OCT RM A2Z Manufacturing Magazine 2017

Vol. 10, No. 5 Sept / Oct 2017

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

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“Not knowing perceived limits enables rookies to score more often, and it also allows them to score bigger gains.” - Liz Wiseman, Author In your organization, do you have a potential ‘Rookie of theYear’? Since we are in the midst of football season, let’s look at how the top NFL 2017 rookies are performing early in the season.

Across pre-season rookie rankings, Leonard Fournette placed # 1 or 2. He is a running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he was the 4th overall draft pick for 2017. At the time of writing Leonard has scored 1 touchdown in each game and he had one game with 100+ running yards.

Then there is Kareem AJ Hunt, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. At time of writing, Kareem is outperforming Fournette, with an average running yards of >100 per game, and 1 or 2 touchdowns in each game.

Christian Jackson McCaffrey is a running back for the Carolina Panthers. He was drafted with the eighth overall pick in the draft.To date, Christian’s statistics include 0 touchdowns and less than 50 running yards per game.

Joe Mixon is a running back for the Cincinnati Bengals. He was drafted in the second round in the draft. Like Christian, Joe has 0 touchdowns and less than 50 running yards per game.

Cover BMSC’s Bretta Kelly and Debbie Hart Are Helping Small Manufacturers Throughout the Western United States To Achieve ISO 9001: 2015 And AS9100 Revision D Certifications Announcements/Releases..........................6-18 Feature Articles..............................1,28-29,40-41 Buyers Guide Equipment..........................49-54 Buyers Guide Processes..............................55-61 Card Gallery.................................................49-61 Index Of Advertisers........................................62 Editorial...........................................Throughout

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A2Z Manufacturing PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@a2zmanufacturing.com

Corey Davis is a wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Western Michigan, where he became the NCAA’s career receiving yards leader. Corey suffered a hamstring injury, which kept him out for the bulk of camp, and has not scored a touchdown at the time of writing.

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Top rookies overwhelmingly play the position of running back, and in 2017, this was even more pronounced. In the NFL, the running back position has always been the domain of young men.

Nobody on the field takes more of a beating, and on average, no position group has a shorter average career length (just 2.57 years).

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We can use some correlations of the NFL to our businesses. In our organizations, we need to regularly add new outside team members to continue to thrive. While running backs have a shorter ‘shelf-life’, so to speak, their years and success on the team have an undeniable impact on whether the team wins or loses. And we can’t always predict which rookie will become an NFL great. Likewise, in business, the skill sets and traits that are innate in the younger generation (i.e. technology, high level of energy), can be a boost to any team. In her book, Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, Liz Wiseman discusses how a group of rookies can outperform individual experts. In her example, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago showed that expert pathologists poorly predict a cancer patient’s survival time based on viewing a biopsy slide; yet when the decision of a group of less experienced individuals is aggregated, the readings are much more accurate than the predictions of individual experts.

Liz offers some specific recommendations on how to integrate rookies into your business. She suggests that to generate a big impact, “pair someone who wants to change the world with someone who already knows how the world works”. She recommneds that smart managers need to make sure rookies have a regular stream of feedback and information to help them calibrate their performance and the connection points to stay on track. She adds, “Rookies need managers who know when to rein them in and when to unleash them, and they need to be placed in an environment conducive to learning and insight.”

Today, there is a resurgence of programs designed to help get young people interested in manufacturing. Every state has programs for robotics, for apprenticeship programs, and for STEM education. I encourage you to become active supporters, volunteers, and hiring mechanisms for these next generation manufacturing experts. Until next issue, I wish you the best and God Bless Our Troops!

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Announcements & Releases Ace Wire Spr ing & Form Co., Inc. Hosting Students for Manufacturing Day 2017 Ace Wire Spring & Form Company, Inc., a manufacturer of custom precision springs, will be celebrating Manufacturing Day 2017 by hosting students from a local high school, and a local college, for shop tours and Q&A sessions with Ace Wire Spring Design Engineers.This year, Manufacturing Day will take place on Friday, October 6th.

M f g D ay 2016Manufacturing D ay i s a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. It is a chance for students to see the diverse career options that are innovative, impactful and durable. In response to a dire need in America, MFG DAY helps with the industry’s major shortage of skilled workers. An estimated two million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled over the next decade due to companies’ inability to find talent with the required skills. Several leading industry organizations determined five years ago the best way to combat this malady and reverse negative misperceptions people may have about manufacturing jobs and careers is to literally show “up close and personal” the exciting kind of work that takes place in plants across the U.S. MFG DAY - 2016Supported by a group of industry sponsors and co-producers, MFG DAY amplifies the voice of individual manufacturers and coordinates a collective chorus of manufacturers with common concerns and challenges. The rallying point for a growing mass movement, MFG DAY empowers manufacturers to come together to address their collective challenges so they can help their communities and future generations thrive.

Ace Wire Spring & Form Company (www.acewirespring.com) has manufactured custom precision springs for diverse applications since 1939. The ISO certified company develops and manufactures a wide variety of compression springs, extension springs, torsion springs, and wire forms.

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You Are Invited To The Smith Machinery Open House October 11th and 12th!

Smith Machinery welcomes you to join them at their 2 day Open House, scheduled from 10 am to 3 pm on October 11th and 12th.

Lunch will be served boths days from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

The Open House will feature 5-Axis Machining, EDM Technology, Setup reductions with Integrex, Small Hole EDM, shortrun prototype machining, Swiss turning and milling, high volume turning and much more!

Two classes are offered to attendees, including a Renishaw probing class and a Memex software class. Since class sizes are limited, please register in advance to attend.

Smith Machinery is a 50+ year old distributor of a variety of advanced manufacturing technologies. For U.S. manufacturing to compete and thrive, we must promote investment in higher technologies to make us globally competitive. Guided by the motto “Technology Solutions for Competitive Manufacturing” our mission is to support you and your efforts to make quality products competitively!

Four generations of the Smith family is proud to serve the manufacturers and job shops of Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In our Salt Lake City showroom we stock a variety of these technologies and can provide custom demonstrations, test cuts, process development, training classes and turnkey projects.

Contact Smith Machinery at 801-263-6403 or email smc@smithmachinetools.com to register.

New Doosan PUMA 1000/M Easily Handles Large Diameter Parts Doosan Machine Tools America proudly presents the PUMA 1000/M, which was specifically developed for industries like oil and aviation that have the need to machine large diameter parts. The latest model in the PUMA 1000 series incorporates a highly-rigid live tool turret and easily machines large rings, flanges, shafts, pipes and more.

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Massive front and rear chucks stabilize long workpieces for precision while a special creeping feature feeds the tailstock center into the work piece smoothly. Unlike some competitive models, the PUMA 1000B/MB incorporates special covers at the rear to keep the work area clear of coolant and chips.

Cimatron is now part of 3D Systems THINGS ARE GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER As one of the early pioneers developing CAD/CAM software for manufacturing, Cimatron will continue its 33 year legacy going forward as part of 3D Systems.

To further enhance user convenience, the PUMA 1000/M provides a programmable tailstock with a built-in dead center and user-friendly Easy Operation Package (EOP) smart software program and EZ functions as standard features. Another standard feature is arbitrary speed threading, which allows the operator to change the speed during the threading cuts to eliminate chatter. Additional options can be configured to suit the customer’s unique applications, such as twin chucking, vibration damping, long boring bar, automatic tool setter, linear scale, etc.

For more information on the PUMA 1000/M or any other Doosan machine tool, please visit www.doosanmachinetools.com or call 973-618-2500.

MC Machinery Announces New Fiber Laser Offering MC Machinery’s fiber laser offering has ex-

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Announcements Continued The PUMA 1000/M provides a spacious working area with a maximum machining diameter of 1000mm (39 in.) and a maximum machining length of 2040mm (80 in.). Most notably, the wide spindle through-hole of up to 560mm (22 in.) enables the processing of long pipes and rods required for offshore plants and oil exploration.

Equipped with a two-stage gearbox featuring a high-output spindle with a maximum output of 75kW (100 hp.), the PUMA 1000/M has the strongest cutting capacity in its class. It is also equipped with a 250mm (10 in.) thick turret with a more robust design than the previous model.

The adoption of a highly reliable servo motor for the turret reduces vibration during turning and milling, maximizing stability during heavy-duty cutting.

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panded to include another option in laser-cutting technology.The all new SR-F series from Mitsubishi features a 3m by 1.5m footprint with many of the features and options that are popular in its bestselling eX-F laser.

The SR-F laser is available in 2kw and 3k.

This entry level machine offers the superior advantages of a Mitsubishi Laser in an economical package. A two-dimensional fiber laser processing system comes standard with a fiber laser resonator, a processing head and a safety cover. It also includes the sophisticated Mitsubishi 700 series control with 64-bit NC and a 15-inch touch screen. Other standard Announcements Continued Page 10

PRECISION CNC TUBE BENDING AND FABRICATING Custom precision tube bending diameters ranging from .250” to 2.50” inches in diameter.

Cling’s Aerospace can provide internal and external end finishing including: beading, flaring and swaging. Our material capabilities include aluminum, stainless steel and chromoly. With a combined 75 years of tube bending experience we can not only meet, but exceed all your tube bending requirements to become your premier tube bending provider.

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features of the SR-F include:

Motion Cut - features the beam on/off time and axial movement simultaneously to eliminate the need for the axes to stop.

Eco Mode - reduces cost during standby by up to 70 percent.

Power Control System - provides power stability of ±1%.

Automatic Focusing - allows for easy and consistent focusing Magnetic Damage Reduction Function - protects the head and eliminates the need f or nozzle centering in the event of a crash.

MC Remote 360 - provides real-time data to help increase productivity, improve efficiency, and reduce down time Fiber laser technology dopes the optical fiber of the active gain medium. Since the light is already in a fiber, this allows a flexible path for delivering to a movable focusing element, such as the processing head.The technology eliminates bend mirrors and effectively eliminates the need for beam adjustment and alignment, improving consistency. This is important for production jobs including laser cutting, welding and fold forming.

The SR-F fiber laser can be seen in action at FABTECH this year booth #A2619.

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Press Brake, Wire EDM, Sinker EDM, Milling, High-Speed VMC, Turning, EDM Drill, or Consumable Products, contact MC Machinery Systems, Inc., 85 Northwest Point Blvd., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, Phone: 630-616-5920 or visit www.mcmachinery.com.

Richards Fab Installs The Largest Tube Laser West Of Kansas City

Richards is proud to announce the installation of a TTM FL400 3D tube laser cutting machine that, to their knowledge, will be the largest of it’s kind west of Kansas City.

Richards’ new 128-ft.-long tube laser can handle manually loaded workpieces—including wide-flange beam, channel, and angle—up to 45 ft. long. The bundle hopper can accommodate round, square, and rectangular tubes up to 41 ft. long.

Kevin Jones,Vice President of Tube Laser Sales, says, “Our new tube laser will greatly reduce time from hours to minutes.We can handle a variety of shapes in sizes we never could before.That includes open Announcements Continued Page 12

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and closed profiles, which results in quicker turn around times for you.”

In business since 1928, Richards is a total solution for quality metal fabrication for a wide variety of customers. They provide business and industry with world-class products made of metal, finished and ready for application or marketing.Whether a mass-produced component for a large corporation or one-off modification for a piece of local farm equipment, Richards gets the job done. They offer a quality product that is made-toorder for a competitive price, and consistently performs beyond their customers’ expectations.

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Haas Automation to Host HaasTec Open House at SoCal Facility in October This October, Haas Automation, Inc. – America’s leading machine tool builder – will once again open its doors for a massive 4-day open house at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Oxnard, CA. HaasTec 2017, scheduled for October 10 through 13, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, will include machine demos, factory tours, a catered lunch, and more.

