Rocky Mountain Nov Dec 2014

A2Zmetalworker.com

Vol. 7, No. 6 Nov / Dec 2014Vol. 7, No. 6 Nov / Dec 2014

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

TODD Machinery, Inc. Your #1 Source For Machine Tool Servicing Throughout The Rocky

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Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

ISO 9001:2008ITAR RegisteredISO 13485:2003UL Approved for PCB and Cable AssembliesRoHS Compliant

Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a Hillsboro, Oregon based contract electronic manufacturing company. CST was founded in 1989 and we have been providing quality electronics manufacturing and engineering services to our customers for over 20 years. We specialize in the design and manufacture of electronic assemblies for a variety of applications.

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Industries Served

Demonstrated Technology Leadership Starts with CSTOur Goal is 100% defect free products and to exceed our customers requirements.

23176 NW Bennett StreetHillsboro, OR 97124

T. [email protected]

DefenseAerospace

MedicalIndustrial

CommercialRenewable EnergyThe Haas VF-5TR

5-Axis Vertical Machining CenterStandard Features Include:

• Removable 210 mm trunnion rotary table

• 24+1 side-mount tool changer

• 30 hp vector drive spindle

1 SETUP

5 SIDES

1/2 THE COST

WITH MORE STANDARD FEATURES . . .

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637 Osage Street, Denver, CO 80204Tel: 303-571-4933 • Fax: 303-892-6708www.HaasCNC.com

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The Haas DS-30Y Dual-Spindle Turning Center

Standard Features Include:

4" Y-axis travel • Live tooling with C axis

Main Spindle: 30 hp vector drive • 4000 rpm with an A2-6 spindle and 8.3" chuck

Secondary Spindle: 20 hp vector drive • 4000 rpm

1 SETUP

ALL SIDES

TURN, MILL, TRANSFER, REPEAT . . . AT 1/2 THE COST


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www.cascadesystems.net

Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

ISO 9001:2008ITAR RegisteredISO 13485:2003UL Approved for PCB and Cable AssembliesRoHS Compliant

Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a Hillsboro, Oregon based contract electronic manufacturing company. CST was founded in 1989 and we have been providing quality electronics manufacturing and engineering services to our customers for over 20 years. We specialize in the design and manufacture of electronic assemblies for a variety of applications.

+ Prototype and QTA Capabilities with Turnkey, Kitted and Consignment+ Seamless Transition to Production+ Fine Pitch, BGAs, MLF Packages+ Lead Free Processes+ Engineering Design Services+ High Density and Double-Sided Capabilities+ Flying Probe, and Functional Testing+ Supply Chain Management+ Electro-Mechanical and Sub-Assembly Builds+ High Speed SMT Lines+ Automated Conformal Coat+ OSP Process+ Microelectronics+ Flip Chip Technology+ Wire Bonding+ Die Placement+ Encapsulation

Industries Served

Demonstrated Technology Leadership Starts with CSTOur Goal is 100% defect free products and to exceed our customers requirements.

23176 NW Bennett StreetHillsboro, OR 97124

T. [email protected]

DefenseAerospace

MedicalIndustrial

CommercialRenewable EnergyThe Haas VF-5TR

5-Axis Vertical Machining CenterStandard Features Include:

• Removable 210 mm trunnion rotary table

• 24+1 side-mount tool changer

• 30 hp vector drive spindle

1 SETUP

5 SIDES

1/2 THE COST

WITH MORE STANDARD FEATURES . . .


Haas Factory OutletA Division of Moncktons Machine Tools

637 Osage Street, Denver, CO 80204Tel: 303-571-4933 • Fax: 303-892-6708www.HaasCNC.com

Colorado – (303) 571-4933 • e-mail: [email protected] Mexico – (505) 883-9363Wyoming – (800) 947-8665Utah – (801) 886-2221 • e-mail: [email protected]


The Haas DS-30Y Dual-Spindle Turning Center

Standard Features Include:

4" Y-axis travel • Live tooling with C axis

Main Spindle: 30 hp vector drive • 4000 rpm with an A2-6 spindle and 8.3" chuck

Secondary Spindle: 20 hp vector drive • 4000 rpm

1 SETUP

ALL SIDES

TURN, MILL, TRANSFER, REPEAT . . . AT 1/2 THE COST





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We are preparing for what many (myself included) believe is the most magical time of the year. It doesn’t matter whether we are celebrating Christmas, Chanukah, or another religious occasion. If we have children in our lives, the whole month of December centers on celebrations, gift giving, decorating, delicious food, and family traditions.

It is also a time of year to give back to others less fortunate. According to the Blackbaud Index of Nonprofit organizations, charitable entities saw an increase in charitable giving this fall, marking an increasingly prosperous economy and setting the stage for an especially profitable holiday season.

34 percent of all charitable giving is done in the last three months of the year, according to Steve MacLauglin, director at Blackbaud. Of those donations, about 18 percent are given in December alone. It seems that people are inspired by the holiday season and want to give back.

“As the economy has recovered, people tend to give more,” Sam Worthington, CEO of In-terAction, the largest alliance of U.S.- based nongovernmental international organizations, said. “We also are more aware of the challenges others face. As Americans feel better off and yet recognize that others are in need, they tend to dig deeper into their pockets and help.”

In an interesting twist, the Blackbaud survey found that young men between the ages of 18 and 34 were the demographic most likely to increase the amount of their donations in the wake of global crises.“We see Millennials as the generation that’s most selfish and entitled,” MacLaughlin said. “But according to the survey, they’re the ones who may have the most charitable hearts.”

So you want to find some worthwhile charities to donate to? According to Charity sites such as Charity Navigator, if a nonprofit spends more than 1/3 of its total budget on overhead, it is simply not meeting its mission. If you are looking to donate to charitable funds that are most successful in putting your donations to work, visit charitynavigator.com.

But to give you some perspective, American Red Cross keeps their administrative expenses below 5% and more than 92% of their income goes to actual programs. Other charities considered successful in their distribution of donations to actual programs include World Vision (85% of donations go to stamp out poverty around the world), and Doctors Without Borders (more than 86% goes go to healing others throughout the world).

It is also worthwhile to point out publicly held companies that were most generous in their cash donations in 2013, as a percentage of their pretax profits. Here they are by ranking: 1. Wal-Mart, 2. Wells Fargo, 3. Chevron, 4. Goldman Sachs, 5. Exxon Mobil, 6. JP Morgan Chase, 7. Bank of America, 8. Johnson & Johnson, 9. General Electric, 10. Target Wow, it is indeed interesting that not one Technology company is on the Top 10 list.

In closing, enjoy your magical holidays, and may we all feel led to give back to others in need. Until next year, I wish you a fabulous holiday, and God Bless our Troops.

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Gene WirthChris Seay

Hugh TaylorKathy Carpenter

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- Mahatma Gandhi

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SPRING WORKS UTAH Receives Fastest Growing Private Company Award! SPRING WORKS UTAH received the honor of being awarded one

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Todd Machinery Adds Global EDM, Hurco and Waterjet USA To Its Product Lines

Todd Machinery, in business for 63 years, is pleased to announce that it has added 3 new product lines to its list of machine tool lines.

The company was founded in 1951, and since 2013, it has been under the ownership of David Mann.

David says, “Todd Machinery is renown for its sales and service of new and used machine tools. We also built a reputation for our ability to rebuild and retrofit existing machine tools. I am delighted that we have been awarded 3 new machine tool lines for our customers.”

Hurco has been leading the industry in CNC machine tool technology for 45 years with 80 patents. The company invented conversational programming, which revolutionized the machine tool industry be-cause it was an alternative to cumbersome G-codes and M-codes. The difference between conversational programming and NC program-ming has been compared to the difference between Windows and the old DOS interface of the first personal computers.

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hole-popper EDM machines to the U.S. market. Todd Machinery has partnered with Global Specialty Machines to cover the Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico markets.

Headquartered in Geneva, IL, Waterjet USA was established to provide sales development and support, service and parts in North America for waterjet cutting systems produced by Waterjet Corpora-tion, an Italian manufacturer. Founded in 1991, Waterjet Corporation designs and manufactures 3, 4 and 5 axis waterjets.

To learn more about Todd Machinery’s extensive line of machine tools as well as their rebuild/retrofit and service capabilities, contact them at (801) 294-6390 or visit toddmachinery.com.

J.M. Grisley Receives Doosan Award for Service Excellence

Lars Grisley, Vice President of J.M. Grisley, is pleased to announce that the company was awarded the prestigious Warranty Service Upgrade Award. Lars says, “The award recognizes deal-ers who make the most recommenda-

tions for product improvements to Doosan.” He continued, “Dave Allen, our Service Manager for the past few years, was instrumental in our company winning this award.”

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Olympic Metals Of D e nv e r C o l o r a d o Turns Up The Heat With AS9100 Certifi-cation

When Bill Gibb and Ado Rekart founded Olympic Metals in 1977, they believed that a company built on superior quality and unmatched customer service would not only compete, but also thrive. And they have! Today that legacy is carried on through the top notch team at Olympic Metals lead by Greg Gibb, Bill’s son.

Located in Commerce City, Colorado, Olympic Metals has recently become AS9100 certified, and literally raised the bar for all regional metal sales organizations. Today, manufacturing companies can call Olympic Metals for general machining and aerospace alloys alike. They now stock full lines of 2024-6061-7050 and 7075 aluminum plate and take great pride in their next day delivery. As a stocking distributor, and as a strong member of the Bralco Metals family, Olympic continues the legacy of unsurpassed customer service and stocking inventories that support the local industry.

Olympic Metals has grown steadily by being both innovative and

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See the BEST-OF-CLASS featured at Houstex.The FBB series has it all. The T-type boring mill expertly handles heavy-duty, high-precision machining with a moving column on the Z-axis for larger machining capabilities. The extra-rigid design of the main machine body and column ensure outstanding structural stability. The one-piece machine base, with two huge 7" width and 3" thick box ways on X-, and Z-axes, provide fully part support and reduces overhang problems. The high-quality, C3-grade ball screws are used on all axes for high precision positioning. Other highlights include:• Table dimension: 63" x 55". Capacity: 118"(X) x 82.6"(Y) x 59"(Z) x 19.6"(W). Table load: 22,000 lbs. (10 tons)• 35HP, 50-taper, large-diameter, cartridge-type, air-purged spindle runs with a 2-speed gear head stock that generates a maximum of 1,828NM (1,350 ft.-lbs.). Optional 50HP can generate 2,600NM (1,920 ft.-lbs.) at lower rpm for more power.• Spindle can be extended (W-axis) for deep-hole boring• Table features full C-axis contouring with 0.001-degree minimum intervals• Hydraulic break plus a locking pin every 90-degrees, designed for maximum stability• Rotary table driven by a double rack and pinion system provides high torque and backlash free machining• FANUC 0i-MD control with powerful control feature includes standard Ethernet connection; easy access, front memory card slot and a huge data-server memory capacity.Move to the front of the class. Learn how the heavy-duty FBB series can work for you at Houstex. Call your local dealer to see our comprehensive product line for all your machining needs.

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creative in helping fulfill their customers’ needs. With many stocking programs specially created for their individual customer require-ments, Olympic continues to lead the way in customer service.

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Delcam launches new Delcam for Solid-Works at SEMA

Delcam will launch the 2015 version of its Delcam for SolidWorks CAM software and PowerSHAPE software on booth #10419 at the premier automotive specialty products trade event, SEMA, to be held at the Las

Vegas Convention Center from November 4th to 7th.

