West Coast A2Z Manufacturing Magazine Dec '20-Jan '21

Vol. 10, No. 6 DEC ‘20 / JAN ‘21 Supporting The Precision Manufacturing Industry

West Coast Edition For WA, OR, & CA

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Editor’s Corner Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton Well after this very long stormy year I would like to think we all have stronger deeper roots.

2020 is almost over and we all can breathe a sigh of relief as the holiday season cradles us into the new and hopefully wonderful 2021. What’s really interesting if you think about the world as our home, the United States was not the only country hit hard by the business crushing, toilet paper exhausting pandemic. This invisible enemy affected our whole planet and every person on this planet. It seems like when the whole world is in a fight for its life, people of every walk of life empathize and come together in many ways we never thought possible.

We took for granted so many things we never thought would be out of our reach, and we never thought a concert or church, or a comedy show could be dangerous, but they became places we could go to no longer. Our home and our families were our fortress and the phone and the computer were the medium we utilized to connect virtually with people we couldn’t shake hands with.

I realize the glass half full or half empty is a perception. Sometimes when one is presented with positive facts it is easier to see the benefits of a half full glass. Here are a few things I found that were bright spots in 2020 and I wanted to share them with you just in case you have never been to a drive in theatre or never used Zoom before.

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A 103-year-old grandma beat COVID-19 and celebrated with a Bud Light.

Drive-in movie theaters made a comeback.

Drive-in concerts are a thing now.

Wearing sweatpants and tees became acceptable fashion choices all day, every day.

Restaurants got awesomely creative to enforce social distancing including pool noodle hats, bumper boats and dapper mannequin guests.

Americans rushed to adopt and foster pets in need amid the pandemic.

Sure, we might have gained a little weight, but we rediscovered our love for old hobbies like baking and gardening.

We also have time to read again and we’re seizing the moment to educate ourselves.

Puzzles and board games became cool again and offered a much-needed break from our screens.

We learned that homeschooling is hard and finally recognized teachers for the heroes that they are.

Health care workers and essential workers. Also heroes.

Bike trails became one of the few places in the country that were open.

We realized how much we love and need sports and its ability to unite us.

As manufacturing businesses we had a very uncertain year in regard to business. We learned how to do business in a safe, clean way, and we learned the companies we focus on doing business with can determine our path for a bright future. I encourage you all to focus on the positive things in our lives and to overcome and adapt so that we all can have our freedom again.

Until next issue, God Bless all of our first responders!

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Cover West Coast Edition Covers for 2020 Serving the Precision Manufacturing Industry

Announcements/Releases ................... 6-14 Feature Articles.....................................1,16 Buyers Guide Equipment Services .....32-38 Buyers Guide Processes ......................39-45 Card Gallery ........................................32-45 Index Of Advertisers ...............................46 Editorial .................................. Throughout

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Whether a fabricator is implementing their first laser machine or looking to experience the next level of laser-cutting, Mazak Optonics Corp. has a variety of laser-cutting and automation solutions to meet the specific needs

2D / Flat Sheet Laser-Cutting Machines Mazak Optonics believes one size does not fit all when it comes to 2D laser-cutting technology. Therefore, Mazak offers a very wide range of fiber, direct diode, and CO2 laser machine configurations designed to meet the specific needs of a fabricator’s operation. Whether in a high-volume, limited changeover production environment or high-variation job shop requiring flexibility, Mazak provides cost-effective solutions to meet a variety of fabricator needs.

Intelligent Functions Mazak’s breakthrough Intelligent Technology includes a variety of intelligent features that reduce operator dependency, improve cut quality, and increase productivity. Many of Mazak’s 2D laser machines integrate intelligent functions that automate the setup of the machine and facilitate the use of automated material handling solutions.

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Tube and Pipe Laser-Cutting Machines When it comes to processing tubes, pipes, and structural steel, Mazak has a solution to fit a range of fabrication needs. Not only do Mazak tube lasers offer superior laser-cutting technology, many also integrate additional processing functions to deliver value-added benefits for fabricators. The extensive range of capabilities of Mazak’s tube and pipe laser machines makes them ideal for many industries and applications.

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Albina Co., Inc. Our Business is Shaped Around You! Are you in need of curved steel? At Albina Co., we have mastered the craft of steel bending, steel rolling and steel fabrication. We curve structural steel members, various sizes of round pipe and HSS material, and plate.

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Pallets are easily loaded onto carts without obstruction. Interlocked pallet carts are mobilized through the shuttle system on casters allowing the shuttle arm to continuously feed pallets into the 5-Axis machining center. Once a cart is pushed through the other side, the operator can easily load new pallets and change parts while the spindle is cutting.A completed pallet cart can be removed by unlocking the T-pins and rolled to a different location or to the opposite end of the train to keep production going. Depending on programming, after the full “pallet cart train” passes through the shuttle, the process repeats sending carts back in the opposite direction.

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Ryanair Orders More 737 Max Jets In $7B Boost For Boeing Boeing said Thursday that Ryanair, Europe’s largest ultra low-cost airline, has ordered 75 additional 737 Max airplanes in a deal which the airline said has increased the value of its orders for the single-aisle jet by $7 billion.

Boeing has also agreed with Ryanair to deliver the new order and a prior order for 135 jets on an accelerated basis over the next five years, Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary said.

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It is the first new order for the Max that Boeing has won in months and the announcement is a boost for both the Renton factory, where the aircraft are built, and for hundreds of Boeing suppliers in Washington state.

Boeing suffered close to 1,000 cancellations for the 737 Max during the past two years since two of the jets crashed overseas, killing 346 people and triggering a 20-month grounding of the jet, the longest in U.S. aviation history.

“From our perspective, this gives us momentum going into next year,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Stan Deal told reporters on a virtual news conference from Washington, D.C. Deal said that Boeing has already built 27 of Ryanair’s jets and 13 more are in the assembly factory, which will generate much needed cash flow for the jet maker when delivered.

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He said the jets would be far cheaper for his company to operate and more comfortable for passengers to fly, allowing Ryanair to offer travelers much lower fares.

“Boeing build better aircraft than Airbus,” O’Leary said. By Andrew McIntosh – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal

Manufacturing Industry Confidence Stays Strong As Investment Grows Two surveys of the U.S. manufacturing industry both showed strong readings last month, with data provider IHS Markit’s reading touching its highest level since late 2014.

Between the lines: The headline numbers were reassuring, as were the report’s details.

“The rise in investment spending sends a welcome signal that companies have become more optimistic about longer term prospects, something that was reinforced by a surge in firms’ expectations about production in the year ahead — even in consumer-facing sectors — to the highest since early-2015,” Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said in a press release.

The big picture: “If we look at the world’s six largest economies they either have buoyant November manufacturing PMIs (US, China, Germany, India and the UK), or, in the case of a lagging Japan, are showing clear signs of improvement,” says Deutsche Bank chief international strategist Alan Ruskin in a note to clients titled “Global PMI is in a ’big is beautiful’ virtuous cycle.

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The Air Force has issued a first-of-its-kind safety endorsement of an electric-powered vehicle similar to a helicopter, opening the door to using such commercially developed equipment for military missions.This initial stamp of approval is meant to lay the groundwork for eventual civilian certification of the technology and even approval of autonomous flights crossing American cities, industry and military officials said. The current version does require a pilot.

For now, the impact of the Air Force’s decision, expected to be announced as soon as Thursday, is limited. It means Joby Aviation, a Northern California startup, will become the first maker of novel vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft providing transportation for the U.S. armed services.

The Air Force will help accelerate safety analyses by conducting flight tests, pledging to pay for contracts seeking to verify vehicle reliability and generally vetting the capabilities of vehicles through direct and indirect funding of the company.

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companies including Boeing Co. ,Toyota Motor Corp. , Hyundai Motor 4/6/2020 2:04:17 PM Group of South Korea and Airbus SE. “We’re really competing with other nations to bring this technology to bear,” Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisitions, said in a recent interview. “Not just for military missions, but for all missions, including commercial ones.”