The previous HaasTec in 2015 drew nearly 3300 attendees from 48 countries, and this year’s event promises to be even bigger and better.

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Visitors to HaasTec 2017 will see the latest Haas CNC technology up close and in detail, with 20 machines on display, including the soon-to-be released UMC-1000 Universal Machining Center, the CL-1 Compact Lathe, and the re-engineered EC-400 HMC.There also will be extensive tours of Haas Automation’s 1-million-squarefoot facility – both above and on the production floor – to see how Haas machines are built. And more than 36 exhibitors from major tooling, workholding, and CAD/CAM manufacturers will be on hand to share their insight and show their products.

Attendees will also see first-hand one of Haas F1 Team’s racecars from their 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship debut, and Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 41 Haas Automation Chevrolet that was driven to victory by Kurt Busch in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Registration for HaasTec 2017 is free. Simply visit www.HaasCNC. com and click on the HaasTec 2017 banner. For more information about Haas Automation and Haas products, call 800-331-6746, or visit www.HaasCNC.com.

Mazak Releases Schedule for Free, Interactive Webinar Series Mazak Corporation is dedicated to providing a range of resources to keep customers in front of the latest manufacturing advancements and to offer tips on how to best utilize technology to their Announcements Continued Page 14

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PM (EDT). Gear machining experts from Mazak and Dontyne Systems will discuss how to use 5-axis machine tool technology coupled with gear design and inspection software to create a closed-loop gear cutting process for manufacturing accurate gears. Participants will learn how to overcome specific gear cutting challenges such as geometry definition and marking patterns, load analysis and how to correct the surface based on inspection data.

The Discover Technology Webinar Series covers numerous areas of interest to manufacturers. All it takes to participate is a computer, an Internet connection and a web browser to be ready to gain powerful knowledge on how to stay competitive and profitable in today’s challenging global marketplace. Information about future webinars in the series will be forthcoming.

Planned topics include Preventive Maintenance Best Practices, Benefits of the MAZATROL SmoothC Control, MULTIPLEX Series Machines, Gantry Loading Systems, INTEGREX j Series Machines and MAZATEC SMS. Register now or learn more at www. mazakusa.com/news-events/webinars/.

The first new webinar “SMOOTH Tool Data Converter” will take place on Thursday, September 21 at 2:00 PM (EDT). This webinar is ideal for manufacturers who want to learn how intelligent process monitoring helps protect expensive tools as well as secure and optimize their performance. Participants will gain insights into how Mazak’s SMOOTH Tool Data Converter can help reduce tooling time and eliminate manual input errors. They will also receive tips for how to oversee processes and detect machine faults.

About Mazak Corporation Mazak Corporation is a leader in the design and manufacture of productive machine tool solutions. Committed to being a partner to customers with innovative technology, its worldclass facility in Florence, Kentucky, produces over 100 models of turning centers, Multi-Tasking machines and vertical machining centers, including 5-axis models. Continuously investing in manufacturing technology allows the Kentucky iSMART Factory to be the most advanced and efficient in the industry, providing high-quality and reliable products. Mazak maintains eight Technology Centers across North America to provide local

Also on the schedule is the “Closed Loop Gear Machining” webinar for Thursday, October 19 at 2:00

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advantage. With that, the company has expanded its Discover Technology Webinar Series with the introduction of several new free webinars this fall.

The new webinars are approximately 60 minutes long and will connect Mazak customers with industry experts to provide information on the latest technology advancements. The series offers an easy-toaccess online learning platform where attendees can gain knowledge about the latest manufacturing trends as well as tools and techniques to help them stay competitive.

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Announcements Continued hands-on applications, service and sales support to customers. For more information on Mazak’s products and solutions, visit www.MazakUSA.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

MC Machinery Holds Ribbon Cutting Ceremony For Its Move To New Facility Recently, MC Machinery held an official ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of their new headquarters in Elk Grove Village.

The short ceremony included a speech from the mayor of Elk Grove Village and top executives from MC Machinery.

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The doors of MC Machinery’s new 175,000 square-foot facility opened and attendees received an exclusive tour of the headquarters including the large showroom displaying MC Machinery’s wide range of advanced manufacturing solutions, a laboratory and clean room for service repairs, a high-tech service center and a look at the MC Remote 360 central station.

The new headquarters has a convenient location on Interstate 90 near O’hare International Airport. Stop by to learn more about MC Machinery’s superior products and service.

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It’s Time For America To Prove Its’ ‘Metal’

By Harry Moser, Times Guest Columnist Recently, President Trump announced an executive order aimed at strengthening both America’s manufacturing sector and the supply chains that keep it running.This is a much-needed effort at a time when the nation has lost more than 60,000 factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000.

At the same time, the United States confronts troubling threats to national security, making an overall review of the nation’s industrial sector more complex than expected. Not only hasWashington allowed key parts of America’s defense industry to be offshored over the past 15 years, but domestic manufacturers are now struggling to gain timely access to even basic materials needed for industrial and high-tech manufacturing. This has become particularly apparent when it comes to the metals and minerals needed for everything from steel to consumer electronics.

Such a predicament is not just worrying; it is entirely unnecessary. America possesses an estimated $6.2 trillion in minerals and metals reserves. Yet the United States was forced to import roughly $32 billion worth of processed minerals in 2015.

The problem has become so troubling that, in 2014, a survey found 90 percent of America’s manufacturing executives were concerned about obtaining needed minerals in a timely fashion.

Where exactly is the United States falling short? In 2016, imports accounted for more than half of America’s consumption of 50 non-fuel minerals.

Even more dramatic was a 100% import reliance on 20 key minerals – an all-time high.

Consumers are largely unaware of their daily reliance on a host of important commodities. The average smartphone, for example, contains dozens of different metals, including

copper, gold, platinum, and silver, plus minerals like graphite and tin oxide. Silver enables much of the technology-driven trends in the world today, including the latest advances in athletic wear. Anything with an electronic “On/Off ” switch also contains silver. And when it comes to national defense, silver is just one of many metals that are indispensable to Tomahawk missiles, drones, and GPS guidance systems.

The real question is why America has become so unnecessarily dependent on imports of key metals and minerals when it already possesses many of them in abundance.The biggest reason is that we simply can’t mine the minerals and metals we have.

Mining companies currently face a bureaucratic bottleneck in the approval process for launching new mining operations. Conflicting and duplicative permitting procedures by multiple federal and state agencies are forcing miners to wait seven to 10 years to obtain the necessary permits for a major new mining operation. This is the frustrating result of too many agencies moving too much paperwork too slowly.

It doesn’t have to be this way, however. Mine permitting in countries like Australia and Canada – which maintain environmental standards comparable to those of the United States – manage to approve new operations in as little as two to three years. Washington needs to revisit this mine clearance process, and to begin correcting these stultifying, institutional impediments.

As the Trump administration embarks on an effort to assess the health of America’s manufacturing base, and to determine whether the nation’s manufacturers can meet crucial national security needs, it should recognize that the industrial supply chain begins with metals and minerals. Relying primarily on China and other exporting countries for resources we have in abundance does not serve our nation’s manufacturing sector nor the high-wage jobs it supports.

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Dream Chaser test pleases SNC Space Systems The Dream Chaser space plane took a public step forward last month when a helicopter dangled the craft on a flight over a Califor nia deser t testing the spaceship’s in-air systems and other features.

Louisville-based Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems, the company making Dream Chaser, has had a Dream Chaser prototype and engineers at NASA’s Amrstong Flight Research Center in the Mojave Desert for weeks to put the craft through a battery of tests.

A Columbia Helicopters Chinook flew a tethered Dream Chaser, dangling it in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base last month.

The test, and information gathered, pleased SNC Space Systems, said Lee “Bru” Archambault, SNC’s director of Dream Chaser flight operations.

“Everything we have seen points to a successful test with useful data for the next round of testing,” he said, in a written statement.

Another similar “captive carry” flight test is slated for this fall.

The autonomous space plane is scheduled for a full, free-flight test demonstrating its in-air maneuverability and systems over the Mojave desert before the end of the year.

SNC Space Systems is readying the Dream Chaser for unmanned cargo flights to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service program contract the company won in early 2016.

Dream Chaser is designed to be launched into orbit atop a rocket and then return to land on a runway.

Different versions of the mini space shuttle are being developed, one to fly autonomously using on-board computers and another with a human pilot at the controls and room for passengers.

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Lockheed Martin Backs More CU Aerospace Research Lockheed Martin is deepening its research ties to the University of Colorado at Boulder, and it has identified four new projects it expects to back with $675,000 next month.

The research expansion builds on the Bethesda, Maryland-based company’s $3 million funding of Lockheed Martin Radio Frequency Space Systems Research Center at CU Boulder, and Lockheed’s creation of an endowed chair position in radio frequency engineering at CU. “These projects will aid our national security and help the world become more connected. CU Boulder has an incredibly talented pool of researchers and we have high expectations that this new agreement will enable many new solutions yet to be explored,” said Keoki Jackson, Lockheed Martin CTO, in a statement.

The funding, which Lockheed plans to award next month, will go toward researching advancements in spacecraft power systems and power management, converting radio frequencies into direct current electricity for remote battery recharging, and making spacecraft antennas capable of sending and receiving signals simultaneously.

“This valued partnership with an aerospace industry leader meets our goals of developing tomorrow’s leaders, being a top innovation university and conducting research that has a positive impact on humanity,” DiStefano said.

“We are proud of our long, productive and fruitful relationship with Lockheed Martin.”

Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., the space division of the defense giant, has worked closely with CU for years, winning contracts to build spacecraft and instruments for university research projects such as the MAVEN probe currently exploring Mars.

Many CU graduates in engineering work at Lockheed Martins Space Systems.

Lockheed Martin has also backed manufacturing technology studies and labs at Metro State University in downtown Denver. Source: Denver Business Journal A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Google has paid nearly $131 million for properties developed

by Denver-based Forum Real Estate Group and the adjacent land that make up its Pearl Place campus, according to

“The acquisitions make sense fiscally, but also demonstrate our commitment to Boulder,” said Scott Green, the lead at the Boulder site, in an email. “In our 11 years operating here, Google has come to value the community, its talent base and its quality of life.”

Forum broke ground in 2015 on the campus, at the southwest corner of 30th and Pearl streets in Boulder. The project started with the construction of two buildings, each encompassing about 100,000 square feet with room for about 1,000 workers between them.

Construction was completed in July, said Kevin Foltz, managing director of development at Forum.The project is located near Boulder’sTwentyNinth Street mall and a transit hub. Saunders Construction was the general contractor and Tryba Architects designed the space.

The original plan was for Google to lease the buildings, Foltz said, but the tech giant decided to buy them instead.

The buildings were not expected to be full upon their completion this year, but the campus could still house a third building if MountainView, California-based Google Inc. continues to grow its presence in Boulder.

A special warranty deed dated Sept. 8 indicates that Google bought the property from Forum for $130.9 million. Another special warranty deed indicates that Google purchased a 1.4-acre adjacent piece of land in January 2016 for just over $7 million. Source: By Molly Armbrister – Reporter, Denver Business Journal

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New orders for machine tools totaled $319.7 million during July according to the Assn. for Manufacturing Technology, proof of continuing growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector. The total value is well below the June new-order value (-19.3%) but continues to outpace the year-ago (+22.7%) and year-to-date (+10.1) values.

“The July rate of increase is a notable acceleration in growth relative to the 10% increase in June orders posted over the previous year,” AMT commented.

