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Vol. 8, No. 4 Sept / Oct 2015

IT’S ABOUT SUPERIOR MACHINES...IT’S ABOUT SUPERIOR MACHINES...IT’S ABOUT SUPERIOR MACHINES...

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CONTRIBUTORS

Kim CarpenterGene WirthHugh Taylor

Kathy Carpenter

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PUBLISHER/EDITORLinda Daly

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Portland, OR 97292

Telephone: (602) 412-7696Website: www.a2zManufacturing.com

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Editors Corner

A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain • 4 • Sept / Oct 2015

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This Issue’s Shop Profile

Elon Musk Sums Up Manufacturing...

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering

and manufacturing problems.” and

“The rumors of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.”

This issue brings so much exciting news to the Rocky Mountain region! “Aerospace Manufac-turing Takes Off in Utah”, “Raytheon Announces Expansion into Colorado”, “Colorado-based Woodward Gets Deal To Build Parts For New Airbus”, New Fighter Jets Arrive At Utah’s Hill Air Force Base”, “Manufacturing Jobs Climb in the Rocky Mountain State” , and “Report: Most Manufacturing Segments To Grow This Year” — these are just some of the articles that we’ve pulled from various journals over the past month or so. I haven’t seen such optimism in the Rocky Mountain region since before the latest recession.

And in this month, October, it is officially ‘Manufacturing Day’, aka MFG DAY, a celebration that provides an opportunity for manufacturers to highlight their work and their workers and to energize a future pipeline of skilled workers. Last year all across the country, orga-nizations showed the public what manufacturing really looks like through more than 1,660 open houses and events in each of the 50 states with an estimated 50,000 students, parents, and community members attending. Manufacturing Day also resulted in thousands of articles, TV segments and interviews; participation from public officials; and proclamations across the country - including the first ever proclamation from the President of the United States.

MFG DAY is becoming a rallying point for a growing mass movement, as it empowers manufacturers to come together to address their collective challenges so they can help their communities and future generations thrive. It is not too late to participate or to sponsor an event to celebrate manufacturing in our great country!

Many Machine Tool Dealers in the Rocky Mountain states are hosting Open Houses to share new technologies with their customers. Haas Factory Outlets throughout the United States will be hosting their guests. If you don’t know about the Gene Haas Foundation and you are trying to promote manufacturing in your region, you should attend an Open House to learn more. The Gene Haas Foundation was founded in 1999 to fund the needs of the local community and other deserving charities. A recent report called “The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing 2015 and Beyond” projects that, “Over the next decade, nearly three and a half million manufacturing jobs will likely need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled.” Gene’s commitment to the importance of US manufacturing has incited him to grow his personal foundation and direct his foun-dation board to focus on manufacturing education and grants for scholarships for students. To date, more than 1200 organizations have received funds totaling over 27 million dollars from the Gene Haas Foundation.

It is so enlightening to have the opportunity to interview and write about great companies each issue — without a doubt it is the most enjoyable aspect of publishing this magazine! In this issue, you will read about a machine tool dealer, in business since 1952, is emerging as an even greater entity through a partnership. You will read about Spyderco, manufactur-ers of knives proudly designed and manufactured in the USA. Lastly, Jensen Precision is a successful manufacturing entity was founded from the company who invented zip drives. Until next issue, celebrate manufacturing. And of course, God Bless Our Troops!


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Announcements & Releases

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J.M. Grisley Expands With Doosan Into Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming!

J.M. Gr isley, a 4th generation machine tool dealer headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, is pleased to announce that it was selected by prestigious machine tool builder Doosan Infracore to expand its territory to

include Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

The company, in business for 90 years, has been carrying the Doosan machine tool line for its customers in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Lars Grisley, Managing Director, says, “We have been the Doosan dealer for nearly 3 decades, and we are honored to have been chosen to expand our market presence in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming. We are already staffed up to begin supporting loyal Doosan customers in our new territories.”

He continued, “In these uncertain times in the industry, our customers can be assured that they are in good hands with a 4th generation family

owned machine tool dealer such as J.M. Grisley.

Lars encourages new and existing customers to contact J.M. Grisley at (801)-486-7519 or visit their website at jmgrisleymachine.com

Glen James Joins Schenk IntertechSchenk Inter tech is an independent Manufacturers Agency covering the four states of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, representing engineered systems including high performance cutting tools, precision boring systems, top quality tool holders, machine tool accessories, tool presetters, inspection equipment and workholding systems. We represent companies such as Big-Kaiser, Rego-Fix, Kaiser Thinbit, Cogsdill, Unist, Iti, K-Tool and George Products (“Oasis”).

Glen James came to us with a wealth of experience from highly regarded manufacturers with well over 20 years of operating CNC mills and lathes. He can apply several popular machine controls, streamline machining processes and has strong editing skills. He had responsibilities for setting up jobs, and the selection and presetting of tools. An additional benefit to us is his years of familiarity with some of our products such as Big Kaiser and Rego-Fix.



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IRH Welcomes Steve Nielsen as Business Development

IRH is pleased to announce that Steve Nielsen recently joined the IRH team handling Business Development for Millwright and Rigging services. Steve has a strong background in industry

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and construction with over 25 years of experience. He has experience in Facilities Management, Project Management and Plant and Industrial Engineering. Steve has a wealth of knowledge from both the contractor’s and the customer’s perspective.

G a n e s h M a c h i n e r y Open-House Success

The Ganesh Machinery open-house, held on September 1st, was a big success and well attended with over 250 guests witnessing 20 CNC machines demonstrating enhanced cutting processes at their updated Chatsworth, CA facility.

Ganesh Machinery used this event to show customers strategies on how to be more successful by focusing on using labor smarter and achieve seamless “done-in-one-operation” production by taking the machining-cell concept to the next level.

Ganesh demonstrated Multi-Tasking CNC lathes with up to 11-axis to making short-work of complex parts for profitable

“done-in-one” production. The venerable Cyclone CS-32 CNC Swiss style machine also introduced dual angular milling and drilling heads, gear hobbing attachments, and large slotting head tools to expand the profit potential of that series of machines. The 36-tool Cyclone BY-2 9-axis CNC lathe was shown using the angular cutting


We Know Long ProductsImproved turnaround on your production cutting

orders for bar, tubing or structural shapes. Ryerson

high-speed, precision carbide saws deliver close

tolerance semi-finished parts in high volumes.

Choose rounds, squares, hexes, tubing, angles,

channels or tees. Our inventories include a wide

range of grades in carbon, alloy, stainless steel,

aluminum, nickel or copper alloys.

Ryerson’s full line of metal products, in combination

with our wide variety of processing capabilities, can

simplify your manufacturing and procurement.

Whether you need a one-of-a-kind component or

parts in production quantities, we offer the

advantage of one stop shopping to reduce your

overall costs and streamline your operations.

Markets Served:• Energy / Oil and Gas• Mining• Aerospace

Grades Stocked: Carbon & Alloy – A36, 516G70, 514, 572G50, AR400

Stainless – All Grades

Aluminum – 1100, 6061, 7075, 2024, 7050, CAST TOOL

Processed To Fit Your Needs:• Oxy Fuel Cutting – Up to 12” Thick Steel• High Definition Plasma Cutting – Up to 3” Thick Carbon and Stainless• STD. Plasma Cut Up To 61⁄4” Stainless/Aluminum (Edgestart)• Water Jet Cutting• Precision Saw Cutting – Up to .005” Cut Tolerance• Shearing • Beveling up to 3”• Heat Treating • Temper Passing• Stress Relieving

Markets Served:• Energy • Industrial• Mining • OEMs• Aerospace

Grades Stocked: Bar - 4130 / 4140-L80 / 4140-P110 / 4340 / 8620 / 1144 / 1018 / 1045 / 304L / 316L / 17-4 / 6061 / 6063 / 7075

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Announcements Continued capabilities of its B-Axis while demonstrating how complex lathe parts up to 2” with milled and drilled angles can be easily machined.

The “Big-Bore” lathe series, starting at 30” swing and going up to 100” lathe swing capacity with spindle bores up to 32”, was shown with front and rear power chucks.

The Ganesh CNC vertical milling machine line VFM-2416 with an X,Y of 24” x 16” was demonstrated, as well as the VFM-5127. This series of premium CNC verticals go up to 100” in X and 39” in Y and feature 680-block look-ahead and high-speed data processing for faster production and better surface finish. The affordable Ganesh 5X-8 5-axis milling machine was shown processing a full 5-axis workpiece.

Ganesh demonstrated their extensive capabilities in production analysis, automation and turn-key solutions in support of challenging production applications. Ganesh offers a complete line of CNC milling and turning machines to meet your needs. The new 44-page catalog presents the entire Ganesh machine tool lineup showing solutions that will provide greater manufacturing efficiency.

Star Metal Fluids Introduces New Team Members

Star Metal Fluids is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Pelletier and Raul Esparza to the team. With the continued growth of

the company it is important that we build with the best people. Approaching their 25th anniversary, Star Metal Fluids is the largest single supplier of metalworking fluids and fluid management equipment in the southwest with warehouses in Phoenix and West Valley Ut. Being an aggressive and dynamic company the words “function or maintain” are NOT in our vocabulary...but instead we use the words “credibility and visibility”.

As a leader we must have the best trained personnel to assist our valued customers in correct product selection per their applications and support those products with fast and correct answers when the needs arise. And, last but not least...our customer service must always be second to none!

Please welcome Chris and Raul and let them prove to you the interest they have in your company and operations with the many solutions we offer at Star Metal Fluids to reduce your costs and increase productivity. Contact Star Metal Fluids at 800.367.9966 or visit metalfluids.com



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

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

801.486.7519www.jmgrisleymachine.com


“We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our coverage of the Doosan Infracore machine tool line. J.M. Grisley, in business for 90 years, has sold Doosan machine tools into Utah, Montana and Wyoming for the past 3 decades. We are pleased to announce that Doosan has selected J.M.

Grisley as the distributor for Colorado and New Mexico.

We are already staffed up to support our new customers in this territory.

In these uncertain times, you can feel confident when you purchase your Doosan machine tools from J.M. Grisley, whether your business is in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska or New Mexico. Trust your machine tool purchases from a family-run company that has been supporting the

industry for 90 years now!”

Regards, Lars Grisley, Managing Director, J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc.

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Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. Shares Their Business Model

Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc., is a global precision re-roller and distributor of stainless steel strip, special metals strip, foil, shaped wire, fine wire, sheet, plate, bar and PV ribbon products. Ulbrich’s product line includes, but is not limited to: stainless steels, PH grades, nickel and nickel alloys, cobalt, niobium, zirconium, titanium and

titanium alloys. The company’s products are used across many industries including: aerospace, oil and gas, automotive, power generation, and various sectors within the medical industry.

Ulbrich has 12 strategically located sites in five countries across North America and Europe. In order to achieve perfection, all of the Ulbrich facilities must follow the corporate mandate to meet the international quality standards in addition to the specific quality standards of the regions, industries and key multinational manufacturers (OEMs) they service. As such, all locations are ISO 9001:2008 (International Organization for Standardization) certified, in addition to other certifications such as the Laboratory Control at Source (LCS) accreditation and the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) qualification. These certifications allow customers the certainty of the quality of their metal products.

Ulbrich continually supplies their customers with metals that are engineered to enhance and improve a wide variety of processes. With over 90 years of experience, Ulbrich is known for their excellent reliability, superior performance, and highly trained Engineers, Product Managers, and Sales Executives who can assist in all aspects of material selection and production of your stainless steel or special metals requirements.

Resell CNC Auctions Recognized As An Inc. 500 Company For Second Straight Year

For the second year straight, Resell CNC Auctions has been named to the prestigious Inc. 500, a list of America’s fastest growing private companies. This year, Resell CNC Auctions earned the #108 spot overall, an increase of 47 positions, and the #7 spot in business products and services.

“As an Inc. 500 honoree, Resell CNC Auctions now shares a pedigree with Intuit, Zappos, Under Armor, Microsoft, GoPro, Oracle and other notable alumni,” said Eric Schurenberg, President and Editor in Chief of Inc. Magazine.

Started in 2008, Resell CNC Auctions has grown to be a leader in used manufacturing equipment sales and specializes in online auctions and liquidations. Resell CNC Auctions has experienced 3209% growth over the past 3 years and it has offices and





representation in Florida, Arizona, Texas, California and Illinois.

“We are pleased to have once again been recognized as an Inc. 500 company. We are committed to our customers and to being the easiest, most reliable and trusted platform for buying and selling used manufacturing equipment,” said CEO John Butz. He continued,

“And with our continued expansion of our Phoenix, Arizona location headed by Mike Mills and with the recent addition of Scott Magnuson, Resell CNC is poised to continue on our rapid growth path.”