Based on the positive safety assessment, Joby’s vehicle will be contracted to carry cargo and people, as well as provide emergency rescue and other services, initially between military facilities in the U.S. and later around the globe. Ferrying freight among domestic locations connected by military airspace could begin as soon as early next year, according to Mr. Roper and others inside the Air Force.

The novel design features six tilt rotors above an egg-shaped body sized for four passengers, producing a vehicle that is lighter, cheaper and quieter than conventional helicopters.

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Force. Other military services also will have a chance to assess the craft’s capabilities.

discuss specific companies. Joby has said it anticipates formal FAA safety certification by 2023.

The Air Force endorsement, stemming from a year-old initiative called Agility Prime, also signals a potentially new chapter for Pentagon procurement, by harnessing for military missions equipment initially developed just for commercial markets.

Separately, earlier this week Joby said it intends to acquire the Uber Elevate unit of Uber Technologies Inc., as part of an expanded partnership between the two companies. The latest agreement also increases Uber’s investment in Joby to $125 million as the two companies pursue plans to integrate future ground and air travel options. On Wednesday, Joby said the Air Force and Uber developments seek to accelerate its timeline for offering services to customers.

“This is about retooling our system to be commercially focused, commercially agile,” Mr. Roper said. He told an industry conference during the summer that the Air Force needs to be involved “wherever innovation is happening in aviation.”

Joby said it is “excited to partner with the U.S. government to accelerate testing, development and certification,” adding that the military’s safety and performance evaluation had determined the vehicle “meets Air Force standards for flight.”

At this point, the company won’t be authorized to fly in civilian airspace or offer broad commercial services, both of which require full-fledged safety certification by the Federal Aviation Administration. But industry experts, along with military and civilian government officials, see the Pentagon’s endorsement as an important step toward that goal.

Referring to the collaboration between military and civilian safety experts, FAA chief Steve Dickson told an air-mobility conference this week, “It’s really gratifying to see how our interests align.” He didn’t

The Pentagon plans to spend roughly $100 million annually to support flight tests and pay for actual transportation as part of the overall effort to assess Joby, which is funded partly byToyota, and other companies working on novel airborne vehicles.

The long-term goal, according to Air Force Col. Nathan Diller, who will oversee testing and evaluation, is for the military to collaborate with industry and the FAA to ensure U.S. manufacturers snare a major share of the emerging air-taxi market. Pointing to China’s dominance in commercial drones, he said, “We can’t afford to do what we did with the small-drone industry.”

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Oregon Solar Developer Jumping Into Green Hydrogen The rising green hydrogen economy, as some are calling it, has lured in a leading Oregon solar developer.

Obsidian Renewables said Friday it had hired Ken Dragoon to head up a new hydrogen project development effort.

As executive director of the Portland-based Renewable Hydrogen Alliance, Dragoon has been one of the region’s leaders in promoting the use of renewable energy to produce hydrogen.

Hydrogen has the potential to deliver a decarbonizing and versatile fuel, energy storage medium and industrial feedstock.

“This is a way to make use of low-cost renewable energy and to make use of surplus supplies of renewable energy and hydroelectric energy,” David Brown, Lake Oswego-based Obsidian’s co-founder and senior principal, said.

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unlocked from compounds. The typical method is a process called natural gas reforming that has a heavy carbon-dioxide footprint.

The idea that’s been taking hold in Europe — and now getting attention in the U.S. — is to use renewably sourced electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through a process called electrolysis. That yields “green hydrogen.”

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Walker noted that Intel is active in developing secondary support a priority for future product development by identifying secondary And green hydrogen has begun to pop up in the Pacific Northwest. NW best practices in the manufacturing sector.

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Public Utility District Washington is further ahead: It’s company policies, and common attitudes and behaviors, Thomas andWiM and contributing to the evolution of Wi-Fi for more than with the learnings and partnership from these last few months, as industry ramps up in working on a project to use hydropower to make hydrogen for what will be have released a joint report outlining a number of key insights regarding 20 years, and today we’re excited to announce another the aftermath of COVID-19. the first hydrogen fueling station in the state. Expected to be operational the advancement of and opportunities for women thedeal. industrial sector. leap forward,” Walker wrote aboutinthe next year, it will use a 5-megawatt electrolyzer, the largest ever installed We’re in an unprecedented chapter in our nation’s history, and manufacturers off all sizes in the Unitedup States.

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Brown saidinthe company would focus early effortswireless in Eastern Oregon, Relatedly, professionals medical industry that ever as in wetherely on itand to healthcare work, teach, learnshared and stay where it could access solar and wind power, and hydropower. By Pete they are highly connected,” optimistic about the future opportunities for women in Walker wrote. “Fast, reliable and secureWi-Fi Austin, Texas-based Rivet’s products are used to maximize Wi-Fi bandwidth use and Danko manufacturing,connectivity with 86% indicating a positive outlook.

84% is a necessity for keeping up asSimilarly, we add more optimize network connections. The company’s team is joining Intel’s Wireless Solutions of professionalsconnected in the agricultural industry indicated that they were devices and higher bandwidth applicationsalso for Group within its PC business.The two companies had already worked closely together to optimistic about the advancement of women in the manufacturing sector. gaming, video streaming and content creation, as well as Only 1 in 4 Manufacturing Leaders Are Women, develop the Killer AX1650 Wi-Fi product.“Rivet Networks is a terrific complement to By: Mikaela Tierney for processing increasingly larger file sizes.” Earlier this our existingWi-Fi products helps us further our vision of delivering PC platforms that Newand Report Reveals Continued Next GE 10 month Intel acquired multimodal tripPage planning app maker power every person’s greatest contribution,” said Chris Walker, corporate vice president Moovit for $900 million. and general manager of mobile client platforms.

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“The uniqueness of our product and what we just got certified is that we’re an all-in-one solution, meaning that the product will provide communications between the aircraft and the airline operations center — think of text messaging between the aircraft and the airline’s operations center,” McCammant said.

“That could be communicating performance information on the aircraft, it could be communicating positioning or a changing gate. It also provides the controller-pilot data link communications globally,” he said.

McCammant said Spectralux is one of five companies in the world that makes such devices and it competes with much larger players, such as Airbus and Rockwell.

But the Spectralux Envoy device includes three different software protocols in the same box, McCammant said, so it meets requirements for communications protocol standards set by the U.S. as well as Europe and the International Civil Aviation Agency, the United Nations agency based in Montreal.

However, McCammant said his company’s Envoy product offers “a more economical solution” to meet an airline or aircraft operator’s needs because it offers the capability of satellite communications over water, but also the less costly option of Very High Frequency (VHF) radio communications over land and global, real-time aircraft tracking.

Rivals offer the three different communications management functions, but on three different pieces of communications hardware in the aircraft, increasing costs and aircraft weight, meaning it lowers fuel efficiency, McCammant said.

“If you’re looking at their (rivals’) communications equipment, you could have three pieces of hardware for what we do in one,” McCammant added. “That’s a competitive advantage we bring to the market.”

Spectralux’s customers include Boeing, Collins Aerospace, Honeywell, Air Wisconsin, Icelandair, Azur Air, and Jet2, McCammant said.

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Redmond-based Spectralux Avionics has earned Federal Aviation Administration approval to sell Envoy, its newest and most advanced satellite data communications device, to global airlines and business jet owners and operators.

Spectralux President Scott McCammant said the new device’s approval is “a significant milestone” for the company at a difficult time during the aerospace downturn. His workforce of 50 workers is entirely furloughed right now as the company awaits a recovery and potential new financing that would allow him to bring back workers.

Like almost all companies in the aerospace and airline sectors, Spectralux has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

“For us, 95% of our sales are in the aftermarket, meaning we support the airlines and operators directly.With most airlines operating at about 15% of their fleet capacity (around the world), they are deferring maintenance, discretionary spending and avionics upgrades in the cockpit and compliance updates they need to do.,” he said.

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2008 recession. However, after the first wave of pandemic-driven shutdowns, segment recoveries for various manufacturers have been uneven.