“It is encouraging to see the U.S. manufacturing markets and economy improving, especially when the European and Asian markets are not doing as well,” stated Doug Woods. “AMT is excited about the prospects for 2017 and the possibilities in 2018, particularly if Washington takes steps to address tax reform and infrastructure spending.”

The figures are reported by AMT each month in its U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report, an account of actual totals for machine tool sales, nationwide and in six regions. The figures are reported by participating companies that produce and distribute metal-cutting and metal-forming and -fabricating equipment, including domestically manufactured and imported machinery and equipment.

AMT noted that the manufacturing recovery began to be evident in March of this year, after a decline in manufacturing expansion that stretched back to 2014.

As for the June-to-July decline, AMT noted that July orders typically fall about 15% from the previous month.

“AMT members noted the marked difference in the start of this summer season,” according to Pat McGibbon, AMT v.p. of Strategic Analytics. “Usually quotations and leads start to slow in the summer but that has not been the case in 2017.”

As evidence, AMT described “several large projects converted mature quotations into major orders, with bundled add-ons such as special tooling and automation.

“The contract machine shop sector, where companies typically buy one or two machines at a time, was one of the stronger markets in July, representing 41% of all the units ordered in July and 32% of the total July dollar value,” according to the association.

Orders from the defense sector and for medical and agricultural equipment were notably stronger during July.

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The Southeast region repor ted July new orders for metal-cutting equipment totaling $35.38 million, 30.2% less than during June and 19.2% less than during July 2016.

The region’s year-to-date total value for new orders of all machine tools is $300.00 million, or a 6.7% rise over last year’s comparable total.

In the North Central-East region, total machine-tool new orders during July were valued at $87.55 million, 24.4% less than the June figure and yet 67.4% more than the July 2016 figure. The region’s YTD new orders for metal-cutting equipment are valued at $574.14 million, which is 12.1% higher than the comparable January-July 2016 report.

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The North C e n t r a l - We s t region had new orders for metal-cutting equipment totaling $51.01 million during J u l y, d o w n 27.6% from the June report and still up 3.9% compared to the July 2016 report. The year-to-date total for metal-cutting equipment orders in the region is $406.97 million, which is 5.2% higher than the seven-month total for 2016.

The South Central region’s July new-order total for metal-cutting equipment was $24.14 million, 17.7% less than the June total but still 71.1% higher than the July 2016 figure. The region how has totaled new orders worth $210.49 million for metal-cutting equipment during the first seven months of this year, an increase of 61.8% over last year’s comparable figure.

Finally, in the West region new orders for metal-cutting equipment during July total $49.88 million, down 24.6% from June but up 22.4% from July 2016. The West region’s total for all machine-tool new orders through seven months of 2017 is $432.65 million, a 17.4% improvement over the comparable period of 2016. Source: American Machinist A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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FixingThe Skills Gap Isn’t As Hard AsYouThink Yet the companies that have the easiest time attracting candidates are the ones that pay the most, says Anne Edmunds, regional vice president at staffing firm Manpower Group.

Manufacturers need to take their destiny into their own hands, to take action to develop the workforce they want, says Justin Rose, a partner in the Chicago office of Boston Consulting Group. "Their expectations for what they have to pay are too low . . . and they’re waiting for other people to deliver for them," he says. "There has to be a mind-shift."

Kent Gladish, senior membership director at the Schaumburg-based Technology & Manufacturing Association, says business owners may be working extra hours in the shop themselves to meet customer demand without hiring. They may want to add headcount, "but it’s almost perceived that it’s no supply, therefore I don’t need to pay anybody 120 percent, because I can’t find anybody."

Employers may not be able to afford to raise wages if they aren’t making a high-margin product, or if they need to invest in new machinery, says Jim Nelson, vice president for external affairs at the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association.

Patrick O’Rahilly has a front-row seat to see who Chicago manufacturers want to hire. Employers use his business, Factory Fix, to hire part-time help: Twenty percent of the ads seek engineers or robotics experts, 40 percent seek maintenance and electrical workers, and 40 percent seek machinists, whether they do the work manually or with computerized machines. O’Rahilly says two of the jobs his customers struggle most to fill are CNC programmer and manual machinist.

Anyway, higher pay won’t improve the quality of applicants. Job-seekers need 10th-grade math and reading skills—"Too many people apply for manufacturing jobs who are unable to read a blueprint"—and they need to pass a drug test and show up on time. "Manufacturing is not the consolation prize for an occupation," he says. "It is a high-skilled, rewarding career."

The market for CNC programmers in Chicago is following the classic law of supply and demand. There were 1,280 CNC programmers in the market in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and between 2012 and 2016, their wages rose almost 32 percent to $55,670.

Except it’s a career that in Chicago has a median annual wage of $32,860.

That’s higher than other occupations that draw from a similar worker pool, like janitorial services or low-skilled health care like home health aides. But unlike in manufacturing, wages in those fields have grown 10 to 15 percent in recent years to roughly $27,000.

The picture looks different for manual machinists, who make up a far greater share of the manufacturing workforce. (There were almost 26,000 machinists in the Chicago area in 2016.) Their wages have dropped almost 13 percent during that period, to $36,250.

Slow wage growth and worry about job security are rational reasons a worker might not want to go into manufacturing, says Andrew Weaver, a labor and employment professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a 2017 study on the "skills gap." The

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study found that 76 percent of manufacturers nationwide did not have any long-term vacancies. "Instead of a skill gap, you just come up with a natural set of hiring challenges in some corners of the industry that are really predicted by external circumstances but aren’t a function of the lousy quality of the U.S. workforce."

Some manufacturers already are shifting their approach to hiring.

Paul Ziegenhorn is president of Matrix Tooling in Wood Dale, which designs and builds plastic injection molds; Procter & Gamble is a customer. He’s doubling down on a years-long apprenticeship. Rather than raise the wage he had been offering to entice an experienced worker (without success), he decided to hire employees at $15 an hour and train them: "They get a little bit more experienced, and you have some time before they’re at $30 an hour.

Years. Business 101."

Jeff Majewski, general manager at South Elgin precision machine shop KrisDee & Associates, has created a bonus system for his current workers to run multiple machines, upping productivity without hiring.

He also offers overtime. Even so, he’s mulling the idea that by the end of the year, the machine operators who used to start between $10 and $12 an hour will all start at $12.

Source: Crain’s Chicago Business By: Claire Bushey

Steel Consumers Urge Trump Not To Impose ‘Disastrous’ Tariffs A coalition of companies that at least partly rely on foreign steel to make thousands of products and employ more than 1 million workers have urged Trump not to slap duties on imported steel in the name of national security under the rarely used Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.

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“We are very concerned about the unintended and disastrous consequences which Section 232 restrictions on imports of basic steel products would have on our industries,” the groups said in a letter to Trump. “Import restrictions … would impact both the availability and price of steel raw materials, placing downstream industries at crippling competitive disadvantage to foreign manufacturers of our product.”

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In the long run, U.S. steel companies could also suffer if domestic steel-consuming industries lose business to foreign competitors that are able to make the same product at a lower price, the groups warned. “Without a viable customer base — the downstream steel manufactures and our customers — the domestic steel mills will suffer from less demand and loss of markets,” they said.

The letter was signed by the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, the Precision Metalforming Association, the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers and the Precision Metalforming Association, whose member companies each employ more than 100,000 workers.

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In Its Pursuit of Continuous Improvement, Peterson Machining Prepares For AS9100 Revision D Certification Peterson Machining truly believes in continuous improvement. The company, approaching its 3rd decade in business, is pleased to announce that it is certifying to AS9100 Revision D. Ronda Peterson, co-owner with husband Todd Peterson, says, “We certified to ISO 9001:2008 5 years ago. We were coming up to our next full audit, and we knew that we would have to certify to the latest ISO standard, ISO 9001:2015. We made the decision that rather than just re-certify to ISO, we would take the additional step to certify to AS9100 Revision D.” The company is a small family-owned and operated precision machine shop, located in Boulder, Colorado, in a facility the Peterson’s purchased years ago. Ronda says, “We were renting 3000 square feet in the building, and we were running out of space. The opportunity came up for us to purchase the entire building, with 14,000 square foot, and today, we have added more space and can continue to do so as needed.”

Todd is a superior machinist, having learned the tool and die trade formally at an early age at a full time trade school in Iowa. Todd says, “Even before attending school, I was learning machining from my father, who was a machinist and inventor.” In fact, Todd and the Peterson Machining team are so innovative in their machining methodologies that they were featured in an article in Modern Machine Shop, where they developed and utilized a unique vise-within-a-vise system to cost effectively use five-axis manufacturing for complex parts. The company only buys superior high precision machine tools, and they run lights out.

Today, Peterson Machining makes parts for a variety of industries, including aerospace, defense, radio frequency and instruments. Without a formal sales force, Todd says their customers come to them almost exclusively by word of mouth. Ronda says, “One of our outstanding customers is Retul Bike Fit, a young company in Boulder that is on the cutting edge of ‘bike fit’, recently acquired by Specialized. We began working with them when they were a start-up, and now their products are sold worldwide. Todd, the team and I love working with small businesses that grow beyond anyone’s expectations.” The team at Peterson Machining has made parts for a medical device for spinal disk surgery, and they are flight certified with LASP. The case pictured in various angles on the next page is part of the Maven Project that went to Mars. Launched November 18, 2013, it is part of an assembly that arrived to start gathering information in late 2014. Todd says it started out at 146 pounds and when it was finished it was 6.2 pounds measuring 6.0 x 12.0 x 18.2.

Todd says, “One of the reasons we make superior parts for our customers is that we have an outstanding team, and they have remained with us for years.” He added, “We treat our employees the way we want to be treated, and Celeste and Ronda make a wonderful lunch for the team every day.” Peterson Machining provides AAA service to their team so that they are never stranded, and A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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full medical benefits are provided to all.

It is no wonder great employees remain with Peterson Machining, and this helps to ensure best in class quality for their customers. It is not just employees who reap the benefits of Ronda and Celeste’s kindness - Ronda loves Christmas and every year she and Celeste bake thousands of cookies. When she brings them to customers, Ronda comes dressed as an Elf! More than 5 years ago, Ronda and Todd made the decision to certify to ISO 9001: 2008. Ronda says, “First I tried to do it on my own, since we had heard from colleagues that the cost through a consultant

easy was how organized Ronda and her daughter Celeste were. We started with sending a hard copy of the manual, procedures, flow charts and forms organized in a controlled document book.” She continued, “Once the documents were written and reviewed, I had my first ever Virtual Internal Audit Seminar!

I knew without question they were going to have a successful certification audit because they wrote their own system, audited their own system and conducted their own management reviews of their system.”The company successfully certified to ISO 9001: 2008 in 2012, and has never had a ‘Major’ finding in any of their subsequent audits.

Ronda and Celeste were eventually able to meet Bretta and Debbie face to face when the two flew to Arizona to attend BMSC’s seminar on “How To Prepare For Changes In ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 Revision D.” Today, Ronda and Celeste are certified internal auditors for their company.

would exceed $10,000.” She continued, “Since we are a small family run business, with all employees multitasking to support our customers (Ronda regularly runs machines), I found it was too time consuming for me to get our company certified on my own.”

Todd says, “I regularly saw BMSC’s ad in the A2Z Manufacturing magazine, and owner Bretta Kelly was always pictured in the ad.” He continued, “Ronda and I just liked Bretta’s message that “ISO Certification – its not rocket science”, and we felt that she would be someone we could work well with.”