SKB Cases Selects PlaSteel As Master Distributor

P l a s t e e l h a s b e c o m e t h e m a s t e r distributor for SKB cases in the states of Arizona,

Utah, and New Mexico. SKB manufactures Military/Industrial Grade Waterproof Cases. The cases come in a variety of sizes and colors and with several interior options available; including: empty • cubed foam

• layered foam • padded dividers • trays • custom foam

Trent Powell, Vice President of Sales for PlaSteel, says, “ We are delighted that SKB selected our company to distribute their

waterproof cases. SKB felt the custom foam kitting solutions Plasteel provides was a perfect match for their award winning cases. PlaSteel also has a unique FOD prevention program not found elsewhere in the industry.”

PlaSteel supports customers in a wide range of industries, including Electronic, Medical, Aerospace and Defense. The company is an innovative, women owned plastic and metal component manufacturing company, aimed at offering high-quality products using the best of craftsmanship and customer support.

To learn more aboutPlaSteel’s capabilities, contact them at (480) 491-8100 or visit www.PlaSteelAZ.com. Mention Promo Code ‘SKB’ to learn about Plasteel’s specials.

BMSC Helps Companies with ISO 9001:2015

BMSC, LLC announces that they have more than five companies scheduled for ISO 9001:2015 registration in November of this year! Although the standard is not due to be released until September or October, the registrar the companies are using, Great Western Registrar, will be auditing them to the new standard and the second the registrar’s plan is accepted the clients will receive their ISO 9001:2015 certification! Most of the companies are AS9100 compliant but do not want to wait




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The new ISO 9001:2015 standard has many improvements over the prior standard and BMSC’s new and existing clients are excited to upgrade and take advantage of the new requirements such as risk management and process performance objectives.

For Machine Shops, Where You Start Has The Biggest Impact On Where You End Up

For today’s machine shops & OEM’s, timing is tight and margins are even tighter. Dix Metals Machine-Ready Blanks allow machine shops to reduce prep-time and get

to final production quicker. This allows shops - and their machinists - to focus on what they’re good at, which is key to success in manufacturing.

Precision-cut, prefabricated materials, machined and ground to tight-tolerance specifications, result in precise, flawless Machine-Ready Blanks in stainless steel, aluminum and other alloys, and are delivered flat, square and parallel in whatever format your shop requires. Dix Metals supplies most of the metal they use, but can also work with customers’ material. The key to success for Dix is understanding what goes into creating a

blank, what the end use is going to be and having the right machines to produce these blanks at high volumes.

“Customers can produce blanks in-house, but it’s ultimately an inefficient process, so you can waste an incredible amount of time just getting to your starting point,” says Jon-David Nutter, General Manager at Dix Metals. “We’re set up to produce blanks and we do


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Announcements Continued it better than anyone in the industry. In the end, it reduces customers’ frustration but more importantly, it reduces your cost.”

For information about Dix Metals and their Machine-Ready Blanks, contact Bryan Jenkins, [email protected] or 212-634-9383 x. 700.

Haas Factory Outlet – Idaho/Montana, A Division Of King Machine Invites You To Haas Demo Days

King Machine, Inc., the Haas Factory Outlet for Idaho and Montana will be hosting Haas Demo Days at two locations in October.

There will be live machine & cutting tool demos, educational mini-seminars and videos, manufacturer reps on hand to answer questions about your specific needs, great giveaways, and BBQ! Come check out the latest in high-performance, high-production Haas CNC machines with technology designed to “MAKE YOU MORE MONEY FASTER!”. Special features this year at the Idaho location include a UMC-750SS 5-Axis Machining Center with an integrated machine tending robot, the NEW DM-1 Drill/Mill Center featuring Wireless Intuitive Probing, a VF-2SS Super-Speed VMC with the NEW HRC160 Roller Cam Rotary Table, the newly redesigned TL-1 CNC Toolroom Lathe, an ST-25 CNC Lathe featuring the Auto Tool Presetter, 3D printing by Stratasys, and much more. Also, a free Haas hat for all guests! Save the date and plan to attend at the location nearest you!

• October 14th & 15th – King Machine, Inc., 443 W Pennwood St, Meridian, ID 83642, 10 AM to 6 PM

• October 14th - Flathead Valley

Community College, Occupational & Trades Building, 777 Grandview Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901, 10 AM to 6 PM (BBQ lunch served 11 AM to 2 PM, both locations!)

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Haas Factory Outlet - Denver / Salt Lake, A Division Of MMT, LLC And Productivity, Inc. Invite You To Haas Demo Days

Haas Factory Outlet - Denver / Salt Lake, a division of MMT, LLC and Productivity, Inc. invite you to Haas Demo Days.

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Denver’s lineup includes a UMC-750, a VM-2 showing thru spindle coolant, the new Haas enclosure exhaust and the new auto coolant refill. The DM-1 with an integrated robot. ST-20 showcasing the totally new Haas Bar Feeder the new TL-2. Also on display will be the new MMT Tooling division. Save the date and plan to attend....Please RSVP to [email protected] forthe Utah event and [email protected] for Colorado event.

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October Events: 1: Board Meeting8: Chapter Meeting-Apprenticeship Program Kickoff20: Plant Managers Roundtable21-24: Fall Conference In St. LouisNovember Events:5: Board Meeting11: CFO Roundtable12: Annual Meeting-Roundtable 18: HR Roundtable

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Ron Grob Company Celebrates 50 Years in Business

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In celebration of Manufacturing Day 2015, Makino is opening its facility to more than 500 students and community visitors in order to encourage and promote youth interest in manufacturing careers.

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Gov. Herbert announced the Utah Aerospace Pathways program, which will provide Utah students the opportunity to graduate high school with a certificate in aerospace manufacturing and begin an aerospace manufacturing career. This unique program has brought aerospace industry representatives, education leaders and government together in an unprecedented collaboration.

“The creation of the Utah Aerospace Pathways program will benefit Utah students for generations to come. This is among the first time industry partners and K-12 educators are working closely together to directly address their workforce needs in the state,” Gov. Herbert said.”

The collaboration started in March of this year with the goal of de-veloping a pilot program for the 2015 school year. The first semester of the program will take place in high schools in Granite and Davis School Districts, while the second semester will take place at Davis Applied Technology College and Salt Lake Community College. Students will also participate in a paid internship during their senior year of high school.

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Having delayed the award of follow-on Commercial Resup-ply Services (CRS) contracts until at least November, NASA is considering ordering more International

Space Station cargo deliveries from Orbital ATK and SpaceX, both of which had already quietly hauled in additional orders under CRS deals signed in 2008.

After contract modifications initiated late last year and finalized this summer, SpaceX is on the hook for a total of 15 flights to the space station, up from the 12 NASA ordered in 2008. Orbital ATK wound up with 10 flights, up from eight, following the latest round of con-tract modifications, NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz said.

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Orbital ATK and SpaceX now face competition for a follow-on CRS contract from at least three companies: Boeing, Sierra Nevada and Lockheed Martin. Those companies, and the incumbents, have all con-firmed they bid on CRS-2 when NASA solicited offers in September.

In the CRS contract mods already completed, Orbital ATK origi-nally got three additional flights, Schierholz said. However, two of Orbital ATK’s missions were combined after the company decided to enlarge its Cygnus space tug and launch it aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Atlas 5 is more powerful than Orbital ATK’s Antares ve-hicle, which is out of commission until early next year following an Oct. 28 launch failure at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.

Orbital ATK is using Atlas 5 while it replaces Antares’ main-stage engine with new Russian-made RD-181s. Antares was using AJ-26 engines, Soviet-vintage NK-33s refurbished and rebranded by Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California. After the AJ-26 was blamed for the Antares failure, Orbital ATK decided to switch engines and ordered one ULA Atlas 5 through Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services for a Cygnus launch slated for December.

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Like Orbital ATK, SpaceX is also recovering from a launch failure during a CRS mission. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated about two minutes after launch on what was supposed to be its seventh paid cargo run for NASA.

SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk implicated a faulty upper-stage strut in the failure, although the Hawthorne, Califor-nia-based company has yet to publish an official report on the accident.

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SpaceX’s next cargo run for NASA, its eighth, would also happen in November, this person said.

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Autoliv, Inc. , the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to establish a Joint Venture (JV) with Nissin Kogyo.

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Mark Smith, Vice President/General Manager for the company, says, “MMT combining forces with Productivity, Inc. is outstand-ing for our customers. They are a natural fit for our customers and us. For one, they carry many of the same machine tool lines that Moncktons has carried for years, including Haas, Makino, and Citizen/Miyano. They also share our values of honesty and superior customer service.” He continued, “The acquisition is providing our Rocky Mountain customers with several new opportunities that we could not provide previously – we will be able to leverage Productivity’s expertise in tooling and accesso-ries, robotics and automation, applications engineering and used machines/auction services.”

Mark elaborated, “At MMT, we cover a land mass of 20% of the entire United States, yet less than 2% of the spindles purchased in the country are sold into the Rocky Mountain region. What this means for our customers is that MMT now can offer a wide variety of products that our customers require, not just machine tools. Productivity, by its shear size and diverse product offering, enables us to offer these services and products to our customers in the Rocky Mountain region, whether it is tooling, design of au-tomation systems, robotics, financing and even vending systems.”

Greg Buck, President, of Productivity, says, “MMT, LLC intends to expand and deepen the excellent relationships that Tom Mon-ckton and George Michel developed over the many years they managed the company.” He continued, “Our customers in the Rocky Mountain region all know Mark Smith and Steve Polster, who have been supporting the region, with Mark in our Denver office, and Steve in our Salt Lake City office. We are pleased that coincident with our 2 companies joining forces, Mark and Steve are now principals in MMT, LLC, and they will support our customers as Vice President/General Managers, in their respective regions.”

Steve says, “Produc-tivity brings us a team of experts. In addition to our lo-cal sales and service team, our customers now have access to an extended team of Service Technicians, 15 Applications En-gineers, as well as in house experts that support tooling and accessory sales. He continued, “Our customers are not just buying machine tools – they are buy-

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ing from a company that can offer the best support throughout the life of their machine tools. Through Productivity, MMT can offer its customers quick turn-around for rotary repairs, full service applications engineering and train-ing, just to name a few. The biggest upside we can now offer our customers is the confidence that MMT, a Di-vision of Productivity, can completely cover their entire metalworking needs.”

Mark adds, “In addition to our new extended support from Productivity, our office in Salt Lake City has a staff of 11 and our Denver office has a staff of 19 supporting our customers locally. We are also in the process of building dedicated local teams in the Rocky Mountain region to support all of our customers’ tooling and accessory needs.”

Mark and Steve comprise the local management team of MMT, LLC. They have a long history together in the metalworking industry. Mark and Steve started their careers in Chicago. Mark brought Steve into Moncktons several years ago in preparation for the two to become owners of the new MMT, LLC. Mark and Greg got acquainted over a decade ago, meeting regularly at various machine tool events and more recently with Steve and Kevin Timm, Productivity’s COO. The solid relationship of the management team will ensure that the transition of Moncktons Machine Tools to the Productivity family will be a smooth one, and one that benefits all of their Rocky Mountain customers.

Since its inception, Moncktons Machine Tool has been a customer-focused company, serving thousands of customers across the Rocky Mountain region for more than 6 decades. Today, the new entity, MMT LLC., A Division of

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“I have 18 Haas machines today, all purchased through Mark Smith and his team. Their service is very good — they stock parts locally, and when we have an issue, they have a large team of technicians that we can count on. They select the technician by skill set to match our issue.

I’ve been working with MMT for a decade now, and I think their partnership with a large machine tool dealer, coupled with their local expertise, will afford us a larger resource pool, and it can only be good for us.” Machine Shop in Colorado

“MMT has been our machine tool dealer for over a decade now. In this period, we have purchased 7 Haas machines, 4 Makino ma-chines and a Citizen machine.

We have always been very pleased with Monckton’s service and support.

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Stan was my MMT Sales En-gineer for years, and Bryan Johnson supports us now. Both have been very good for us

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I think the ‘new MMT’ with Productivity’s backing will be very positiive for us. While we always had great service, when

we needed applications support, MMT supported us through the builder, like Makino. With the new MMT, as a part of Produc-tivity, we, will now have local applications support.” Medical Manufacturer in Utah

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Air Force Puts 22 Companies On $490M Agile Acquisition Contract

The A i r Fo r c e h a s awarded 22 companies a spot on a nearly half-bil-lion dollar contract un-der its Agile Acquisition program for the devel-opment of new systems and the modification of existing ones.

The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a ceiling of $490 million and covers pre-program activities, technol-ogy development, engineering and manufacturing, and production. Work under the contract will be done at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., which hosts the Air Force’s test and evaluation center for air-de-livered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, command and control systems, and the service’s special operations systems.