Looking ahead to 2021, the recovery may take longer to reach pre-pandemic levels, as Deloitte projections based on the Oxford Economic Model (OEM) anticipate a decline in annual manufacturing GDP growth levels for 2020-2021, with a forecast of -3.7% for 2020 and -5.4% for 2021.

Reeling from the effects of a global pandemicdriven shutdown, US industrial production (-16.5% year over year) and US total factory orders (-22.7% year over year) saw a steep decline in April, followed by suppressed improvement. The current US Industrial Production Index stands at 101.5 in September (the most recent month available), a substantial dip from its pre-pandemic level of 110. Production and order levels are still below 2019 levels, but the trajectory of the decline has slowed. Total industrial capacity utilization improved to 71.5% in September, up from 64.1% in April; however, it’s still below pre-pandemic levels of 77%.

Deloitte Releases “2021 Manufacturing Outlook” Report As uncertainty becomes the new normal, Deloitte’s “2021 Manufacturing Outlook” report outlined the key considerations for creating disruptionproof businesses and presents new findings from a post-election survey of manufacturing executives. To understand the outlook and perspectives of organizations across the energy, resources, and industrials industries, Deloitte fielded a survey of more than 350 US executives and other senior leaders in November 2020 following the 2020 US presidential election.The survey captured insights from respondents in five specific industry groups: chemicals and specialty materials, engineering and construction, industrial products, oil and gas, and power and utilities.

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2020 also experienced a significant dip in manufacturing employment levels, largely due to forced shutdowns in the early days of the pandemic and suppressed orders, with April recording manufacturing’s lowest employment levels since 2010. Despite recent gains from much of the country’s manufacturing base back in operation, employment levels in October are still 621,000 lower than in February. All of these indicators have created an environment of ongoing uncertainty, although 63% of executives in Deloitte’s postelection poll are showing a somewhat or very positive outlook on business. Explore our four manufacturing industry trends for 2021 and beyond to see how things are shaping up.

Summary highlights from Deloitte’s 2021 Manufacturing Outlook: 2020 has been a year like no other in recent history: Before the pandemic hit, the industry was working to regain the momentum it had reached after the 2008 recession, and after the first wave of pandemic-driven shutdowns, segment recoveries for various manufacturers have been uneven. Looking ahead

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to 2021, the recovery may take longer to reach pre-pandemic levels.

Digital is key to caging black swans: “Black swan” disruptions are increasingly frequent, highlighting the value of forecasting and visibility across operations and supply chains. Whether experiencing demand surges, slowdowns or something in between, 76% of manufacturing executives plan to cope by increasing their investments in digital initiatives, and plan to pilot and implement more Industry 4.0 technologies.

Digitization will drive productivity: Nearly a quarter (24%) of manufacturing executives moving forward with digitization think digital twins – which allow manufacturers to virtually recreate a product, its production, and even simulate its performance – are the most important focus of tech investment.

Digital twin libraries of products, processes and production environments will be instrumental to successfully managing future disruptions.

Supply chains are shifting homeward: Regionalization has gained interest due to the disruptions experienced from the pandemic. In fact, 44% of manufacturing executives plan to embrace a more regional supply chain model next year.

Many are reducing dependency on China in favor of Asian and American markets.

In fact, 31% of executives mentioned that they will nearshore some part of their production back to the Americas in the next year. Digital supply networks can help manufacturers increase visibility and flexibility in these new production environments.

The future of work is here: Pre-pandemic work arrangements are unlikely to return. A prevailing skills gap has widened due to pandemic-related furloughs and retirements, prompting accelerated deployment of automation and robotics. About 28% of executives said that matching skillsets to highly automated work environments will be their top workforce challenge next year.

Solving forecasting challenges could be critical to navigating the disruption For manufacturers, the events of 2020 may be a warning to develop better systems for navigating disruptions like the one we are currently experiencing.

Visibility is likely to become the most critical capability for manufacturers

in the coming months. Where to increase visibility depends on how a company is experiencing the pandemic, as exemplified above, and digital technologies could be important enablers.

Digital twins could support new levels of resilience and flexibility In its simplest form, a digital twin is a representation, or blueprint, of a physical thing.That thing could be a single product or a component.

It could also be a production process or even the physical production environment. Using a digital twin, a manufacturer can virtually recreate a product, its production, and even simulate its performance in the real world without having to “bend metal” or take any other physical action.

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demand as utilities and other grid players turned to big battery installations that can help make room for more intermittent renewable energy.

Now Powin — still something of an upstart among well-heeled competitors — is focused on extending its ride, grabbing what it can of a domestic market expected to grow from $1.5 billion this year to $7 billion by 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Storage Association and Wood Mackenzie.

To do it, Powin has invested heavily in its technology with a big staff buildout. And the company is bent on continuing to use its Asia expertise to source battery cells at the best price.

“We caught lightning in a bottle and now other competitors are moving,” Geoff Brown, Powin’s president since 2016, said. “They’re taking our approach or finding their own ways to reach a similar pricing floor. And so what we do is use that momentum that we had in 2018 and 2019, double down on additional R&D, double down on additional technology investment, and double down on improvement in our product.”

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Powin wasn’t starting from nothing when it dove headlong into energy storage in 2016.

By then, a vaguely focused subsidiary called Powin Renewable Energy Resources Inc. had begun to turn heads with a patented product that exquisitely balanced the output of the small battery cells that are the foundation of a big energy storage system.

With it, Powin offered a holistic, less expensive approach in a nascent sector populated by integrators.

“They would buy from someone who had built a module or from somebody else who does a bunch of cells,” Brown said. “And then they would have to buy an enclosure that had been built by somebody else. And then they’d have experienced engineers writing software to bring it all together. It was all very bespoke.

There was a lot of margin stacking with that approach.”

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Most cells are made in China, where the former more and more things from our home, we need to ensure we have the technology Powin Corp. a longsohistory at ourhad disposal things of cansourcing. go on as normal as possible,” Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “What that has “We bought the battery cell, took it all including the way toPCs, thefor finish, including the software meant is demand for more andthen more devices, parents to continue and pairing that service, pairing their that with real deep technical expertise and to conduct theirwith worklong-term and for kids to continue education.” some differentiated approaches to building the system,” Brown said. “That allowed us, really from daycompany one, to be one of the Swan’s dominates thelowest-cost markets forproviders.” processors that run PCs and the server machines that act as the backbone of corporate networks and cloud-data centers.

Demand forpenetration more expensive server chips is also higher as companies and service This wasn’t pricing; the company won contracts “at profitable gross margins,” providers improve the systems needed to connect work PCs in people’s homes.

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Growing fast Companies around the world -- including Intel -- have sent employees home in compliance with government orders aimednearly at containing the spread ofold thePowin Covid-19 Powin had revenue in 2019 of $32 million, three times what the did in 2015, pandemic. That shift has provoked a rush to invest in the infrastructure that keeps its last largely pre-energypeople working remotely. Analysts and investors are now looking for signals on could storage year. Sales whether that’s a short-term lift that will subside as lower economic activity takes triple this year aand then toll on corporate and consumer spending, or whether it is a lasting trend. again in 2021, Brown said.

Intel is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings on April 23 and is expected to give Key Capture Energy has projections for the current period. In January, before the virus had spread around done three projects in the world, the company forecast about $19 billion in revenue for the March quarter.

Texas with Powin totaling about 30 megawatts.

The chipmaker was partly prepared for a surge in demand because it was already Three more, much bigger expecting a strong quarter and had facilities geared up to produce more components, — totaling 200 megawatts Swan said. The Santa Clara, California-based company is now working hard to — are on their way next convince governments that its operations are essential and should be exempt from year. They’re part of a closures, he said. By Ian King

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Powin project pipeline that will be 10 times as fat in 2021 as it was in 2019, Senior Vice President Danny Lu said.

