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“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.” Thomas Watson, (Founder of IBM) We’ve been reading very positive news about manufacturing for some time now. And just in this issue, we report findings from financial data firm Markit that June’s expansion represents the fastest and best growth rate in 4 years (at 57.6, with a reading above 50 signaling expansion in economic activity). When we read this news, we typically think about job creation and positive impact on our GDP. In fact, manufacturing represents just a small percentage of our US GDP, at ~12%, according to americanmanufacturing.org. Manufacturing’s influence on US exports is more significant, as it accounts for nearly two-thirds of our nation’s total exports of goods and services. And even more astounding is manufacturing’s role in innovation: it contributes 75% of all US private sector research and development, and the vast majority of all patents issued in the United States, according to a report published this year, titled ‘Making In America: U.S. Manufacturing Entrepreneurship And Innovation’. Here are some other positive trends in manufacturing discussed in the report: • Entrepreneurs are starting new manufacturing firms at the fastest rate in two decades. • For the first time since 1999, the number of manufacturing establishments is growing as new companies form and existing companies branch out into new factories, with more than 1400 new establishments opening in 2013. • Manufacturing R&D investment is at an all time high in the US, exceeding $200 billion, and precision machining continues to outpace manufacturing R&D growth overall. If you attend any manufacturing tradeshow, you will see the booths that generate the most excitement are those that are showcasing 3-D printers. At the most significant US consumer electronics show, CES, held each year in Las Vegas, it is said that 2014 CES will be remembered as the year when 3-D printing ‘arrived’. 3-D printing didn’t just happen, in reality, as CEO of 3-D Systems’ Avi Reichental stated, “3-D printing is an overnight success 30 years in the making.” While 3-D printing, has in fact, been available for some time now, 3-D printing of metal is a very new phenomenon in additive manufacturing. Unlike with other materials that can be printed, metal enables manufacturers to create end-use objects via 3-D printing, objects that outperform parts produced with traditional casting techniques. In fact, General Electric and Airbus are already saving money using metal laser sintering machines to produce parts for anything from aircraft, to fuel nozzles. Prototypes can be developed at a dramatically lower cost and much lower time frame with 3-D printing. 3-D printing is just beginning to accelerate innovation in manufacturing here in the United States. You, our readers, are invariably involved in manufacturing, whether you are part of a manufacturing entity, or perhaps you provide a product or service supporting this powerful industry. Know that those of us in this industry are much more likely to innovate, to be awarded patents, and are instrumental in continuing to make manufacturing in the US more and more competitive. This is something we can all be proud of, and we can continue to perpetuate. Until next issue, I wish you well. Go out and innovate. Double your failure rate! We hope to see many of you at the upcoming IMTS Show in Chicago. And as always, God Bless Our Troops!
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Announcements & Releases Mazak Announces New Rocky Mountain Distributor Sales Manager Hi, my name is Jeff Shaver and I am happy to announce that I am the new Distributor Sales Manager for Mazak in Utah, Idaho, Montana &Wyoming. I was born and raised in Southern California and currently still reside there. I have a wife of fourteen years and three wonderful children who support me in everything I do. I come from an extensive background in manufacturing. I owned a small shop and was a Mazak customer prior to my career at Mazak. I have eighteen years total experience in a variety of disciplines, such as automation, mechanical and electrical engineering, CNC programming, part process development and fixture design concepts. My career with Mazak, for the last seven years, was as an Applications Engineer. With my experience, as a machinist, a business owner and as a Mazak Applications Engineer, I understand all the needs that face today’s manufacturers, from the front office to the shop floor. With this knowledge, I can be a great asset to support you and Smith Machinery with all your Mazak needs. Feel free to contact Jeff. He can be reached via email at jshaver@ mazakcorp.com A2Z METALWORKER
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ReSell CNC Announces ‘ReSell CNCWest’ ReSell CNC opened it’s doors 8 years ago with plans to change the way used machinery is bought and sold. The company offers assistance with appraisals, auctions, and reselling used machine tools. Mike Mills, president of the new entity, will run the West Coast Division for the company. Mike has 11 years of experience selling used machinery and 37 years in machinery sales. He has been a Certified Machine Tool Sales Engineer (CMTSE) over the course of his career. Mike says, “I’ve done business with ReSell CNC over the years. I always admired they way they conduct themselves and their business model. I am very excited to come on board.” He continued, “ReSell CNC has grown exponentially since they opened for business. Their business model is ‘To consistently provide the easiest platform for manufacturers to buy and sell machine tools’. I feel confident their success east of the Mississippi will be matched here on the west coast.” Mike and the ReSell CNC West team are looking for highly motivated team members to join the company in sales positions. Mike says both Announcements Continued Page 8
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O.D. - Between Centers up to 72” L x O.D. Swing up to 24” I.D. - 9” depth x 10” LD Please Like Us on Facebook • Superior Grinding & Sales, Inc Announcements Continued experienced machine tool sales individuals and those new to the industry are encouraged to apply for this new growth opportunity. ReSell CNC West will offer a venue to work hard and have fun! To learn more about what ReSell CNC West can do for your business, contact them at 844-478-8181 (toll free). Interested applicants are encouraged to email their resume to Mike at Mike@ReSellCNC.com.