The idea of greater agility in acquisitions is something the Air Force outlined as part of its 30-year strategy released in July 2014. In that document, the Air Force said its wanted to get away from large, complex procurements “with crippling interdependencies” and move toward “programs with simple, severable components, open architectures and more distributed participation.”

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Driverless Truck Designed To Improve Safety In Work Zones

Royal Truck & Equipment Inc., demon-strates its self-driving crash truck, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Bethlehem, Pa. The company’s self-driving truck will make its debut at highway construction sites in Florida by the end of the year under a state Department of Transportation pilot program. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)Roving construction crews - the kind you see blacktopping a road, painting lines, inspecting a bridge or installing a traffic signal - are often protected from oncoming traffic by a specialized truck outfitted with a crash barrier.

The crash trucks, fitted with a device called a truck-mounted attenuator, have been credited with saving lives. But the workers who drive them are inevitably placed in harm’s way, “literally wait-ing to be struck,” said Robert Roy, president of Royal Truck & Equipment Inc. in Coopersburg.

Last month, Royal demonstrated its new driverless crash truck that it hopes will some day improve safety at work zones around the country. Two of the autonomous vehicles will make their debut at highway construction sites in Florida by the end of the year under a state Department of Transportation demonstration program.

“Any time a driver can be removed from these vehicles in a very dangerous situation, and if the vehicle’s struck, there’s nobody inside of it to receive the damage or the injuries, that’s measuring success,” Roy said.

Truck-mounted attenuators have been around for 30 years. One study, published this year in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board,

found they cut work-zone injuries and fatalities from rear-end crashes nearly in half.

There is considerable interest in autonomous truck-mounted attenuators, both for their potential to reduce risk and as a way to save on labor costs, one of the study’s authors, Gerald Ullman of Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute, said Monday.

“Connected and autonomous vehicles in general are viewed as the future of surface transportation, and this technology may be one of the first ways in which it gets commercialized,” he said.

Google and traditional car companies have been developing self-driving vehicles, while Daimler Trucks North America LLC recently demonstrated the first self-driving tractor-trailer to be licensed on public roads. Daimler said it would be years before a self-driving truck hits the market.


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Metals company Alcoa Inc said it will invest $60 million to expand its research and development center in Pennsylvania to explore ways to make 3D printing viable on an industrial scale to produce parts for the aerospace, automotive and construction sectors.

The move is part of Alcoa’s strategy of investing in more advanced aerospace and automotive products while selling off some of its more traditional yet costly smelting facilities.

Also known as additive printing, 3D printers build three-dimensional metal parts by layering and heating metal alloy powder, which are then treated in a forge to make them stronger.

The 3D process has been used to build prototypes for 25 years, but only now is making its way into regular production.

Alcoa’s chief technology officer, Ray Kilmer, said the current available alloys are expensive, and part of the focus of the expanded R&D center will be to explore new aluminum, titanium, nickel and other metal alloys.

“The (alloy) powders need to be improved upon, they need to be cost effective, and they need to work better in the additive printing process,” Kilmer said. “What’s new now is the machines are getting

better, faster and cheaper. Alcoa is stepping into the process so we can get the performance and the cost to where they need to be.”

Kilmer said additive printing could be used to manufacture anything from fasteners to wheels and jet engine turbine blades. The R&D center would also look at different additive printing technologies and ways to reduce the waste of costly metal alloys that occurs in traditional manufacturing processes.

Construction on the new facility is due to be completed in the first quarter of 2016.

Proponents of 3D printing say it can help aircraft manufacturers cut the cost of parts made from titanium, which costs seven times more than aluminum.

Norwegian titanium component manufacturer Norsk Titanium AS recently announced plans to establish the world’s first industrial-scale 3D printing facility in the United States.

U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co has said it will introduce its first 3D-printed parts in an aircraft engine platform in 2016, saying that the lighter and simpler parts will improve engine performance. Source: Reuters

Private Space Stations Could Be a Reality by 2025

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“This is an exciting moment,” said Alex MacDonald, program executive for NASA’s Emerging Space Office. “We are going to have a legitimate opportunity to run that great experiment of privately owned facilities, if you guys are able to raise the money to do it. And that’s really the exciting part.”

MacDonald was addressing entrepreneurs who were on a commer-cial space station panel with him at the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2015 conference.

NASA uses the International Space Station (ISS) for basic research and to reduce the human and technological risks of sending astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO). That need will not end even if the space station is retired in 2024, as currently planned, experts say.

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“The question is, what’s that point? Where do you get to the point where you say, ‘OK, I’ve retired enough risk, or I’ve got risk down to the point where I can’t really fix it all, but I can identify it and then make decisions about how I’m going to manage it or how I’m going to respond to it?’” Dittmar added. “That question continues to be one that is debated inside the agency, and sort of moves back and forth inside the agency. I would say that the window is narrowing on it, but it’s not set.”

NASA will not build another space station in LEO; instead, it will look to buy services from the private sector.

“From a commercial point of view, the issue is, how do you know when you’re there there?” Dittmar said, then supplied the an-swer herself: “When you know that you have a critical mass of investment and endeavor and applications being developed and new ideas and entrepreneurial avenues and all the rest of that.”

Private companies are currently using the ISS for experiments, commercial research and the launching of tiny spacecraft called cubesats.

Marybeth Edeen, NASA’s ISS National Laboratory manager, said that crew time for conducting experiments and deploying cubesats is at a premium.

As soon as private industry starts to create platforms for such activities as gowing protein crystals, launching cubesats or con-ducting rodent research, NASA will offload those activities to free up time and space for other work, Edeen said. NASA will not become an anchor tenant for a commercial facility, she added.

Jeffrey Manber, managing director of NanoRacks, a company that helps send experiments and satellites to the ISS, said there’s a need for more destinations in space as transportation options expand in the years ahead.

“We know that, let’s say in five years, you’ll have five ways to send humans to and from space,” Manber said. “That’s pretty extraor-dinary. You’re going to have Boeing, you’re going to have SpaceX, you’re going to have Roscosmos [the Russian space agency], you’re going to have the Chinese, you’ll be looking at Blue [Origin] in a few years. You know, it’s just an extraordinary time when you just look at the range of opportunities.

“We need destinations,” Manber added. “For me, in an ironic way or a convoluted way, the importance of deploying small satellites from the station today is that it makes platforms relevant today. It makes destinations [relevant]. I don’t want to be in a world where we’re just launching rockets, sending off satellites. I want to be in a place where, in the near future, we’re living and working in space.” Source: Space.com.


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Report: $2B Bid To Buy Colorado’s ULA From Lockheed Martin and Boeing

Aerojet Rocketdyne Hold-ings Inc. has reportedly offered about $2 billion to buy Centennial-based rocketmaker United Launch Alliance from its parent companies, Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

An Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition, if successful, would change ULA’s own-ership from a Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture to an aerospace contractor owned by a company that has fought to become the supplier of ULA’s main rocket engine.

Aerojet’s unsolicited cash offer was initially made in August and is reportedly being seriously considered by Lockheed Martin and Boeing according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and the Reuters news agency, citing unnamed sources.

ULA is the primary contractor for U.S. military, spy agency and NASA science space launches. The company employs about 3,700 people nationwide, about 1,700 of them locally.

The company faces new pressure from Elon Musk’s Space Explora-tion Technologies (SpaceX), which has promised to offer launches far cheaper than ULA has typically charged.

SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, won U.S. Air Force certi-fication in May to start bidding against ULA for contracts to launch military and spy agency satellites into orbit — a line of business for which ULA has had to itself -- although SpaceX has not yet been awarded any such contracts.

ULA has launched a string of nearly 100 consecutive successful launches, a record of reliability unmatched in the industry.

ULA, in response to SpaceX and led by new CEO Tory Bruno, de-signed and started developing a new line of Vulcan rockets meant to be more advanced and launch at half the cost as ULA’s existing Atlas V and Delta IV rockets.

Buying ULA makes sense for Rancho Cordova, California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne.

The company makes upper-stage and other rocket engines that ULA uses. It also has invested in a new main booster engine for ULA but has fallen behind Blue Origin, the aerospace startup of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in being ULA’s preferred engine supplier for


the Vulcan rockets.

Bruno has labeled the AR-1 rocket that Aerojet Rocketdyne is devel-oping as a backup option if Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine didn’t work out.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin have conservatively funded ULA’s Vulcan rocket development, keeping it on a quarter-to-quarter budget instead of authorizing a long-term development investment.

The reason for that policy is uncertainty in ULA’s core business of launching military missions for the Air Force. Congress last year banned ULA from importing more of the Russian-made RD-180 booster engines that are used in its Atlas V rockets for U.S. national security missions, given heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

If the limit stays in place and ULA cannot use the nine RD-180s with Russian engines it ordered in 2013, ULA risks running out in 2018 of engines for the Atlas V. That would hamper the rocket that handles the majority of ULA’s military launches and is the most cost-competitive with SpaceX.

ULA’s ownership would get out of the launch business rather than see it turn unprofitable, Bruno said during the large Space Symposium convention in Colorado Springs in April.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has pushed the idea that the AR-1 would be a suitable replacement for RD-180s and would be ready in time to keep Atlas V rockets flying national security missions in 2018.

But ULA’s Bruno has expressed doubt the AR-1 could be ready that quickly. New engines for Vulcan rockets wouldn’t be ready before 2019, either from Blue Origin or Aerojet Rocketdyne, he has said.

In a late August interview with the Denver Business Journal, before word of Aerojet’s $2 billion offer emerged, Bruno expressed opti-mism that Congress would relax the RD-180 import ban this fall.

Meanwhile, SpaceX’s rockets haven’t been flying since one of its Falcon 9s failed during a June 28 mission for NASA carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The accident underscored how critical ULA’s reliability has been to U.S. defense space missions.

But SpaceX’s accident doesn’t take pressure off ULA in long run, Bruno said.

“These events are going to be ones that the other folks recover from, and I expect they’ll do it in a fairly timely fashion,” Bruno said.

That being the case, Lockheed Martin and Boeing may be weighing the possibility of ULA becoming less profitable in the future due to SpaceX competition and whether it’s an opportune to time to sell and let ULA forge on under new ownership. Source: Denver Business Journal


Raytheon Has Big Expansion Plans For Col-orado Springs, Will Hire 700

Raytheon said it plans to hire 700 by the end of next year, adding to its 100 workers al-ready there, and will also acquire additional office space in the area.

Raytheon Co. will support the North American Aerospace Defense Command with warning and attacks assessment of air, missile and space threats.

Earlier this year, Raytheon won the defense contract, and work is expected to be done at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, where the North American Aerospace Defense Command is head-quartered, and nearby Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. Rival Lockheed Martin Corp. had protested Raytheon’s contract award, but that protest was dismissed.

“We are focused on expanding our support to the Air Force in Col-orado Springs, investing in our employees and enhancing the local

community.” said Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services.

Under the contract, Raytheon said it will provide around-the-clock support “to warning and attack assessment systems for air, missile and space threats.” Source: Denver Business Journal

1,400 Satellites Projected to Launch Over Next Decade

An average of 140 satellites with launch masses greater than 50 kg will enter orbit by 2024, according to Euroconsult’s new “Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2024,” report. Of the 1,400 satellites over the next decade, the research firm expects governments from 60 countries will be responsible for 75 percent of the $255 billion in revenues from manufacture and launch.

In comparison with last year’s forecast, the number of satellites is due to grow more than the market value over the decade.

Euroconsult expects nearly 90 percent of the government market will remain concentrated in the 10 countries with an established space industry: the U.S., Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, China, Japan and India. The other 50 countries engaged in space activities will launch twice the number of satellites that they did in the past 10 years, i.e. about 200 satellites. More than half of these spacecraft will be procured from foreign manufacturers as domestic industry capabilities mature.

In the commercial space sector, Euroconsult anticipates 40 compa-nies will launch a total of 550 satellites through the decade. Most of these satellites constitute replacements of the communications capacity currently in orbit.

“The increase in satellite number would be significantly higher if two mega-constellation projects for small communications satellites were included in the forecast,” said Rachel Villain, principal advisor at Euroconsult and editor of the report. “The 1,400 satellite count over the decade already includes 350 satellites to be deployed by 10 commercial constellations into low or medium Earth orbits for communication or Earth observation.”

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Buying Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS), meaning those that weigh less than 1,320 pounds, is one of numerous lessons learned over the nearly 15 years the Air Force has been flying armed MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers, said Lt. Col. Jason Willey, one of four Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) operators on a panel at the annual Air Force Association conference.

