Industries____ 480-968-1930 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Selective Coatings The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 ImageTek __________303-806-8111 65 • Sept / Oct 2014 65 •July/Aug 2011

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A Veteran-Owned Small Business

Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com Henry Parker

HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC .

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

Quality Work Delivered On Time Mike Hirsh

EMAIL: HenryParker4me@comcast.net

FORMING AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 HEAT TREATING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 INJECTION MOLDING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 INSPECTION Inspection, First Article Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Inspection Services Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Sustaining Edge Solutions_888-572-9642 A Z METALWORKER • 66 • Sept / Oct 2014 2

LASER CUTTING Laser Cutting AEI Fabrication________ 480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 GBC ____________303-988-6450 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 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 LINE TOOLING RPM CNC Precision Machine _ 208-442-199 MACHINING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668

Tel: 303.530.3131 Fax: 303.530.5242 Email: mike.hirsh@hppi.com

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

Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 GBC ____________303-988-6450 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550 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 Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550

Machining: Aerospace AzMark __________480-926-8969 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 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 Quick Turn Precision____801-334-6800 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 Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550 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 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 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099

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

Darrin J. Caschette President

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

ISO 9001:2008

Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 Foremaster Tool____ 801-737--0265 GBC ____________303-988-6450 H&R Precision ______ 801-975-7400 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010 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 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 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Wrico __________ 480-892-7800

Machining: Composites Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 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 Machining:Medical A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922 Machining: Milling A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076

Hirsh Precision Products__ 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 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341

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

sales@aandlmachining.com

RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 Machining: Mold Base A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Maverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Machining: Mold Making Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Machining: Plastic American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Machining: Production A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Faustson __________303-420-7422 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Quick Turn Precision __ 801-334-6800 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 A2Z METALWORKER •

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AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO

TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

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

FOUNDER & CEO NATE WOODS nate@quickturn mach.com

3340 South 1500 W, Ogden, UT 84401

801-334-6800

www.QUICKTURNMACH.com

S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Stacy Machine & Tooling __ 303-465-3922 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 The Toolroom Inc. ______801-773-6331 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Superior Metal Products __ 303-791-7550 Machining: Precision A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

Machining: Swiss 4 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Machining: Turning Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Stacy Machine & Tooling __ 303-465-3922 Datum Machining _____208-376-6099 Superior Metal Products___ 303-791-7550 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Machining: R & D Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400

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Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Prec Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 Machining: Ultra-Precision Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Machining: Waterjet Colorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404 Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800 MANUFACTURING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Composites S.A. Composites _______970-776-3877 Contract Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Manufacturing: Electrode Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591 Production Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Laser Concepts Inc. ___ 801-280-7723 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Rapid Prototyping White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Robotic CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Routering CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Small Part Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 METAL STAMPING AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Hi-Production Precision Stamping Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 MOLDS Colorado Tool Design Inc 720-218-5246 Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Molds: Blow Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260

Molds: Plastic Injection Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Molds: DieCast Design Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 Molds: Injection Design Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 Molds: Trim Die Design Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246 Molds Steel DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443 ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 PAINTING Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Mil Spec Painting IndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847 Wet Paint/CARC Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 PARTS: MISC. Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 PLATING Blanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590 ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 Anodizing Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Gold/Silver Plate Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Nickel/Chrome Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Tin Plate Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 PRECISION FORMING AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 PRINTING Custom Screen ImageTek _________303-806-8111 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

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Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Aerospace Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Stamping:Bending Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Stamping:Deep Draw Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Design Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Stamping:Flat Forming SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Light Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Stamping:Precision Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 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

TEST FIXTURES RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 TESTING Testing: Corrosive

CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250 Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250 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

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 Quick Turn Precision____801-334-6800 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 TOOLING Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 Welding: Aluminum TUBE FORMING Medium & Large Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Formed Tubing Skyline Products _______719-392-9046 Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Tube Bending /Fabrication Welding: Orbital Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 WATERJET CUTTING Welding: Precision Colorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801 Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Welding: Robotic Quick Turn Precision____801-334-6800 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG WELDING Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 GBC ____________303-988-6450 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 WIRE FORMING Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 TAPPING Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723 GBC ____________303-988-6450 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 6969• Sept / Oct 2014 • July/Aug 2009

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