Star Metal Fluids Adds Brulin Cleaning Solutions To Its Line Of Products Star Metal Fluids is now the exclusive industrial dealer for Brulin cleaning solutions for Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Brulin is widely known as the leader for industrial cleaning with aerospace and milspec approvals with ISO 9001:2008 certification. Star Metal Fluids has local Brulin inventory inventory in both Phoenix and Salt Lake and available for immediate delivery. Our “Cleaning Product Specialist” is only a phone call away to help you find a solution for your toughest cleaning applications. Phone 602-256-2092, 801-641-2214 or toll-free at 800-367-9966. You can email us at customerservice@metalfluids.com A2Z METALWORKER
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GMN USA Announces Their Presence At The 2014 IMTS Show In Booth N-7151 GMN USA is a subsidiary of GMN Germany, a world-wide supplier of high-speed machine spindles, high precision ball bearings, freewheel clutches, Spindle Repair Service and Spindle Sales and seals for over 85 years. Our well staffed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, provides spindle manufacturing, sales and service for the North American market area. GMN has been designing and producing precision machining spindles for more than 75 years. This wealth of experience, coupled with the latest production technologies, is the basis for the design, development and manufacturing of the latest generation of spindles for today’s demanding machining applications. From high speed grinding to high power milling applications, GMN has the solution for all your machining needs. In addition to a comprehensive range of standard spindle types, GMN also will design and develop special spindles to meet the specific requirements of our customers. GMN is a market leader for spindle technology worldwide, especially in the field of innovative solutions for precision and high speed machining. For more information on GMN USA Call: Donald Loveless, 800-6861679 or email: d.loveless@gmnusa.com, www.GMNUSA.com Announcements Continued Page 10
Shop Tools, Inc., Colorado’s Largest Independent Distributor, Is Celebrating Over 30 Years In Business!
dards has brought the company recognition.This spring Faustson was named by Ball Aerospace as its Platinum Supplier of theYear; and was nominated and selected as a finalist andTop 100 company in the state by the 2014 Colorado Companies to Watch awards program. New 3D Metal Printing Technology - Faustson’s motto, “We accept your challenge,” puts Faustson’s ability to manufacture and deliver anything the imagination can create front and center. An exciting new development for the company is the addition of 3D metal printing in 2014.
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Superior Grinding & Sales, Inc. Continues Its Quality Improvement Initiatives Superior Grinding certified to ISO 9001:2008 some time ago, but they are pleased to announce that they just recertified successfully with Eagle International. Wendie Flitton, President of the company, says, “We are very focused on continuous improvement for our customers. Along with recertifying to ISO 9001:2008, we additionally expanded our quality department with the addition of our new Quality Control Manager, Jeff Soelberg. Jeff has extensive experience in the processes required to manage a superior company, and we are delighted that he has joined our team.” Superior Grinding is not just continuously improving their quality, but they continue to expand their capabilities with new machines and technology. To learn more about Superior Grinding & Sales, and what they can do for your business, contact them at 801-487-9700, or visit them at superiorgrinding.com.
Faustson Tool Pushes Colorado Manufacturing Forward Faustson Tool, a worldwide leader in five-axis manufacturing technology, is expanding its reach and adding to the capabilities it offers clients to help maintain and extend the lead Colorado has established in high-tech manufacturing and precision machining. The company continues to push manufacturing in Colorado ahead through the adoption of new technology and its involvement with industry organizations and innovative partnerships.