“These aircraft traditionally are per-ceived as serving in limited tactical roles organic to ground units,” said Willey, MQ-9 Branch Chief in the RPA Capabilities Division of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. “However, in early 2016, the Air Force plans to release the first ever Small UAS flight plan with the in-tent to open the aperture, enhanc-ing Small UAS roles and missions well beyond their current use.”

Whether that goal can be reached will depend on whether small drones can be improved to fly with the endurance and range of Pred-ators, which can stay in the air 24 hours or more, or Reapers, which typically stay airborne for around 18 hours, depending on what they’re carrying. SUAS typically fly for only a couple of hours at best, especially if they rely on batteries for power.

But with the persistence of a Reaper, Willey said, SUAS could provide serious lever-age by providing additional sensors and more easily penetrating hostile air defenses.

“Small UASes can be employed in both permissive and non-permissive environments,” Willey said, because “they are proving difficult to find, fix and track.” As he made that point, Willey showed a slide that listed “swarming’” as among the ways little drones could be employed — a tactic the Army and Navy have been developing. Source: Breaking Defense

Boeing Gets $1.49 Bln Order To Build 13 Surveillance Planes

Boeing has won a $1.49 billion contract to build 13 additional P-8A maritime

surveillance aircraft, and provide parts for 20 other aircraft of the same type.

The Defense Department said that nine planes were being built for the US Navy, while the four others were designed for the Royal Australian Air Force.

The parts were being used for the manufacturer of 16 more P-8A planes for the US Navy and four other Australian aircraft.

The planes and parts -- with 80 percent of the work being performed in the northwestern state of Wash-ington -- are due to be delivered by December 2018, according to the Pentagon.

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Although the end of summer indicates the beginning of classes for students across the country, it also signals the kickoff of the world’s largest annual student rocketry contest. Registration for the Team Amer-ica Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is now open for teams of 7-12th grade students through December 4.

TARC is the U.S. aerospace and defense industry’s flagship program designed to encourage students to pursue study and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Structured to emulate the aerospace industry’s design, fabrication and testing process, TARC requires teams to build and fly a model rocket that meets challenging design requirements and precise targets for altitude and flight duration.

Each year, TARC’s rules and scoring parameters change to challenge the students’ ingenuity and en-courage a fresh approach to rocket design. This year’s rules require teams to build and launch a rocket carrying two raw eggs to 850 feet and return them to Earth unbroken within a flight duration of 44 to 46 seconds. A new requirement this year calls for the eggs to be placed perpendicularly to each other,

thus complicating how teams pro-tect the eggs in flight. Damaged eggs disqualify the flight.

The 100 top-scoring teams from across the country will be invited to compete in the National Finals in Washington D.C. next spring. The winners will then represent America in the International Rock-etry Challenge, competing against student teams from the United Kingdom and France at the Farn-borough International Airshow near London next July.

The Aerospace Industries Associa-tion and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) sponsor the annual competition in partnership with NASA, the Department of Defense, the American Association of Physics Teachers and a number of AIA member companies. For additional information on TARC and complete competition results, please visit www.rocketcontest.org.

Woodward Gets Deal To Build Parts For New Airbus A330neo

Fort Collins aerospace company Woodward Inc. said it’s signed a deal to make parts for the new Airbus A330neo.

Woodward said it will make hard-ware for the plane’s TRAS (thrust reverser actuation system).

Terms of the deal, made with French company Aircelle, weren’t disclosed.

“We’re excited to further our strong relationship with Aircelle through the supply of these critical nacelle actuation products,” says Marty Glass, president, airframe systems at Woodward.

In May, Woodward made a deal with General Electric for fuel systems for GE’s large commercial aircraft engine lines.


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NASA’s 3D-Printed Rocket Parts Actually Work

NASA tested a 3D-printed turbopump, one that was put together with 45 percent fewer parts than pumps made any other way. This obviously saves time and money, but come on…NASA is slowly 3D printing an entire freaking rocket. That’s cool.

NASA referred to the rocket turbopump as “one of the most complex, 3D-printed rocket engine parts ever made.” It went through about 15 different tests to simulate the kind of force and environment 35,000 of

rocket thrust would cause. Its turbine generates 2,000 horsepower, roughly twice the horsepower of a NASCAR engine.

For NASA, 3D printing is becoming the key for its future space craft designs, as deputy manager of Marshall’s Propulsion System Department, Mary Beth Kolebl, explained:

By testing this fuel pump and other rocket parts made with additive manufacturing, NASA aims to drive down the risks and costs associated with using an entirely new process to build rocket engines.

One of the engineers on the tur-bopump work at NASA, Nick Case, explained that the work done on this particular rocket part usually takes four years, but the 3D-printing ap-proach cut that time in half.

New Fighter Jets Arrive At Utah’s Hill Air Force Base

A new squadron of fighter jets started arriving last month at northern Utah’s Hill Air Force Base, which will serve as an operational base for the new F-35.

Two F-35 jets touched down last month at the base, about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City, after departing from a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

The F-35 is a new fighter jet that the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps will be using. The Air Force version costs about $130 million each.

The F-35, also called the Joint Strike Fighter, is replacing the F-16 with greater speed and combat range and lower maintenance costs because of a computerized self-test system.

A total of 72 of the fighter jets and their pilots will be permanently based in Utah.

One to two additional jets are ex-pected to arrive every month until the full fleet is in place sometime in 2019.

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for the jets and has already had 13 of them brought in for modifications and 40 check flights.

Last month’s arrival marks the first time an Air Force base received oper-ational jets that will ultimately be de-clared ready for battle, Hill spokesman Nathan Simmons said.

The squadron coming to Hill is ex-pected to be declared ready for combat in late 2016 after enough F-35s have arrived, pilots are ready to perform various operations with them and sev-eral support and logistical systems are up and running.

In July, a Marine Corps squadron of F-35s based in Yuma, Arizona, became the military’s first batch of the jets declared combat-ready.

The Air Force said in 2013 it chose northern Utah as its first operational base for the jets over several other lo-cations because of the ample open space at the Utah Test and Training Range in a rural, northeastern part of the state, among other reasons.

To prepare for the new aircraft, Hill spent more than $120 million, includ-ing constructing a $13.5 million hangar.

The base will start phasing out its older F-16 jets, but for a while both models will be in operation at the base.

The United States has ordered more than 2,400 of the jets, according to the F-35’s developer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. Source: The Associated Press

Manufacturing Jobs Climb in the Rocky Mountain State

This is the fifth straight year the Rocky Mountain State has seen a boost in manufacturing employment, according to the 2016 Colorado Manufacturers Directory, an industrial database and directory pub-lished by Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI). Colorado added 3,839 industrial jobs from June 2014 to June 2015, an increase of 1.8%.

Colorado is now home to 6,228 manufacturers employing 213,863 workers. MNI data shows over a five-year period beginning June of 2010, the state gained 14,370 industrial jobs or 7.2%, recovering the nearly 11,000 jobs shed during the recession.

“Colorado’s industrial base has reinvented itself following the reces-sion’s steep losses,” said Tom Dubin, president of MNI, in a statement.

“The state gets high marks for its focus on innovation, while its educated labor pool and abundant natural resources continue to draw investment in a variety of sectors.”

Job growth was led by the food processing sector, which climbed 4.3% over the year, and now accounts for the largest share of Colorado’s manufacturing employment, with 25,674 jobs. Employment in the state’s second-largest sector, industrial machinery, also posted a gain, up 6.7% to its current level of 23,049 jobs.

Manufacturing jobs in Denver rose 3% over the year, with the city currently home to the most industrial employment, at 42,451. Other Colorado cities gaining manufacturing jobs include Boulder, up 1.7% and Littleton, up 1%.

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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.

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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.

Both technologies are centered on semiconductor-based nanopores, which have advantages over protein-based nanopores in terms of control, robustness, scalability, and manufacturability.

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Colorado to be one of 7 hubs of national digital manufacturing institute

Colorado will be one of seven hubs for a na-tional digital manufacturing institute — an opportunity to continue its efforts to grow its advanced-manufacturing sector, with some major financial help from the federal government.

President Barack Obama is expected to an-nounce the seven locations and further details about the project, but Ken Lund, executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, con-firmed last month that this state will be one of them.

With the announcement will come a federal grant of about $10 million to match the $10 million pledged already to the project by OEDIT and several universities in Colorado, he said.

“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.”

Digital manufacturing is a rapidly evolving subset of the industry. It involves using computer tools such as simulations and 3D visualization to drive production.

Several Colorado companies already employ the practice, including Woodward Inc. in Fort Collins and Bal Seal Engineering Inc. in Colorado Springs, but the placement of three training “nodes” in the state will let more companies learn how to employ the technol-ogy, Lund said.

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With Denver being at the top of many rankings for its business and economic climate, it’s not too surprising to find it near the top of yet another: the second-best recession-recovered city.

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Denver was rated the No. 2 most recession-recovered city in a new report.

Some of the metrics the Washington D.C.-based financial analysis looked at included unemployment rate, inflow of college-educated workers, median household income, poverty and foreclosure rates, number of businesses and more. Cities were assigned a score in each metric, with “1” being best and “75” being average.

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Providing More Americans with Affordable Access to Education and Job Training

Education and job training are among the surest pathways to the middle class. To mark the beginning of the school year, the Presi-dent, the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, and Secretary Arne Duncan will travel across the country in the coming days to highlight the need for affordable, quality career and education choices for students and to discuss some of the many ways the Administration is working to provide all Americans with the skills and knowledge they need to acquire good-paying jobs and grow the economy.

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The creation of the College Promise Advi-sory Board to further efforts to make two years of community college free: Today, the President will announce the inde-pendent creation of the College Promise Advisory Board, led by Chair Dr. Jill Biden, and Vice-Chair former Wyoming Gover-nor Jim Geringer and directed by former Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter. The board will bring together lu-minaries and leaders to highlight successes in places like Tennessee, Chicago, and Michigan, share best practices and models, and recruit more of their peers to join the cause. Learn more at CollegePromise.org.

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His role is to pilot the MAV (Micro Air Vehicle), otherwise known as the ‘Flying Robot’ or ‘T-Hawk’:

“The MAV is a great piece of kit and complements the rest of the equipment,” he said. “The MAV has two cameras which feed information back to a laptop so that the commander is then better placed to make decisions.

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XTi Aircraft Company said it’s using crowdfunding, as well as traditional venture capital, private equity and investment methods, to fund building of the TriFan 600 airplane. The plane’s expected to sell for between $10 million and $12 million if it’s ever produced.

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“The response to our announcement of the equity crowdfunding plan and to this revolutionary aircraft itself has been overwhelming,” said XTI vice chairman Jeff Pino, in a statement.Colorado allowed equity crowdfunding with a new law that was signed in April.

Weather Satellite Startup To Begin Production In Colorado

A company aiming to build and launch a fleet of satellites collecting private weather data is starting to build its sat-ellites locally and will hire more employees as it develops its business.PlanetiQ, formed in Bethesda, Maryland in 2012, will produce its first two “micro-satellites” in Boulder and aims to eventually build 10 more to have a constellation of satellites about 500,000 miles above the earth.

An artist rendering of a satellite designed for PlanetiQ, based in Bethesda, Maryland. The company is building a private satellite constellation to gather weather and climate data. It’s producing its first two micro-sat-ellites in Boulder.

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Federal government satellites gather some weather data the same way. PlanetiQ says it aims to gather a much larger volume of more finely-detailed samples than existing satellites used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent of the National Weather Service.

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Executives Teach Utah Delega-tion the Ins and Outs of Finding Success in China

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Nearly 5 decades ago, Sal patented a triangular ceramic sharpening stone. He and Gail bought a ‘Wonder bread’ truck, fitted it for sharpening, and for several years drove around to fairs. Business was good, but life was hectic, traveling from city to city. Then in 1976, Sal came up with an idea for a pocketknife; one with a pocket clip, one that folded, and one that you could open and close with one hand. And thus Spyderco was formed.

Since its inception, Spyderco has been told, “Your knives are different, peculiar, even out there.” Long term employee and Public Relations Coordinator Joyce Laituri, says, “All true. Thinking beyond established knife industry barriers allowed us to introduce new and radical innovations to the knife culture including: One-hand opening, serrations on a folder and a clip to attach a knife to a pocket. At Spyderco, we are definitely out of the norm in the knife industry in our dedication to researching and developing fresh, improved and better performing materials all with function and reliability being key.”

Someone once said to Sal, “You must design in the dark because your knives look so strange.” True again. With numerous patents, their recognizable appearance is a result of designing ergonomic functional tools rather than applying lipstick and nylons to a pocketknife. Spyderco knives may look curious, homely, whatever, but they will never be called unusable or undependable.