The new release of Delcam for SolidWorks includes a range of en-hancements in three-axis milling, drilling, turning and wire EDM to make the software even more valuable to SolidWorks users that need to manufacture their designs. PowerSHAPE Pro CAD for CAM system for modelling for manufacture and reverse engineering. The new release includes improvements in direct modeling, surface mod-eling and reverse engineering, plus support for data from Creaform HandySCAN handheld scanners. Full details on all Delcam complete CADCAM solutions are available at http://www.delcam.tv/lz

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Cygnet Stamping & Fabricating announces ISO 9001 & AS9100 Certification

Cygnet Stamping & Fabricating is proud to announce another mile-stone in the history of the company. Continuing in our commitment of

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Marko Swan, president of the company, says, “Cygnet’s achievement further strengthens our quality management system that directs our operations from top to bottom. These certifications are an important step in assuring that customers continue to receive the very best in quality and service from Cygnet.”

He continued, “Using an outside auditor means that you can be confident that we are committed to the uppermost standards in our operations, production, and management.”

Cygnet Stamping & Fabricating’s performance over the past 40 years has shown that they consistently manufacture high quality metal stampings, fabricated sheet metal and laser cut parts. This latest

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The part being machined during the demonstration is a test part developed by Boeing Commercial Airplane. This titanium part will be machined using the original Boeing process, and then two optimized processes. A new CAM file simulator on the PC-based, open-architecture OSP control will direct the machining and validate the design and manufacturing requirements.

EDM Performance Accessories® Hires New Regional Sales Manager

EDM Performance Accessor ies® (or EPA) (http://www.edmperformance.com) announces that Dan DeJohn has joined the company to further develop their growing profile of regional and national accounts. Dan DeJohn comes with a wealth of experience having spent over the last 15 years in the EDM industry. He has been instrumental in acquiring many key accounts and will continue his success with us representing the Southwest states.

Dan joins EPA as the new regional sales manager covering Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Dan comments “I am excited to start a new challenge with EPA and provide for my customers with a quality product line for all EDM and waterjet manufacturers. I feel rejuvenated to join a vibrant sales team that is committed to best service our customers.”Tom Adams, President of EPA said, “Dan’s wealth of industry experience

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For more information about the company and its products, please visit our website at http://www.edmperformance.com or email us at [email protected].

Starrett Expands Measurement Expertise

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced a series of new turn-key systems for material testing, force analysis, force measurement and spring testing. Marketed as Lx systems, these software-based solutions make use of the Starrett® MMS and MMD material test frames and Starrett FMS and FMD force test frames combined with Lx software, load cell sensors, extensometers and testing fixtures. Testing capacities range from less than 500N (112lbf) to 50kN (11,250lbf).

The Starrett L3 systems are material testing solutions for material characterization, verification and validation. These systems are used to measure stress, strain, load, displacement and more. Designed for the research scientist, design engineer and quality engineer, L3 systems differ significantly from traditional material testing systems since measurements and test method creation is performed graphically,

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J.M. Grisley Adds 4th Member to Its Full-Time Service Team

J.M. Grisley is pleased to announce that Justin Anderson recently joined the team in the Service Division, bringing the J.M. Grisley full time ser-vice team to 4. Justin brings nearly 2 decades of maintenance and repair industry experience to the team. He has performed maintenance on vehicles, on facilities, on machine tools, to name a few.

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Elite Machine, A New, Very Experienced Ma-chine Shop in Ogden, Utah, Purchases a Hurco Vertical Mill Jeff Petersen, long time machinist with more than a decade of experience, is pleased to announce that he has launched his own company, called Elite Machine. The company officially opened for busi-ness in October, and Jeff says the company is supporting customers in manufacturing high end audio, composites and tool making for automated machinery. The team members have an average of 14 years of machining experience. Jeff says, “We just purchased a Hurco Vertical Mill from Todd Machinery. The machine is just outstanding, particularly in it patented conversa-tional programming. It makes it easy for us to support cusotmers with complex machining requirements. ” To learn how Elite Machine can help your business, contact them at 801-710-7891 or email them at [email protected]

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The 2009 downturn in the economy resulted in a nosedive in the general aviation industry. Wichita planemakers cut thousands of jobs as backlogs collapsed.

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Foley expects deliveries to be on the upswing until 2019. That’s when Foley expects the next cyclical downturn to occur.

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‘Meet The Todd Team’ section of the article. The Todd Machinery team all say they don’t know of another ma-chine tool dealer with such a large and ex-perienced team. And everyone you see in the ‘Meet The Todd Team’ is a dedicated employee of the com-pany, with their only objective to serve Todd Machinery’s customers. It is no coincidence that nearly 70% of the Todd Machinery team members are focused on service.

√ The Todd Machinery team carries more machine tool lines than ever before. Just this past year, Todd Machinery successfully negotiated 3 new machine tool lines for their customers. They added

the Hurco machine tool line, because, as David says, “They have some of the best controls in the world.” They also added Waterjet USA to their product portfolio. David Soares, Todd Machinery Sales Manager, says,

“To our knowledge, we are the only machine tool dealer in all of Utah that carries a waterjet line locally. With the other waterjet companies,

someone flies in to sell and service the product.” The company also added Global Specialty Machines to their product mix. Da-vid says, “We have long offered EDM consumables to our customers locally, and now we have expanded our EDM capabilities with EDM machine tools.”

√ Safety is a #1 priority at Todd Machinery. David believes that safety should be a number one priority in any company. While Todd Machinery always operated with safety in mind, today, the entire Todd Machinery team attends certified safety training programs. David says,

“We value every one of our team members, and we want to take every step possible to ensure that they perform their jobs in a safe environment. That way, they are available and healthy for our customers.”

√ The Todd Machinery team subscribes to continuous in-ternal training and the best technology tools. Under David’s leadership, every team member increased its training hours over the past 2 years. Sales engineers, now equipped with tablets and smart phones to better serve their customers, all attended IMTS to learn about some of the newest technology on the market. Service Technicians and Engineers are flown throughout the United States to attend the latest technical training on the machines Todd Machinery supports.

√ The Todd Machinery team raised the bar on financial pru-dence. Customers want to purchase their machine tools from a company that they know is financially sound, one that they can expect to be in busi-

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ness many years from now. Under David’s leadership, the company went from uti-lizing accounting services on a contract basis to employing a full time Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With Torann Bender’s financial expertise, the company has improved its D&B Credit Rating and PAYDEX® scores. Torann

says that the company just achieved the highest PAYDEX® score awarded. With financial prudence as a key objective, the company has seen year over year revenue growth of nearly 50%.

√ Todd Machinery moved its Utah Headquarters. Todd Ma-chinery recently moved to a better location, now at 2061 West 2300 South, still in Salt Lake City. The new more efficient headquarters enabled the team to open a Denver office to expand into Colorado. It is yet another example of Todd’s financial prudence and growth strategy.

√ Some things were just always so great about Todd Machinery that they were left alone. David says, “Todd Machin-ery is renown for its sales and service of new and used machine tools. We also built a reputation for our ability to rebuild and retrofit existing machine tools. This is some-thing you just can’t get from any machine tool dealer, so we left this in place. The only thing we did change was that we made Matt Hatch Vice President and part owner of the company, since Matt was instrumental in building our superior service capabilities.”

Todd Machinery is so respected for their service capabilities across all machine tool lines, not just theirs, that it is not uncommon for them to be contacted by other dealers in this territory to support servicing the dealer’s machines. Recently, they were even called on by one of their machine tool builders to support a customer in a different geog-raphy, since the dealer in that geography wasn’t equipped to provide the support.

Todd Machinery has always carried a superior line of machine tools. Matt says, “We have the Toyoda line, and I believe they make the best cylindrical grinders in the world.” He continued, “Hermle offers a su-perior 5 axis German manufactured machine. When you need high-end precision, the Hermle line is it. Sales Manager David added, “Takamatsu Machinery offers automation as a standard in a small lathe, and many of our customers value this capability.” He continued, “We are one of the longest running Giddings & Lewis distributors in the United States. Today we can sell the Fives Giddings & Lewis line of Vertical Turning Centers (VTC), which have the capacity, power and accuracy to handle the most demanding machining requirements. The optional multi-func-tional capabilities add flexibility and reduce setups and cycle times.”

A Recent Toyoda Installation

A Recent Hyundai Installation

Hear What Customers Have to Say About Todd Machinery.

“When I first opened for business a few years ago, I didn’t have the credit to buy a new machine. I had to buy a used machine, and it never worked from the start. I called in Todd Machinery and though it wasn’t a machine they sold me, nor was it even a machine tool line they carry, they got the machine up and running for me. Since then, I always buy new machines and I buy them from Todd Machinery. I bought my sec-ond Hyundai lathe from them just recently. My first Hyundai lathe is 3 years old now, and I have never had a problem with it.

I use Todd Machinery to service all my machine tools. 97% of the time, when I call them, they are here immediately. They are outstanding at service, and I am happy with the machines I buy from them.” Machine Shop Owner in SLC

“I am a new machine shop owner in Ogden, UT, though I have more than a decade of experience in the industry. When I wanted to purchase a vertical mill, I did quite a bit of research on the best machine for my business. Hurco came up #1, especially because of their conversational programming. They are an excellent value, and they are very intuitive.

I contacted Hurco once I knew this was the right machine for me. They put me in touch with Todd Machinery, the Utah Hurco dealer. I worked with David Soares. It is a little odd, but I immediately felt so comfortable with David that I didn’t look anywhere else for a new machine. David and the Todd Machinery team took such great care of me that unless they make some drastic changes, I will continue to buy from David, Hurco and Todd Machinery. On top of this, with the Hurco purchase, we are offered 3 days of training. After 1 day, we knew the machine so well I don’t know if we will use the additional training. ” Machine Shop Owner in Ogden, UT

“Our shop has about a dozen lathes, Our Fryer, purchased from Todd Machinery, is our latest. We purchased the Fryer machine primarily because we had some expensive tooling that we wanted to re-use, and the Fryer was completely compatible with it.

We hadn’t worked with Todd Machinery in the past, and our experience has been very good. The installation went well, and when there were some features we didn’t pay for but that we wanted, Todd Machinery came out and did the upgrade for us. I was not only delighted with this service, but I have to say they are as good as the best of our machine dealers.” Machine Shop Owner in Colorado Springs, CO

May We Proudly Introduce The Todd Team.

David Mann is CEO/Company Owner. David has nearly 2 years of tenure with Todd Machinery. He believes service differentiates Todd Machinery from their competitors. His favorite power tool? A weed wacker, and his #1 hobby is his family.

Though Todd Machinery has been in business for 63 years now, Torann Bender is the company’s first ever CFO. CEO David says “to take the company to the next level, and to consistently


achieve 50% annual growth, a full time CFO was key.” Torann values that “working with the team at Todd Machinery is like working with a large family -- we take care of each other.” To-rann’s favorite power tool is a gardening edger, and in her off hours, she enjoys playing her violin and her fiddle.

Matt Hatch, with 14 years at Todd Machinery, is the longest tenured employee. That, in addition to his superior skills, is why David promoted Matt to Vice President of Operations, and he is a part owner of the company. Matt most values that Todd Machinery has a team of very passionate employees. His favorite (and worst) power tool is his cell phone, and in his off hours Matt enjoys watching his son play football.

David Soares a 3-year veteran to the company was recently promoted to Sales Manager for Utah and Colorado. He values the fact that at Todd Machinery “ We provide customized solutions for our customers’ needs; we don’t just sell what we have.” His power tool of choice is a rattle gun

(aka impact wrench), and his number #1 hobby is mountain biking.