In 2012, Peterson Machining selected BMSC as their consultant to certify to ISO 9001:2008. Ronda says, “Our interview to select BMSC as our consultant happened over the phone, and once we engaged in the actual preparation to certify, everything going forward was done virtually, using email and conference calls.”

Bretta says, “What made the process so

Ronda says, “When we made the decision this year to certify to AS9100 Revision D, there was no question about who we would hire to help us to achieve this – it was going to be BMSC.” For the AS9100 certification, BMSC owner and teammate Debbie Hart came to Boulder to support their customer. Ronda says, “We thoroughly enjoyed working with BMSC years ago, but when Bretta and Debbie came to our shop, it cemented our relationship and our feeling that the two companies are such a good fit.”

She continued, “Todd and I are a great team – we each have different strengths and we compliment one another. Todd is such a great machinist, and he and the team continually find ways to improve our machining processes. I like working with people, and it is such an honor that Todd asked me to become majority owner of the business, making us a true Woman-Owned business.”

She added, “I liken Bretta and Debbie’s team ability to ours – both women have unique strengths, and when Bretta and Debbie came to help us to achieve AS9100 certification, they were like a smooth running machine. They work seamlessly together. They are such a great fit and did an outstanding job at capturing the tone of our shop.”

Todd and Ronda don’t just work well together at the shop and at their home. Todd has a passion for racecar driving, and the small crew is composed of him and Ronda. The two are planning to head to Indianapolis, where Todd will compete with his F1000. The two crewed for Tony Ave in 2015, where they were chosen because when Tony blew a motor at a race, both Ronda and Todd jumped in to help and worked on the motor through the night. While this is amazing, it is all the more so when you learn that Ronda and Todd were spectators. For those who don’t know Tony Ave, he is a championship racecar driver. He competed in the Grand-Am Series from 2000 until 2002, in Formula Atlantic from 1996 until 2001, and in the Trans-Am in 2002. He also made three Indy Lights starts in 1993 and one Indy Pro Series start in 2003. In 2004, Ave raced one race in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series finishing 31st. He is also a two time Trans Am champion.

To learn more about Peterson Machining and what they can cost effectively machine for you, contact them at 303-449-5755 or visit gotopmi.com For ISO and AS9100 consulting, done with your business and processes in mind, contact Bretta Kelly, owner of BMSC. She can be reached at (602) 445-9400 or visit businessmsc.com A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Matthew Doude, associate director of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University, is keen to keep the industry’s feet on the ground – and understandably so; making accurate predictions is part of his job.

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the worst of 2030, the Great factory jobs “IDuring read recently that by 95% Recession, of the miles U.S. travelled in the USwere disappearing at a furious pace.

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IE1 motors, meanwhile, are gradually being phasedthose out due to the And Now Hiawatha, based outside Minneapolis, is getting contracts. increased focus on efficiency in Western Europe, North America, and that Hauser has himself decided to “reshore” production of a component China. Shipments of IE1 motors reduced significantly between 2014 was being made in China. The move will result in three new hires at his and 2016 from 44% of the total market to 38%. By 2021, this share plant. He says the part was not difficult to make, but the Chinese factory is expected to drop further to 24%. The fastest growing class is IE4, kept botching the job. He says Hiawatha, which makes rubber components which is predicted to grow from less than 1% in 2016 to 2% in 2021. for equipment such as printers and pumps, can do it better.

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The small starting point means that it is set to grow at a much quicker pace.

Doude believes that a lot of the current thinking stems from the increasing, but currently unsustainable, success of the ridesharing economy. The ridesharing economy, or transportation-as-a-service economy, refers to the 21st Century proliferation of companies like Uber, whereby using fast and reliable public transport is becoming easier and more cost effective than owning a vehicle.

“Currently, these sorts of companies still largely rely on vehicles powered by internal combustion engines and require people to drive them. Such services aren’t particularly cost-effective, reliable or indeed environmentally friendly. However, with advancements in autonomous and electric vehicles happening at such a rapid rate, a popular hypothesis is that it won’t be long until such companies can dispense with the drivers and change to an electric fleet (the maintenance and operating costs of which will be significantly lower). Once that happens, it will completely displace the conventional car-ownership model.”

Doude anticipates the technology to be readily available by 2030 but that it will take longer for the market to catch up, stating that it will be closer to 2040 before we see significant portions of the market shift to the ridesharing economy.

“Something else that’s important to note is that no one really knows yet whether the consumer wants autonomous vehicles. Humans, with their lack of predictability, may feel this constrains their liberty.There are practical aspects, like children’s car seats, and recreational factors, such as people’s enjoyment of driving, that may work against this industry movement. I don’t believe the transport industry is ever going to be 100% autonomous.”

Last year there was about a billion dollars invested in autonomous vehicle tech start-ups, a large proportion of which was invested by auto-makers.

“Right now, the major automakers are waiting to see what shakes out of their investments. And when winners start to emerge, they’ll be bought up by the corporations,” says Doude. Recent examples include General Motors acquiring Cruise and Ford investing in Argo. “Big companies invest strategically; they don’t take risks. Interestingly, Uber is investing as much as anyone else is,” he adds.

CAVS is currently working with the US Government to test an autonomous military vehicle and is even in the process of building a bespoke vehicle testing facility that will enable the team to test an autonomous vehicle’s ability to travel both on and off road – a key requirement of a military vehicle.

Matthew Doude will be speaking at CWIEME Chicago 2017, the leading exhibition for coil winding, transformer and electric motor manufacturing, taking place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center between 3-5 October.“With the popularity of autonomous vehicles and all the research dollars going into those, everybody wants to know how it’s going to affect their industry; my goal is to shed some light on this subject,” says Doude. “The ‘EV Tech 24hrs’ seminar focus and the ‘EV Trail’ are really interesting concepts; it’s great that CWIEME Chicago is specifically trying to address this very relevant industry topic.”

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DOD Contracts Harris Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded an $11,277,688 modification (P00766) to previously awarded contract for Eglin Beam Steer Sustainment Project Beam Steering Calibrate and Monitor Console Replacement project. Contractor will improve the sustainment posture of the project for the Eglin Army and Navy fixed position ground radar search AN/FPS-85 radar, which includes the design, procurement, fabrication, integration, installation, and testing to ensure supportability through 2030 and the development and installation of a temporary Y Switch. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 13, 2019. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $1 1,277,688 are being obligated at time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity (F19628-02-C-0010).

Okland-Geneva JV, Salt Lake City, Utah, has been awarded a $19,055,009 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of F-35 apron airfield pavements at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Bids were solicited via the Internet with seven received. Work will be performed in Las Vegas, Nevada, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 2, 2019. Fiscal 2016 military construction funds in the amount A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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of $19,055,009 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, California, is the contracting activity.

CH2M Hill Inc., Englewood, Colorado, was awarded a $9,500,000 firm-fixed-price contract for architect and engineer vertical design.

Bids were solicited via the Internet with six received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 17, 2022.

U.S Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the contracting activity.

MJBV, Boise, Idaho, has been awarded a $9,500,000 firm-fixedprice contract for multi-discipline engineering and design services.

Bids were solicited via the Internet with eight received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 14, 2022. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla,Washington, is the contracting activity.

Hartech Group LLC,* Littleton, Colorado, has been awarded a $9,724,986 firm-fixed-price contract for a hydro-forming press.

This is a two-year contract with no option periods. This was a competitive acquisition with one offer received. Locations of performance are Georgia and Colorado, with a May 25, 2019, performance completion date. Using military service is Air Force.Type of appropriation is fiscal 2017 through 2018 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Richmond, Virginia.

S&K Aerospace LLC, St. Ignatius, Montana, has been awarded a $559,011,645 fixed-price, incentive firm contract for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) supply services effort.

This program is comprised of logistical in-Kingdom support, supply consumables for F-15 C/D/S/SA

fleets, and operation and maintenance of print plant and print on demand facilities for the RSAF F-15 program. Work will be performed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2023. This contract involves foreign military sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The award is the result of a source selection effort and four offers were received.

Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $248,797,940 will be obligated at time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia is the contacting activity (FA8505-17-D-0005).

Raytheon Co., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $16,000,000 modification (P00002) to previously awarded contract to support in-scope requirements which are required to ensure the Cobra Dane radar maintains operational capability.

Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2019. No funds are being obligated at time of modification. Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds will be obligated on orders within the ceiling of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity. Air Force Life Cycle Management Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity (FA8723-16-D-0001).

Metro Denver’s Economic Growth Outpaces National Average For Metro Areas

Metro Denver’s economy grew at a pace of 2.4 percent in 2016, outpacing the average growth rate of the nation’s metro areas, according to a new report released today by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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The Denver metro area — including Aurora and Lakewood — had a real gross domestic product (GDP) of $197.9 billion, up from 2015 when it was $190.9 billion.

The growth, however, still leaves the metro area as No. 18 for year-over-year growth out of 382 metropolitan areas ranked in the analysis. The GDP measures the total output of goods and services in a given area.

Growth in metro Denver — the largest metropolitan area in the Rocky Mountain region, and 18th largest inthe nation — was largely due to growth in information services, the BEA report says. Statewide, Colorado’s GDP growth was .4 percent.

Across the country, real GDP growth by metro area ranged from a top of 8.1 percent in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Bend, Oregon to -13.3 percent in Odessa, Texas. On average, GDP grew 1.7 percent in 2016, led by growth in professional and business services; information services; finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing. By Monica Mendoza – Reporter, Denver Business Journal

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Five Key Trends Affecting Commercial Aviation for the Next 20 Years Right-sizing will be a critical component in boosting airline profitability for the next 20 years, according to Bombardier’s Market Forecast As the air transport industry continues to be profitable and growing, the industry is evolving to manage the increasing demand for passenger travel.

Airlines are still financially sensitive to several market drivers that wax and wane based on macroeconomic forces.The Bombardier Commercial Aircraft Market Forecast provides an industry outlook over a 20-year period by determining the long effect of these market drivers.

The world economy is expected to grow at a moderate pace for the period of this forecast.There is a broad consensus that oil prices will return to the USD 80 to USD 100 per barrel by 2030. In order to plan for economic uncertainties, airlines are embracing a financially-driven corporate culture.

Profit contribution arbitration is transitioning from a network-wide basis to per-passenger basis. With the objective of increasing the profitability per passenger, airlines will invest in right-sized aircraft based on market demands. Below are five key trends from Bombardier’s 2017 forecast.

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1. Overcapacity and fare pressure will reduce per-passenger yields.While unbundled fares and improved ancillary sales retail models address one part of the profitability equation: revenue growth, airlines must take action to avoid the profit seepage of serving high volumes of customers at low per-passenger yield. While industry load factors are high, there are weak spots in profitability. According to IATA, airlines in 2017 are expected to earn USD 7.69 per passenger served. This is down from Phoenix Businesses Make ‘Forbes’ Small the3USD 9.13 earned in 2016 and the USD 10.08 earnedBest in 2015.

The average net profit margin Companies Listfor the industry is at 4.2 percent, down from 4.9 percent in 2016. Airlines heavily discount fares to fill empty seats, The business what publication Grand Canyon Education as the commoditizing should listed be a value-added service.

In someInc., regions, seventh small company, Cavco Industries Inc. came in at No. even heavy best discounting can’t fillwhile oversized planes.

This trend is expected 13 and Inventure Foods Inc. was 33rd. to persist until airlines refocus on capacity management.

Forbes ranked the 100 best small companies that had been publicly 2. Intra-regional routes will continue to dominate the air travel market. traded for at least a year, generated annual revenue between $5 million Intra-regional routes represented 80price percent globalthan air traffic in 2016, and $1 billion, and had a stock no oflower $5 a share.