3D metal printing utilizes a variety of powdered metals and alloys to create complex, high-quality products from 3D CAD data. This new technology promises to deliver high precision and reduce design cycle times, and can create products that can’t otherwise be made using traditional machining techniques.Adding 3D metal printing follows on the company’s decades-long track record of studying, acquiring, and implement ing the newest innovations in manufacturing technology, and bringing a variety of new capabilities to Colorado to better serve its clients locally and worldwide. New Industry Partnerships & Affiliations - Faustson President Alicia Svaldi has been appointed to both the Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (CAMA) and Manufacturer’s Edge (formerly Colorado Association for Manufacturing Technology/ CAMT) boards, and she is encouraged by the developments taking place within the industry in Colorado. The company has been able to streamline its workflow with a recent partnership with Manufacturer’s Edge, free-
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Why Contact Faustson Tool? • We are a leader in 5 Axis Manufacturing Technology, including 5 Axis Milling and 5 Axis EDM. • We have 30 Years of Experience Servicing Customers. Fauston Tool is a Woman Owned Small Business. • Our customers span the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, Semi-Conductor, Energy and Aeronautic industries. • Our certifications include: ISO 9001:2000, JPL Flight Certified, Ball Flight Certified, MPC Flight Certified, LASP Flight Certified, ITAR Certified Ball Aerospace: First ever delegated supplier
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Faustson Vice President Heidi Hostetter sits on the Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) board for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (COEDIT). Faustson is also working with a variety of academic, state, industry and manufacturing entities to help create a 3D printing curriculum for higher education in Colorado.For more information, visit www.faustson.com, email hhostetter@faustson.com, or call (303) 420-7422.
Todd Machinery Appointed to Represent Hurco in Utah, Montana, and Idaho Hurco announced that To d d M a c h i n e r y ( w w w. toddmac hinery.com) has been selected as the exclusive distributor for Hurco CNC machine sales and service in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. According to Joe Braun, General Manager of Hurco North America, “I am confident the team at Todd Machinery will be successful in demonstrating the value that Hurco technology provides manufacturers, especially for high mix/small batch shops where minimizing setup time and maximizing chip time is critical in order to increase profit margins.The experience and dedication the team at Todd Machinery possesses is why they are held in such high regard throughout the region.They understand customers’ needs and have the expertise and resources to make sure they are responsive to meet those needs before and after the sale.” David Mann, owner of Todd Machinery, said, “Todd Machinery has been in business since 1951 and we are excited to partner with Hurco because they share our high standards for customer service. The team at Hurco is dedicated to helping manufacturers be more productive and more profitable with an ever expanding product line of rigid and reliable CNC machines. I’m particularly impressed with the versatility of the Hurco control and the amount of resources Hurco devotes to the development of control features that make shops more efficient.” One such feature is UltiMotionTM, a motion control system Hurco invented, which is standard on all 40 models of Hurco mills.This patented technology reduces cycle time up to 30% and significantly improves surface finish quality at the same time because it uses software to control the motion system instead of conventional hardware. Learn more at www. hurco.com/ultimotion. For more information on Todd Machinery, you can visit their website at: www.toddmachinery.com; email: davidmann@toddmachinery.com or call 801.294.6390 Announcements Continued Page 14
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FeatureCAM Version 2015 to be Previewed at IMTS Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system includes a range of enhancements to make the software even easier to use, allowing customers to produce programs for all types of machine tools quickly, delivering high-quality parts in shorter lead times.
operations. The availability of a wide range of post-processors has always been a key benefit of FeatureCAM, together with the ability for users to customize their posts. In the latest release post variables can be assigned user-defined names. This change will be particularly valuable when programmers need to understand customizations in posts that have been made by other users. Press Contact: Mary Shaw, mes@ delcam.com, 1.877.335.2261 ext 232
Delcam, a wholly own independent subsidiary of Autodesk will unveil its latest version of FeatureCAM for advanced feature-based and knowledge-based programming at IMTS 2014 in Chicago, IL on booth E-3222. The first productivity-enhancing option in FeatureCAM is a new command that allows entire parts or projects to be mirrored more easily than before. The option supports parts to be milled with multiple set-ups, including 2.5D, 3D and 3+2-axis configurations. Both ‘Move’ and ‘Copy’ options are available to reflect all the features within the part or project relative to a choice of a particular plane, line or axis in which to mirror.