For the past year and a half, Zach Withers has been supporting Todd Machinery’s Utah customers as a Service Technician. He says that what differentiates Todd Machinery from other machine tool dealers is that “we always put the customer first”. Zach’s favorite power tool is a power saw, and his hobbies include hunting and riding horses.

BJ Kemp is the official Service Parts Coordi-nator for both Utah and Colorado. She enjoys working for Todd Machinery, because, “We have a hard working bunch of guys who will do anything to make the customer happy.” Her favorite power tool is her car buffer, and she enjoys working on her cars.

Dave Allen is one of Todd Machinery’s most tenured employees, now with 7 years. Dave wears many hats, including Colorado Service Manager, Master Rebuilder and Service Technician. I value the fact that Todd Machinery always puts the customer first, and his power tool of choice is

“the one I am using at the moment”. You will be hard pressed to find a Master Machine Rebuilder like Dave. His hobbies include hunting and fishing

Nick Allen, Dave’s son, was just promoted to Assistant Service Manager for UT. Nick says he is most proud of “our dedication to the customers - we always go above and beyond”.

His favorite power tool is a chain saw, and his hobby is tending to his ranch.

Zach Wiatt joined the company this year as a Service Technician for Utah. He was drawn to Todd Machinery because of their reputation for a superior work ethic, and since he has been there, he can confirm this is true. Zach’s power tool of choice is

a skill saw, and his hobby is radio control cars.

Jeramie Doty is Todd Machinery’s Service Manager for both Utah and Colorado. He values that “We always put the customer first.” His favorite power tool is that all are his fa-vorites, and his hobby is “anything automotive, whether its antique or racecars, and he has a few trophies for his successes.

Ed Batakis is a Sales Engineer supporting Todd Machinery’s customers in Southern Col-orado, Wyoming and Montana. He is especially proud of the tremendous array of services that the Todd Machinery Service team can support, and he loves skiing and hang gliding (pretty much all outdoors

gutsy sports!)

Steve Drollinger started with Todd Machin-ery 2 years ago. Today, he is an Integration Specialist/ Service Technician for Todd’s Utah customers. Steve appreciates that Todd Machinery works on all machine tool brands, not just the machine tools that they sell. His favorite power tool is a jig saw, and his hobby is golfing.

Tony Balaich is one of Todd Machinery’s Sales Engineers, and his customers span Southern Utah and Idaho. He says he joined Todd Machinery because of its reputation for superior service and integrity. Tony’s favorite power tool is a 360 rotating super Sawzall®, and when he is not working, he enjoys fishing

and racquetball.

Rick Butkiewicz is Todd Machinery’s newest team member, having joined the company just last month. Rick will support the company’s customers as a Sales Engineer for Northern Colorado. He says he joined the company because it values customer service. His favorite power tool is a Sawzall®, and his #1 hobby is mountain biking.

To learn more about Todd Machinery’s extensive line of machine tools as well as their rebuild/retrofit and service capabilities, contact them at (801) 294-6390 or visit toddmachinery.com.


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IndustryWeek reports that executives at US manufacturing firms are “increasingly bullish about prospects” for growth over the next 12 months, according to the Q3 2014 Manufacturing Barometer from PwC.

Firms raised their forecasts for growth over the next year by an average of 5.6 percent, higher than the 5.2 percent from three months ago.

The percentage of manufacturers saying they expect positive revenue growth increased 9 points from the second quarter to 86 percent this quarter.

Researchers Create Flexible Conductive Plastics

R&D Magazine reports that newly developed plastic materials that can conduct electricity called “radical polymers” could “bring low-cost, transparent solar cells, flexible and lightweight batteries, and ultrathin antistatic coatings for consumer electronics and aircraft.”

The article notes that researchers have identified “the solid-state electrical properties of one such polymer, called PTMA,” and quotes Purdue University chemical engineering professor Bryan Boudouris saying, “It’s a polymer glass that conducts charge, which seems like a contradiction because glasses are usually insulators.”

Seaborne Death Lasers Being Tested By Navy

Popular Mechanics reports “the Navy just completed an operational demo of a new ship-based Laser Weapon System (LaWS) in the Per-sian Gulf ” which is “meant to take out enemy drones or attack boats that might swarm a large vessel.” The system “already aced maritime tests in 2011 and 2012, but the Navy wanted to see how it would perform at sea under the kind of harsh conditions it could encounter in battle.” Unlike past lasers, “the new solid-state lasers are smaller, run on electricity, and cost only about $1 per shot.” The Navy hopes to have the system combat-ready by 2016.

Boeing Plans To Develop New Airplane To Re-place 737 Max By 2030

Boeing Co has sketched out plans to develop an all-new aircraft, with new engines and likely a composite structure, to replace its 737 MAX jetliner by 2030, Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney said.

The airplane will be slightly larger than the 737 but its shape won’t change dramatically from the current fuselage. The push for the new aircraft was being driven by competition from China and elsewhere, he said at an innovation summit.

“By 2030 we will have a new airplane,” he said, adding there’s “a good chance it will be a composite airplane.It will be slightly bigger, there will be new engines. The current look of the planes (shape) won’t change dramatically,” he continued.

Chinese planemaker COMAC is developing the C919 jet to compete


with the 737 and the Airbus A320. The jet has been delayed until end-2015.

Other competitors include Russia’s MS-21 and the slightly smaller Bombardier CSeries from Canada.

McNerney said an all-new 737 MAX re-placement was needed “because the new entrants would do something like MAX.”

Boeing has nearly 100 years of aircraft experience and “we cannot give up that advantage because competing on costs alone would be difficult,” he said. “In-novation is the only answer, there’s no easy way around.”

Boeing had considered designing a completely new “clean-sheet” design as a successor to the 737 at the start of the decade but abandoned the plan and came up with a revamped version of the 737 known as the MAX after Airbus scored market success with an upgraded version of its own A320.

Having invested in an upgrade capable of providing around 15 percent fuel savings thanks to new engines, both companies had previously indicated they would not aim for a complete redesign before 2030.

Boeing is preparing to deliver the 737 MAX, its next iteration of the stalwart single-aisle 737 jetliner it introduced in 1968.The 737 MAX is a “renovation” of the current 737, with new engines and aerodynamic changes that provide up to 20 percent better fuel efficiency. But the jet is not an all-new aircraft, and the company now envisions succeeding it in 2030.

Boeing’s chief executive has said the company wants to avoid “moon shots” - long-range product developments that take decades to come to market. Instead, Boeing wants to innovate frequently and harvest existing technology in new aircraft, much like tech companies do.

By referring to a composite 737 structure, McNerney suggests the successor plane will draw from the composite-built 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s latest all-new aircraft.Boeing and Airbus are battling for market share in the crucial single-aisle seg-ment, which will account for nearly 70 percent of new aircraft deliveries worth some $2.5 trillion over the next 20 years, according to Boeing’s estimates.

Boeing’s 737 MAX competes with the Airbus A320neo family, which was launched about 8 months before the 737 MAX and so far has captured about 60 percent of sales.

The A320neo is due to enter service in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with 2017 for the 737 MAX.

DOD: $1.3B Sikorsky Helicopter Deal To Go Forward

The Army and Navy will proceed with a $1.3 billion deal to buy Sikorsky helicopters, the Defense Department said, a deal that comes as a reversal of the Navy’s plan to cancel its part of the contract.

The Army will buy 41 Black Hawk and 24 medical-evacuation helicopters while the Navy will purchase 29 Seahawks and eight MH-60S helicopters. Source: Defense News

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Parabolic Flight Research May Improve Spacesuit Design

The Science Magazine “Science Shot” website reported that research conducted on parabolic flights aboard “NASA’s adapted DC-9 aircraft” showed that at the reduced gravity levels of the moon, people transition from walking to running at an average speed of 1.42 meters per second. According to the article, the transition speed in lunar gravity was higher than previously theorized, which could result in the development of

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Equipment Leasing and Finance Industry Con-fidence at Six-Month High

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the November 2014 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $903 billion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 64.2, an increase from the October index of 60.4 and the highest level since May.

When asked about the outlook for the future, MCI-EFI survey respondent Valerie Hayes Jester, President, Brandywine Capital Associates, Inc., said, “The mid-term elections are now over and consumer confidence seems to be improving as gas prices and

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November 2014 Survey Results:The overall MCI-EFI is 64.2, an increase from the October index of 60.4.

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• When asked, 45.4% of the executives reported they expect to hire more employees over the next four months, an increase from 40% in October.

• 3% of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as “excellent,” unchanged from last month. 97% of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as “fair,” up from 94.3% in October. None rate it as “poor,” down from 3% the previous month. .


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Boeing Co appears increasingly likely to boost production of its top-selling 737 jetliners to 52 a month starting in 2018 after the head of its commercial airplanes business spoke about that possibility last month.

“Our focus today would be around a 52-a-month rate in (737 production) somewhere in that 2018 time frame,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Officer Ray Conner told an investor conference held by Morgan Stanley.

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The company currently makes 42 737s a month and has set firm plans to lift the rate to 47 a month in 2017.

Last month, Conner said he sees “incredible pressure” to increase the 737 production rate beyond current targets.

Boeing President and Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg said the company “had taken a serious look” at raising rates, speaking during Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit, but he declined to say whether a decision had been made.

Airbus Group SA (AIR.PA) also is studying raising output of its best-selling A320-family aircraft beyond the record level of 46 jets a month already targeted for 2016. A decision could come by year-end, Airbus Americas President Barry Eccleston told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit.

Both companies have thousands of orders for the agile, fuel-efficient planes, which are immensely popular with low-cost airlines. In Boeing’s case, its backlog of 4,008 737 orders represents nearly eight years of production at current rates, meaning airlines must wait to get planes they order today.

By increasing production rates, Boeing and Airbus create earlier delivery slots that they can sell to customers.Source: Reuters

Tesla Announces All-Wheel-Drive Version Of Model S Sedan

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Global Demand For M i l i t a r y E l e c t r o -Optical And Infrared Systems To Reach $16.35 Billion By 2020

Global demand for military electro-optical and infrared sensor s is expected to reach $16.35 billion by 2020, r is ing at a combined annual growth rate of 7.71 percent, predict analysts at market research MarketsandMarkets.

Electro-optic and infrared (EO/IR) systems are seen as critical force multipliers for military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) forces, analysts point out.

Driving industry growth will be the increasing usage of military electro-optical and infrared systems in surveillance operations, analysts say. In Naval platforms, electro-optic systems are finding increasing use in next-generation close-in weapon systems for target acquisition and engagement.

The report entitled Military Electro-Opt ica l and In f rared Sys tems Market Forecast to 2020 from MarketsandMarkets breaks the global EO/IR market down by type, sensor technology, and by platform.

Different types of E/O sensors include image intensification, laser, infrared. EO/IR technologies include scanning, starring, multispectral, and hyperspectral. Platforms include airborne, land-based, and naval applications.

Global areas covered in the report are North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and rest of the world. North America is expected to witness a slight decline in the market share due to defense budget cuts

China, India, Brazil, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile,

will see an upsurge in demand of electro-optical systems. The dynamic growth of Asia Pacific economies, especially in Southeast Asia, is expected to present defense companies with significant opportunities in this market.

Key players profiled in this market are Raytheon Co., Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications, BAE Systems, Thales group, DRS Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Elbit Systems, Harris Corp., Rheinmetall Defence, Textron, Rockwell Collins, II-VI Inc., Ultra Electronics, and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, analysts say.