The andrankings will continue to be the largest traffic flowsales segment, growing 5 per-on were based on earnings growth, growth and return centequity CAGR compared the projected 3.8 percent CAGR in through the past 2036, year and over fivetoyears.

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Intra-regional routes are also markets that growth last year also was factored into the ranking. generate the highest yield, but are often served by aircraft that forfeit per-passenger profit opportunities.

The Grand oldest Canyon’s fleet in service belongs From Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014, sales were $641 to the small-single aisle segment, made up primarily old-technology million.

The for-profit Christian university postedofsales growth of 28 inefficient Bombardier expects that all regional percentaircraft. and earnings per share growth of retiring 54 percent overaircraft the past in the to 60-seat segment will need to up-gauge to large regional five 20years. aircraft. This shift will also support point-to-point service on short-toCavcohaul brought in $539 million for the year ended Oct. 1. The factorymedium routes. built home manufacturer reported earnings per share growth of 88 percentaircraft over the years, butnew onlyroute a 4 percent increasethe in return 3. Smaller arepast keyfive to unlocking potential.Over next on equity for that period.

20 years, more right-sized aircraft will serve more intra-regional routes.

In East Asia, for example, the 100- to 150-seat segment has already seen postedin$253 million in sales forInthethis past year.

The specialty 20 Inventure percent growth global city-pair routes. large region, there food marketer and manufacturer posted 14 percent sales growth, is still vast potential for growth in the low-cost carrier (LCC) model19 percent growth inaircraft. earningsInper sharewhere and a 12 percent return on aims equity using 100-150-seat China, government policy over the past five years.Source: Phoenix Business Journal to stimulate growth by ensuring services to underserved markets, Tier 2 and 3 airports are still underserved. The LCC model would address

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under-developed connectivity with point-to-point service in this fast growing area of the world.

City pair growth around the world, where 100- to 150-seat aircraft best serves routes, will reinforce the need for airlines to right-size their fleets. Asia could grow new routes from 650 in 2006 to over 1,200 by 2026. In Africa, city pairs are forecast to grow from 1,400 to 2,600 by 2026. In Russia and CIS, growth is also strong. The region will see 1,000 additional city pairs by 2026.

Growth by unlocking intra-regional routes is not limited to developing markets. In mature markets, like the U.S. and Europe, 100- to 150-seat aircraft services can help relieve stress on infrastructure and return service to abandoned routes.

Airlines can introduce point-topoint service between underserved Tier 2 and Tier 3 airports at competitive fares levels, with high yields.

4. Airline profitability and financial stability will increase by prioritizing profit per passenger over cost per seat.The present focus on high-volume, low-fare sales runs counter to the best interest of airlines. The strategy turns seats into low-yield commodities, which keeps the industry from reaping adequate profits from operations.

Congestion and a focus on cost-perseat instead of yield-per-passenger, have also resulted in poor passenger experience. As airlines seek to bolster profitability, they will pivot to right-sized aircraft in order to capture underserved or new intra-regional routes and relieve congestion. Precision-planning of intra-regional routes according to local demand, and the introduction of “closer to home” services in appropriate catchment areas will offer customers a less congested airport experience.

Right-sized aircraft will also offer better pitch and seat width, as well as passenger-friendly cabin design.

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5. Airlines will replace aging fleets with modern, fuel efficient, and right-sized aircraft. The retirement of existing fleets over the next 20 years will create significant demand for modern planes with greater efficiency to penetrate the market in the 100- to 150-seat segment. Large fleet replacement needs exist in the regional aircraft and small single-aisle segments. Replacement with optimized aircraft for each segment will boost profitability and efficiency.

Single-aisle aircraft in the 100- to 150-seat segment will be critical to the growth of hub-and-spoke networks as well as the establishing of competitive but profitable point-to-point short-to-medium haul routes. 86 percent of the current fleet in this segment will be ready to retire by 2036. By replacing this aging fleet with modern, more fuel efficient, right-sized aircraft airlines can develop critical engines of long-term sustainable profitability and high yields into their operating models.

Airlines can profit from these insights and start planning to right-size their fleet now, in time to secure long-term profitability. For airlines, a profitable future relies on putting these aircraft to work over the next 20 years, and beyond.Bombardier’s complete report on the future of commercial aviation for the next 20 years is available for viewing. Soiurce: Sponsored by Bombardier | AviationWeek.com A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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The grant helps support developing the workforce knowledgeable in new technology and equipment used in advance manufacturing, which is needed by the state’s key industries, said Stephen M. Jordan, the outgoing president of MSU Denver.

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Lockheed Martin Funds Advanced Space Manufacturing Lab At MSU Denver Lockheed Martin Corp. is donating $1 million to Metropolitan State University of Denver over the next four years to support advanced manufacturing instruction and labs in the university’s new aerospace and engineering programs.

The donation was announced to coincide with MSU Denver (also known as Metro State) opening the school’s new Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building on its campus at the edge of downtown Denver.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., a major division of the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor, is based in Jefferson County. It’s one of the largest contractors for making satellites and space probes for the U.S. military and NASA. The company donation supports an on-campus Lockheed Martin Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, where students will use a state-of-theart 3-D printer to design and create aerospace components. It’s one of only three printers in the state with its composite printing capability, and the only one at a higher-education institution, the school says.

Lockheed Martin’s grant also endows the director’s position running the Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Institute at Metro, which pulls in elements of the school’s engineering, industrial design, computer science and materials science programs.

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The idea for the program and facility date back to a 2013 conversation he had at the White House, where eight advanced industries were talked about as key to the U.S. in the future. Jordan said he could see how MSU Denver could become the place to teach to workforce knowledgeable in aerospace and advance manufacturing. Source: Denver Business Journal

Machinists, Inc. Plays Key Role in 10,000 year Clock ProjectHome Featured Articles Uncategorized Machinists, Inc. Plays Key Role in 10,000 year Clock Project Engineer Stuart Kendall stood atop the great pyramid in Egypt, and thought to himself, how much he would like to part of an epic stone project like this one.

Little did Kendall know, but the years ahead would provide him with just that opportunity. He spent 7 years at Machinists, Inc. as head of engineering and concept formulation, the guy in charge of “dreaming up ideas while creating all kinds of design builds, crazy stuff.”

In 2000, he started his own firm called Seattle Solstice, which specialized in large scale stone fabrication.They built a number of very unusual machines for working, fabricating and carving stone with exacting precision.

“We created a process for making nearly perfect spheres and matching spherical sockets. When water is pumped into the socket base, the ball levitates and rolls almost frictionless on a thin film.We’re in a very small club. Only about five groups worldwide have mastered this process. We’re the only people in North or South America,” Kendall said.

Kendall’s precision stone work brought his company much acclaim, so much so, it attracted the attention of the people building the 10,000 Year Clock in West Texas. It is a concept that has been around for 25 years, the brainchild of the California based, Long Now Foundation a group dedicated to long term thinking.

“What they wanted to create was an actual example of long term thinking.

The concept chosen was the design and fabrication of a mechanical clock, to be built with the best technology available, and set up to run, unattended if necessary, for 10,000 years,” Kendall said. “They’re trying to reach as far into the future as we can reach backward into history.”

The clock builders wanted a group involved with innovative stone cutting, and certainly Seattle Solstice fit that bill.

Stone cutting was critical because the clock would be housed in a limestone mountain in Texas, hanging vertically in a 500-foot shaft.The builders wanted a way for visitors to view the clock.

The first idea was to mount a stainless steel, spiral staircase to the stone wall.

Visitors would climb this staircase to see the clock.

“In the end, my group proposed that it would be possible for them to cut radially into the sidewall of the shaft using a limestone quarry belt saw to create a spiral staircase directly into the mountain.

The clock group loved the idea so we concurrently designed both the staircase and the equipment to cut it,” Kendall said. Working with Machinists, Inc., an effective team effort was organized including Kuka Robotics of Germany to handle the robotic simulations and power components, and W.F. Meyers of Indiana to provide quarry saw expertise and equipment.

Fabricated and assembled at Machinists Inc., and taking 2 years to complete and test, the finished platform robot was huge, 32,000 pounds, standing about 30 feet tall with a 75HP programmable CNC 3 joint articulated saw all controlled electronically.

As many know, the project is being funded by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos.

Additional information about the project and a movie of the saw can be found at Wired.com.

Kendall expects the project to continue for several years. Machinists, Inc. was chosen as a partner in the project, he said, because of the depth of knowledge and skills of the staff who have decades

of machining and assembling large scale fabrications. And creating the components for the robot is not their only involvement.

“When they got ready to build the clock, they shopped the project worldwide. No one wanted to touch it. It’s very, very fussy work.You are working with stainless steel plate up to 3 inches thick.You just don’t know what is going to happen when machining that stuff because stainless notoriously has internal strains that can release when machined,” Kendall said. “It took not only extreme expertise at Machinist Inc, it just took plain courage to bite the project off and say yeah, ‘we’ll see if we can do it’.

“It’s going to be a great feather in MI’s cap when it’s done. It will certainly be about the longest lasting parts of any kind coming out of that place.The saw robot and the clock project have been great for them.”

And for Kendall, standing atop the spiral stone staircase may give him much the same feeling as standing atop the great pyramid. This staircase is going to be around awhile.

“These stairs that are being cut in Texas, they may be there as long as there are human beings to climb up them. The extremely dry mountain location, at 6700 feet, was also chosen for its seismic stability,” he said. “Being able to be part of the project, and having MI’s partnership to make it happen has really been an amazing trip.” By Ian Dunn A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Colorado Medical-Device Maker Merges Into Pennsylvania Company Three health care firms — including a Colorado company that designs and manufactures medical ultrasound products — will be merged into one Pittsburgh-based company.

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Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners, based near Cleveland, created a holding company named Innovatus Imaging Corp. for three companies that Resilience already owns: MD MedTech LLC of Arapahoe County; as well as Pittsburgh-based Multi Vendor Service (MVS), formerly owned by Bayer Corp.; and Wetsco of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

When debt as sumption is added in, it’s a $9.2 billion merger.

There are 170 people at the three companies and operations will remain in metro Denver, Pittsburgh and Tulsa, according to the company.

The deal involved Northrop buying Orbital ATK for $7.8 billion cash and taking on $1.4 billion of the latter’s debt. Both companies are based in northern Virginia.

MD MedTech co-founder Michael Labree will become the new company’s chief technology officer.Wetsco President Dennis Wulf will become CEO of Innovatus Imaging, and MVS General Manager Bill Kollitz will be president and COO.

“The acquisition of Orbital ATK is an exciting strategic step as we continue to invest for profitable growth. Through our combination, customers will benefit from expanded capabilities, accelerated innovation and greater competition in critical global security domains,” said Wes Bush, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman.

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All three companies worked closely for more than a decade before the companies’ merger.

“The combination of these three businesses creates an unparalleled opportunity to expand the value of what we offer and provides strategic resources and services that will benefit health care organizations throughout the world,” said Kollitz.

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A Sample Of Rhin-O-Tuff’s Products

Rhin-O-Tuff Improves Profitability on its Punch & Binding Machines With Its Mitsubishi MV 1200S Wire EDM You may not have heard of Rhin-O-Tuff, a brand of Performance Design LLC, though their products are sold worldwide. But if your company uses binders for presentations, proposals and documents, the local printer you take your media to likely is using Rhin-O-Tuff punch and binding machines.