Not only is innovation a key differentiator for Spyderco, but also the team is diligent in its quest for

superior quality. Making knives that consis-tently deliver reliable high-performance re-quires an ongoing commitment to testing. In the company’s million-dollar testing facility, a team of experts routinely examines edge retention with a CATRA machine, looks for rust development with Q-FOG, and checks the force needed to open and close a knife. They also repeatedly test for stress, wear, optimal heat-treating and actively search for higher quality, performance enhancing steels and materials.

Spyderco knives just continue to grow in popularity and

thus increase in market presence, so much so that

the company was outgrow-ing its facility. Bursting at the

seams in their 30,000 square foot building located in Golden,

Colorado, the company just last year completed its expansion into their 2nd

building on the campus, a new 17,000 square foot building that houses their man-

ufacturing. Tom Koenig, Plant Manager for the company, says, “I visited plants before we began our new facility construction. What struck me with one of the plants I toured was the superior natural lighting. It wasn’t something I had seen before, and I knew that so much sun light coming into our plant would have such a positive impact on our team.” He continued, “I brought this recommendation back to our owners, Sal, Gail, and Eric (Sal and Gail’s son, key exec-utive for the company, running day to day operations), and they embraced the idea of building a light filled manufacturing plant.”

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Tom says, “With the manufacturing facility expansion at Spyderco, we had the opportunity to purchase high quality new machine tools that would allow us to continue our quest for continuous productivity improvements.”

Tom says, “At Spyderco, our owners embrace new technology. And with our expansion, we have the room to add it.”

As you can imagine, Spyderco embraces ‘Made in America’. So when demand in their knives warranted it (and the new expanded machine shop offered the floor capacity), Tom and his team began investigating grinding machines. Tom says, “I met Skip Green from DCM at IMTS a couple of years ago, and he believed he had a solution for our company.” Tom continued, “We aren’t just doing run of the mill grinding. Our knives are made from exotic metals, including a variety of high-hardness carbon and stainless steel alloys. These blade steels are very difficult to grind and to work with in every step of the manufacturing process.”

Tom says, “We had a traditional reciprocating grinder and we were so busy we were outsourc-ing some of our grinding. We were looking for a DCM style rotary surface grinder with a large table.” He continued, “There were used Blanchard grinders on the market, since Blanchard wasn’t making them anymore, but we needed the reliability you can only get from a new machine.”

Skip and the DCM team didn’t try to sell Spyderco on their rotary surface grinder. In fact, Tom says that they wanted to be very sure they were selling Spyderco the grinder that would not only work for the company, but would also facilitate a significant increase in produc-tivity. Skip asked Tom to ship some parts that would need grinding on the rotary surface grinder to DCM’s headquarters in Winona, Minnesota.

DCM did a run off of the parts for Tom when Tom visited DCM’s headquarters, and Tom made the purchase of the DCM IG 280SD Rotary Surface Grinder. He says, “The DCM purchase was such a pleasant surprise. So often when you purchase a new machine it takes awhile to get it up and running efficiently. Skip came to our plant in Golden, Colorado for 3 days when the machine arrived, set it up and trained us, and we were up and running right away. ” The Spyderco

grinding team is very pleased with the DCM Rotary Surface Grinder, which they use to grind their knife blades to size, saying it is extremely easy to use, it is very reliable (it runs 24x5 with very little downtime), and it literally reduced grinding time to 1/5 the time it previously took the company.

Tom says, “DCM makes an exceptional line of rotary surface grinders. Our DCM IG 280SD is well suited for grinding in

mid and high volume applications. The programmable con-trol saves grind parameters by part name for repeatable

process automation. The servo driven z-axis delivers true feed rates and repeatable positioning. We were ex-

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Key Considerations And Risk Factors When Valuing A Manufacturer

It is important for manu-facturing company own-ers or management to un-derstand the value of the business and how the busi-ness decisions made can impact that value, either positively or negatively.

Manufacturing drives productivity growth in the U.S. economy, and manufacturing companies with fewer than 100 employees make up more than 94 percent of all U.S. manufacturers.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is so huge that if it were its own country, it would rank as the 10th-largest world economy!

Given that our economy relies heavily on manufacturing companies and the recent industry focus on supply chain technology investment, I want to visit some of the primary factors that valuation analysts consider when analyzing a manufacturing company, as well as some of the factors that may allow a company to transact at a premium, or conversely, may detract from the purchase price.

In general, the primary factors to consider when valuing a manufac-

turing company are:

• Sales and profitability trends• Years in operation• Condition and age of equipment and its value• Technology (and potential for obsolescence)• Competition• Industry trends• Number of products and services offered• Capacity limitations and levels that would trigger the need for expansion• Maintenance capital expenditures• On-hand inventory and work-in-progress• Backlog• Raw materials• Lease or own real estate

Items indicating a manufacturing company is lower risk and may command a premium value include:

- Exclusive products and patents- ISO 2000 procedures in place- Sustained profitability above its peers- Ongoing and transferable customer or distributor relationships

The general rules of thumb for company value in the manufacturing industry are as follows. These are generally representative of the value of the company’s inventory, fixed assets and goodwill/intangible value.

• 4x – 5x earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)• 2x – 3x owner benefit/cash flow plus the current market value of furniture, fixtures and equipment, and inventory at cost

• 40 percent to 60 percent of sales

The largest barriers to entry in this industry can be the equipment, good employees and established customer base, and a well-run man-ufacturing operation will have a good understanding of these issues. Even though there are certain triggering events that would necessitate the use of a valuation, such as succession planning, bank financing or an acquisition, it is important for manufacturing company owners or management to understand the value of the business and how the business decisions made can impact that value, either positively or negatively.Source: Rachel Flaskey, Baker Tilly

‘Nearshoring’ Brings Some Manufacturing To U.S.

Conditions are right for more U.S. manufacturing, but its still small compared to the past

Airbus, which sells lots of planes to U.S. airlines, opened its first plant in the country recently. So that’s exciting. Big airplanes being built in Alabama! The U.S. manufacturing renaissance continues!

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These moves seem to be motivated by similar considerations, the most import-ant of which is bringing production closer to where the customers are. This practice goes by the names “onshoring,” “reshoring” or “nearshoring,” and big companies have been doing a lot of it lately. A recent survey of manufacturing and distribution companies serving North America and Western Europe by the consulting firm AlixPartners found that 32 percent of “have already nearshored or are in the process of doing so to meet end-market demand” and 48 percent say “nearshoring activities are likely within the next one to three years.”

This is a big shift from a decade ago, when it seemed as if all supply chains were going to go through China. It may even help explain the manufacturing slowdown in China, MIT engineering professor and supply-chain expert David Simchi-Levi wrote in the Harvard Business Review earlier this month. Simchi-Levi gave four main explanations for the change:

•Oil prices. They’re down a lot lately, but the big spike from 2004 through 2008 reminded manufacturers that shipping things around the world could sometimes get really expensive.

•Labor costs. “In the last few years, labor costs in China have increased annually by almost 20 percent vs. 3 percent in the United States and 5% in Mexico.”

•Automation. Robots are replacing labor anyway.•Risk. When your supply chain is spread across the world, the chances that some-thing will go wrong go up.

AlixPartners offered a couple of others: “companies move manufacturing closer to consumption markets in order to lower freight costs, improve time to market,

and raise customer service levels.”

Because the U.S. is a huge market, nearshoring entails shifting some manufacturing back into the country. It’s important to note, though, that it probably doesn’t entail the wholesale return of good manufacturing jobs.

By locating its plant in low-cost, union-unfriendly Alabama, Airbus “puts pressure on trade unions back in Europe,” aero-space analyst Richard Aboulafi told Agence France-Presse. Boeing’s factory in South Carolina, which recently fought off a unionization drive, serves a similar function relative to the company’s unionized plants around Seattle. Hourly pay for durable-goods-manufacturing workers dropped below the average for all U.S. nonfarm workers for the first time on record last November. Aircraft production workers have been a holdout, with an average hourly wage of $37.90 in June, but that could change.

Still, the nearshoring trend is having a noticeable positive effect on manufacturing employment in the U.S. After de-cades of decline, its share of overall employment has been more or less steady since the last recession.

Then again, that share is now tiny: 8.7 percent, compared with the all-time peak of 38.8 percent in November 1943. Some manufacturing is returning to the U.S., but manu-facturing isn’t back. Source: Bloomberg View


Report: Most Manufacturing Segments To Grow This Year

A new report from the MAPI Foundation expects most manufacturing sectors to see growth in the U.S. this year.

The latest quarterly U.S. Industrial Outlook from the research arm of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation offered annual projections for 23 of the 27 segments tracked by the group.

Nineteen of those 23 should increase this year, led by 11 percent gains in both housing starts and private non-residential construction.

MAPI economists said that construction should provide significant help to related in-dustries, including furniture, appliances and building materials.

In addition, the auto industry fares well in the MAPI analysis. Motor vehicles and parts should increase by 9 percent this year, while engine, turbine and power transmission equipment is expected to grow by 7 percent.

Production of construction machinery is also expected to increase by 7 percent.

Three of the segments are expected to de-cline, with a 14 percent drop in machinery for mining and oil and gas drilling. Iron and steel production should fall by 11 percent; both segments are feeling the effects of sharply reduced oil prices.

Electric lighting equipment should see a more modest 3 % decline, while paper production is the only segment expected to remain flat.Performance should improve slightly in 2016,

with 22 segments expected to see increases. Housing starts should grow by 18 percent to again lead the field, while another 14 percent drop awaits the mining and oil and gas segment.

In addition to problems in the energy sector, the strength of the dollar is also serving as a headwind to manufacturing growth.

On the whole, however, employment increases and easily available credit should provide a rel-atively healthy climate for manufacturing. The MAPI Foundation expects the manufacturing sector to grow by 2.1 percent this year and 3.4 percent next year.

Manufacturing Minute: Etsy Courts Manufacturers

Starting last month, manufacturers will be able to create a profile on the crafty ecommerce site Etsy as part of a beta program. The Etsy Manu-facturing program is a new service that will link Etsy sellers with small manufacturing companies. The operation is designed to help both sellers who have little time to fulfill larger orders, and smaller manufacturers, some of whom have lost business to larger or cheaper manufacturers.

Etsy will review the applications of manufactur-ers, checking up on their size, their commitment to transparency and how much work they them-selves outsource, but the marketplace won’t actively visit or vet the successful applicants. In-stead, Etsy demands that manufacturers featured commit to providing a safe work space and are transparent about their manufacturing processes.

Sellers will eventually be able to search through manufacturers by criteria such as price, loca-tion and the manufacturing services they offer. Source: Manufacturing.net

Northrop Grumman Proposes to Accelerate JSTARS Deliv-eries

Northrop Grumman says its proposed Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft could be ready to begin service in 2021, three years faster than the current Air Force plan.

The JSTARS recapitalization program will replace the current inventory of aging E-8C JSTARS, which are modified Boeing 707-300 aircraft. Air Force solicitations call for a smaller airframe in the business jet class, reduced crew size from about 18 to 10 airmen, an open architecture and the integration of currently available technology with high technology readiness levels.

“If you take the [analysis of alternatives] in 2011 and you take the [full operational ca-pability] date of 2027 — 16 years — that’s an awful long time,” said Alan Metzger, vice president and integrated product team lead for next-generation surveillance and targeting at Northrop Grumman’s military aircraft sys-tems division. “At the end of the day we think we can go a lot faster,” he said.

Originally, the Air Force projected IOC in 2022 and FOC in 2025. The current plan


pushes those dates back to 2023 and 2027.

The adjustment was based on a variety of re-views, internal issues and budget constraints, Metzger said.

In August the service awarded three pre-en-gineering and manufacturing development contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop and Boeing. Lockheed received an award of about $11.5 million and Northrop and Boeing received about $10 million. The contracts are set to wrap up in July 2016.

Northrop has partnered with business jet manufacturer Gulfstream and L-3 Aerospace Systems. The company has yet to decide whether Northrop or Raytheon will provide the radar system for its offering, Metzger said.

Company executives listed several reasons why they believe their consortium has an ad-vantage over other competitors, one being the performance and features of the Gulfstream G550 that the team is planning on using as its main platform.

The Gulfstream G550 can fly up to 51,000 feet at speeds up to Mach 0.885, according to a product fact sheet. It is powered by two Rolls-Royce BR710 engines, and can reach 41,000 feet in 25 minutes, said Troy Miller, regional vice president for military and special mission sales at Gulfstream.

Metzger said the capacity to reach higher al-titudes would ultimately increase the field of view for military surveillance.

Northrop does not plan on changing the configuration of the outer mold line for the Gulfstream aircraft, which is already certified, Metzger added. “That’s a different methodol-

ogy than maybe some of our competitors have where, depending on their particular offering, they go into the stringers and substructure of the aircraft and beef it up.”