The 252-page report has 137 market tables and 104 figures. For more information contact MarketsandMarkets online at www.marketsandmarkets.com.


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Demand for military e l e c t r o - o p t i c a l /infrared systems to reach $16.35 Billion

Global demand for military electro-optical and infrared sensors is expected to reach $16.35 billion by 2020, rising at a combined annual growth rate of 7.71 percent, predict analysts at market research MarketsandMarkets.

Electro-optic and infrared (EO/IR) systems are seen as critical force multipliers for military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) forces, analysts point out.

Driving industry growth will be the increasing usage of military electro-optical and infrared systems in surveillance operations, analysts say. In Naval platforms, electro-optic systems are finding increasing use in next-generation close-in weapon systems for target acquisition and engagement.

The report entitled Military Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems Market Forecast to 2020 from MarketsandMarkets breaks the global EO/IR market down by type, sensor technology, and by platform.

Different types of E/O sensors include image intensification, laser, infrared. EO/IR technologies include scanning, starring, multispectral, and hyperspectral. Platforms include airborne, land-based, and naval applications.

Global areas covered in the report are North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and rest of the world. North America is expected to witness a slight decline in the market

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China, India, Brazil, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, will see an upsurge in demand of electro-optical systems. The dynamic growth of Asia Pacific economies, especially in Southeast Asia, is expected to present defense companies with significant opportunities in this market.

Key players profiled in this market are Raytheon Co., Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications, BAE Systems, Thales group, DRS Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Elbit Systems, Harris Corp., Rheinmetall Defence, Textron, Rockwell Collins, II-VI Inc., Ultra Electronics, and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, analysts say.

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Blurred Lines: Commercial, Defense Sectors Begin To Blend

As companies continue to turn their eyes toward the Middle East and Asia for new business, a trend has emerged: The lines between commercial and defense businesses are increasingly blurring.

All but one company in the top 10 of this year’s Defense News Top 100 — our annual ranking of the largest global defense firms — saw the percentage of their defense business decline or remain flat in 2013. Thales, at No. 9, was the only company in the top 10 that saw growth in the percentage of its business generated by defense.

Defense-heavy companies, such as US giant Lockheed Martin, which is once again at the top of the list, are diversifying their businesses. Lockheed is entering the commercial marketplace in areas such as air traffic management, aviation training and simulation, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

The Maryland-based company saw defense revenue fall more than $4.3 billion between 2012 and 2013, however the company’s overall revenue fell only $1.8 billion.

Those who watch the industry agree: Change is coming, and companies that don’t react appropriately could get left behind.

“As a generalization, the defense industry and the defense industrial base would be well served by an industry whose structure had more exposure to commercial markets and commercial technologies than our mostly pure-play [defense] companies that comprise the top tier of the industrial structure today have,” said Steven Grundman, a former Pentagon industrial policy chief now with the Atlantic Council.

He warns that the days of pure defense firms are endangered.

“Being a pure-play defense company works great when the defense budget is growing at 6 to 8 percent a year, but the other side of that coin is that when growth stops, you’re fully exposed to a flat market,” Grundman said. “I don’t think there is as much room in the healthy defense industrial structure for pure-play defense companies as we have today.

The clearest example of the growing link between the defense and commercial sides comes, perhaps unsurprisingly, from the largest US aerospace company.

Boeing, No. 2 on the list, has increasingly exploited its commercial division,

a keystone of its business plan, and a look at its catalog makes it clear that will continue. Boeing saw its total company revenue climb nearly $5 billion from 2012 to 2013. But its defense business has fallen from 38.4 percent of total company revenue in 2012 to 36.9 percent in 2013.

“The commercial derivatives market is a real competitive differentiator for us,” Chris Chadwick, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, told reporters.

The company has two major Pentagon programs — the P-8 maritime patrol aircraft and KC-46A tanker — which are based on commercial versions of the Boeing 737 and 767 jetliners, respectively.

“[W]e’re trying to create this track record of success in this area where we bring to bear an improved ‘One Boeing’ approach to servicing our customers’ needs worldwide,” Chadwick said.

“It’s going to be very interesting to see how market dynamics play out over the next 10 years,” Chadwick said. “I can’t predict the future, but I think market pressures will dictate that the company who can provide more capability at less cost, adapt from an innovative perspective and bring capability onto current platforms in a very seamless way at the right price, will end up on top at the end of the day.”

Commercial companies are investing “tremendous amounts of money and starting to encroach the defense world” in areas including cyber, data analytics and drones, he said.

As Lockheed looks to move more into a commercial market, it will center “around core competencies that we have today,” Hewson said.

The recent purchase of a company in the cyber infrastructure business serves as an example. “It lines right up with the cybersecurity work we are doing,” Hewson said. “It just broadens our portfolio capabilities that we can provide. It opens up new markets for us.”

Companies have also been taking a commercial approach when developing new defense products in anticipation of less government funding for these types of efforts.

For example, Textron’s Bell Helicopter has been developing V-280 Valor, a tiltrotor it has pitched for the Army’s Black Hawk replacement program.



“If you are going to take a decade to develop something, you are going to spend a lot more money to develop,” Scott Donnelly chairman, president and CEO of Textron, said in an interview. “I think we can show that we can do things and get aircraft in the air in two years. We can take it to production at a fraction of the cost.”

Textron, which saw its defense revenue fall slightly from $4.29 billion to $4.24 billion in 2013 and is No. 17 on this year’s list, is looking at projects “in a more commercial sense and not go through long” engineering and development program, he said.

“Time is money,” Donnelly said. “I cannot afford those budgets. I do not think any of our customers are going to have the budgets to go through that process anyway.”

Preparing for the Future

In recent years, companies have been preparing for the decline in government defense spending, restructuring themselves though downsizing, facility consolidation and other overhead-cutting measures. This has softened the blow of the defense spending cuts, but “there’s probably not a whole lot more they could really do to significantly boost margins from here,” said Byron Callan, an analyst with Capital Alpha Partners.

Boeing’s Chadwick said the company has cut $4 billion over the past three years with another $2 billion planned in the coming years.“It’s difficult. It’s painful, but it’s a necessity, so that we can have that agile cost structure that we have to have to compete over the next decade,” he said.

While the split between defense and commercial business seems to be trending toward the latter, it does not mean commercial business has picked up, Callan noted.

“It may not necessarily be indicative of really successful commercial diversification strategies, it’s just that defense — because of the Budget Control Act and the war-related declines — has been shrinking at a faster pace than some of these commercial businesses,” Callan said.

While many company executives speak of diversifying, some might look to shrink to become more focused in core business areas.

“Some of the changes to individual companies may also be thinking ahead,” Callan said. “They may be shrinking in size, but they’re shrinking to get more focused on particular markets.”

On the military side, companies have looked to offset US cuts with international business, particularly in the Middle East and Asia.

L-3 Communications, No. 11 on the list, which saw its defense business revenue decline $502 million between 2012 and 2013, is in the midst of a commercial diversification itself.

L-3 has posted double-digit growth in its commercial and international business, Michael Strianese, the New York-based company’s chairman, president and CEO, said in an interview.

Strianese touted the company’s first sale of night-vision equipment to the United Arab Emirates last year. He also applauded the Defense and State departments’ progress with export control reform and reducing bureaucracy.

Speaking about the international market, Chadwick said: “What you’re seeing is that we’ve got to move from [being] an exporter to [being] a global presence more than we have in the past. So, you’re seeing where we’re investing. We’re partnering.”

Decline in defense spending has created interesting bedfellows for the few major US defense programs on the horizon. Helicopter maker Sikorsky has teamed with Boeing for the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter replacement program and Boeing has teamed with Sweden-based Saab, No. 29 on the list, for the Air Force’s new jet trainer.

Increasing the number of military aircraft based on commercial ones could have a trickle down effect into the global maintenance and sustainment market as well, Chrisman said.

“You can look at commercial opportunities, you can look at vertical operations, or you can look at sustainment. The international sustainment opportunity for US companies, particularly US [original equipment manufacturers], is something they are considering and ought to be considering more.”

A plane based on commonly flown aircraft, like a 767, could make sustainment easier and cheaper, he said.


Business Aircraft Industry Climbing Back, Slowly

At the convention of the National Business Aviation Association last month, it seemed that happy days were not quite here again, but at least the miserable days that hit the business aircraft industry in 2009 appeared to be waning.

In its annual forecast, Honeywell estimated that 650 to 675 new business jets would be delivered to customers this year, a slight in-crease over the total for last year and an indication that the industry was continuing a slow recovery since sales plummeted after the peak year, 2008, when 1,139 business jets were delivered.

Back in the boom years, sales of business jets were spread over a wide range, from light and midsize planes to large-cabin, so-called heavy metal jets that can span the globe. In recent years, the market share for the smaller corporate jets dropped, while “the strong desire for larger-cabin aircraft with greater range and advanced avionics” has been dominant, said Brian Sill, the president for business and general aviation at Honeywell Aerospace.

Scott Neal, senior vice president for worldwide sales and marketing at Gulfstream Aerospace, said, “The one thing we’ve heard loud and clear from our G650 operators is that they want speed.” Gulfstream had airplanes among the 100 sleek business aircraft on display at the Orlando Executive Airport, about 15 miles from the convention center.

After Gulfstream began delivering its top-of-the-line G650s in 2012, a three-year waiting list formed for orders, along with a robust re-sale market in which some buyers flipped their order positions at a profit. The G650, which can reach 92 percent of the speed of sound and can fly nonstop from New York to Hong Kong, costs about $65 million — but a buyer then needs to spend millions more to have the cabin outfitted.

In mid-October, Gulfstream announced that it was introducing two new large-cabin, long-range models — a $43.5 million G500 and a $54 million G600, which can carry up to 18 passengers each. The first

G500 delivery is expected in 2018 and the first G600 delivery in 2019.

Over all, the business-aviation industry insists it sees reason for op-timism. Even the market for midsize and smaller jets is picking up

“for the first time in several years,” Honeywell said in its report. Last week, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association reported that worldwide deliveries of all general-aviation aircraft — ranging from single-engine piston planes to the big-ticket business jets — rose 4 percent during the first nine months of this year.

Big definitely is selling. In the first nine months of this year, seven Boeing Business Jets, which are corporate variants of the Boeing 737 commercial airliner and cost $71 million to $96 million, were delivered — compared with five in that period last year.

In the lower-cost end of the business-aircraft market are hard-work-ing turboprop airplanes, whose overall sales are off slightly this year from last year. But within this niche, sales are rising for the bigger, multiengine turboprop models — nearly all of which are manufactured in the United States. They are especially popular with regional companies wishing to fill air-service gaps between smaller cities that have opened as the commercial airlines shrink schedules to small and midsize markets. They require only a single pilot, not two pilots as jets do.Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story

Textron, whose aviation division includes the Cessna and Hawker brands, recently purchased Beechcraft Corporation, which man-ufactures the popular twin-engine King Air 200 and 300 model turboprops. The purchase will enable Textron “to offer a broader selection of aircraft,” the chief executive, Scott C. Donnelly, said when the sale closed in March. In the first nine months of this year, 72 new King Air turboprops were delivered, compared with 59 in that period in 2013.

As business aviation struggles for more traction, the industry con-stantly pushes back against public perceptions that business planes are mere luxuries for fat-cat corporate executives. Actually, the industry says, 85 percent of business-aircraft owners are small or midsize

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“If you are going to take a decade to develop something, you are going to spend a lot more money to develop,” Scott Donnelly chairman, president and CEO of Textron, said in an interview. “I think we can show that we can do things and get aircraft in the air in two years. We can take it to production at a fraction of the cost.”