Ganesh Machinery to Exhibit at IMTS 2014
Continuous enhancements have been made to the FeatureCAM user interface to improve ease of use. One simple improvement in the new release makes tool windows respond to the machine choice. Tools now appear in the window in an orientation that matches how the tool will be used on the machine, eliminating any mental disconnect when selecting the desired tools for particular
Ganesh Machinery will be located at Booth # S-8045 & S-8048, where they will introduce their new multi-tasking CNC lathe machines, high speed vertical machining center, and a heavy duty CNC big bore lathe. IMTS 2014 is slated to take place September 8-13, 2014 at McCormick Place, Chicago.
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Ganesh Machinery, the popular machine tool industry experts, has announced their participation at this year’s upcoming International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014. The major industrial trade show takes place every two years and is one of the largest of its kind, featuring over 1,900 exhibitors and attracting over 100,000 visitors.
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Announcements Continued Ganesh Machinery is set to unveil their latest multi-tasking CNC lathes at booth # S-8045, located on the main floor. Visitors will be given demonstrations on the new Cyclone-76 TMY (single turret twin spindle 4 axis, CNC turn mill center), Cyclone 52-BY2 (“ B” axis, 9 axis multi-tasking lathe 2” bar capacity, 36 tools are available with 18 driven tools & 12 driven B axis tools), and the Cyclone-32 CS (1.375” (36mm) bar capacity, with 27 tools and 11 live tools, parts catcher with conveyor, chip auger 10HP 6,000 RPM spindle). In addition, Ganesh will display their VFM-2818 Express (vertical machining center), with 27.95” X 17.71” travel, CAT-40, 12,000 RPM inline direct-drive beltless spindle, rugged cross-roller linear guide-ways, 1,417 IPM rapid rates, and more. Also, attendees will be introduced to the Ganesh Heavy Duty GTW3060 CNC Big Bore Oil Country Lathe, which features both front and rear chuck mounts constructed with fine grain, high-density Meehanite processed cast iron. Ganesh Machinery is looking forward to displaying their latest high quality machines at this year’s IMTS 2014 event.They recommend interested parties visit their website, www.ganeshmachinery.com, to make an appointment for the See Us At IMTS Booth #W-1267 upcoming event and to peruse their wide selection of multi-axis fall conference, to be held on September 26th at the Omni & multi-tasking CNC milling and Interlocken Hotel. For details, see the RMTMA ad on page 22. turning machines, CNC Swiss machines, Manual & CNC Big Bore Oil Country Lathes, 3-5 Axis VMC options, CNC slant bed lathes, RMTMA Vice President Darrin Caschette says, “This promises to and more. Or call them at 1-888-542-6374 to speak to a live be a very informative event, and we invite anyone who is involved customer service representative. in the manufacturing industry to join us.” He continued, “There
Rocky Mountain Machine & Tooling Association (RMTMA) Hosts its Annual Fall Conference
will be presentations on Operational excellence, Increasing Sales and Branding, as well as our keynote address, presented by David Avrin, on effectively leveraging your competitive advantage to reach new heights of success. You don’t have to be a member of the RMTMA to attend.”