He said the team has been flying a G550 JSTARS prototype for the last three years. The prototype has about 60 to 70 percent of the modifications it needs, which improves “speed to ramp,” he said. One specific modification was to the rear end of the aircraft to install a liquid cooling system for prime mission equipment such as the radar.

Metzger noted that as the current prime con-tractor for the JSTARS program, Northrop has the benefit of experience on its side. “I think we understand the mission better than anybody because we’ve been doing it for three decades,” he said. “We understand what it takes to do airborne ground wide area surveillance.” Source: NDIA

Big Colorado Energy Players To Build Project In North Dakota

Two of Colorado’s biggest players in the energy sector are teaming up to build a wind farm — in North Dakota.

Vestas Wind Systems, the wind turbine manu-facturer with four factories in Colorado, said it had landed a “firm and unconditional order” for 100 of the company’s V100-2.0 megawatt turbines. Collectively, the turbines are capable of generating up to 200 megawatts of power.Vestas sold more than 500 V100s in 2013.

Vestas sold more than 500 V100s in 2013.The turbines are destined for the Courtenay Wind Farm, which will be owned and operated by

Xcel Energy Inc. near the town of Jamestown in eastern North Dakota.

Delivery of the wind turbines is expected to begin in third quarter of 2016, with commis-sioning planned for fourth quarter of 2016.

Xcel had planned to buy the power generated by the wind farm for its customers under a power purchase agreement.

State regulators in Minnesota, where Xcel has its headquarters, and in North Dakota had previously approved the power purchase agreement. They also have signed off on Xcel owning the wind farm outright.

Chris Clark, president of Northern States Power Co., a subsidiary of Xcel, said in May that “the Courtenay project is an important part of our aggressive plans to reduce car-bon emissions and double our commitment to renewable energy resources in the most cost-effective way possible.

“We are glad for the opportunity to preserve the benefits of this project for our customers. The Courtenay Wind Farm has the added value of locating an important generation resource in North Dakota, an important part of our service territory,” Clark said.

Vestas has four plants in Colorado: a blades plant in Windsor, a blades plant and a nacelles plant in Brighton, and a towers plant in Pueblo.

The manufacturing company has been on a hiring spree this year, announcing plans to hire 400 people in March to work at its Windsor plant and in August holding job fairs to hire more than 350 additional people, according to Vestas executives.

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GE ‘all in’ on aviation deal with China

At a General Electric flight simulator here, the visibility has been set at near zero to mimic thick rain and clouds. But a video console near the pilot shows a vivid picture of nearby mountains precise enough to allow a plane to take off or land despite the conditions.

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.

GE, like other companies, must weigh which technologies should be brought to joint ventures with China and how to protect them from being stolen or misused. These decisions face virtually any executive trying to develop a presence in the country — from the most sophisticated technology firms, which worry about software piracy, to old-line industrial equipment makers, which have seen knockoffs of their products pop up soon after making deals with Chinese partners. Under the agreement with AVIC, GE avionics will be on board a new Chinese commercial airliner that is likely to become a rival to aircraft produced by U.S.-based Boeing and Europe’s Airbus. The potential competition with Boeing, coming at a time when the United States is fighting to maintain its own manufacturing base, has stirred some American criticism.

But GE executives say they have had no second thoughts. China’s airplane market is booming, and the deal was too important to pass up, they said, even at the cost of sharing the avionics technology.

“We are all in and we don’t want it back,” said Lorraine Bolsinger, chief executive of GE Aviation Systems. She said new airplanes don’t come along that often, and that the chance to be part of developing a major new aircraft is not to be missed — even if most of the jobs will be in Shanghai or elsewhere in China.

“We don’t sell bananas,” she said in an interview here. “We can’t afford to take a decade off.”

But American business leaders wonder privately whether companies such as GE are at risk of giving up long-term strategic advantages when they agree to technology-transfer deals for shorter-term gain.GE executives maintain that is not the case. They say that they negotiated robust protections in their contract with AVIC. The 50-50 joint venture, for example, has strict limits on employing Chinese nationals who have a military or intelligence background. A board committee that monitors compliance with the joint venture agreement is effectively under GE’s control and can, in a dispute, overrule the full board, Bolsinger said.


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Army Beefs Up Humvee

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Alongwiththeadditionalarmor,theservicealsoincludedarequirementthatsoldiersmusthaveaccesstoescapeexitsifthevehicleflipsorrollsover.Humveerolloversareoneofthemaincausesofnon-combatrelateddeathsinIraqandAfghanistan.

In the end, themodifications included intheMECV programwill “regain vehicleperformance and payload consumed bythe addition of armor to the legacy force,

adequatelyprotectthecrewfromoperationalthreats,andincorporatelessonslearnedfromcurrentoperations.”

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The improvised explosive devices plantedbyAfghan and Iraqi insurgents, alongwithweaponslikerocket-propelledgrenadesandmortars, exposed fatal flaws in the light-armoredHumvee.

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Factories ‘Reshore’ Some Work From Overseas

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

One reason for at least a small portion of that growth: the return of factory work from overseas. Experts say it’s difficult to accurately measure the number of jobs tied to work returning from other countries, but some employers say they know it is happening. Reversing A Herd Mentality Howard Hauser, a vice president with Hiawatha Rubber Co., says for a long time, manufacturers followed a herd mentality of sending work offshore. They all wanted components produced in low-wage, emerging markets like China. “They were looking at the piece price. And it looked like, ’We’re going to save a lot of money,’” he said. “But the bottom line was they didn’t save nearly as much as they thought. And with the quality issues, they’re just not getting product that’s acceptable for the customer.”

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

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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Many innovative companies will never work with the Defense Depart-ment until they see real change in how the Pentagon does business.

“It’s not enough to make visits and then come back to D.C. and keep doing what we’ve been doing for 100 years,” says Camron Gorguinpour, Air Force director of transformational innovation.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has made it a priority to recruit non-traditional vendors from the tech sector.“We want to be talking to small and big companies that don’t want to do business with us. We want to know what we can change,” Gorguinpour tells National Defense. “This is not a defense industry conversation. It’s an American conversation. We just ignore the fact that most of America is not engaged in that dialogue.”

The Air Force is testing a new contracting approach that it believes will help lower the cost of its information systems and harness the latest technology trends. To motivate contractors and encourage new entrants to the market, the Air Force is promising to speed up the procurement cycle and to use simpler contracting mechanisms that come with less red tape than traditional weapon programs.

“The secretary asked us to look at innovative ways to acquire information systems,” says Gorguinpour. His boss, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition

William LaPlante, has set a goal to rid Air Force programs of costly proprietary software and adopt “open systems architectures” that can be rapidly updated with commercial technology.

The Air Force a year ago came under fire when a Senate panel concluded the service wasted more than a billion dollars on a logistics information technology program called the expeditionary combat support system because of poor management. The ECSS was terminated in 2012 after eight years in development.

On the heels of the ECSS probe, the Air Force decided it needed to completely rethink its acquisition process for IT programs.

“We are creating a brand new acquisition system for open architecture systems,” Gorguinpour says. The test case for this new method is a planned upgrade of the Air Force “distributed common ground system,” which is used by commanders to collect, analyze and distribute battle-field intelligence.

The Air Force has invited companies to showcase their software in a virtual environment that simulates the DCGS. If a vendor can demon-strate that the product works and the government agrees to buy it, the contracting process is reduced dramatically compared to the conventional approach. “It’s the way we ought to be doing business,” he says. “It sounds simple but it’s not the way things work now.”

Open architecture is an overused catchphrase at the Defense Department, often mentioned as the solution to the Pentagon’s IT modernization problems. “Everyone wants the app store model for building a platform,” says Gorguinpour. “The problem is that we tell our program offices to use our standard acquisition process and move to open architecture systems. It takes years to add the capability.”

A central feature of an open system architecture as envisioned by the Air Force is that the government owns the “technical baseline.” That gives the Air Force control of the basic standards and more freedom to bring in new suppliers.

The new acquisition process is designed to work with shorter timelines. “We want to get down to 30 days to field,” he says. The idea is to host events — known as “plugfests” — where vendors can demonstrate products and to use fast-track contracting. Companies that are interested in bidding for work would be invited to join consortiums that specialize in specific areas. “We think we could probably get the process from demonstration to contract award down to less than a month,” he adds. A DCGS plugfest in July, for instance, attracted 19 companies, 15 of which were nontraditional, and contracts will be awarded this month.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is setting up a consortium and com-panies will be invited to participate. “By early October we hope to have the consortium in place,” says Gorguinpour. “It is not static. Companies can join any time. The model is picking up steam,” he says. “We don’t yet know what the process will be to join the Air Force consortium because it hasn’t been established yet.”

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“other transaction authority.”

The Air Force’s former military procurement adviser says these initiatives were the result of leaders’ increasing frustration at rising costs and dependence on prime contractors for technology upgrades.

The push to open architectures started about five years ago as Air Force officials realized major weapon systems were being managed entirely by prime contractors that controlled the technology baseline, says Air Force retired Lt. Gen. Charles R. “CR” Davis.

The Air Force in the 1990s began to turn over the management of several large complex systems to prime contractors. “That sounded good in the beginning, but you’re beholden to the contractor for the system’s life. And it gets more expensive the older the systems get,” Davis says.

The DCGS has a core software architecture, and “you are held to that.” Open systems architecture is a phrase that is used a lot, says Davis, “but I never saw anybody execute any open systems architec-tures except for a few projects in the labs and at

Hanscom Air Force Base.”

The center used the consortium approach successfully to upgrade radar, Davis says. “A team of contractors collectively came up with defined interfaces between the receiver, transmitter, power supply, various components and processors in the radar. Different companies would build pieces but they had to comply with the interface between major components.”

This approach requires the Air Force to own the baseline, he says, “If you can incentivize contractors to work together in a common interface, you can do open systems. The basic architecture has to be defined by the Air Force. This puts you on a path when you’re not beholden to a single contractor.”

The Pentagon procurement red tape — particularly requirements to document what a product costs and share internal company data with the government — is going to continue to keep many companies away from the defense market, he says. “This was a problem we had on multiple systems when I was there. I don’t think they’ve done anything to solve that yet. At some point the Defense Department is going to have to look at a system it wants and decide that, if it has value, it is willing to pay what the vendor asks for,” he adds.

“That’s going to have to be part of the discussion if they’re going to take advantage of the capabilities that are out there in Silicon Valley.”

The use of “other transaction authority” contracting is well suited to small R&D projects and studies, he says. “They’re quick to do. They’re very good for maturation or develop-mental activity.” The innovation the Pentagon wants from the tech industry, though, will require more than OTA contracting. The Pentagon has to figure out how to do commercial contracting for high-tech products, says Davis. “If innovations take off and consortiums start turning out decent ideas, you’re going to have to figure out how to move to a com-mercial buyer approach.”


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United Launch Alliance will open a testing and manufacturing operation for rocket propulsion systems in Pueblo.

The Centennial-based rocket launching business -- a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Boeing Co. -- said it plans to spend $5 million upgrading a 28,000-square-foot industrial building near the Pueblo airport.

In a statement, ULA said the Pueblo facility “will support the Vulcan rocket, ULA’s next-generation launch vehicle, as well as ULA’s current rockets, the Atlas V and Delta IV.”

According to the Pueblo Economic Development Corp., the city of Pueblo and Pueblo County are providing various incentives to ULA, including $2 million from the City of Pueblo’s half-cent-per-dollar sales tax fund for economic development (subject to approval by the Pueblo City Council) and a 50 percent personal property tax credit from the county, also subject to an OK by commissioners.

McDonnell Douglas, an aerospace company later acquired by ULA parent company Boeing, opened a Delta rocket assembly plant in Pueblo in 1987. Production was later moved to Decatur, Alabama, and the Pueblo factory closed in 2004, the Chieftain reported.

ULA currently has a storage facility in Pueblo for its Delta II rocket. While the company is headquartered in Colorado, its manufacturing and assembly operations are elsewhere, especially Alabama, Texas and California.

“ULA is pleased to partner once again with Pueblo,” said Bob Rob-erts, ULA’s director of propulsion systems. “We thank both the city and county for the collaboration, as well as the strong partnership we have enjoyed in the past and look forward to building on that with the new work we are bringing to the area.”

ULA provides space-launch services for U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense, NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Boeing Vies For Another Record Delivery Year

Boeing has deliv-ered 503 com-mercial aircraft through the end of August, keep-ing it on pace for its target of be-tween 750 and 755 aircraft for the year.


That would mark an increase over the record 723 commercial aircraft that Boeing delivered in 2014.

However, its total number of 737 deliveries was 12 aircraft shy of the current build rate of 42 aircraft per month.

Aviation analysts said that Boeing may have a production gap on the 737 program between the current model and the arrival of the upgraded 737 MAX in the next few years.