Textron, which saw its defense revenue fall slightly from $4.29 billion to $4.24 billion in 2013 and is No. 17 on this year’s list, is looking at projects “in a more commercial sense and not go through long” engineering and development program, he said.

“Time is money,” Donnelly said. “I cannot afford those budgets. I do not think any of our customers are going to have the budgets to go through that process anyway.”

Preparing for the Future

In recent years, companies have been preparing for the decline in government defense spending, restructuring themselves though downsizing, facility consolidation and other overhead-cutting measures. This has softened the blow of the defense spending cuts, but “there’s probably not a whole lot more they could really do to significantly boost margins from here,” said Byron Callan, an analyst with Capital Alpha Partners.

Boeing’s Chadwick said the company has cut $4 billion over the past three years with another $2 billion planned in the coming years.“It’s difficult. It’s painful, but it’s a necessity, so that we can have that agile cost structure that we have to have to compete over the next decade,” he said.

While the split between defense and commercial business seems to be trending toward the latter, it does not mean commercial business has picked up, Callan noted.

“It may not necessarily be indicative of really successful commercial diversification strategies, it’s just that defense — because of the Budget Control Act and the war-related declines — has been shrinking at a faster pace than some of these commercial businesses,” Callan said.

While many company executives speak of diversifying, some might look to shrink to become more focused in core business areas.

“Some of the changes to individual companies may also be thinking ahead,” Callan said. “They may be shrinking in size, but they’re shrinking to get more focused on particular markets.”

On the military side, companies have looked to offset US cuts with international business, particularly in the Middle East and Asia.

L-3 Communications, No. 11 on the list, which saw its defense business revenue decline $502 million between 2012 and 2013, is in the midst of a commercial diversification itself.

L-3 has posted double-digit growth in its commercial and international business, Michael Strianese, the New York-based company’s chairman, president and CEO, said in an interview.

Strianese touted the company’s first sale of night-vision equipment to the United Arab Emirates last year. He also applauded the Defense and State departments’ progress with export control reform and reducing bureaucracy.

Speaking about the international market, Chadwick said: “What you’re seeing is that we’ve got to move from [being] an exporter to [being] a global presence more than we have in the past. So, you’re seeing where we’re investing. We’re partnering.”

Decline in defense spending has created interesting bedfellows for the few major US defense programs on the horizon. Helicopter maker Sikorsky has teamed with Boeing for the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter replacement program and Boeing has teamed with Sweden-based Saab, No. 29 on the list, for the Air Force’s new jet trainer.

Increasing the number of military aircraft based on commercial ones could have a trickle down effect into the global maintenance and sustainment market as well, Chrisman said.

“You can look at commercial opportunities, you can look at vertical operations, or you can look at sustainment. The international sustainment opportunity for US companies, particularly US [original equipment manufacturers], is something they are considering and ought to be considering more.”

A plane based on commonly flown aircraft, like a 767, could make sustainment easier and cheaper, he said.


companies that use the planes mainly to fly teams of workers, often between communities with limited commercial service.

The industry also pushes back hard against assertions that the safety record is poor for private aviation — which had 896 accidents with 293 fatalities in the United States in the first eight months of this year, compared with 936 accidents and 302 fatalities in that period in 2013, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Those statistics include general-aviation aircraft, from single-engine propeller planes flown by weekend enthusiasts or small businesses to big company jets.

Five days after the convention ended, the National Business Aviation Association president, Ed Bolen, released a letter denouncing a series of investigative articles in USA Today critical of the industry’s safety record — which, Mr. Bolen asserted, citing National Transportation Safety Board data, “is the strongest it has ever been.”

Two days later, a Beechcraft King Air B200 twin-engine turboprop crashed after takeoff into a building at Wichita Mid-Continent Air-port in Kansas. The crash killed the pilot and three people in the building, which housed a training center for FlightSafety Interna-tional, a flight-safety training company.

The plane, built in 1999 and owned by a convenience store chain in Pennsylvania until it was sold to Beechcraft in early October, was en route for a repainting and cabin-interior refurbishment in Mena, Ark., about 300 miles away. The pilot reported that he had “lost an engine” just before crashing.

PL Develops New 3D Printing System

The Contra Costa Times reports that Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers are the first to have used use “radial, gradient metals” in 3D printing. Douglas Hofmann, a JPL materials scientist and met-allurgist, reportedly said that the new materials they can now print together are “more functional” than more standard ones because of the way they can withstand the extreme environment of space. Hoffman added, “We believe that we’re the first people to use this 3-D printing technique to make a part. We’re able to build this part

that has symmetry like a ripple in a pond. ... Basically anywhere in space, it’s extreme. There may not be an equivalent here on Earth ... so how could we buy material from industry where there is no equal.” R. Peter Dillion, mechanical and materials engineer at JPL, similarly noted, “You can put the material you want with the properties you want. .. You don’t have to compromise.”

GlobalFoundries Acquires IBM’s Microelec-tronics Business

USA Today reports IBM announced that it will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion in cash in a deal that allows GlobalFoundries to acquire IBM’s microelectronics business. The deal will give GlobalFoundries access to “thousands of semiconductor patents” and IBM operations in New York and Vermont.

Bloomberg News notes that through the companies’ partnership, Globalfoundries “will supply IBM with Power processors in ex-change for access to IBM’s intellectual property,” which will grant it “access to key chipmaking technology and guarantee supply of chips that IBM needs for its systems, like mainframe computers and its Watson data-analytics technology.” In addition, the deal will allow Globalfoundries to acquire “IBM’s engineers and intellectual property.” In exchange for taking the unit, Globalfoundries will be able to “tap the expertise of [IBM’s] engineers in the fundamentals of semiconductor design and manufacturing.”

DOE Announces Investment In Solar Energy Research

The Hill reports the Department of Energy has “announced $53 million for 40 innovative research and development projects aimed at cutting the cost of solar energy on Wednesday.” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said, “Today, the U.S. has 15.9 gigawatts of installed solar power — enough to power more than 3.2 million average American homes. ... The projects announced today will help the U.S. solar energy industry continue to grow, ensuring America can capitalize on its vast renewable energy sources, cut carbon pollution, and continue to lead in the world in clean energy innovation.”

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Weapons Makers Urged To Innovate, Invest In Big Data And Quantum Sciences

Reuters reports that Katrina McFarland, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said the Defense Department is increasing its commu-nication with weapons makers about emerging threats and potential technology solutions. McFarland urged the industry to innovate and take risks to meet current and emerging threats, suggesting they invest more in research on such things as big data and quantum sciences. Meanwhile, companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop say they are already focusing on innovative approaches but need the Pentagon to be more clear about what it needs.

October PMI Registers At 59.0 Percent

IndustryWeek reports that “manufacturing continued its streak of expansion,” with October’s purchasing managers index reaching 59.0 percent, an increase from September’s 56.6 percent. The reading is the “17th consecutive month in which U.S. manufacturing showed growth,” according to the Institute for Supply Management. NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray said that the October readings indi-cate “healthy gains in the sector as we move into the fourth quarter.” The index for new orders increased to 65.8 percent, the production index rose to 64.8 percent, and the employment index grew to 55.5 percent for the same month.

Report: Oil exports could drive manufac-turing renaissance

The oil and gas drilling boom has been good news for U.S. manufac-turing, keeping factories supplied with cheap chemical feedstocks and powered by inexpensive energy. Now, a new report from The Aspen Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation says the United States can further drive the domestic manufacturing renaissance - and keep drill bits turning - by allowing energy companies to sell oil overseas.

The paper hinges on the notion that if the United States eases long-standing restrictions on oil exports, it will prompt further crude production inside the country. “Higher levels of oil production require higher investment expenditures for capital equipment and construction, which in turn boost overall demand for goods,” the paper says. “This stimulates the manufacturing sector and its supply and distribution chains.”

If oil companies boost their own spending on exploration activities as well as the production and transportation of crude, it will drive activity along the supply chain that provides the industry with pipes, pumps, drilling rigs, earth-moving equipment and trucks.

According to the analysis, investment in machinery for exploration and development would climb by $7 billion in 2020. Capital invest-ment for construction and mining machinery would be up by $3.6 billion.

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General Dynamics to Deliver U.S. Army’s Newest Tactical Ground Station Intelligence System

The U.S. Army awarded a contract to General Dynamics C4 Systems for 10 vehicle-mounted Tactical Ground Station (TGS) Lot D systems with an option for 11 additional systems. The TGS system is part of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), the Army’s primary deployed system for posting, processing and distributing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information in real time to intelligence analysts and commanders. The order is valued at $31.5 million with all options exercised. The first of the new TGS systems is scheduled for delivery during the third quarter of 2013.

DCGS-A provides Army analysts with access to more than 600 data sources and allows rapid collaboration through shared data access. The General Dynamics-built TGS-Lot D systems allow analysts to comb through millions of classified and unclassified records within minutes, providing commanders with status updates on persons of interest and imminent threats such as improvised explosive devices.

TGS systems have been widely deployed to forward operating bases worldwide, providing U.S. military and coalition soldiers with critical force protection intelligence that saves lives at the tactical edge.

The TGS Lot D procurement followed a full-and-open competition and includes TGS vehicle system integration, training materials, field service and support. The new TGS systems will deliver superior information processing capability, secure network communications and collaboration with other intelligence resources worldwide.

More information about General Dynamics’ expertise in these mission critical systems is available at www.gdc4s.com/ArmyISR.

Boeing Raises Twenty-Year Commercial Jet Forecast

Bloomberg News reports Boeing “raised its 20-year forecast for commercial jet demand by 3.8 percent as air traffic outstrips global economic growth and airlines refresh their fleets with $4.8 trillion in new planes.” Randy Tinseth, marketing vice president for commercial airplanes at Boeing, said he did not see a “bubble” in the market even as the company considers raising production rates. However, Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, warned inexpensive financing and oil prices could change these numbers. Meanwhile, Howard Rubel, an analyst with Jefferies LLC, predicted that Boeing and Airbus would continue to dominate the market as new entrants are just starting to come to the market.

The AP reports that speaking ahead of the Bourget international air show in Paris, Tinseth, “said rising oil prices are forcing carriers to think harder about efficiency, and that means smaller planes that burn less fuel.” That “also means design changes, streamlined air traffic control and improved navigation to shave miles (kilometers) off each flight.” The AP notes, “The demand for fuel efficiency has eaten away at orders for the wide-body long haul carriers that are major profit-drivers for Boeing and Airbus, the world’s two biggest aircraft manufacturers.”

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The sites will not be co-located with existing DoD sites that have been cleared to fly UAS in the United States, such as Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND, Pennington said. However,

he said the new airspace sites will likely butt up against those DoD-owned sites.

DoD will begin preliminary site selection for those locations by the end of 2012, Pennington said.

The unmanned aircraft will use a ground-based sense-and-avoid system for the early flight tests scheduled for the airspace locations. Sense and avoid technology allows unmanned aircraft to detect other planes in the area and change its course to avoid midair collisions.

The ground-based system will relay information from air traffic control and other sources on the location of all aircraft flying in the area of the UAS. That info will then be relayed to the UAS pilot on the ground, who can then maneuver the aircraft through the air traffic.

As tests progress, DoD officials plan to move to a partially automated sense-and-avoid system on board the aircraft, Pennington said.