“The Powin solution, cost and value structure make them very appealing to the energy storage industry,” Jeff Bishop, Key Capture Energy’s CEO, said via email. Bishop called out Powin’s roots and its “great relationships up and down the Asian and American supply chains,” and noted that it is “aggressively filling their team with experienced folks from all over the energy sector, bringing a diversity of experiences.”

Since March, Powin has hired 65 people in the U.S., about two-thirds locally, Lu said. Most are engineers.

It’s what’s needed to keep pace with the industry’s heavyweights, including an AES and Siemens joint venture called Fluence, and Tesla, which needs no elaboration except to say Elon Musk believes that in the long run, energy storage will be just as big as electric cars to the company.

Utility-scale storage costs fell 70 percent from 2015 to 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, and the pressure to keep pushing prices lower isn’t letting up.

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Silicon Dreams: A Technological Breakthrough To Let Doctors Peer Inside The Body With Startling Clarity Wilhelm Röntgen had no inkling that he was about to revolutionize how doctors diagnose and treat injuries and disease. In 1895, the German physicist and future Nobel Prize winner was experimenting with an electrified glass vacuum tube when he noticed that it produced mysterious rays — X-rays, he called them — that could pass through solid objects, including his wife Anna’s hand.[1] “I have seen my death,” she reportedly said after seeing a photograph of the bones inside her palm and fingers.[2] The field of radiology was born. Röntgen’s discovery quickly galvanized many brilliant minds around the world, including that of GE co-founder and first chief scientist Elihu Thomson.Thomson built upon Röntgen’s breakthrough and within a year designed an X-ray machine that could be used for “diagnosing bone fractures and locating foreign objects in the body.”[3] It was also Thomson who pushed GE to open its GE Research labs.[4] The scientific institution allowed another brilliant GE scientist,William Coolidge, to invent the modern X-ray tube that has made it possible to scan a patient for a broken bone in just about any hospital or clinic today.

C o o l i d g e ’s tubes also lie at the hear t of the X-ray machine’s even more powerful cousin, the computed t o m o g r a p hy (CT) scanner.

Prismatic CEO Mats Danielsson, whose team figured out that turning the silicon modules sideways — on the edge — could contribute to the new technology. Image credit: Prismatic Sensors.Top image credit: GE Healthcare.

Now, engineers at GE Research with their colleagues at GE Healthcare and the Swedish startup Prismatic Sensors AB hope to alter radiology’s course once again. The researchers have found a way to vastly expand CT’s already impressive imaging powers. The team invented a new way to capture and analyze the X-rays passing through the body and render them into minutely detailed images of the heart, say, or of nodules inside the lungs. They say their method is designed to enable doctors to see deep inside the human body with greater clarity and specificity while exposing patients to less radiation than traditional CT scans.

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Their approach, which took decades to develop, uses a technique called photon counting and involves hypersensitive X-ray detectors made of “Deep Silicon” technology — a critical component that was difficult to develop. “We believe this technology has the potential to be a substantial step forward for CT imaging that will benefit millions of patients worldwide,” said Kieran Murphy, president and CEO of GE Healthcare.

In fact, the promise of the technology is so momentous that GE Healthcare will acquire Prismatic Sensors, the partner that found the way to make the Deep Silicon detector, by January 2021. When completed, it will be GE’s first acquisition since Larry Culp joined the company as chairman and CEO in late 2018. “Silicon is by far the purest material produced for use in detectors and this provides a very clean signal,” said Prismatic CEO Mats Danielsson. “With Deep Silicon you can count the photons very efficiently with unprecedented energy resolution.”

The breakthrough technology could not only allow doctors to visualize organs down to the finest structural details, but it potentially could also help them analyze lesions, tumors and other suspect structures they may encounter along the way. “Personally, spatial resolution, the ability to detect and differentiate even the smallest clinical features, is one of the biggest benefits,” said Bruno De Man, technology manager, who leads GE Research’s radiation imaging team, which was key in this development. “Spatial resolution combined with energy resolution has the potential to significantly impact clinical performance for oncology, cardiology, neurology and many other clinical CT applications. For example, accurate characterization of lung nodules helps doctors determine whether they are malignant or benign. Or when people suffering from cardiovascular diseases have plaque, providing clinicians the details of the plaque facilitates their accurate diagnosis. Or they can image bone microstructure for osteoporosis patients to help determine fracture risks. Those are just three examples of applications that may benefit from this technology.”

Scientists and engineers have been trying to perfect photon counting CT, the technology at the heart of the breakthrough, since the early 1990s.

De Man, a CT expert with a Ph.D. in medical imaging, became smitten by its potential soon after he arrived at GE Research from his native Belgium in 2001 and joined the team that led the early photon-counting developments. To understand how photon-counting CT works and why it holds the promise to shake up radiology, it helps to know how regular CT scanners operate.

GE William CoolidgeGE’s William Coolidge invented what is considered the modern X-ray tube. He also developed an early portable X-ray machine. Coolidge’s X-ray machine (shown here in 1918) was used in military hospitals during World War I. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady.

First introduced some 50 years ago, CT scanners use X-rays to make crosssectional images of the human body, slicing it virtually like a loaf of bread.

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They use detectors to make billions of measurements per second of the total intensity of the X-rays passing through the patients and then use the information to reconstruct images of the inside of the body. With a CT scanner, you could see the number, size and position of the holes in a loaf of bread without actually cutting it open. And physicians can spot a tumor mass inside a patient’s body. But even CT scanners may run up against limits like resolution and radiation dose.

(CZT), which work well in nuclear imaging. But it was a difficult journey. “I remember when I first joined GE Research, some detector experts argued that photon counting will never work while others were saying the opposite, and they kept pushing and pushing,” De Man said.

Enter photon-counting CT technology, which does a few things differently.[5] Rather than just measuring the total intensity that comes through, the detector counts individual X-ray photons and determines each photon’s energy. “It’s not very different from an ordinary camera for visible light,” Danielsson said. “It’s just that the energy is higher. We count all of the photons and measure their energy one by one, providing more information which is an advantage for physicians when they read the reconstructed the images to look for potential cancers and other diseases.”

Eventually GE scientists built the world’s first photon-counting CT prototype, using a CZT detector. GE unveiled it in 2006 and used it to scan patients the year after as part of a clinical research study. In the meantime, many research groups around the world had also started to explore photoncounting CT using the same materials for detectors.

De Man says that it is each photon’s quantitated energy information that allows the CT scanner to characterize tissues inside the body more accurately than with traditional technologies. “This is the first big benefit,” he says. “We are not just imaging the density of materials, but we can evaluate what materials compose the tissues.This type of information can aid doctors in their diagnosis for a wide range of disease states.”

But the photon-counting scanner never took off; the main limitation was the detector material. “We always knew that cad-tell CdTe and CZT had their challenges,” De Man says. “They are really great materials for nuclear medicine, where the count rate requirements are not as high as in CT. But for CT the requirements are just too high. Impurities lead to instabilities and to limits on the count rate — how fast you can count photons.”

The GE team had always liked silicon because of its purity and also because the semiconductor industry has largely worked out how to mass-produce parts made from the material. But making a CT detector from it was a long shot. The biggest challenge, perhaps, involved silicon’s relatively poor ability to stop the arriving X-ray photons. Where the CZT modules were just a few millimeters deep, the silicon version had to be much deeper.

The second important step forward, De Man says, involves the size of the individual detector cells.

Building on Prismatic Sensors’ silicon breakthrough, the team has assembled the detector from thousands of tiny silicon modules, each a fraction of the size of the existing industry-standard detector cell size.

“Normally a CT image has about half-millimeter resolution, but now the spatial resolution can potentially be twice or three times as good, which is important for visualizing even the smallest features,” he says.

The detector also counts the arriving photons digitally — one, two, three — an approach that allows the team to potentially reduce image noise and improve image clarity and may enable reducing the radiation dose. “We believe we can virtually eliminate the impact of electronic noise,” De Man said. “We measure each photon and its energy so we can assign a weighting to it. For example, this will allow the user to emphasize the low-energy photons, which carry more information and potentially improve the contrast-to-noise ratio in the images.”