Boeing also reported that it has delivered 90 of its 787 Dreamliners this year, with sources telling Reuters that the program should help propel Boeing to strong financial results later this year, as the bulk of payment for any aircraft typically doesn’t come unit it is delivered.

Deliveries on the 787 are outpacing the produc-tion rate of 10 aircraft per month as the company works through jets it already had in the pipeline. The delivery boost keeps it on pace to meet its target of 120 Dreamliner deliveries in 2015.

Aerospace Manufacturing Takes Off in UtahState in top five for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness

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

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

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

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In The Latest Machine Tool TechnologyJensen Precision Machining, Inc. has a very unique history. The company was ‘born’ from a well-known entity in the computer industry, called Iomega. Iomega was founded in 1980 and located in the town of Roy, Utah a com-munity about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City. Iomega was for many years, a significant name in the data storage industry. Their most famous product, the Zip Drive, was revolutionary as it offered large amounts of storage on easily portable compact cartridges. The original Zip disk’s 100MB capacity was a huge improvement over the 1.44MB limitation of floppy disks.

Jeff Jensen was one of the many great machinists employed by Iomega, which at its height employed more than 3500 people. When the company closed its Utah operations, they offered Jeff the opportunity to purchase the machine shop. And so Jensen Precision opened for business in 2006, nearly a decade ago.

Jeff is a very talented machinist. As a young man right out of high school, Jeff attended Weber State University with a scholarship, studying the machining trade. When he accepted Iomega’s offer to purchase the machine shop, Jeff hired his son-in-law Jade Wood and a colleague in manufacturing. Jade says,

“I didn’t have a background in the industry, but I was newly married, and had just purchased my first house, and for the next 2.5 years, I had the best mentors one can imagine. There were just 3 of us, and I really learned how to be a machinist from these two mentors.” Jade also received a scholarship and studied briefly at Ogden Weber Tech College.

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Jade says, “We excel at Jensen Precision because of our quality and on-time delivery. Not only do we have some of the best machinists in the industry working at Jensen Precision, but we also do ‘whatever it takes’ to get parts to our customers on time.” He continued, “As an example, we recently received a rush order on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and Jeff and I worked until 1AM Saturday morning to get our customer their parts on time.”

Jensen Precision is proud of their team. They are growing exponentially, and recently hired 3 new machinists. The company’s machinists have an average of 25 years’ experience.

When you consistently deliver quality parts on time, it isn’t all that surprising that your business will grow. Jensen Pre-cision not only is adding new team members, but they are expanding their facility. The most recent expansion offers them 25% more floor space, which facilitated new machine tool purchases.

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Jade says, “We still have some old school manual machines, which we are able to utilize today because we have such skilled Journeymen machinists. We knew that we could increase our productivity with newer equipment.” He continued, “As an example, our saw was a 25+ year old manual. It still works, and we continue to use it today, but we invested in a state-of-the-art Marvel/Spartan Series PA260EPC saw. This saw is amazing – with our older technology; we had to leave 1/8”


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Jensen Precision makes their machine tool purchases utilizing detailed spreadsheets on the features, func-tionality and price of several different alternatives. Jade says, “We also make our machine tool purchase decisions on the customer support we receive. Smith Machinery is where I’ve pur-chased the Marvel/Spartan saw, the Mazak machining center, and our Mitsubishi EDM machine. Smith Ma-chinery, and their customer service is outstanding. As an example, our spindle on a machining center went out a few days before Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. Smith Machinery had our spindle replaced and we were up and running overnight. You just

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INSPECTION EQUIPAdvanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Indust. Sales ___ 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422

CMM ProbesDatum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056Coordinate Measuring Mach.

Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Gauging EquipmentGage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056Low Temp Instrumentation

High Precision Devices _ 303-447-2558Metrology Instruments

Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340

Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871OGP __________ 480-889-9056

Optical ComparatorsDatum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Particle Inspection MachDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Video Measuring SystemsGage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871

HARDWAREHorizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Utah Metal Works, Inc. _ 801-364-5679

METALS & MATERIALSAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __303-424-1030

Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700Ryerson _________303-227-6310Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Western States Metals _801-978-0562Alloys: Corrosion Resistant

United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Alloys: High Temperature

United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Alloys: Nichel & Cobalt

United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Aluminum

Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613

Armor: Military & Commercial

Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000

TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS


Get to the Next Level

People, Product, Process,

Planet & Profit

801.863.8637

[email protected]

www.mep.org

Gage Lab Products 801-716-2972

ACCUDYNE CORPORATION Daniel R. Kenner 2835 S. Raritan St Englewood, CO 80110 303-991-1500 (Ph) 303-991-1921 (Fax) Web: www.ezpullerusa.com E-Mail: [email protected] THE ONLY TOOL

Waterjet Cutting Abrasives Saw Replacement Parts Gage

ADaniel R. Kenner

2835 S. Raritan St

303303Web:

BrassCoastal Metals ______800-811-7466Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700Ryerson __________303-227-6310United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

BronzeCoastal Metals ______800-811-7466Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700

CarbonCoastal Metals ______800-811-7466Ryerson __________303-227-6310

CopperOlympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700

Flat Rolled MetalsO’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700

Garnet AbrasivesGMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300

Metals: Bar & PlateAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349

Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000

Mold SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600

Nickel AlloysAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801Ryerson _________303-227-6310TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

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 ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Kloeckner Metals Corp _ 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals 303-654-0300

O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals 801-399-5700Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC _______ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883Marzee ___________ 602-269-5801Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613

METAL DISTRIBUTORS Erickson Metals ______877-543-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Dix Metals _________ 800-477-4349Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310

Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

NEW MACHINERYCHIP CUTTING

CNC Drilling/TappingMethods West ______ 602-437-2220

CNC MillsAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666Hurco __________ 800-634-2416J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697King Machine ______ 208-345-9600KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690Methods West ______ 602-437-2220MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390Tornos USA ________951-695-0342Triad Machine _______303-424-0268

Automatic Barfeeds of all Types

An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz

Senior Sales Engineer

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308

[email protected]

www.qualichem.com

Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID

All Products Proudly Made in the USA


An ISO 9001 Company

Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID

All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Denver, CO 303.654.0300

Ogden, UT 801.399.5700

www.ofrmetals.com

CNC LathesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991Jend Machiney _____ 303-775-3697Hurco __________ 800-634-2416King Machine _______208-345-9600KTR Machine _ _____303-659-6690Methods West ______ 602-437-2220MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268CNC Swiss Turn Machines

AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697Methods West ______ 602-437-2220MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Drilling MachinesCurrent EDM Inc ____650-966-9676

EDM MachinesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697Methods West ______ 602-437-2220MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300

EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ___ 480-836-8330

End MillsHelical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422

Micro Hole Drilling Machines

Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676Swiss Screw Machines

Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512NEW MACHINERY

FABRICATIONBand Saws

AIT _____________ 800-321-3195Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342King Machine ______ 208-345-9600

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

Cold SawsFabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342

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

Iron WorkersFabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Laser CuttersAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406MMT, A Div of Productivty 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 _____ 303-549-9167Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Plate RollsFabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342

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

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

Welding EquipmentRocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000

Welding Equipment: Spot Welders

AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406OTHER ACCESSORIES

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

PALLET SYSTEMSAutomatic Pallet Systems

Midaco __________ 847-593-8420Automatic Door Opener Systems

Midaco __________ 847-593-8420Manual Rotary Pallet Systems

Midaco __________ 847-593-8420Robotic Part Loading Systems

Midaco __________ 847-593-8420PRODUCTSPRODUCTS

CASESPlaSteel __________ 888-752-7899

GunsLayke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654

PROG. SYSTEMSCAD/CAMSoftware, CAD

AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700Delcam __________ 877-35-2261

Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461PROTOTYPE MACHINERY

3D Parts To Go _______801-380-7935

RECYCLINGRecyclable Metals

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

SAFETYFire Protection Systems

Rotarex _________ 480-689-8756FOD Prevention

PlaSteel _________ 888-752-7899SERVICES

AS9100 CertificationABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC __________ 602-445-9400MEP ___________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

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

Consultants, Health & Safety

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

ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC __________ 602-445-9400MEP ___________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

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

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


Feature Cam 602-502-9654EDM Network 480-836-1782

Scott HAISCHSales ManagerCell: 1(480) [email protected]

221 Westec Drive – Westmoreland Technology Park IMt. Pleasant, PA 15666 – USA – www.firedetec.com

CNC Lathes EDED Press Brakes Feature Cam


EducationOgden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795

Engineering ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512

FinancingIEC __________ 303-593-0403Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208Scottrade Bank Equip Fin _ 206-948-0022US Bank __________ 909-466-5020US Bank __________ 507-5328437

First Article InspectionAdvanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340

HeavyhaulIRH ___________801-972-5581

Injection Molding3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935

ISO900/AS9100 AuditsAmerican 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 Repair/ServicingKTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690Process Improvement/ Audit

ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400

Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642X-Ray

Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

American Global Standards 617-838-4648BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Gladhill 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 ________801-265-1999

SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATIONHardware: USB

Bytebox ___________ 888-ByteboxSerial Port

Bytebox ___________ 888-ByteboxSoftware:CNC Networking

Bytebox ___________ 888-ByteboxTransportation

IRH ____________801-972-5581SOFTWARE

CAD/CAM/CAESolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461Business Mgmt SoftwareVision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353Consulting/EngineeringVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353

TOOLINGArc Cutting Tools

Helical Solutions ______866-543-5422Precision Toolholding

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

Live Tool HoldersSchenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

Static Tool HoldersSchenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

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

[email protected] • C: 317/946.1235trustycook.com

Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development


TRAININGCAD/CAM Training

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483CNC/Conventional

MachiningDavis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483

Machining SoftwareDavis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483

USED MACHINERYAutomatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782King Machine ________208-345-9600K.D. Capital Equipment___ 480-922-1674KTR Machine ________303-659-6690Methods West ________602-437-2220New West Mchine______801-561-2001ReSell CNC West _______480-694-9919S&S Machinery Sales____ 602-368-8542

WATERJET CUTTINGMACHINERY

Action Machine _______303-532-2900Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342Flow International_______800-446-3569Global EDM Supply____ 480-836-8330Jend Machinery_______ 303-775-3697King Machine ________208-345-9600OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343Triad Machine ______ _ 303-424-0268

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

Business insurance solutions for the precision manufacturing industry

[email protected]

Cell: 937/503-4708O�ce: 937/885-1878E-mail: [email protected]

Wohlhaupter Corporation10542 Success LaneCenterville, Ohio 45458

Nick HochuliSales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

Online Training For

www.streamingteacher.com

Education Sustaining Edge Solutions 888-572-9642 S

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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

ADDITIVE MFG/ 3 D PRINTING

Faustson __________303-420-7422ASSEMBLIES

Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303JD Machine _________801-782-4403PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603Wasatch Laser Processing__ 801-972-3500Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

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

Welded AssembliesWeiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778

BAR CODINGWestern Sintering _____509-375-3096

BENDINGAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind ________303-298-1801

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/ChromeCoating Technologies ___623-581-2648LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

COMPOSITESElite Machine ___________ 801-710-7891S.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 _______800-780-7075LAYKE, 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 ____ 801-334-6317Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755Qualtek ________719-598-3394 X23

Precision 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

COATINGCoating:Abrasive Blasting

LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Coating:Black Oxide

LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Coating:Chemfilm

LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Coating: Liquid

Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

Bar-S MachineH& S Machine

Able Machining & Eng.

MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335

ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

Our company logo

Font Verdana size 9 (I dropped in this cell

because the “Precision Investment Castings”

on the logo is not very clear.

Font Verdana Size 9

MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335

ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

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

ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC 3063 North 575 East

North Ogden, UT

[email protected]

Jeffrey Peterson801-710-7891


The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

ELECTRONICSContract

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Design

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Electromechanical Design

RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603Kitting

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Prototype

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733ELECTROPOLISHING

Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23ENGINEERING/DESIGN

Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AzMark __________480-926-8969Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603

Solenoids/ ValvesRAM Company ______ 435-673-4603

FABRICATIONAdvantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175Kustom 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 ________303-744-7181EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Weiser Engineering _ 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 __ 801-298-5064Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952JD Machine ________801-782-4403Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175

Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Weiser Engineering _ 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 ___623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Precision Mach’d Prod ___ 970-482-7676Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Star 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


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Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Passivation

Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23

Photochemical/EtchingVACCO Industries _____626-443-7121

Powder CoatingArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Silk ScreeningArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443

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 _801-972-6093Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Fives ____________ 909-263-9282GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700

TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Grinding, BlanchardDiversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding, CenterlessRon Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595

Grinding, Double DiscDix Metals ________ 800-477-4349TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding: ODAzMark __________480-926-8969Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

Grinding: SurfaceChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

Grinding: Tool & CutterExact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720

Passivation

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Polishing

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930

Selective CoatingsImageTek __________303-806-8111

FORMINGAEI 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. __801-972-5590Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23The 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 ______ 602-438-4443

CI Precision Metals 800-234-5613


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Galvanizing: Hot Dip

TCI Precision MetalsThe Toolroom Inc.