Creation of these airspace bubbles was part of the FAA reauthorization bill proposed earlier this year. Lawmakers tabled passage of the FAA bill until September, when Congress is set to return from its summer recess.

Once passed, Pennington predicted that there would be a lot of “political jockeying” by lawmakers to land one of the test sites, given the money and resources DoD plans to pump into the effort.

Boeing Dreamliner Finishes Test Program

Bloomberg News reports the Boeing 787 Dreamliner “finished its 20- month flight-test program in the final hurdle toward approval for passenger service that could start next month.” The last flight was made on August 13 and now the FAA “must verify the paperwork in a review Boeing has said it expects this week and then certify the jet before its first delivery.

The agency, which has worked with Boeing since the 787’s inception, doesn’t discuss certification work, said Alison Duquette, a spokeswoman.” The article notes that the only the 787s with Rolls Royce engines completed testing and more are needed for those with GE Engines. The CNET News “Cutting Edge” blog notes that on the final test flight,

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Pratt, Rolls-Royce Realign Ties

United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit and Rolls-Royce PLC are ending one aircraft-engine joint venture to start another.Pratt will pay $1.5 billion for Rolls-Royce’s share in their existing International Aero Engines consortium, which produces the engines that power the Airbus A320 jetliner family.

The two companies plan to work together in a new venture that will develop engines for future narrow-body aircraft using Pratt’s geared turbofan technology.

The new venture will go head to head with General Electric Co. to develop more-efficient engines for the single-aisle-aircraft segment, in which the companies expect demand to be around 20,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years.

It also comes after London-based Rolls-Royce declined to develop new engines for the latest upgrades to the A320 neo, produced by Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.

Pratt had all but abandoned the single-aisle market in the early 1990s but began muscling its way back in over the past few years in the face of dismissals from its rivals including Rolls and GE.

Last year, Pratt scored a coup when Airbus selected its geared turbofan engine as one of two engine options for the revamped A320.

But this summer Pratt was excluded from a similar move at Boeing Co., which opted to upgrade its 737 instead of investing in a next-generation aircraft.

The new 737 plane exclusively uses an engine from CFM, a joint venture between GE and France’s Safran SA.

The new venture will focus on the high-bypass ratio, geared-turbofan technology. The other partners in the previous partnership—Japanese Aero Engine Corp. and MTU Aero Engines GmbH—intend to join.

Roche l icenses technology from Biodesign Institute

Roche and Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) announced an agreement to license several technologies developed by Stuart Lindsay at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Colin Nuckolls of the Columbia University Nanoscience Center for the development of a revolutionary DNA sequencing system.

The licensed technologies include specialized approaches for DNA base sensing and reading and build on an ongoing collaboration between Roche’s sequencing center of excellence, 454 Life Sciences, and IBM to develop and commercialize a single-molecule, nanopore DNA sequencer with the capacity to rapidly decode an individual’s complete genome for well below $1000.

The licensed technologies offer novel approaches for reading the sequence of bases, or letters, in a single DNA molecule as it is passed through a nanopore. The team has demonstrated proof-of-concept, and is in the midst of making a third generation reader molecule that provides better discrimination between the DNA bases. The licensing agreement with Roche will help translate these discoveries into a commercial instrument.

The DNA Transistor technology, developed by IBM Research, slows and controls the movement of the DNA molecule as it threads through a microscopic nanopore in a silicon chip, while the newly licensed DNA reading technology can decode the bases of the DNA molecule as it passes through.

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The Salt Lake Tribune reports a battery-pow-ered bus is moving students around downtown Salt Lake City and the University of Utah using

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Robots Could Be Next Ebola Innovation

The New York Times examines the potential to use robots to participate in Ebola treatment, performing or assisting in activities such as waste disposal, burials, and protective equip-ment removal. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will organize meetings to brainstorm the potential innovation.

The Manufacturing Institute Survey Highlights Workforce Needs

A survey by NAM-affiliated the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting shows that two-thirds of manufacturers have said they can’t find qualified workers for open positions. The survey highlights shortages in manufactur-ing that educators at the Henry Samueli School

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Manufacturing Responsible For 12 Percent Of GDP During 2Q Of 2014

IndustryWeek reports that the Department of Commerce announced that a rise in durable goods manufacturing “helped power a 4.6% increase in U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) during the second quarter of this year.” Durable goods manufacturing rose 8.0 percent, which was the largest increase since the fourth quarter of 2011. National Association of Man-ufacturers Chief Economist Chad Moutray said,

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Defense Industry Sees Boost By Global Threats

Missile defense, intelligence systems and other products will get a boost from rising global threats, experts say, as conflicts drive the Pentagon to look for technological advances, says Bloomberg Government Senior Defense Analyst Kevin Brancato.

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The Automotive News reports on the use of 3-D printing in the auto-motive industry. The story quotes Kevin Ayers, manager of additive and 3-D printing for SME, saying, “Because of the price per part and the materials involved, it’s not just going to allow us to build 200,000 parts for one particular car model,” adding, “It’s cost-prohibitive, and that’s a barrier we’re never going to quite overcome.”

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This lot includes the initial orders for the first two F-35 foreign military sales countries; Israel is slated to get two F-35As, and Japan its first four F-35As. The U.S. order is for 29 of the jets — 19 As for the Air Force, six Bs for the Marine Corps and four Cs for the Navy. Also included are two F-35As each for Norway and Italy, as well as four F-35Bs for the United Kingdom, Hawn says.

This lot is for fiscal 2014 buys and deliveries should be complete by the end of fiscal 2016.

The LRIP deal comes as the F-35 team plans for its first F-35C deployment on a carrier. The F-35C is slated to execute its first arrested landing on a carrier deck on the USS Nimitz on Nov. 3 off the coast of San Diego. Developmental testing is slated to last until Nov. 17, according to Navy officials.

The F-35s to be used on the carrier will employ the newly rede-signed tail hook made by Lockheed Martin. The original design was scrapped after it failed to snag the arresting wire repeatedly.

Lorraine Martin, F-35 executive vice president for Lockheed Mar-tin, says she intends to drop the price of the F-35A to $80 million in fiscal year 2019 as part of her goal to match or beat the price of any so-called fourth generation fighter — such as the Gripen or Super Hornet — that might be in production at that time and compete with the F-35. She has initiated a Blueprint for Affordability (BPA) to gather cost-saving initiatives throughout the program.

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Aerospace Suppliers Bring Robots To Their Plants

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T h e 1 7 0 - f o o t - t a l l , 78-foot-wide welding toolkit will build the core stage of the Space Launch System. The $7B SLS is the USA’s rocket for ‘deep-space’ missions to asteroids and possibly Mars.

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Colorado Eco Devo Commission Offers $19M In Incentives For More Than 1,200 jobs Continuing a months-long trend of major recruiting spends, the Colorado Economic Development Commission offered $19 million to eight com-panies that could create as many as 1,267 jobs in the state — including one whose CEO accepted the incentives on the spot and pronounced he would move his headquarters to Denver from San Francisco.

Jason Fletcher, CEO of cloud-computing provider Granicus, said his com-pany will create 221 new jobs over the next eight years as it relocates to Denver and grows its core business of managing content and technology, such as webcasting, for state and local governments.

A West Coast venture firm recently purchased the business and decided to move its main center of operations out of California to become more cost-effective.

“Denver can better support the growth we want to execute on. If you say yes, we are coming here,” Fletcher told EDC members before they unanimously approved as much as $3.24 million in job-growth incentive tax credits for the company.

This month’s plethora of incentive offerings follows two months in which the EDC has offered nearly $40 million combined in an attempt to attract some 2,000 jobs to the state.

It is the largest three-month run of offerings in the state’s history. The latest round of incentives came on the same day that Ken Lund informed staff he would be stepping down after 3-1/2 years as executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.

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In addition to the eight companies offered specific incentives, EDC members also gave conditional approval to an unnamed multinational consumer-products company considering launching a new division in Denver and creating 330 jobs on a green building campus.Source: Denver Business Journal

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“For Colorado to be at the forefront and to be able to build our hubs to help local businesses compete is really at the heart of our effort to be home to this,” Lund said. “It will allow us to be able to retrain our workforce to be able to compete in the future.”

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The Boulder-based aero-space contractor -- a unit of Broomfield-based Ball Corp. -- says it has reached a deal with Arlington, Virginia-based OmniEarth Inc., which plans to have its entire fleet of satellites — each the size of a dorm-room refrigerator — launched and deployed in orbit by 2018.

“This is the type of thing we want to be involved in,” said Carl Gelder-loos, director of business development for Ball Aerospace. “The kind of quality OmniEarth is looking for is right in our sweet spot.”

Ball Aerospace is known mainly for military and NASA government contracts. It’s excited to take the lead role in an ambitious commercial space project, Gelderloos said.

Earlier this year, OmniEarth announced it was working with Harris Corp., Draper Laboratory and Dynetics on the satellite constellation, with Dynetics building the satellite bodies in Huntsville, Alabama. The partnership aimed to raise $250 million in funding for the project.

OmniEarth CEO Lars Dyrud revealed his company is working with Ball Aerospace in an interview published Thursday by Forbes. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

Ball Aerospace is still negotiating the details with OmniEarth, but the big-picture arrangement is set, Gelderloos said.

Ball Aerospace will oversee development of the satellites’ instruments and integrating the functioning satellite, ensuring satellites work together and get information to OmniEarth and its clients, he said.

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It’s not yet clear whether the project will require adding to Ball Aerospace’s staff.

The company has sought out commercial projects amid cutbacks in space spending by the U.S. military and civilian agencies. Source: Denver Business Journal

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President Obama Announces Executive Actions Aimed At Boosting Manufacturing

The US News & World Report reports that President Obama outlined several executive actions “aimed at boosting manufacturing” through en-couraging innovation, cultivating a skilled workforce and improving the business climate. The plan involves several government agencies investing a total of $300 million to help develop emerging manufacturing technolo-gies and provide grants to develop manufacturing apprenticeship programs.

The plan is based on a report from the Advanced Manufacturing Part-nership Steering Committee. Joe Trauger, NAM Vice President of Human Resources Policy, said the report “provides a useful action plan for Congress and the administration to address many issues of concern to manufacturers across the country. Workforce issues in particular are of great importance to American manufacturers and key to remaining competitive in a global marketplace.”

GM To Bring Chevy Volt Production To US

The Wall Street Journal reports General Motors announced that it will be bringing production of its Chevy Volt’s electric drive to the transmission plant in Michigan. The move shifts production from its current location in Mexico and will be part of more than $300 million the company will make in Michigan.


Which Industry Pays Colorado’s Highest Small Business Salaries?

Colorado small businesses with 20 to 49 employees that offer positions in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction pay employees an average salary of $98,530.

Overall, the Centennial State is in the No. 18 spot in the nation for the average salary of small businesses, according to a NerdWallet report that looks at where the highest salaries are for small businesses across the country.

For its study, personal finance website NerdWallet analyzed salaries according to:Business size: businesses with fewer than 100 employees broken down into four categories — 0 to 4; 5 to 19; 20 to 49; and 50 to 99.

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New York was also up there, with employees earning salaries of $195,194 and $160,794 for businesses with 50 to 99 employees and 20 to 49 employees, respectively.

Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction employees who work for a Colorado small business with 50 to 99 employees also enjoy high salaries, an average of $81,887.

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Mining, quarrying and oil & gas extraction with an average salary of $66,495. Source: Denver Business Journal

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The first flight version of NA-SA’s Orion space vehicle is fully assembled and will be moved to its launch pad in Florida in com-ing weeks for an unmanned test launch Dec. 4.