But then, in 2015, a chance encounter brought GE scientists together with Danielsson, who flipped the problem on its head — or rather, on its side. He and his colleagues figured out that turning the silicon modules sideways — on the edge — and measuring the Compton interactions so they could contribute to the image solved the problem. “It wasn’t until we heard about the edge-on approach that Mats and the Prismatic Sensors team came up with that the major challenge was addressed so we can use silicon and still detect all X-rays,” De Man said.

But the silicon detector was just one part of the puzzle. The team includes experts in mathematics, statistics and even quantum physics.They developed software that processes the billions of measurements and turns the captured and counted photons into a picture that a doctor can understand. “All these underlying algorithms are complex, but if you do it cleverly, you can extract as much information as possible,” De Man said.

For his part, Danielsson is looking forward to Prismatic Sensors becoming part of the big GE family.

“Over those years, we really got to know the GE team extremely well,” he says. “We’re working very close together. So we got used to solving difficult problems and getting work done together.”

This is a long way from where the project began. Scientists at GE Research started looking at photon-counting detectors in the early 1990s. They experimented with building detectors from materials like cadmium-telluride (CdTe) and cadmium-zinc-telluride

GE Healthcare expects to close the acquisition of Prismatic Sensors by January 2021. It has held a minority position in the company since 2017.

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“The November Manufacturing PMI® registered 57.5 percent, down 1.8 percentage points from the October reading of 59.3 percent. This figure indicates expansion in the overall economy for the seventh month in a row after a contraction in April, which ended a period of 131 consecutive months of growth. The New Orders Index registered 65.1 percent, down 2.8 percentage points from the October reading of 67.9 percent. The Production Index registered 60.8 percent, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points compared to the October reading of 63 percent.

The Backlog of Orders Index registered 56.9 percent, 1.2 percentage points higher compared to the October reading of 55.7 percent. The Employment Index returned to contraction territory at 48.4 percent, 4.8 percentage points down from the October reading of 53.2 percent.

The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 61.7 percent, up 1.2 percentage points from the October figure of 60.5 percent. The Inventories Index registered 51.2 percent, 0.7 percentage point lower than the October reading of 51.9 percent.The Prices Index registered 65.4 percent, down 0.1 percentage point compared to the October reading of 65.5 percent.

The New Export Orders Index registered 57.8 percent, an increase of 2.1 percentage points compared to the October reading of 55.7 percent.

The Imports Index registered 55.1 percent, a 3-percentage point decrease from the October reading of 58.1 percent.”

Fiore continues, “The manufacturing economy continued its recovery in November. Survey Committee members reported that their companies and suppliers continue to operate in reconfigured factories, but absenteeism, short-term shutdowns to sanitize facilities and difficulties in returning and hiring workers are causing strains that will likely limit future manufacturing growth potential. Panel sentiment, however, is optimistic (2.5 positive comments for every cautious comment), an improvement compared to October. Demand expanded, with the (1) New Orders Index growing at strong levels, supported by the New Export Orders Index expanding strongly, (2) Customers’ Inventories Index at its lowest figure since June 2010 (35.8 percent), a level considered a positive for future production, and the (3) Backlog of Orders Index expanding at a slightly faster rate compared to the previous three months.

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Consumption (measured by the Production and Employment indexes) contributed negatively (a combined 7-percentage point decrease) to the Manufacturing PMI® calculation, with five of the top six industries continuing with moderate to strong output expansion.The Employment Index contracted after a single month of growth, primarily due to the inability to attract and retain direct labor. Inputs — expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports — continued to indicate input-driven constraints to production expansion, at higher rates compared to October, as indicated by minimal gains in inventory levels and a softening of imports. Input improvement stalled compared to October and contributed marginally to the Manufacturing PMI® calculation.

(The Supplier Deliveries and Inventories indexes directly factor into the Manufacturing PMI®; the Imports Index does not.) Prices continued to expand at higher rates, reflecting a clear shift to seller pricing power.

“Among the six biggest manufacturing industries, five (Fabricated Metal Products; Chemical Products; Computer & Electronic Products; Transportation Equipment; and Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products)

registered solid growth in November.

“Manufacturing performed well for the sixth straight month, with demand, consumption and inputs registering growth, but at slower rates compared to October. Labor market difficulties, both current and anticipated, at panelists’ companies and their suppliers will continue to dampen the manufacturing economy until the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis ends,” says Fiore.

Of the 18 manufactur ing industries, 16 reported growth in November, in the following order: Apparel, Leather & Allied Products; Nonmetallic Mineral Products; Textile Mills; Wood Products; Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components; Fabricated Metal Products; Plastics & Rubber Products; Primary Metals; Chemical Products; Machinery; Computer & Electronic Products; Paper Products; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment; Furniture & Related Products; and Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products. The two industries reporting contraction in November are: Printing & Related Support Activities; and Petroleum & Coal Products.

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Kratos Receives $37.7 Million Skyborg Program Contract Award from USAF Advanced Aircraft Office Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. a leading National Security Solutions provider and industry-leading provider of high-performance, jet-powered unmanned aerial systems, announced today that Kratos has received a $37,771,577 award from the AFLCMC/WA Advanced Aircraft Program Executive Office for the Skyborg Delivery Order (DO) 2 contract to integrate, test, and deliver XQ-58AValkyrie aircraft.

Steve Fendley, President of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division, said, “Kratos is excited to announce the receipt of the Skyborg DO 2 contract, meeting a long-term strategic objective.

The Skyborg Program, one of three USAF Vanguard Programs, is focused on expanding the envelope of the application of unmanned aircraft use, particularly with respect to Artificial Intelligence. Kratos XQ-58A has been flying since March of 2019, approximately 30 months after aircraft conception, and was designed specifically for these applications and the ability to support missions from ISR to Strike in manned-unmanned teaming scenarios or in unmanned only mission sets.

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Vigor, Daimler in agreement on $40M-plus Superfund work at Swan Island Basin The Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup is set to take a big step forward on one of its most challenging sites, the Swan Island Basin.

Vigor Industrial and Daimler Trucks North America have joined with the city of Portland, state of Oregon and Port of Portland in an agreement to design a cleanup plan for the site at an expected cost of between $40 million and $50 million.

“We’re excited to see this big piece of the puzzle for the entire site falling into place,” AnnieVon Burg, environmental policy manager for Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services, said. “We see this as a good story and good progress.”

Under the deal negotiated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Vigor and Daimler will complete the work, whichVon Burg characterized as “engineered blueprints” for dredging, capping and different degrees of enhanced or monitored recovery of contaminated sediment.

Portland and the state will each contribute $3.6 million toward the cost, and the port will pay $12 million. All the parties have potential liability at the Superfund site.

Swan Island Basin is one of the last areas in the harbor to enter into an agreement with EPA for remedial design since the agency in late 2018 told potentially responsible parties to get moving or face enforcement actions.

“The size and complexity of this area caused extended negotiations, but an agreement has been reached,” the city said in an impact statement included in the proposal that will go before the City Council.

This the ninth agreement by the city to contribute to remedial design work as the decades-long cleanup process picks up steam.

Two other Superfund-related items are on the City Council agenda for Wednesday: one measure that would finalize $5.5 million in contracts for technical work by two firms, and a second to finalize a $1.65 million contract for legal support related to the city’s harbor liability.

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The majority of companies noted that they were also able to provide access to online training options for staff development and in many cases even staggered shifts within their facilities to reduce the number of staff on site during the same period, thus mitigating the potential for Covid-19 outbreaks and spread. Manufacturers indicated the bulk of positions available and in high demand, require a very basic level of education as a starting point and yet provide significant upward mobility within the industry. Companies also report they provide additional training and support for their employees so they stay in the industry, grow their skillsets and advance their careers.

Some of the most sought-after skills that employers identified were around (1) basic tool maintenance; (2) LEAN management practices and principles, (3) blueprint reading/basic math, and finally (4) soft skills around basic workforce readiness, attendance and punctuality.