Diversified Metal ServicesDix MetalsSteel Services GrindingSun Grinding

TCI Precision MetalsTT

INDUSTRIAL HARD-WARE

Electronic Locking Systems

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111Gasketing

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111Handles & Hinges

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111Locking Systems

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111Qtr Turns/Rod Controls

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111INJECTION MOLDING

LMI Machining_______303-776-6629INSPECTION

Inspection, First ArticleKlontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

Inspection ServicesKlontech 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 ________970-535-4540Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778Wrico ___________480-892-7800Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube

Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500Laser Engraving

4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175

Laser Marking4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175

MACHININGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281AG Machining _______805-531-9595American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Elite Machine ___________801-710-7891EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011R&H Machine _______801-621-7922

RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778

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 __208-785-2274RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

Machining: AerospaceAzMark __________480-926-8969CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200LAYKE, 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 _______ 303-298-1801Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: CNC4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245AG Machining _______805-531-9595Apex 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 ___435-257-0668Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771DMSI___________801-972-6093Elite Machine ______ 801-710-7891EPOCS Mfg ________ 970-535-4540Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Foremaster Tool ____ 801-737--0265H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175L.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 ___435-563-2722Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Electromechanical Design

RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

Machine & MFg Machining: CNCRD RadtechRP MachiningSkydandee MfgTeton MachiningTVT Die CastingWeiser Engineering


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

RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Star Precision _______303-926-0559Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Wrico __________ 480-892-7800

Machining: CompositesMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

Machining: ContractAcu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245AG Machining _______805-531-9595American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200JD Machine ________801-782-4403Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755Radtech _________ 303-789-4247

Electromechanical DesignRAM Company ______ 435-673-4603Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031

Machining: DoDCM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450

Machining: LaserAzMark __________480-926-8969Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Gerome Mfg _______520-622-8402Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778Machining:Medical

A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: MillingA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Elite Machine ___________801-710-7891EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131JD Machine ________801-782-4403Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

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

Machining: Mold MakingR&H Machine _______801-621-7922

Machining: PlasticImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Machining: ProductionA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245AG Machining _______805-531-9595Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Elite Machine ___________801-710-7891Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Faustson _________ 303-420-7422

Hirsh 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 ___ 801-977-0447RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Star 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. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Faustson __________303-420-7422Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175L.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. ___ 208-772-4011

R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331

Machining: PrecisionA&L Machining ______303-373-15404 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281AG Machining _______805-531-9595American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Elite Machine _______801-710-7891Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200JD Machine ________801-782-4403Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

Machining: SwissBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771

R&H Machine 801-621-7922


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RP Machining 719-550-1724

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A&L MachiningNorthwest Swiss, Inc.Pinnacle PrecisionTeton Machining


HPMP ___________ 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 ___435-257-0668Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850JD Machine ________801-782-4403LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine __ 435-755-0500Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724

Teton Machining ______208-642-9344Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778

Machining: Ultra-PrecisionPinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722

Machining: WaterjetColorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404

MANUFACTURINGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540AG Machining _______805-531-9595Elite Machine _______801-710-7891Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952Electromechanical Design

RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

CompositesS.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

ContractAG Machining _______805-531-9595Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Teton Machining ______208-642-9344Manufacturing: Electrode

Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591Production

Aero Tech ________801-292-0493EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Rapid PrototypingJensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175White 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 _______480-733-6594Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Hi-Production Precision Stamping

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

MOLDSLoveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

Molds: BlowLifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260

Molds: Plastic InjectionLifetime Products _____801-728-1260Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

Molds SteelDMSI ___________ 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 x117Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392

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

AnodizingBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23

CopperForesight Finishing ____480-921-0000

Electroless NickelLA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000Gold/Silver Plate

Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930Nickel/Chrome/

CopperForesight Finishing ____480-921-0000Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

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

POLISHINGGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930PRECISION FORMING

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

PRINTING3D Printing

The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-37333D Prototyping

The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733Custom Screen

ImageTek _________303-806-8111PROCESSING: METAL

Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Etching/PhotochemicalVACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

PUNCHINGJD Machine ________801-782-4403Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952Star Precision _______303-926-0559Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778

REPAIRBearing Surface

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000Hydraulic Cylinder

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000ROLL FORMING

Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260Rolling: 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

Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain • 68 • Sept / Oct 2015

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Founder / CEO

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MetalcraftPrecision Die & StampingThompson Machine

Loveridge Machine Co.Maverick Mold & Machine

Teton Machining 208-642-9344

Maverick Mold & Machine

Lifetime Products

Lifetime ProductsMaverick Mold & Machine

Maverick Mold & Machine

A2Z METALWORKER • 69 • July/Aug 2009

SPRINGSFlat & Wire

SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113STAMPING

AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:AerospacePrecision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23

Stamping:Deep DrawQualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:DesignThe Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Stamping:Flat FormingSPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Stamping:Foil FormingThompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Stamping: LightCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Stamping:PrecisionCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Wrico ___________480-892-7800Stamping:Prototype

Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Stamping:Short RunCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

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

Screwing: Lead

Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320TESTING

Testing: Non-Destructive

Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590Jet 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

Tool & Cutter GrindingExact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720

TOOLINGElite Machine _______801-710-7891Mountain View Machine _ 435-755-0500Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Western Sintering _____509-375-3096

TUBE FORMINGAG Machining _______805-531-9595

Formed TubingAG Machining _______805-531-9595Tube Bending /Fabrication

AG Machining _______805-531-9595WATERJET CUTTING

Colorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500

Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748WELDING

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

Welding: RoboticMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

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

WIRE FORMINGSPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

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Index of Advertisers4 Axis Machining, Inc...65A&L Machining...67ABS Quality Evaluations...62Accudyne Corp...33,59Accutech Machine Inc...65Action Machine....57Acu-Tec CNC...63Advantage Manufacturing...64 AEI Fabrication...20,68Aero Tech Mfg...64AG Machining...68AIT...59AMADA America...57AmCON...56AME, Inc...58APEX Engineering...67Arizona Finishing...66Arrow Sheet Metal...65Atlas Rigging & Transfer...62Automatics & Machinery...32,60AZ Tool Steel...63AZMark Aerospace...63bandsaw.com...3bandsawreviews.com...50Bar-S Machine, Inc...64biz-pi.com...16Bemsco...64Bilz...13Blanchard Metals Proc...64BMSC..42,62Bytebox...58Canyon State Oil ...57,58,72Cascade Systems Tech...64Castrol ...60,72ChemResearch...65Chiron...31,57Christensen Oil..57,72Cimatron..8,62CM Manufacturing...67Coastal Metals...12,60Coating Technologies...41,65Colorado Waterjet...66Current EDM Inc...61Custom Design & Mfg...63Cygnet Stamping...65Datum Inspection Services...60Davis Applied Tech College...59DCM Tech...14,44-45,57Delcam...57Denver Machine Shop...64Denver Precision Products...66Desert EDM Sales...60Dix Metals...18,61DMSI...63

Dolphin Inc...63Doosan...13,50-52Edge Technologies...60EDM Express...63EDM Network...35,59EDM Perf. Accessories...59Elite Machine...63EMJD Corp....65EMKA...69EPOCS Mfg...64Erickson Metals...57Evans Precision...64Exact Tool Grinding...69Fabricating Equipment Sales..59Falcon Sheet Metal...67Faustson...28,64Fives...58Flow International...57Foremaster Tool...66Foresight Finishing...68Gage Lab Products...58Ganesh Machinery...19,62Gladhill Assoc...57Global EDM Supply...58GMA Garnet Group...31,58,62GMN USA...52,58Gold Tech Industries..40,63Group Manufacturing...64HAAS Automation...2,57Hangsterfers...58Hasco Oil Company...62,72Helical Solutions...59Hirsh Precision Products...66Horizon Carbide...59HPMP...18,69Hurco...61Hydmech...6,57Image Tek...65Industrial Heat Treat Co...65Innovative Precision...63Intech Funding...62IRH...60Iron & Metals, Inc...51,60JD Machine...63Jend Machinery...68Jensen Precision...54-55J.M. Grisley...11,38,57,58Jensen Precision...54,55,68Jordan River Galvanizing...67K.D. Capital Equipment...59King Machine...57,58,60Kloeckner Metals...61Klontech Industrial...58KTR Machine...58

Kustom Koncepts...64L.A. Specialties...64LAYKE Inc...68Layke Tactical...61Leading Edge Machine...66LMI Machining...66Loveridge Machine...67Mario Pinto...59Marvel/Spartan...54-55Marzee...24,65Maverick Mold & Machine...63May Foundry & Machine...63MEP...59Metalcraft...67Metal Supermarkets...59,61Methods West...57Micropulse West ...63Midaco...60MMT, A Div of Productivity ...1,2,26-27,37,57,58Mountain View...63MRI Auctions...17Nelson Engineering...64Newport Tool...67New West Machine...59Northern UT (NTMA)..43, 69NW Rapid Mfg...33,62Northwest Swiss...68O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals...29,60Ogden-Weber Tech College...59OGP...58Olympic Metals...10,60Omax...57 Orion Registrar...59Paramount Machine...64Phoenix Heat Treating...66Pilkington Metal Finishing...65Pinnacle Precision..67PlaSteel...61Ponderosa Industries...66Precision Die & Stamping....69Precision Tech...67Premier Technology Inc...66Qualichem...60Qualtek...67R&H Machine...66Radtech...67RAM Company...64RD Machine...68Resell CNC West...15,62ResourceMfg...7,64Richards Fab...64RMTMA...30Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...32,60

Roentgen USA...60Romi Machine Tools, Ltd...60Ron Grob CO....65Rotarex...61Royal Products...52,57RP Machining, Inc. ..66Ryerson...9,57,59-61SA Composites...69S&S Machinery...58Samuel Son & CO..5,53,59-60Sandvik...60Sawblade.com...3Schenk Intertech...58Scottrade Bank Equip Finance...62Seco Tools Inc...58Sentry Insurance...62Setco Spindles & Slides...58Shop Tools, Inc..58Skydandee Mfg...63Smith Machinery...57,71Southwest Waterjet & Laser...22,69Specialty Steel Serv....34,64SPRING WORKS Utah...68Spyderco...44-45Stacy Machine & Tooling,..,63Star Metal Fluids...23,57Star Precision...64Steel Services Grinding...65Streaming Teacher...36,62Sun Grinding...65Superior Grinding..16,65Sustaining Edge Solutions...58TCI Precision Metals...39,59Teton Machining...66The 3D Printing Store...69The ToolRoom Inc...69Todd Machinery...42,57Thompson Machine...65Tornos...11,57Triad Machinery...47,58Trusty Cook...21,62TVT Die Casting...48-49,63TW Metals...60United Performance Metals...46,61US Bank...62Utah Metal Works, Inc...25,60Vacco...65Vision 33...62Von Ruden Mfg...57Wasatch Laser Forming...67Weiser/Mile High Precision...69Westec...56Western Sintering...69Western States Metals...28,58White Rock...69Wohlhaupter...62Wrico Stamping...40,65

Radtech...59RD Machine...60ResourceMfg...29,56Richards Fab...56RPM CNC Precision Machine...55RMTMA...47Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...52Roentgen USA...52Ron Grob CO....57Royal Products...18,49Ryerson...17,49,51,52,53SA Composites...61S&S Machinery...50Samuel Son & CO..7,43,52Sandvik...49Sawblade.com...5Seco Tools Inc...50Setco Spindles & Slides...50Shop Tools, Inc..10,50Skydandee Mfg...55Smith Machinery...49,63SolidCAM...20,54Specialty Steel Serv....30,56SPRING WORKS Utah...60St. Vrain Manufacturing...59Star Metal Fluids...13,49,50,51Star Precision...56Steel Services Grinding...57Steen & Sons Machine..58Superior Grinding..8,57Superior Metal Products...60Sustaining Edge Solutions...50TAPIT All Lubricants...50TechLeader Tooling...36TCI Precision Metals...15,40-41,51Todd Machinery...18,49Thompson Machine...57Tornos...9,49Triad Machinery...39,50Trusty Cook...11,54TVT Die Casting...44-45,55TW Metals...52Universal Laser Systems...22United Performance Metals...27,53Utah Metal Works, Inc...16,52Visser Precision Cast...1,30-31Von Ruden Mfg...49,51Wasatch Laser Forming...59Weiser/Mile High Precision...61Western Sintering...61Western States Calibration...53Western States Metals...28,51White Rock...61Wrico Stamping...42,57

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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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