The Rocky Mountain Tooling and Machine & Tooling Association (RMTMA) is pleased to announce that it has scheduled its annual
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Announcements Continued (RMTMA) is the Colorado chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), the national association of the custom precision manufacturing industry in the United States. In 2013, the RMTMA was honored with the distinction of being a Star Chapter which is a recognition bestowed on only 13 of NTMA’s 38 chapters. To register for the 2014 RMTMA Fall Conference, or to learn more about the association, email maureen@rmtma.org
Tornos US is Looking to Hire Experienced Deco Technicians! Tornos Technologies, a global supplier of Swiss Style and Bar Milling manufacturing equipment, including the tooling, services, spare parts, wear parts, consumables and automation solutions that support these systems. Markets served by TorA2Z METALWORKER
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We value our employees and their contribution to our success. Recruiting and retaining a winning team of employees dedicated to the company’s mission and purpose is critical to Tornos’ ability to service its customer’s needs on a day-to-day and long-term basis. Position: Field Service Technician – Swiss Style Machines Locations: Bethel, CT and Lombard, IL offices Description: We have an immediate opportunities for a technical and experienced Field Service Engineer. This individual will travel to customer locations to install and service Tornos Swiss Style machines along with ESCO and Almac Machines. This position requires travel 4 -5 days per week. The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications: 1.Experience with our Deco machine line (Deco-10, Deco-13, Deco-13b, Deco-20, Deco-26), including our TB-Deco programming interface, machine setup, and mechanical repairs. 2.Experience trouble shooting Fanuc Controls. 3.Prior technical, mechanical and electrical training. 4.Professional demeanor with excellent communication skills. 5.Must possess a valid driver’s license. 6.Windows computer skills, including MS Office. 7.A strong commitment to providing excellent customer service. Our company offers a competitive salary and excellent benefit plan and Announcements Continued Page 18
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“With this program, we hope to support more high schools and community colleges as they build high-quality programs that use NIMS standards and credentials in order to deliver the most relevant and innovative training,” said the Gene Haas Foundation Board. “This provides our country’s manufacturers an excellent workforce.” “There are an estimated 99,500 projected job openings for machinists and 117,100 projected job openings for industrial maintenance technicians nationally through 2020,” said Jim Wall, Executive Director, NIMS. “We are proud to be working with the Gene Haas Foundation to help schools prepare more young people with skills and credentials they need to succeed in these in-demand jobs.” The Scholarship Program officially kicked-off at the 2014 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, in which over 6,000 career and technical education students compete hands-on in 99 different trade, technical and leadership fields. All competitors in the Precision Machining Technology, CNC Milling and CNC Turning programs will be the first to participate in the program, receiving scholarships to earn NIMS’ Level I Machining credentials. Follow this link to the online application. http:// survey.constantcontact.com/survey/ a07e9gufyimhwnnhl9q/a011ohx4r86aa/ questions
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NIMS & Gene Haas Foundation Announce $100,000 in Scholarships The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), the precision manufacturing industry’s premier standards and certification body, and the Gene Haas Foundation (GHF), which provides scholarships to schools for students entering technical training programs, announced a new program to help schools prepare more students for success in precision manufacturing careers. The GHF-NIMS Credentialing Scholarship Program will provide eligible secondary and postsecondary institutions with grants to build high-quality technical programs that provide students with industry-recognized credentials and foundational skills. The Scholarship Program is launching with a $100,000 contribution from the GHF. A2Z METALWORKER
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The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) was formed in 1995 by the metalworking trade associations to develop and maintain a globally competitive American workforce. NIMS sets skills standards for the industry, certifies individual skills against the standards, and accredits training programs that meet NIMS quality requirements. Visit nims-skills.org. The Gene Haas Foundation was formed in 1999 to fund the needs of the local community and other deserving charities, at the discretion of its founder, Mr. Gene Haas. High on the list of priorities of the Gene Haas Foundation is supporting Announcements Continued Page 19
Announcements Continued manufacturing education, which encompasses many types of programs that inspire and educate young people about careers in manufacturing. In addition GHF provides scholarship funding for students to attend colleges that teach machining based skills.
TCI Precision MachineReady Blanks TCI Precision Metals will be showing its high precision Machine-Ready Blanks capabilities to customers at IMTS, 2014, September 8th – 17th, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, in the Tooling and Work Holding Systems Pavilion, booth W-1267. “TCI Machine-Ready Blanks help shops make parts faster, increasing throughput up to 25%. This effectively increases shop capacity without adding overhead,” said John Belzer, President. With a single purchase order customers receive custom precision blanks ready to load directly into their CNC machining centers. Precision blanks eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing. Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to customer specifications – guaranteed as close as +/- .0005” dimensionally and as close as .0002” flatness, squareness, and parallelism. “Customers can use the time they previously spent in setup and prep for more productive use of CNC machining centers, adding to their bottom line profitability. TCI Precision Metals will be distributing Blank Checks at IMTS for customers to use towards their next production machining job. The Blank Check entitles the bearer to receive a FREE Machine-Ready Blank to their exact specifications, +/-.0005” dimensionally and .0002” flatness, squareness and parallelism, along with a quotation for matching blanks in specified quantities. “This offer allows the customer to see exactly what they will be receiving before ever placing an order with us,” said Belzer. TCI serves the needs of the medical, oil & gas, aerospace, industrial equipment, defense, food packaging, semiconductor and many other industries. For more information, call 800234-5613, or visit: http://tciprecision.com
One Voice And NTMA Encourages Plant Tours And Member Visits One Voice encourages its members to invite elected and other government officials to their manufacturing plants to learn more about the industry, the business, and meet your employees. One Voice regularly helps arrange plant tours, CEO roundtables, town halls and other events for manufacturers to connect with their government. Contact One Voice (info@metalworkingadvocate.org) for help on submitting your request. A2Z METALWORKER
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ATK Supports Test Of New Technologies To Land Larger Payloads On Mars A TK supported NASA as it moved one step closer to landing advanced payloads on Mars following the successful test of a next generation braking system.