Workforce Collaborative Connects Job Seekers To Competitive Manufacturing Industry

By Greg Goloborodko Over the course of the past several weeks, the Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative, consisting of the three workforce boards representing southwest Washington, Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties, has been surveying local manufacturers to assess how they have been impacted by the pandemic and identify areas where support is needed from the workforce development system.

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These skillsets, along with OSHA certification and an overall interest within the manufacturing sector, provide incredible employment opportunities for anyone seeking a fulfilling career. While the entry level wages into support and production occupations start in the range of $17-$20 per hour, with continued on-the-job trainings and additional certifications individuals can move into a range of technical and highly skilled positions within a relatively short time. These pathways lead to increased wages and opportunities to build upon for advancement within this sector, as indicated by the median wage of $22 per hour.

So why are manufacturers struggling to fill their o pen positions when unemployment is at a 10-year high?

Despite adapting to employees’ needs by restructuring production hours, reducing the number of employees on site at a given time, companies are still seeing a shortage of applicants. On top of challenges created by the pandemic, manufacturing still struggles with the misperception that the jobs are low-paying, dangerous and in dirty work environments.

The opportunity for manufacturers is in tackling the current disconnect between what the workers are seeking, and their perceptions around the sector overall. Exposing the community to manufacturing with virtual tours, day-in-the-life events and general outreach to job-seekers, could help break down some of these misconceptions and lead to more quality candidates.

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For manufacturers looking to join the Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative’s efforts to grow the manufacturing talent pipeline, contact: Greg Goloborodko, collaborative manufacturing lead, ggoloborodko@ worksystems.org.

Apprenticeships Continue to Prove Successful in Addressing Skills Gap As the U.S. Department of Labor announced the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2020, companies and educational institutes across the country are showcasing the “earn-and-learn” opportunities.

“Apprentices have a crucial role to play in our ongoing economic recovery, and National Apprenticeship Week is a way for us to show the nation what they bring to the table,” said Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training John Pallasch in a statement.

“Over and over again, they reinvigorate our workplaces with their vision and their commitment to their futures, and business leaders, educators,

state and local governments, and others across the nation are taking this week to recognize that achievement,” Pallash added.

This year’s events will focus on both traditional Registered Apprenticeship Programs and newly created Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs.

In February of this year, the Department of Labor increased funding to the apprenticeship effort by awarding $100 million in grants to 28 public-private apprenticeship programs throughout the country through the “Apprenticeship: Closing the Skills Gap” program.

“Companies across the country tell me their greatest challenge today is finding the skilled workers they need,” Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said when announcing the program. He also said that apprenticeship was a viable alternative to a traditional bachelor’s degree for Americans seeking “good-paying careers.”

A study released in October demonstrates apprentices have the potential to earn salaries far exceeding their peers who only attended community colleges.

This model has proven to be successful for many companies. For example, IBM has run a successful apprenticeship program through its IBM’s Pathways in Early College High School (P-TECH) program.

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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt It is much easier, enjoyable even, to work hard when we are positive, optimistic, and can look back at our day’s accomplishments with satisfaction. Gratitude comes to mind over and over because those experiences do not just happen. They are created by a personal inner mindset and bolstered by employers, managers and colleagues who know how to develop, nurture, and facilitate environments that foster and sustain happy and positive attitudes.

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Some folks are gifted with a naturally positive demeanor.

Some of us have to cultivate one. By cultivating a habit of being positive and removing negativity from our psyches, we accomplish a minimum of two positive achievements: 1 elimination of stress and 2 We are easier to be around. But it takes more than willpower. Data shows it takes anywhere from six weeks to six months to create a habit. The rewards are we are more productive with less energy expended. Roosevelt’s words resonate more than ever – “Work hard at work worth doing.” And enjoy it!

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Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680

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Ganesh Machinery ______ 818-349-9166 3 , 4, & 5 Axis CNC Mills Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929 DATRON ____________ 480-826-3689 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300

Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 Expand Machinery ______ 818-349-9166 Gosiger In WA _________ 937-586-5067 HS&S Machine Tool _______408-472-2436

King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 North-South Machinery ____ 562-690-7616 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Production Machine Tools, Inc. 425-881-1200 Exclusive provider of OKUMA

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Aluminum Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900 Bralco ____________ 602-722-3324 Parts Washing Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067

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Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 HS&S Machine Tool ______ 408-472-2436 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333

Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 EDM Die Sinking Machines

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Performance Machine Tools__ 510-249-1000 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _303-761-3000

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Machining Applied CAx___________ 503-962-0287 Cimatron________248-596-9700 ext. 237 Solid Products__________ 480-206-0330 Spinetti Machinery______ 775-996-3770 Mechanical Design Cimatron________248-596-9700 ext. 237 Delcam_____________ 877-335-2261

Sherpa Design__________503-771-3570 NDT III Consulting Services Level III NDT Svcs________ 602-578-8109 SPINDLES & SLIDES Spindle Rebuilding/Repair C & M Precision Spindle, Inc.__ 503-691-0955 GMN USA LLC__________ 800-686-1679 Spindle Sales New C & M Precision Spindle, Inc.__ 503-691-0955 GMN USA LLC__________ 800-686-1679 TRAINING Six Sigma Training Sustaining Edge Solutions____ 888-572-9642 ISO Consulting/Registration Great Western Registrar_____ 623-580-1881 Lean and NADCAP Consulting Training Level III NDT Svcs________ 602-578-8109 ISO / AS9100 Certification

BMSC_______________602-445-9400 Swift Tool Co, Inc.________ 800-562-0900 Sustaining Edge Solutions____ 888-572-9642 Productivity Training SERVICES Scout Systems_ _________253-329-2460 AS9100 Registration USED MACHINERY Great Western Registrar______ 623-580-1881 EDM Network___________480-836-1782 Custom Packaging/Shipping SupJorgensen Machine Tools____ 800-952-0151 plies K.D. Capital Equipt_______ 480-922-1674 Alliance Packaging________206-445-5898North Western Machinery____ 206-583-2333 Engineering/Mechanical Design Sherpa Design__________ 503-771-3570 Performance Machine Tools ___ 510-760-9518 ZACHMAN MachineRY INC. ____602-908-3447 Financial Services WATERJET CUTTING Intech Funding__________800-553-9208 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc.____ 503-620-9031 Quick Turn Financial_______ 415-608-5692 Flow Internatil__________ 909-620-5707 Machine Tool Rebuilding EDM Network___________ 480-836-1782 King Machine Inc.________ 509-435-6741 Machine Toolworks_______ 800-426-2052 Management Systems Training Waterjet & Blast Abrasives, BMSC_______________ 602-445-9400 Garnetentury Level III NDT Svcs_________ 602-578-8109 Barton International______ 800-741-7756 Sustaining Edge Solutions_____888-572-9642 GMA Garnet Group _______ 832-243-9300 Supply Chain Assessments Waterjet Bricks Sustaining Edge Solutions_____888-572-9642 Barton International______ 800-741-7756 SOFTWARE CAD CAM GMA Garnet Group _______ 832-243-9300

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BRIAN SMITH

President bsmith@albinaco.com Cell (503) 997-6464 Office (503) 692-6010

“YOUR STEEL BENDING EXPERTS” www.albinaco.com 12080 SW Myslony St. Tualatin, OR 97062

Scan for Company Directory

The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon

ASSEMBLIES

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Stevens Tool & Die ________ 503-682-3185

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Ponderosa Ind ___ _______303-298-1801 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278

EDM Solutions

Specialty Steel Services _____ 801-539-8252

DIES

EDM: Wire

Tool & Dies

Clings Aerospace_________ 480-968-1778

BENDING Mandrel Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Speciality Bending

CASTING

Precision Enterprises Inc. ____ 851-797-1000 Micropulse West Inc._______ 480-966-2300 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Investment Casting-Precision

Micropulse West, Inc. ______ 480-966-2300

DEBURRING

Dolphin Investment Castings __ 602-272-6747 Industrial Precision Grinding ___310-352-4700 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098

Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Precision Enterprises Inc. ____ 851-797-1000 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443

CHEMICAL ETCHING

Structrual Bending

CMR Manufacturing _______ 602-273-0943

DESIGN

Micropulse West, Inc. ______ 480-966-2300

FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 EDGING

Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658

United Performance Metals __ _888-282-3292 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 EDM COATING Tube and Pipe Bending EDM: Dialectric Systems Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432 /Filtration BRAZING-JOINING CUTTING Ebbco Inc _____________586-716-5151 Cogitic ______________ 719-473-8844 Bar & Plate & Die Cutting EDM: Drilling Small Hole Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 AZ Tool Steel ___________ 877-795-1600 Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658 Precision Casting Repair _____ 801-972-2345 Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 Brazing: Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432 BROACHING

LASER CUTTING

Stevens Tool & Die ________ 503-682-3185 ELECTRO MECHANICAL Sub-Assembly Builds Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)

Extrusions

Micropulse West, Inc. ______ 480-966-2300

Plastic Extrusion Services

FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033 DIE CASTING

Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658

FABRICATION

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FIBER OPTICS TESTING

Architectural Forming & Fabrication

Passivation

Clevland Electric Labs. ______ 480-967-2501 Coating Technologies ______623-581-2648

Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272

FINISHING Advanced Precision Anodizing___ 503-661-6700

Fabrication: Sheet Metal

Frontier Group__________602-437-2426 Polishing

American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671

Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919

Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Arizona Hard Chrome _______ 602-278-8671 Powder Coating Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 American Precision Ind..______503-784-5211 Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 FLATLINE FAB ___________ 503-707-9272 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272

Industrial Thermoplastics

PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600

NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Clevland Electric Labs. _____ 480-967-2501 Real Axis Machining ________360-723-5386 Mountain View Machine_____ 435-755-0500

Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Titanium Coating Services _____562-548-2550

Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658

Sandblasting Byington Steel Treating, Inc.___408-727-6630 Shot Peen

DRY FILM LUBRICATION

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919

Bolts Metalizing-CWST______602-244-2432

Silk Screening

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 American Precision Ind..___503-784-5211 CLS

Frontier Group__________602-437-2426 Arizona Finishing ________602-438-4443

Medium & Large

Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Fabrication: Custom Metal

Galvanizing: Hot Dip

Group Mfg Serv _________480-966-3952 TMM Precision __________800-448-9448

American Precision Ind..______503-784-5211 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878

Glass Bead Clean

FIXTURING Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 GASKETS

FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658 Byington Steel Treating, Inc.____408-727-6630

3-D Plastics, Inc. _________503-720-0572

Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

GRINDING

Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600 Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658 Solid Form Fabrication _____ 503-435-1400

Liquid Painting SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Aero Tech MFG___________ 801-891-2740 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800 Forming & Fabrication A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

Tube & Pipe Bending Fabrication

AZ Hard Chrome_________ 602-278-8671 AZ Tool Steel ___________ 877-795-1600 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175

Frontier Group__________602-437-2426 Cogitic ______________ 719-473-8844

Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 MPI International _________956-631-6880

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776

Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600

Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878

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Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com

Tyler Acheson

Territory Sales Manager

FANUC Master Certified Service Engineer Council Bluffs, IA | Waukesha, WI | Huntington Beach, CA

Rich Schwab

Sr. Sales Representative 402.650.8132 844-4-ACIETA

361 South 52nd Street • Tempe, AZ 85281 Phone: 480-967-2501 • Fax: 480-967-2530 rschwab@cel-atg.com Cell: 480-375-1437

MOBILE PARTS & 24/7 SERVICE

tacheson@acieta.com www.acieta.com

www.clevelandelectriclabs.com

Delivering Tomorrow’s Automation Today

ISO/IEC 17025

Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 Sun Grinding __________ 602-238-9595

Byington Steel Treating_____408-727-6630

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Mountain View Machine_____ 435-755-0500 TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613

Controlled Thermal Tech_____602-272-3714

Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776

Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

Steel Services Grinding _____ 800-662-0126 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864

Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386

Sun Grinding __________ 602-238-9595 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. __ 805-583-9966 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320

Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 Precision Tech __________ 801-285-7288

Phoenix Heat Treating______602-258-7751

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Cryogenics

Sunshine Metals __________714-225-4972

Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320

Grinding, Blanchard

Grinding: OD

Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320

AZ Tool Steel ___________ 877-795-1600 Sun Grinding __________ 602-238-9595 Phoenix Heat Treating______ 602-258-7751

Treske Precision Machining ____503-625-2821

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. __ 805-583-9966 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700

TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278

Diversified Metal Services ____ 801-972-6093

Grinding: Surface

Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100

ABS Heat Treating_________602-437-3008 VWeiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. __ 805-583-9966 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630

Industrial Thermoplastics

Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Clevland Electric Labs. _____ 480-967-2501 Steel Services Grinding _____ 800-662-0126 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Heat Treating/NADCAP

Sun Grinding __________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 ABS Heat Treating_________602-437-3008 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700

Grinding: Tool & Cutter

Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751

Grinding, Centerless

Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Sun Grinding __________ 602-238-9595 Grinding, Double Disc

GUN DRILLING

Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. __ 805-583-9966

HEAT TREATING

Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 ABS Heat Treating_________602-437-3008 A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630

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MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 HONING/LAPPING

Machining: 5-Axis Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117 American Precision Ind..______503-784-5211 Cascade Engineering Tech ___ 503-266-1300 Clings Aerospace_________ 480-968-1778 Strom Manufacturing _______503-447-1021 Treske Precision Machining ____503-625-2821 Machining: Aerospace

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Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, & Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 geoffs@askogroup.com American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 Clevland Electric Labs. ______480-967-2501 Cascade Engineering Tech ___ 503-266-1300 Clevland Electric Labs. ______480-967-2501 Die-Tech Precision Machining ___669-888-3500 Clevland Electric Labs. _____ 480-967-2501 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422

Die-Tech Precision Machining ___ 669-888-350

Larkin Precision Machine _____831-438-2700 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866

Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____623-466-6866

Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689

Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 =SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658 Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654

Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021

Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Micropulse West, Inc. ______ 480-966-2300

Newport Tool. ___________801-295-7411 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344

Strom Manufacturing _______ 503-447-1021 Precision Aerospace, LLC ____ 602-352-8658 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

Machining: Ultra Precision

SMH Inc LLC ____________360-341-2226 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing _ 503-557-9407 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386

Teton Machine _________208-642-9344

Treske Precision Machining ____503-625-2821 Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320

Machining: Swiss

Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778

Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689

MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Machining: Ceramics Advanced

OʼKeefe Ceramics _________719-687-0888 Strom Manufacturing _______503-447-1021 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Machining: Proto-R & D

Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344

American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211

Machining: Large

Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117

Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing _ 503-557-9407

Machining: Turning With Live Tooling

Contract Manufacturing AATC _______________ 602-268-1467

Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Machining: Turning

Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628

Clevland Electric Labs. ______480-967-2501 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Newport Tool. ___________ 801-295-7411 American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 American Precision Ind.._____ 503-784-5211 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Cascade Engineering Tech ___ 503-266-1300 Clevland Electric Labs. _____ 480-967-2501 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386 Die-Tech Precision Machining ___ 669-888-350 Machining: Medical Ron Grob Co ____________970-667-5320 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 SMH Inc LLC ____________360-341-2226 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____623-466-6866 Cascade Engineering Tech ___ 503-266-1300 Strom Manufacturing _______ 503-447-1021 Grovtec US, Inc. _________ 503-557-4689 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 Treske Precision Machining ____503-625-2821 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Machining: CNC Milling Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117

Machining: Production

American Precision Ind.._____ 503-784-5211 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 Clevland Electric Labs. _____ 480-967-2501 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-466-6866 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700

Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 American Precision Ind..______ 503-784-5211 Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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METAL FABRICATION: DESIGN, LASER CUTTING, FORMING, WELDING, CUSTOM FINISHING 4322 NW Yeon Ave., Portland, OR 97210 Josh Henry: 503.707.9272 503.477.7566 WWW.FLATLINEFAB.COM