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Here’s a little history on this Boise, Idaho-based company. More than 2 decades ago, in 1994, Marvin Whiteman, former owner of Whiteman Industries was approached to design a part for a tabletop paper punch machine. Marvin and his team had a history and passion for building tough high performance products. They had designed and built racecars and motorcycles. Marvin and his team felt they could invent a better, more flexible and efficient family of paper punches. So together they started Performance Design, Inc. and built their first tabletop punch with interchangeable dies called the Versa Punch.

Soon thereafter they realized customers wanted more flexibility to add modules to decrease the time it took them to punch and stack documents, and modules to address the binding of documents with plastic coil, double loop wire or comb.

So the concept modular tabletop punches and binding solutions was born.They designed and manufactured paper punches and finishing equipment that could be configured in a variety of ways to solve a wide range of document punching and binding challenges.The new modular designed products were branded Rhin-O-Tuff.

Today Rhin-O-Tuff offers a full range of paper punching and document binding systems.The Rhin-O-Tuff brand of equipment is known for high quality and unsurpassed durability by thousands of commercial and corporate users.

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Whether the need is to increase productivity in a copy center, bindery, digital printing environment, or to add the convenience of doing binding “in-house” for a corporate office, Rhin-O-Tuff has the binding, document finishing, or document handling solution to handle all your demands, and their products are sold around the world through a network of authorized dealers and distributor partners. Their US-based clients most often utilize plastic coil binding, and twin loop binding in more often used in their products designed for Europe.

Rhin-O-Tuff systems come with a 3-year warranty and they are environmentally friendly at 98% recyclable.

All Rhin-O-Tuff machines are designed and manufactured at their headquarters in Boise, Idaho, and the company has been awarded patents for their innovative designs.The company’s machine shop is equipped with several vertical mills and one large horizontal mill.

Steven Parker, Product Development Engineer with 5 years of tenure at the company, says, “We were doing nearly all of our machining in house but we were outsourcing our EDM requirements to a local machine shop. “It was specifically our punch dies with oval shaped holes that drove our EDM requirements because we didn’t have a way to make them on any of our A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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existing machines.”

H e a d d e d ,” We manufacture different dies depending on the number of holes and spacing required.”

Steven says that Rhin-O-Tuff was outsourcing the wire EDM largely because they didn’t have EDM experience internally. “We were spending a significant amount of money on outsourcing, though, and when we did the ROI on buy versus outsource, it became evident that we needed to find a way to bring this in-house.”

Mitsubishi MV1200S EDM

Steven and his team researched a number of manufacturers of wire EDM machine tools, and they selected 4 high quality machines to receive pricing on. They even utilized test cuts to compare the different lines. Steven says, “We selected the Mitsubishi MV1200S EDM because it was a proven machine with an excellent reputation, and its test cut results were outstanding. We also chose it because we were comfortable with the level of support we received pre-sale, and that we would receive post-sale.”

He says that service was even more of a critical factor due to the fact that EDM was a new machining technique for the company. He added that the company appreciated the fact that Mitsubishi is a leader in electrical discharge machining innovation, and that they continue to push the envelope to develop the most accurate, reliable and technically advanced products in the world. An added bonus to Rhin-O-Tuff was that the Mitsubishi EDM was less expensive than any of the other manufacturer’s offerings.

Prior to the purchase, the team from Rhin-O-Tuff visited Mitsubishi’s Regional Sales and Support Center in Long Beach, California. In California, the team learned that Mitsubishi provides preventative maintenance, laser calibration, application support, and even remote monitoring for its customers.

Rhin-O-Tuff purchased their Mitsubishi MV1200S EDM in late 2015 from Smith Machinery, who carries a number of fine machine tool lines, including the Mitsubishi line. Smith Machinery has been the distributor of a variety of advanced manufacturing technologies for more than 5 decades.Today, David Soares, (pictured above in the center, at the Mitsubishi Corporate Center), supports many of Smith Machinery’s customers, including Rhin-O-Tuff. He says, “At Smith Machinery, we support manufacturers and job shops in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In our Salt Lake City showroom we stock a variety of these technologies and can provide custom demonstrations, test cuts, process development, training classes and turnkey projects.” David says that the MV series, introduced to the market about 5 years ago, reduces power consumption and use of consumable parts to cut running cost by as much as 42% over Mitsubishi Electric’s older FA series.

Clark Smith, owner of the company, says, “For U.S. manufacturing to compete and thrive, we must promote investment in higher technologies to make us globally competitive. Guided by the motto “Technology Solutions for Competitive Manufacturing” our mission is to support you and your efforts to make quality products competitively!”

Steven says that Mitsubishi’s support from the time of purchase was outstanding. “We sent them sample parts and they actually wrote the programs to get us started”, he

elaborated. Since then, Steven says that the machine has been extremely reliable, and he added, “They emphasize the importance of keeping the machine clean and staying on top of the maintenance — while it is prudent to do this with any machine — it is even more critical with EDM machines.”

Today, Rhin-O-Tuff has a programmer that is adept at programming all of the company’s machines, and the operator who runs the Mitsubishi EDM can simultaneously run 2 additional machines. “With our EDM, once you set-up the machine, it can run for very long times”, Steven said. He adds, “Our Mitsubishi EDM has met all of our expectations for Return On Investment (ROI), our operating costs are just what we calculated, and we are saving a significant amount of money since taking EDM in-house.”

To learn more about how Smith Machinery can help you with your machine tool needs, contact them at 801-2636403 or visit smithmachinetools.com. And don’t miss their Open House, scheduled for October 11th and 12th.

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Major Metal 3D Printing Developments and the R&D Tax Credit Recent technological developments and industry trends are greatly bolstering the value of 3D metal printing. Metal product designers and fabricators need to be aware of where the metal printing industry is heading and how the federal Research and Development Tax Credit is helping to propel this powerful technology forward.

Companies in various industires, including firms that utilzie 3D printing technolgies have been taking advantage of the federal Research and Development (R&D)Tax Credit since 1981. Firms can receive a credit of up to 13 percent of eligible spending for new and improved products and processes. Qualified research must meet the following four criteria: New or improved products, processes, or software Technological in nature Elimination of uncertainty Process of experimentation Eligible costs include employee wages, cost of supplies, cost of testing, contract research expenses, and costs associated with developing a A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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patent. On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the bill making the R&D Tax Credit permanent. Beginning in 2016, the R&D credit can be used to offset Alternative Minimum Tax and startup businesses can utilize the credit against $250,000 per year in payroll taxes.

Historically metal 3D printing has been a costly technology suitable only for prototype development, however recent technological advances are changing all of that. Firms like Desktop Metal, with technology developed

by MIT, have created metal 3D printers for mass production. Desktop Metal recently received $115 million in its series D funding.

The company utilizes Single Pass Jetting (SPJ) processing to develop metal parts 100 times faster and at one-twentieth the cost of conventional metal 3D printing systems.The firm is developing two printer models; one model is a desktop based unit, which is predominantly for developing prototypes, and the other is a more robust unit, geared for mass production. Both of these options are truly amazing and will allow metal printing to become ubiquitous. Design and manufacturing firms that are looking to integrate next generation metal printers into their processes can expect to engage in credit eligible activities.

Major industry giants such as GE are making large investments in laser printing technologies. General Electric’s additive division is developing the world’s largest laser-powdered metal 3D printer. GE is planning on marketing the massive machine to aerospace and automotive manufacturers and has demonstrated that additive manufacturing techniques can be used to reduce the amount of parts it takes to produce a jet engine from 855 separate parts down to only 12. The development of a metal printer of this scale will allow manufactures who have conventionally strayed away from metal printers primarily due to size constraints to enter the metal printing space.

One of the most alluring aspects of metal 3D printing is the ability to manufacture parts faster and more economically than conventional manufacturing processes. The aerospace, medical, and automotive industries all provide tremendous opportunities for metal printing, but there is a major factor that is being overlooked.These three industries require a first article inspection (FAI) to ensure that production results meet the original design specifications. FAI is a laborious process that entails a comprehensive review of every characteristic of a part. The process essentially validates the manufacturing process and a firm’s ability to consistently produce a part to the desired specifications.The FAI process is extremely important because major organizations will only buy parts from a vendor that has successfully completed FAI. Firms that have already passed FAI for legacy parts and are cultivating metal printing capabilities will have to consider if it is worth undergoing the FAI process again to validate the same part using metal 3D printers. Metal printing startups will also have to consider if it is worth it to pursue the development of legacy parts or if they should focus their efforts on manufacturing the next generation of parts for their respective industries. In either scenario, conducting first article inspections to ensure metal printed parts meet design requirements is a R&D Credit eligible activity.

There are many aerospace suppliers who want to use 3D-printing technologies to develop structural parts for jets; however, they are faced with safety concerns regarding the metal printing process. Companies like Norsk, based out of Norway, already have approval from the FAA to produce a small cadre of printed structural parts for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. The firm is

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Testing activities will help to advance metal printing technologies and can be used to support an R&D tax credit.

Many aircraft components need to be made to plus or minus one-thousandth of an inch. When tolerances are this tight, literally anything can affect the accuracy of machining operations.A shop can spend a substantial amount of time developing the perfect CNC process but then receive raw materials from a different foundry, which then can render their process inadequate. Though the raw materials may be of the same specifications they may relieve stress in different ways, due to the unique manufacturing process of the foundry. This variable will affect the way the material reacts during cutting operations and therefore will require a different machining process. Even the motor wear of a milling machine

or how recently the machine has bee serviced can affect the accuracy of a cut.

Metal 3D printing is not subject to the uncontrollable variables of subtractive manufacturing.

The substrates that are used to produce metal 3D printed parts can be readily standardized, and software can be used to maintain standardization in cases where metal filament reacts in an unexpected way. In the future, complications will be able to be resolved mid-print with the use of advanced software and laser measurement systems. Work-pieces will be measured throughout the printing process and feedback control systems featuring auto correcting capabilities will make corrections before errors become too large to reverse.

Even if manufacturers are not ready to develop production ready parts they can still use metal printing technologies to supplement their current manufacturing processes. The development of fixtures is an essential part of the machining process. When it comes to machining, fixtures must be developed to hold unfinished products through each stage of the manufacturing process. A fixture must be made to hold raw materials during CNC operations, heat tempering, and testing. Developing fixtures can sometimes be just as challenging as developing a part. Metal 3D printing technologies can be used to develop fixtures much faster than conventional means, which makes metal 3D printers a suitable tool for all kinds of manufacturers.

Metal 3D printing technologies are gaining momentum and will soon be a widely used manufacturing process by firms of all sizes. The cost of metal printing is declining, but the technology may still be too costly for certain companies.These companies must consider if they can afford to fall behind with a technology that is at the forefront of innovation. Even contracting out metal printing work can potentially be an R&D tax credit eligible activity that can introduce a small shop to the fundamentals of the metal printing industry. It is recommended that companies seek out advisors that specialize in the federal Research and Development Tax Credit, so that they can maximize their credit eligible expenses. Source: Charles Goulding; 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Colorado Aerospace Firm Opens New Arvada Facility, Plans On Hiring A Colorado aerospace manufacturing company last month opened a new Arvada facility, and said it plans on hiring.

Special Aerospace Services of Boulder said its new 25,000-square-foot SAS manufacturing facility in Arvada contains the “latest automated machining equipment.” The manufacturing facility was previously located in Englewood.

Special Aerospace Services said the Arvada facility will initially employ 13 people, but plans to grow in the next two years.

“The firm plans to expand manufacturing activities and hire additional personnel, more than doubling its skilled workforce to 30 people in the coming 24 months,” the company said.

“The Arvada facility is among the most advanced manufacturing plants in the state,” said Heather Bulk, president and CEO of SAS Manufacturing, in a statement.