The capsule, designed and built by Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (LMSS), is the first vehicle made to take astronauts to deep space desti-nations, such as the asteroids or Mars.

LMSS, a division of defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp., has been assembling the exploration test-flight version of Orion, or EFT-1, in Florida in preparation to be launched atop a specially-built Delta IV Heavy rocket made by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance.

“An empty shell of a spacecraft arrived to Kennedy Space Center two years ago, and now we have a fully assembled Orion standing 72 feet tall,” said Michael Hawes, Orion program manager for LMSS. “We’re ready to launch it into space and test every inch.”

That height includes a launch-abort tower that sticks up from the cap-sule and contains rocket engines meant to pull the capsule away from its launch vehicle to safety in the event of a mishap.

The test flight slated for Dec. 4 will shoot the Orion from Cape Canav-eral, Florida, to 3,600 miles beyond Earth — 15 times higher than the International Space Station — for two laps around the planet before speeding back into the atmosphere at 20,000 miles-per-hour for a Pacific Ocean splashdown. The entire flight will last less than five hours.

The test is meant to mimic the extreme re-entry forces and harsh environment the crewed versions of Orion will need to withstand carrying astronauts on deep-space missions.


Orion’s launch separation systems, heat shield, structural integrity, attitude control and guidance, avionics and parachute and recovery systems will all be tested.

In November, the EFT-1 capsule will be lifted onto a 170-foot-tall Delta IV Heavy. The rocket and capsule’s systems will be powered up and tested in preparation for the test flight.LMSS won the contract to build Orion in 2006. Source: Denver Business Journal

Utah Company Gets Grant From DOE For Fuel Cell Re-search

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, interme-diate-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 tech-nologies.”

3-D Printer Headed To Space Station For Testing In Ze-ro-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

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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 mil-lion 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.”

Gretchen Zierick, president of Zierick Man-ufacturing 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 equip-ment 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 metal-working 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 Tech-nologies Inc. in Bloomfield, Ind., said his company has already purchased 20 Maki-no-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 auto-motive 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.

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The system is one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed — and that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

Access to the world’s second-largest economy is critical for nearly any global company. Yet this often comes at a cost: the transfer of the very technologies that leading business officials — including GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt, who heads an Obama administration panel on U.S. jobs and competitiveness — cite as essential to the United States’ economic future. The “synthetic vision” system, for example, could be worth millions of dollars to airlines, which could significantly reduce costs from weather-related delays.

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From Soup To Overtime As business picks up and hiring resumes, the employees at Hiawatha are feeling more confident now. But it’s still painful to recall the recent tough times when orders dropped off about 40 percent and production hours were slashed. One worker, Richard Beaulieu, says he had to make do while working just three or four days a week. That went on for nearly a year. His memory of that lean time: “Many, many months, and a lot of soup,” he says. “But you just buck it up and get through it.”

Beaulieu and the other 65 full-timers are back to normal hours now — and can even count on some overtime.

The U.S. Looks More Competitive Dan Meckstroth, an economist with the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, says labor in the United States is looking more competitive internationally for a number of reasons. For one, U.S. wages are still depressed because of the relatively slow overall recovery. At the same time, wages have been rising in emerging markets. In addition, the skill level of American workers is generally higher. And the supply chain disruptions after last year’s Japanese disasters made some companies skittish about outsourcing to Asia, he said.

But Meckstroth says it’s hard to quantify any job gains from “reshoring.” The number may not be great, but at least the trend line is good, he said. “I’m not saying there’s a tsunami of production coming back to the United States. It’s a trickle,” Meckstroth said. “But a trickle back is better than the tidal wave out.” But at Hiawatha Rubber, Hauser does not think the future of manufacturing lies in bringing work back, even if that’s benefiting his company now. He believes greater productivity for the sector will come through increased automation. At his factory, more

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced plans to spend $425 million on supercomputer projects for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory.

Reuters reported that under the plan, the Department will spend $325 million on “Summit,” a 150 petaflop supercomputer for Oak Ridge, and “Sierra,” a 100 petaflop supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore. The Department is also allocating $100 million to the FastForward2 program, that will research “extreme scale supercomputing.”

ATK Sponsors Expanding Your Horizons STEM Conference for 14th Year November 8 marked the 14th time ATK has sponsored the Expanding Your Horizons Conference in Ogden, Utah. During the day-long con-ference, girls in grades 6-9 attend three workshops of their choosing, enjoy lunch, a keynote speaker and a prize drawing. The workshops are all hands-on, and taught by women in science, technology, engi-neering and math (STEM) careers. The charge for EYH is to spark the interest of young women to pursue careers in math and science fields, promoting how much fun math and science can be. More than 5,000 young women have attended this ATK-sponsored event over the past 14 years. Some participants have gone on to pursue STEM careers, and came back to present a workshop at the conference.

Report: 214,000 Jobs Added in October, Man-ufacturing Gains 15,000.

McClatchy reports that the Labor Department announced that employ-ers added 214,000 jobs in October, pushing the unemployment rate down to 5.8 percent and suggesting “the US economy is getting back to normal.” Gains were experienced in all sectors of the economy, and estimates from August and September were revised upward by 31,000 jobs from their initial estimate. Manufacturing added 15,000 more jobs last month, prompting NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray to say

“that is an encouraging sign that manufacturers are continuing to add workers consistent with recent increases in demand and output. In addition, manufacturing leaders remain mostly upbeat in their out-look, which should bode well for hiring moving forward in the sector.”

IndustryWeek reports that the manufacturing sub-sectors showing the most gains in October were Machinery, adding 5,200 jobs; Fab-ricated Metals, adding 3,800 jobs; Furniture, adding 3,700 jobs; and Chemicals, adding 2,400 jobs. Moutray says the numbers “suggest that hiring returned to the monthly averages we have seen over the past year. These numbers underscore the importance of pro-growth, pro-export policies over the coming months. As policymakers de-bate their next steps post-election, they need to focus on measures that will have an immediate positive impact on the economy such as tax reform, passage of Trade Promotion Authority, reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, adopting immigration reform, enhancing workforce development and finding long-term infrastructure spend-ing solutions.”


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Plate-Precision Saw CutErickson Metals _____877-543-6061

Pre-Honed TubeWestern States Metals _801-978-0562

RubberMarzee Inc.________602-269-5801

Stainless SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600

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CNC Swiss Turn MachinesAME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777Methods West ______ 602-437-2220Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Drilling MachinesCurrent EDM Inc ____650-966-9676

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Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ___ 480-836-8330

End MillsHelical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422

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Bar FeedersEdge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Cold SawsFabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342

CNC Plasma CuttersDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128

CNC Punching CentersS&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406

Iron WorkersAIT _____________ 800-321-3195Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Laser CuttersAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406Foothills Machinery ___ 303-466-3777Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268Pipe & Tube Benders/NotchersAmada America _____ 303-549-9167

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Plate RollsFabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151

Press Brakes AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151King Machine ______ 208-345-9600S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Shearing MachinesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151King Machine ______ 208-345-9600S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Welding EquipmentRocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000

Welding Equipment: Spot Welders

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Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330

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Midaco __________ 847-593-8420PRODUCTS

GunsLayke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654

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SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461PROTOTYPE MACHINERY

3D Parts To Go _______801-380-7935

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Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679

Scrap Metal RecyclingIron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679

ROBOTIC EQUIPMENTIntegrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600

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Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871

Consultants, Health & Safety

CKC Services LLC ____ 303-905-2371Consultant, ISO

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Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871

Contract InspectionAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Measure Sol __ 480-626-8131

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Engineering ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161

FinancingIEC __________ 303-593-0403Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208Quick Turn Financial____415-608-5692

First Article InspectionAdvanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161


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Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Heavyhaul

IRH ___________801-972-5581Injection Molding

3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935ISO900/AS9100 Audits

American Global Standards 617-838-4648ISO900/AS9100 RegistrationAmerican Global Standards 617-838-4648

Inspection ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340

Insurance ServicesSentry Insurance ____ 877-373-6879

Lean ConsultingABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591

Machine InstallationDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128

Machine Repair/ServicingDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151Process Improvement/ Audit

ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

X-RayCertified Inspection Service _602-267-0661Semiray____________602-275-1917

ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.American Global Standards 617-838-4648BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400

Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045MEP ____________801-863-7001Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

ISO RegistrarAmerican Global Standards 617-838-4648Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017

Lean ManufacturingMEP ____________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

Machine Tool RebuildingEDM Network ______ 480-836-1782

Process ImprovementBMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

Reverse EngineeringAdvanced Coord. Tech __ _303-469-6161Diversified Metal Services __ 801-972-6093Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

Rigging & TransferAtlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 IRH ___________ _801-972-5581

Spindle RebuildingGMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Setco-Pope Spindles _____866-362-0699

StaffingResource Mfg ________801-265-1999SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION

Hardware: USBBytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox

Serial PortBytebox ___________ 888-ByteboxSoftware:CNC Networking

Bytebox ___________ 888-ByteboxTransportation

IRH ____________801-972-5581SOFTWARE

CAD/CAM/CAEDaystrom Technologies _ 303-534-8345

SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461Consulting/Engineering

Daystrom Technologies _ 303-534-8345Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

TOOLINGArc Cutting Tools

Helical Solutions ______866-543-5422Precision Toolholding

ProductsVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Tooling SystemsVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

Live Tool HoldersVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

Static Tool HoldersVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

TRAININGCAD/CAM Training

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483Daystrom Technologies ___303-534-8345

CNC/Conventional Machining

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483Machining Software

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483USED MACHINERY

Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782Jorgensen Machine Tools__ 800-952-0151King Machine ________208-345-9600K.D. Capital Equipment___ 480-922-1674Methods West ________602-437-2220PrecisionFab Inc. ______303-779-9180ReSell CNC West _______480-694-9919S&S Machinery Sales____ 602-368-8542

10530 E. 59th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46236T: 317/826.4414 • TF: 877/240.2462 • F: 317/823.6822

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Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development

Gladhill Associates 719-495-8045 Sol


WATERJET CUTTINGMACHINERY

Action Machine _______303-532-2900Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342Flow International_______800-446-3569Global EDM Supply____ 480-836-8330Jorgensen Machine Tools __800-952-0151King Machine ________208-345-9600OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343Triad Machine ______ _ 303-424-0268

Abrasives/Blast MediaGMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300Fives ____________909-263-9282

LATE BREAKING ADDITIONComposites

Elite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891Machining

Elite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891Machining: Milling

Elite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891Manufacturing

Elite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891Tooling

Elite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891

GMEP Orion Registrar Sustaining Edge Solutions

American Global StandardsOrion Registrar

GGBusiness insurance solutions for the precision manufacturing industry

[email protected]

SolidCAM 530-863-0461Sol

3063 North 575 East

North Ogden, UT

[email protected]

Jeffrey Peterson801-710-7891

Competitive Pricing, Quality Parts, Exceptional service


Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

Joe TripiISO9001:2008 President

[email protected]

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

ASSEMBLIESAdvantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303JD Machine _________801-782-4403Stacy Machine & Tooling __303-465-3922Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Wasatch Laser Processing__ 801-972-3500Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

Electronics AssembliesAdvantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733

Welded AssembliesWeiser/Mile High Precision 303-280-2778

BAR CODINGWestern Sintering _____509-375-3096

BENDINGAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594

COMPOSITESS.A. Composites _______970-776-3877

CUTTINGMetal

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181Plasma Cutting

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181Plastic

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181ImageTek __________ 303-806-8111