Bridge Molds

3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572

Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Insert Molding TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Industrial Manufacturing Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628

Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144

EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

PAINTING

Metal Polishing By Timothy __ 503-253-5294 Personal Collectables Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy __ 503-253-5294 Production Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy __ 503-253-5294 METALIZING Controlled Thermal Tech ____602-272-3714 MOLDING: RUBBER Molds: Plastic Injection Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 MOLDS Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Arizona Finishing ________ 602-438-4443 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Molds: High Volume Class 100 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and

EPSI ________________ 714-519-9423

Surface Mount & Thru Hole

Turnkey Product Services

ing

ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052

ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 Savon Plating, Inc _________ 602-252-4311

Cascade Systems Technology __ 971-330-8054

Custom Airplane to Marine Polish-

Advanced Precision Anodizing__ 503-661-6700

PC BOARDS

Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342

Aero Tech MFG__________801-891-2740

PLATING

Frontier Group__________ 602-437-2426

Coating

Foresight Finishing _______ 480-772-0387 Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

FLATLINE FAB __________ 503-707-9272 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410 Controlled Thermal Tech _____602-272-3714 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Coating: Black Oxide

PLASTIC EXTRUSION

Anodizing

Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

Custom Plastic Profiles

Advanced Precision Anodizing__ 503-661-6700

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 Custom Plastic Tubing

Coating: Dry Film Lube

Frontier Group__________ 602-437-2426 Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 Custom Thermoplastics

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033

Black Oxide

Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

Extrusion Die Development

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033

Bright Tin

Custom Plastic Spiraling

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648

Foresight Finishing _______ 480-772-0387 Leadtek Plating __________503-682-4410

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410 Savon Plating, Inc _________ 602-252-4311 Custom Plastic Finishing

Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271

Copper

Inline Plastics Inc. ________ 909-923-1033

Chem Film

Foresight Finishing ________480-772-0387

PLASTIC MACHINING

Frontier Group__________ 602-437-2426 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Savon Plating, Inc ________ 602-252-4311

Drylube

PLASTIC MOLDING

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Frontier Group___________602-437-2426

3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572

Chromate\

Electro-Polishing

Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Advanced Precision Anodizing__ 503-661-6700

ASKO Group ____________206-947-4052

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Chrome/Nickel/Palladium/Teflon

Leadtek Plating __________503-682-4410

Mold Making

AZ Hard Chrome_________ 602-278-8671

Embrittlement Relief

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Weiser Engineering ________303-280-2778

EPSI ________________ 714-519-9423

RECYCLING MATERIALS

Savon Plating, Inc _________ 602-252-4311 1538 E La Vieve Lane, Tempe, AZ 85284

Electroless Nickel

Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin

ASKO Group ____________ 206-947-4052 Foresight Finishing ________ 480-772-0387 Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271

Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271 Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410

Bin Service

Precious Metal Plating Co._____ 800-481-6271 ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052

Zinc Nickel

Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284

Savon Plating, Inc _________ 602-252-4311 Frontier Group__________ 602-437-2426

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Excess Material Handling

PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410

PLASMA CUTTING

Passivation

Leadtek Plating __________ 503-682-4410

PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600

Glass Bead Clean

Phosphate

PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600

Frontier Group__________ 602-437-2426

Gold ASKO Group ____________ 206-947-4052

Shot Peen

EPSI ________________ 714-519-9423 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 Tin / Zinc Plate

Foresight Finishing ________ 480-772-0387

Leadtek Plating __________ 503-682-4410 ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 Precious Metal Plating Co._____ 800-481-6271 EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 PAS Technologies _________602-744-2600 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410 Savon Plating, Inc ________ 602-252-4311

Hard Chrome Arizona Hard Chrome _______ 602-278-8671

Silver Plating

ASKO Group ____________ 206-947-4052 ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 NAD CAP & Boeing Approved Processes

EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 Leadtek Plating _________ 503-682-4410

Precious Metal Plating Co._____ 800-481-6271 PAS Technologies ________ 602-744-2600 Nickel-Bright

Precious Metal Plating Co.____ 800-481-6271

G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 PRECISION FORMING Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 Pacific Tool, Inc _________ 425-882-1970 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117

Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Full Service Scrap Management Metro Metals Northwest _____ 503-819-1284 Wood Products Perry Pallet Co. __________ 360-366-5239 REPAIR

SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 CNC-PROS _____________ 602-344-9753 Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties __________ 602-269-7612 PROTOTYPES Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 PUNCHING CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721

ROLLING Albina Co., Inc. __________866-252-4628 SANDBLASTING Advanced Precision Anodizing___503-661-6700 Byington Steel Treating, Inc.____408-727-6630 Production Sawing Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. ___805-583-9966 SEWING Grovtec US, Inc. __________503-557-4689 SHEARING

Foresight Finishing ________ 480-772-0387 Savon Plating, Inc ________ 602-252-4311

Group Manufacturing Serv ___ 480-966-3952 United Performance Metals ____888-282-3292

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Faustson...40

Performance Machine Tools...8,36

ABS Metallurgical...17,45

FLATLINE FAB...11,43

Phoenix Heat Treat...41

Accutech Machine, inc...43

Flex-Pro...28,40

Portland Precision...42

Ace Wire & Spring Form...44

Flow...32,33

Precious Metals Plating...29,39

Acieta Robotics...33,41

Foresight Finishing...44

Precision Aerospace, LLC...41

Advanced Precision Anodizing...41

Frontier Group...39

Precision Die & Stamping...14,39

Aeroform, Inc...42

Gentech...40

Precision Enterprises...41

Aero Tech Manufacturing...40

GMN...20,34

Real Axis Machining...43

Albina Co, Inc...7,39

Gosiger in WA...34,35

RENISHAW...12,32

Allied Tool and Die...44

Gosiger in CA...34

Ron Grob...27,41

American Precision Industries...41

Graphel...40

Rosco Precision Machinery...19,32

Arizona Finishing...41

Group Manufacturing...40

Royal products...24,33

Asko Group...42

Grovtec...39,48

Saw Services of WA...10,33

Barton...24,37

HS&S Machine Tool...36

Selway Machine Tool Co...32,33,34

BMSC...26,32

Hexagon Metrology...35

SigmaNest...32

Bralco...34

Horizon Carbide...36

SMH Inc LLC...30,39

Byington Steel Treating...41

Hurco...19

Specialty Steel...40

Bystronic...33

Industrial Metal Supply Co....22,37

Spinetti Machinery...33

Cascade Engineering Tech...42

Industrial Precision Grinding...44

Spring Works Utah...40

Chevalier...32

KD Capital...36

StandardAero...21,41,44,45

Cleveland Electric Labs...41

Kloeckner Metals-Temtco...18,33

Star Metal Fluids...33

CLS Fabrication Inc...40

Landmark Solutions...34

Starrett...35

Coast Aluminum...33

Laube Titanium Mill Prod....37

Steel Services Grinding...41

Coastal Metals...6,33

Layke Inc...43

Sterling Saw Blades...29,

Coating Technologies...40

Leadtek...44

Strom Manufacturing...39

Controlled Thermal Tech...43

Lucy’s Machine...32,43

Sun Grinding...39

Curtis Wright...41

Mario Pinto...34

Superior Grinding...40

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Methods Machine Tools Inc...5,33

Swift Tool...3,31,32,34

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Micropulse West...41

ThinBit...2,32

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Midaco Corporation...34

TVT Die Casting...16,39

EDM Network...32

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EDM Performance..32,33

Mountain View Machining...41

US Shop Tools...15,36

Edge Technologies...33

MP Systems...35

Valley Financial Services...35

Ellison Technologies...9,32

Mueller Prost...34

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc...33

EPSI...42

Newport Tool...44

Weiser Engineering...41

Evans Precision...45

North-South Machinery...25,32

Western Sintering...26,39

Expand Machinery...35

North Western Machinery...35

Wrico Stamping...44

Fahey Machinery...,13,33,34, 35,37

Pacific Swiss...39

Zeiss Metrology...32

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