Special Aerospace Services was co-founded by Bulk and he r husband, Tim Bulk, 10 years ago. Source: Denver Business Journal

New Opening Keynote Format for FABTECH 2017 to Motivate, Inspire Attendees FABTECH 2017, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event, is embracing a popular tech talk concept with the addition of short inspirational talks given by industry visionaries on their experiences and thoughts for how innovation is driving manufacturing forward.

The presentations — dubbed “FABx Tech Talks” — will provide FABTECH attendees with a glimpse into manufacturing’s future, including what tomorrow’s jobs will look like and what companies must do to remain competitive.

The FABx Tech Talks will be the opening keynote presentation on Nov. 6, the first morning of FABTECH, which takes place Nov. 6-9 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

FABx Tech Talks participants include: Adam Genei, Founder, Mobsteel Jesse James, Founder, West Coast Choppers Karen Kerr, Executive Managing Director, GE Ventures Albert Paley, World-Renowned Sculpture Artist, aPaley Studios Jacques Panis, President, Shinola Michael Walton, Industry Solution Executive (Manufacturing Industry), Microsoft

“We are very excited to have these top innovators provide their expert insight via this new and engaging forum for the opening keynote,” said John Catalano, FABTECH show co-manager and SME senior director.

“The FABx Tech Talks add a motivational element to our already impressive presentation lineup, and introduce emerging topics and trends that are central themes throughout FABTECH, from the show floor to the education program.”

James and Paley will take the stage first to discuss their very unique collaboration using metal art to bring to life the importance of metalworking technology. Walton, Kerr and Panis will each offer their own personal stories on the evolution taking place in manufacturing and what the future holds. Genei will conclude by sharing his passion for manufacturing and the value of making things with your hands; his formula for success is simple: hard work.

To learn more about the FABx Tech Talks on Nov. 6, and to register for FABTECH 2017, visit fabtechexpo.com.

FABTECH is North America’s largest collaboration of technology, equipment and knowledge in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing industries. The event provides a powerfully aligned hands-on, face-to-face business growth experience, attracting more than 1,700 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees. The event is made possible by its five co-sponsors, all of whom represent the varied and diverse makeup of the manufacturing industry. They include the American Welding Society, the Chemical Coaters Association International, the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International, the Precision Metalforming Association and SME. A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Lockheed Martin Reaffirms Support For Sikorsky’s Raider Sikorsky was tantalizingly close to achieving its goal of exceeding 220 kt. with the S-97 Raider coaxial-rotor helicopter when the prototype made a hard landing on Aug. 2, after experiencing flight control problems. But Lockheed Martin, which acquired Sikorsky in 2015 when the industry-funded Raider program was well underway, has been quick to reiterate its commitment to the high-speed light tactical helicopter.

The incident at Sikorsky’s development flight center in West Palm Beach, Florida, came as the 6,000-lb. Raider was taxiing out to begin its 15th test flight, with the target of achieving 180 kt.—its highest speed yet.The goal of exceeding 220 kt. was planned for the next flight, its 16th.

Achieving that objective will now have to wait until after the second prototype is completed and flown in 2018.

The fly-by-wire (FBW) Raider was taxiing to its takeoff position when the mishap occurred.The digital flight control system unexpectedly transitioned from simple ground mode to augmented flight mode before the aircraft became airborne.The crew lifted into a hover but, unable to stabilize the helicopter, quickly put it back on the ground, the Raider coming down heavily, upright and level on the runway. The Raider suffered substantial damage, but they escaped with minor injuries— the impact-absorbing landing gear, composite airframe and crew seats working as designed.

After shakedown flights, the goal is to pick up where Aircraft 1 left off and continue expanding the flight envelope beyond 150 kt., out to the maximum speed goal. But more than that, Sikorsky is looking at arming the second Raider for mission demos. Once the S-97 finally achieves its 220kt. target, the company aims to demonstrate complex maneuvers, including 3g turns, hovering nose-up and nose-down using the prop, as well as rapid level-attitude acceleration and deceleration.

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Raider systems integration laboratory. The weapons will include podded machine guns, Lockheed’s next-generation Hellfire—the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile—and BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser-guided rocket.

When Raider was launched with support from more than 30 suppliers, Sikorsky had its sights set firmly on the U.S. Army’s Advanced Aerial Scout (AAS) requirement to replace the Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. But AAS was shelved in 2013, and the OH-58Ds have now retired, replaced with reroled Boeing AH-64E Apaches. The Army’s priority has shifted to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Medium program to replace the workhorse Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk—for which Sikorsky Boeing’s SB-1 is competing with Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor.

Lockheed’s restated, post-crash commitment to Sikorsky’s Raider reflects the high-speed helicopter’s continued value, both in reducing risk for the SB-1 and in keeping options alive for a future FVL Light program to develop a true replacement for the OH-58D armed scout, as well as the Army’s special-operations Boeing MH-6 Little Bird. “We remain bullish about the program,” says Van Buiten.

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Metal Supermarkets___ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals______303-286-9700 Ryerson__________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO.____303-422-8282 TW Metals_________ 800-203-8000 Western States Metals__ 801-978-0562 NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Drilling/Tapping Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 CNC Mills AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Doosan__________ 973-618-2500 Foothills Machinery Sales__ 303-466-3777 Hurco___________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley________ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley________ 208-861-8991 Jend Machinery______ 303-775-3697 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 KTR Machine_______ 623-202-7177 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 Romi Machine Tools LLC_ 859-647-7566 Selway Machine Tool___ 888-735-9290 Sharp Precision______ 310-370-5990 Smith Machinery Co___ 801-263-6403 Tornos USA_________951-695-0342 Triad Machine________303-424-0268 CNC Lathes AME, Inc.__________303-922-9266

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

Utah

Doosan___________973-618-2500 Foothills Machinery____ 303-466-3777 J.M. Grisley_________801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley_________208-861-8991 Jend Machiney______ 303-775-3697 Hurco____________800-634-2416 King Machine________208-345-9600 KTR Machine_________623-202-7177 Methods West________ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 Romi Machine Tools LLC_ 859-647-7566 Selway Machine Tool___ 888-735-9290 Sharp Precision______ 310-370-5990 Smith Machinery Co____ 801-263-6403 Triad Machine________ 303-424-0268 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc.__________ 303-922-9266 Jend Machinery______ 303-775-3697 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 Tornos USA_______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines

Current EDM Inc_____650-966-9676 EDM Machines AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales_____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 Jend Machinery______ 303-775-3697 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co___ 801-263-6403 Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales_____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access.____ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply____ 480-836-8330 Micro Hole Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc_____650-966-9676

Michael McSWEENEY

Sales Manager

Ph: +1 724 696 4340 x3437 Direct: +1 724 213 7290 Cell: +1 724 309 1940 mcsweeney.michael@rotarex.com

ROTAREX NORTH AMERICA

101 Bilby Rd, Building #2 Hackettstown, NJ 07840 www.rotarexfiretec.com

S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutters RIBAL AMADA America______ 303-670-9406 BTADDINI Strategic Account Manager Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 OEM WEST REGION MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 DATA COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION P: 888.668.6818 PrecisionFab Inc._____303-779-9180 C: 937.479.5381 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 ribal.btaddini@legrand.us www.legrand.us Sidley Diamond Tool___ 800-544-9070 Legrand, North America Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 3555 Kettering Blvd.

Moraine, OH 45439 Pipe & Tube Benders/Notchers Amada America______ 303-549-9167 C2G | ORTRONICS | QUIKTRON RAPIDRUN | WIREMOLD Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 NEW MACHINERY S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 PVD COATING Plate Rolls Titanium Coating Services_562-548-2550 Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 NEW MACHINERY Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 FABRICATION Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 Angle Rolls Press Brakes Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 AMADA America______ 303-670-9406 Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Band Saws Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 Ultimate Machinery_____ 480-966-2000 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Shearing Machines Bar Feeders Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Edge Technologies______ 562-597-7824 Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 Cold Saws King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Fabricating Equip Sales___ 303-466-7342 Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 CNC Punching Centers S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 AMADA America______ 303-670-9406 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades303-761-3000 Fiber Lasers Welding Equipment: Spot Jorgenson Machine Tools__ 435-659-9455 Welders Revolution Machine Tools__ 385-355-0316 AMADA America_ _____ 303-670-9406 Iron Workers OTHER ACCESSORIES Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 ®

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Tooling Systems SAFETY Desert EDM Sales______ 480-816-6300 Fire Protection Systems USA EDM Supply______ 480-836-8330 Rotarex__________ 480-689-8756 Mobility Ramps & Stairs - Modular PALLET SYSTEMS EZ-Access_________ 800-451-1903 Automatic Pallet Systems SERVICES Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 AS9100 Certification Automatic Door Opener Systems ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 BMSC___________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 Calibration Services Robotic Part Loading Systems Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 Klontech Industrial_____480-948-1871 Western States Calibration_ 801-466-1700 WoodworkingMachines Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 PRODUCTS BMSC___________ 602-445-9400 Guns Layke Tactical_______ 602-272-2654 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 PROG. SYSTEMS Contract Inspection CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Cimatron_________ 248-596-9700 Data Communications; Wire & Delcam (Autodeck)_____ 877-35-2261 Cable Management Feature Cam_______ 602-502-9654 Legrand___________888-668-6818 SolidCAM_________ 530-863-0461 Education PROTOTYPE MACHINERY Ogden-Weber Tech College_ 801-395-3795 3D Parts To Go________801-380-7935 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 RECYCLING Financing Recyclable Metals Bank of the West______ 303-202-5525 Iron & Metals, Inc_____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works_____ 801-364-5679 Intech Funding______ 385-553-9208 Univerity Federal Credit Union_ 801-463-3597 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc_____ 303-292-5555 First Article Inspection Utah Metal Works_____ 801-364-5679 Advanced Coord. Tech _____303-469-6161 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Heavyhaul Integrated Systems Inc__ 928-649-9600 IRH ____________801-972-5581 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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DAYTON Lamina

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a MISUMI Group Company

Kevin Benson Die Components Marketing Director

39830 Grand River Ave. Suite B2 Novi, MI 48375

DAYTON Lamina Corporation a MISUMI Group Company

Phone: (248) 489-9122 Cell: (708) 203-6684 Email: kbenson@daytonlamina.com www.daytonlamina.com

MIKE DENISON BUSINESS LOAN OFFICER

Benjamin Johnson ASNT Level III #210316 johnson80120@gmail.com 602-578-8109

ASNT, NAS 410, ASME Nadcap, ASTM, RT, UT, MT, PT

Level III NDT Consulting Services, LLC Training, Certifications, Nadcap Approvals, Responsible Level III, Aerospace, Petrol Chemical

Injection Molding 3D Parts To Go______ 801-380-7935 Inspection Services Advanced Coord. Tech _____303-469-6161 Insurance Services Sentry Insurance_____ 877-373-6879 Lean Consulting ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 Process Improvement/ Audit ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 BMSC ______________ 602-445-9400 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 X-Ray Certified Inspection Service__602-267-0661 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

BMSC ______________ 602-445-9400 Gladhill Associates_______719-495-8045 MEP _____________801-863-7001 Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 ISO Registrar Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017 Lean Manufacturing A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