Saw CuttingBandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181

DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115H& S Machine ________ 801-755-7627

DIESAble Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766

EDMEDM: Drilling Small Hole

EDM Express _______800-780-7075

LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)

EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Prec. Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676

EDM: WireCustom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265Innovative Precision ____ 801-334-6317Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755H&R Precision ________801-975-7400LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612QualTek ________ 719-598-3394 X31The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

JQ Enterprises _________801-975-0777

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind ________303-298-1801Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252

CASTINGSDie Casting

TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc

TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Precision Investment CastingDolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747

COATINGDry Film Lubrication

Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Coating: Liquid

Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome

Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117


COMPOSITES

MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335

ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

Our company logo

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MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335


Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

[email protected]: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335


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Ponderosa IndPrecision Mach’d ProductsSpecialty Steel Services

JQ En _________801-975-0777JQ En

Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

ELECTRONICSContract

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Design

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Kitting

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Prototype

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733ELECTROPOLISHING

Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31ENGINEERING/DESIGN

Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AzMark __________480-926-8969Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922

FABRICATIONAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419

Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GBC ____________303-988-6450Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Custom Auto/Truck/BikeH& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627Fabrication: Filament WindingS.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

Fabrication: CompositesS.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

Fabrication: EnclosuresFalcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Fabrication: Medium & Large

Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181

EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064GBC ____________303-988-6450Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778

Fabrication: PlasticImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Fabrication: SheetMetalAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419AzMark __________480-926-8969Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064GBC ____________303-988-6450Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776JD Machine ________801-782-4403Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818

Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Fabrication: SteelBandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064

FINISHINGAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Precision Mach’d Prod ___ 970-482-7676QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31Star Precision _______303-926-0559Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

Finishing: One StopAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281

Paramount Machinewww.paramount-machine.com

[email protected]: 801.886.2755Fax: 801.886.2759

Thompson Machine



Precision Industrial Painting--602-256-0260Glass Bead Clean

Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Hand Deburring: PrecisionH&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400

Liquid PaintingIndustrialex ______ 303-456-6847

PassivationCertified Inspection Service___602-267-0661Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31

Powder CoatingArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Silk ScreeningArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847

Potting/EncapsulationIndustrialex ______ 303-456-6847

Wet Paint/CARCPrecision Industrial Painting_602-256-0260

Aluminum (Medium & Large)Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493

FOUNDRYMay Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931

GALVANIZINGJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

Galvanizing: Hot DipJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

Galvanizing: ZincJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

GAS NITRIDINGBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590

GEAR CUTTINGPonderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252

Gear Hobbing Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

GRINDINGAzMark __________480-926-8969ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Grinding, BlanchardDiversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding, CenterlessRon Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

Grinding, Double DiscTCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding: ODAzMark __________480-926-8969Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

Grinding: SurfaceChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

Passivation

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Polishing

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Selective Coatings

ImageTek __________303-806-8111FORMING

AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540JD Machine ________801-782-4403Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

HEAT TREATINGBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590A2Z METALWORKER • 57 • Nov / Dec 2014

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Kelly MartinezMachine Shop

Lifetime Products, Inc.P.O. Box 160010, Freeport Center, Bldg D-11

Clearfield, UT 84016T: 801.726.5312 F: 801.728.1979email: [email protected]

Wet Paint/CARCWet Paint/CARCW

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Shawn Carlin [email protected]

Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Heat Treating/AerospacePhoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751

Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum

Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751HONING/LAPPING

LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654IDENTIFICATION

Silk ScreenArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

INJECTION MOLDINGLMI Machining_______303-776-6629

INSPECTIONInspection, First Article

Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Inspection Services

Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Micropulse West ______480-966-2300Sustaining Edge Solutions _888-572-9642

LASER CUTTINGLaser Cutting

Advantage Manufacturing ___ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540GBC ____________303-988-6450Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500Wrico ___________480-892-7800Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube

Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500EMI/RFI Shielding

Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847Laser Engraving

4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544Laser Marking

4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544LMI Machining_______303-776-6629

MACHININGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GBC ____________303-988-6450H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414

Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511R&H Machine _______801-621-7922RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447Radtech _________ 303-789-4247Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278

Machining: 3DMicropulse West ______480-966-2300

Machining: 5 Axis4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117AzMark __________480-926-8969Faustson __________303-420-7422JD Machine ________801-782-4403Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529

Machining: AerospaceAzMark __________480-926-8969H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Datum Machining _____208-376-6099LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Micropulse West ______480-966-2300Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Paramount Machine ____801-886-2755Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: CNC4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771DMSI___________801-972-6093EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Foremaster Tool ____ 801-737--0265GBC ____________303-988-6450H&R Precision ______ 801-975-7400H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010


Henry Parker

EMAIL: [email protected]

HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC.

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

Quality Work Delivered On Time

Mike Hirsh

Tel: 303.530.3131 6420 Odell Place Fax: 303.530.5242 Boulder, CO 80301 Email: [email protected] www.HirshPrecision.com

Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274R&H Machine _______801-621-7922RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Star Precision _______303-926-0559Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Wrico __________ 480-892-7800

Machining: CompositesMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

Machining: ContractAcu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494JD Machine ________801-782-4403Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Radtech _________ 303-789-4247Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031

Machining: DoDCM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450

Machining: LaserAzMark __________480-926-8969Faustson _________ 303-420-7422

Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Gerome Mfg _______520-622-8402Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

Machining:MedicalA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: MillingA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Datum Machining _____208-376-6099EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131JD Machine ________801-782-4403Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341

Machining: Mold BaseMaverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604Machining: Mold Making

R&H Machine _______801-621-7922

Machining: PlasticImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Machining: ProductionA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Machining: Prototype4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494

Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771Faustson __________303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Quick Turn Precision __ 801-334-6800R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331

Machining: PrecisionA&L Machining ______303-373-15404 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281


Robert Bergstrom President

SSt. t. VVrain rain MManufacturing, anufacturing, IIncnc..

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

Phone: (303) 702-1529 x 103 Fax: (303) 702-1534 Email: [email protected] RFQ Email: [email protected]

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American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668JD Machine ________801-782-4403Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

Machining: SwissBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Teton Machining ______208-642-9344White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Machining: TurningAcu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072AzMark __________480-926-8969Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Faustson _________ 303-420-7422H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131

HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850JD Machine ________801-782-4403LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine __ 435-755-0500Prec Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Teton Machining ______208-642-9344Machining: Ultra-Precision

Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Machining: Waterjet

Colorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800

MANUFACTURINGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

CompositesS.A. Composites _______970-776-3877

ContractApex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Teton Machining ______208-642-9344

Manufacturing: ElectrodeWire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591

ProductionAero Tech ________801-292-0493EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505Laser Concepts Inc. ___801-280-7723Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Rapid PrototypingWhite Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Robotic CNCDMSI ___________ 801-972-6093

Routering CNCDMSI ___________ 801-972-6093

Small PartPinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414Turnkey Product Services

Aero Tech ________801-292-0493L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505

METAL STAMPINGAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594

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Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

MOLDSColorado Tool Design Inc 720-218-5246Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

Molds: BlowLifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260

Molds: Plastic InjectionLifetime Products _____801-728-1260

Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604Molds: DieCast Design

Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246Molds: Injection Design

Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246Molds: Trim Die Design

Colorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246Molds Steel

DMSI ___________ 801-972-6093Aero Tech ________801-292-0493Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414

PAINTINGCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392

Mil Spec PaintingIndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847

Wet Paint/CARCPrecision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

PARTS: MISC.Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260

PLATINGBlanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612

AnodizingBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

CopperForesight Finishing ____480-921-0000

Electroless NickelForesight Finishing ____480-921-0000

Gold/Silver PlateGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

Nickel/ChromeCopper

Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

Tin PlateForesight Finishing ____480-921-0000Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

POLISHINGGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612PRECISION FORMING

AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Richards Fab________801-409-0392Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Wire-Tech

Aero TechEMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. ManufacturingEMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. ManufacturingEMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236

Laser Concepts Inc.Steen & Sons Machine ShopLaser Concepts Inc.Steen & Sons Machine ShopLaser Concepts Inc.

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Apex EngineeringTeton MachiningApex EngineeringTeton MachiningApex Engineering

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PRINTINGCustom Screen

ImageTek _________303-806-8111PROCESSING: METAL

Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

PUNCHINGJD Machine ________801-782-4403Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952Star Precision _______303-926-0559

REPAIRBearing Surface

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000Hydraulic Cylinder

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000Manufacturing EquipmentStacy Machine & Tooling _303-465-3922

ROLL FORMINGLifetime Products _____801-728-1260

Rolling: thread

Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320ROUTERING, CNC

Micropulse West ______480-966-2300SAW CUTTING

Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093SHOT PEENING

Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590SINTERING

Western Sintering _____509-375-3096SPINNING: METAL

Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939SPLINES

Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252

SPRINGSFlat & Wire

SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113STAMPING

AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594

Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038QualTek ________719-598-3394 x31Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:AerospacePacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038

Stamping:BendingPacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656

Stamping:Deep DrawThompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:DesignPacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778

Stamping:Flat FormingSPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping: LightCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping:PrecisionCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Stamping:PrototypeWrico ___________480-892-7800

Stamping:Short RunCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

SWISS SCREW MCHG.Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Screwing: Lead

Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

TAPPINGLaser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723

TESTINGTesting: Corrosive

CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250Testing: Non-Destructive

Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117Pilkington Metal Finishing __ 801-972-2146

THERMFORMINGLMI Machining_______303-776-6629

TOOL & DIEForemaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Newport Tool _______801-295-7411The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________480-892-7800

TOOLINGMountain View Machine _435-755-0500Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922Western Sintering _____509-375-3096

TUBE FORMINGHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

Formed TubingHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Tube Bending /FabricationHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

WATERJET CUTTINGColorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800

WELDINGAble Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000GBC ____________303-988-6450H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627JD Machine ________801-782-4403JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large

Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Skyline Products _______719-392-9046Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392

Welding: OrbitalRichards Fab _____ 801-409-0392

Welding: PrecisionAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778

Welding: RoboticMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

Welding: TIGArrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419GBC ____________303-988-6450Mountain View Machine __ 435-755-0500

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Radtech...59RD Machine...60Resell CNC West...31,54ResourceMfg...17,56Richards Fab...56RMTMA...48Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...52Roentgen USA...52Ron Grob CO....57Royal Products...38,49Ryerson...15,49,51-53SA Composites...61S&S Machinery...50Samuel Son & CO..5,23,52Sawblade.com...7Scientific Cutting Tools...32Seco Tools Inc...50Sentry Insurance...54Setco Spindles & Slides...50Shop Tools, Inc..18,50Skydandee Mfg...55Smith Machinery...49,63Specialty Steel Serv....30,56SPRING WORKS Utah...60St. Vrain Manufacturing...59Stacy Machine & Tooling,...34,55Star Metal Fluids...13,49,56Star Precision...56Steel Services Grinding...57Steen & Sons Machine..58Superior Grinding..6,57Sustaining Edge Solutions...50TAPIT All Lubricants...50TCI Precision Metals...51Teton Machining...58�e ToolRoom Inc...61Todd Machinery...1,26-29,40,49�ompson Machine...57Tornos...11,49Triad Machinery...39,50Trusty Cook...11,54TVT Die Casting...46-47,55TW Metals...52U.S. Carbide...43Universal Laser Systems...22United Performance Metals...43,53Utah Metal Works, Inc...14,52Von Ruden Mfg...49,51Wasatch Laser Forming...59Weiser/Mile High Precision...61Western Sintering...61Western States Metals...30,50White Rock...61Wrico Stamping...44,57

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