TOOLING MEP _____________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 PrecisionToolholding Products Machine Tool Rebuilding Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 _ Tooling Systems Nadcap Approvals - Consulting Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 Level III NDT Consulting_ 602-578-8109 Live Tool Holders Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 Level III NDT Consulting_ 602-578-8109 Static Tool Holders Process Improvement Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 BMSC ______________ 602-445-9400 TRAINING Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 CAD/CAM Training Reverse Engineering Advanced Coord. Tech ___ _303-469-6161 Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 Diversified Metal Services___ 801-972-6093 CNC/Conventional Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Machining Rigging & Transfer Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 Atlas Rigging & Transfer_ 801-539-3885 Machining Software IRH ___________ _801-972-5581 Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 MEI Rigging__________801-701-7975 USED MACHINERY Spindle Rebuilding GMN USA__________ 800-686-1679EDM Network_________ 480-836-1782 Setco-Pope Spindles______866-362-0699Jorgenson Machine Tools____435-659-9455 Transportation King Machine_________208-345-9600 IRH ____________801-972-5581 K.D. Capital Equipment____480-922-1674 SOFTWARE Methods West_________602-437-2220 CAD/CAM/CAE ReSell CNC West________480-694-9919 SolidCAM_________ 530-863-0461 S&S Machinery Sales_____602-368-8542 Consulting/Engineering Selway Machine Tool___ 888-735-9290 Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322

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Office: 801-463-3597 Cell: 801-979-3361 Fax: 801-294-3319 mdenison@ucreditu.com www.UcreditU.com

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WATERJET CUTTING MACHINERY Fabricating Equip Sales___303-466-7342 Flow International_______800-446-3569 Global EDM Supply_____480-836-8330 Jend Machinery________303-775-3697 Jorgenson Machine Tools____435-659-9455 King Machine_________208-345-9600 OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Abrasives/Blast Media Barton International_____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group_____ 832-243-9300

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JEFF ROBINO

VICE PRESIDENT SALES / MACHINE MECHANICAL GROUP

t 520.294.3126 c 520.247.5977 jeffr@caid.com www.caid.com

ADDITIVE MFG/ 3 D PRINTING Faustson___________303-420-7422 Qualified Rapid Products__ 801-999-4297 Design/Engineering Qualified Rapid Products__ 801-999-4297 ASSEMBLIES Advantage Manufacturing__ 877-727-0281 Acu-Tec CNC__________ 303-365-9245 Bar-S Machine_________ 928-636-2115 CAID Industries________435-890-8823 Dayton Rogers________ 763-717-6303 JD Machine__________801-782-4403 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Wasatch Laser Processing__8_ 01-972-3500 Wrico____________ 480-892-7800 AUTOMATION Motion Control/ Machine Vision In-Position Technologies___ 303-231-9955 Electronics Assemblies Advantage Manufacturing__ 877-727-0281 CAID Industries________435-890-8823 Welded Assemblies Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 BAR CODING Western Sintering______509-375-3096

Jeffrey Peterson 801-710-7891

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

BROACHING Ponderosa Ind_ _ _______303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products_ 970-482-7676 Specialty Steel Services___ 801-539-8252 CASTINGS Die Casting TVT Die Casting_______ 800-280-2278 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc TVT Die Casting_______ 800-280-2278 CHEMICAL PROCESSING PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 COATING Coating:Black Oxide PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Coating:Chemfilm PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Coating: Liquid Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Coating: PVD (Titanium) Titatnium Coating Services_562-548-2550 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 COMPOSITES Elite Machine_________ 801-710-7891 S.A. Composites________ 970-776-3877 CUTTING Metal Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181 Plasma Cutting Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181 Plastic Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181 Saw Cutting Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181

UTAH 189 South State St. Suite 100 Clearfield, UT 84015 801-355-9899

COLORADO 6531 West 56th Ave. Suite 15 Arvada, CO 80002 303-231-9955

EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 Prec. Mach’d Products____ 970-482-7676 EDM: Wire Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Custom Design & Mfg____ 435-257-0668 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EDM Express_______ 800-780-7075 DESIGNCAD/CAM Innovative Precision_____ 801-334-6317 Bar-S Machine_________ 928-636-2115 H& S Machine_________ 801-755-7627 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 DIES Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Paramount Machine____ 801-886-2755 A2Z MANUFACTURING ROCKY MOUNTAIN •

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Paramount Machine

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

Qualtek_________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Wrico____________ 480-892-7800 ELECTROPOLISHING Qualtek_________ 719-598-3394 X23 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 AzMark___________480-926-8969 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Reverse Engineering Precision Tech________801-285-7288 FABRICATION Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal___ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv_______480-966-3952 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Fabrication: Enclosures Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Falcon Sheet Metal___ 801-298-5064 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Fabrication: Steel Star Precision________303-926-0559 Bandsaw LLC_________303-744-7181 Fabrication: CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Medium & Large Bandsaw LLC_________303-744-7181 EMJD Corp________303-761-5236 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Falcon Sheet Metal______ 801-298-5064 EMJD Corp__________ 303-761-5236 FINISHING EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 Falcon Sheet Metal_____801-298-5064 Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Group Mfg Serv_______480-966-3952 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 CPCS_____________303-438-8328 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Fabrication: SheetMetal PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Precision Mach’d Prod____ 970-482-7676 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine __435-755-0500 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Custom Auto/Truck/Bike H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 Fabrication: Filament Winding S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877

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Superior Grinding______801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting_______800-280-2278 Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries_____480-968-1930 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Iron Phosphates Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Passivation Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Qualtek__________719-598-3394 X23 Photochemical/Etching VACCO Industries_______626-443-7121 Powder Coating Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 CPCS_____________303-438-8328 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146

Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Sandblasting Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Shot Peen PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Silk Screening Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 GAS NITRIDING Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 GEAR CUTTING Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Specialty Steel Svcs____ 801-539-8252 Gear Hobbing Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 GRINDING AzMark___________480-926-8969 Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 GMN USA_________ 800-686-1679

Prec. Mach’d Products__ 970-482-7676 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding______801-487-9700 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 Grinding, Centerless Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Grinding, Cold Saw AA Carbide________ 801-486-4881 Grinding, JIG Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Grinding: OD AzMark___________480-926-8969 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 Grinding: Surface Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 Exact Tool Grinding_____ 801-712-2720

Vibrational Stress Testing Temperature Processing___ 303-772-0250 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 HONING/LAPPING Polishing LAYKE, Inc._________602-272-2654 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 FORMING IDENTIFICATION Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Silk Screen EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Arizona Finishing_____602-438-4443 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 INSPECTION Inspection, First Article Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Inspection Services HEAT TREATING Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Sustaining Edge Solutions__888-572-9642 LASER CUTTING Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Laser Cutting Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Advantage Manufacturing____ 877-727-0281 Temperature Processing___303-772-0250 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Heat Treating/Aero Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Heat Treating/CryogenicsTem- Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 perature Processing_____303-772-0250 Star Precision________303-926-0559 VACCO Industries_____ 626-443-7121 Heat Treating/Custom Temperature Processing___303-772-0250 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Heat Treating/Nitriding Temperature Processing___303-772-0250 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Large Capacity Drop Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Passivation

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A2Z MANUFACTURING ROCKY MOUNTAIN •

Darrin J. Caschette President

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

Laser Engraving Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Laser Marking Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 MACHINING A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing___ 877-727-0281 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Elite Machine________ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting______ 800-280-2278 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Machining: 3D Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

ISO 9001:2008

Machining: 5 Axis Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Faustson___________303-420-7422 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 King’s Peak Manufacturing_801-337-5920 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Paramount Machine___ 801-886-2755 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Machining: Aerospace AzMark___________480-926-8969 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Flex-Pro___________480-773-3239 King’s Peak Manufacturing_801-337-5920 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Paramount Machine____ 801-886-2755 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products_ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724

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Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining: Ceramic O’Keefe Ceramics______719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz O’Keefe Ceramics______719-687-0888 Machining: CNC A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 DRP Machine_______ 801-699-4372 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Elite Machine_______ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg________970-535-4540 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 King’s Peak Manufacturing_801-337-5920 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine__ 435-563-9425 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414

Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Electromechanical Design RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Wrico___________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Composites Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Paramount Machine____801-886-2755 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 Electromechanical Design Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Machining: Large Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Machining: Laser AzMark___________480-926-8969 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Gerome Mfg________520-622-8402 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Southwest Waterjet-Laser__480-306-7748 VACCO Industries_____ 626-443-7121

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Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Paramount Machine___ 801-886-2755 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Radtech____ ______303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Denver Precision______ 303-469-1771 Faustson___________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro ___________ 480-773-3239 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine___435-563-9425 Micropulse West______ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine_ 435-755-0500 Newport Tool________801-295-7411

Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 S.A.Composites______ 970-776-3877 The Toolroom Inc._____ 801-773-6331

Machining: Precision A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 Elite Machine________801-710-7891 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 King’s Peak Manufacturing_801-337-5920 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Precision Machined Prod.__ 970-482-7676 TVT Die Casting_______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500

Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing_ 503-557-9407 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Teton Machining_______208-642-9344 Machining: Turning Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 DRP Machine_______ 801-699-4372 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine___ 435-563-9425 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine___ 435-755-0500 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Teton Machining_______208-642-9344 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Machining: Ultra-Precision Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing_ 503-557-9407 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 MANUFACTURING A&L Machining_______303-373-1540

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CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Elite Machine________801-710-7891 Group Mfg Serv______480-966-3952 King’s Peak Manufacturing_801-337-5920 Electromechanical Design CAID Industries______435-890-8823 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Composites S.A. Composites________970-776-3877 Contract Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Teton Machining_______208-642-9344 Manufacturing: Electrode Wire-Tech_________ 480-966-1591 Production Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Rapid Prototyping Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

CPCS_____________303-438-8328 Hydraulic Cylinder Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 ROLL FORMING Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 PLATING Rolling: thread Blanchard Metals Proc.__ 801-972-5590

Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Anodizing Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Copper Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Electroless Nickel LA Specialties________ 602-269-7612 Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Gold/Silver Plate Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Nickel/Chrome/ Copper Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties________ 602-269-7612 Tin Plate Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 PRECISION FORMING Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 Wrico____________480-892-7800

Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 ROUTERING, CNC Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 SAW CUTTING Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 SHOT PEENING Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 SINTERING Western Sintering______509-375-3096 SPINNING: METAL Metal Spinning Solutions__ 480-899-0939 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services__ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS Custom/Compression/Extension/Assembly/Torsion Ace Wire Spring & Form__ 412-458-4831 Flat & Wire Ace Wire Spring & Form__ 412-458-4831 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 STAMPING Robotic CNC Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Routering CNC Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 719-598-3394 X23 Qualtek________ Small Part Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 METAL STAMPING Stamping:Aerospace Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 PRINTING Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Hi-Production Precision 3D Printing Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Stamping The 3D Printing Store____720-443-3733 Stamping:Deep Draw Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 3D Prototyping Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Precision Die & Stamping__ 480-967-2038 The 3D Printing Store____720-443-3733 Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 PROCESSING: METAL MOLDS Stamping:Design Chemical Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Stamping:Flat Forming Etching/Photochemical Molds: Plastic Injection SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 VACCO Industries_____ 626-443-7121 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 PUNCHING Stamping:Foil Forming JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Molds Steel DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Group Manufacturing Serv_ 480-966-3952 Stamping: Light Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 Star Precision________303-926-0559 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Arizona Finishing_____602-438-4443 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Stamping:Precision REPAIR Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Bearing Surface PAINTING Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038

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Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 TESTING Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 Pilkington Metal Finishing___ 801-972-2146 TOOL & DIE Central Utah Tool______ 801-374-2745 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Tool & Cutter Grinding BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 Exact Tool Grinding_____ 801-712-2720 TOOLING Elite Machine________801-710-7891 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Western Sintering______509-375-3096 Custom Tooling BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 Tool Coating BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 Tool Refurbishing BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 WATERJET CUTTING Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Leading Edge Machine___435-563-9425

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Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Southwest Waterjet-Laser__480-306-7748 WELDING Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing___ 877-727-0281 Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Skyline Products________719-392-9046 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Welding: Orbital Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Welding: Precision Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Welding: Robotic Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG Mountain View Machine___ 435-755-0500

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