A world-leading producer of rocket motors, ATK provided both the rocket motor and test vehicle backbone for the test of NASA’s experimental Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD). During the test, a balloon carried the test vehicle from the Navy test range to an altitude of about 120,000 feet. At 11:05 a.m. local time, the LDSD test vehicle dropped away from the balloon and the ATK STAR 48B motor ignited to accelerate the vehicle to more than Mach 3.8 and an altitude of over 180,000 feet. The flight test simulated the low pressure and punishing speeds experienced by payloads dropped into the Mars atmosphere. ATK’s STAR 48B rocket motor provided the axial propulsion for the test, while the ATK-manufactured Core Structure Assembly (CSA) served as the platform for two breakthrough technologies from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): an inflatable Kevlar® tube around the vehicle, called the Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, and a mammoth parachute called the Supersonic Disk Sail Parachute. These new drag devices will pave the way for delivery of increasingly larger payloads to the surface of Mars. The CSA incorporates new design features required to handle the massive loads associated with deployment of the drag devices. Among other applications, this new drag technology will enable delivery of the supplies and materials needed for long-duration missions to the red planet.While the LDSD team expects to learn a great deal from this test, NASA has two more saucer-shaped test vehicles forthcoming, with plans to test them in the summer of 2015.
US Manufacturing Expands In June At Fastest Rate In 4 Years The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded more strongly than expected in June, with the rate of growth and key subindexes advancing to their highest levels in more than four years, an industry report showed recently. Financial data firm Markit said its preliminary or “flash” U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index rose to 57.5 in June, above economist expectations for 56.5 and the highest reading since May 2010. In May, the final read for the index was 56.4.
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The output subindex jumped to 61 from 59.6 while a read on new orders rose to 61.7 from May’s final read of 58.8. Both marked the highest level for the indexes since April 2010.
The data adds “to indications that the U.S. economy rebounded strongly in the second quarter from the weather-related weakness seen at the start of the year,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. Source: CNBC
Workshops ForWarriors Receives $500,000 From The Gene Haas Foundation The Gene Haas Foundation awarded $500,000 in scholarship funds to Workshops for Warriors. The funds will allow Workshops for Warriors to provide its most deserving veteran students with stipends while they complete coursework to become certified machinists. The funds will be used as a challenge grant, and the inaugural class of recipients was announced at a lunchtime ceremony. The Gene Haas Foundation has contributed over $1 million toWorkshops forWarriors.
Vestas Says It’s Poised For The Future, Has 800 Colorado Jobs Open Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has 800 open positions in Colorado, most of them concentrated at the company’s blade plants inWindsor and Brighton north of Denver. And the company expects that it will have more than 2,800 employees in Colorado by the end of the year —an increase of about 1,500 people compared to the start of 2014, according to Adam Serchuk, a spokesman for the company’s North American operations. If the company hits the 2,800-employee target, the means Vestas will have a record number of employees in Colorado. “These are good jobs, par t of the manufacturing renaissance in this country,” Serchuk said during an interview with the Denver Business Journal.
The company has been on a steady march, in terms of landing new orders for new energyproducing machines, for the last year. In 2013,Vestas said it sold 1,733 megawatts worth of wind turbines, about $1.7 billion worth of machines capable of generating enough power to meet the needs of more than 500,000 homes. And since the start of 2014, the company has announced another 1,255 megawatts worth of orders, Serchuk said. “These factories are busy today and will be busy through the first quarter of 2016,” he said. Source: Denver Business Journal A2Z METALWORKER
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L-3 Communications Plans More Acquisitions L-3 Communications is targeting acquisitions in aerospace, security and other markets as part of its growth plan, a plan underscored by its recent purchases of Data Tactics and Mustang Technology Group. The company sees a clearer field for deals now that there is a federal budget deal for the next two years, making the market more stable. “Acquisition is an important part of L-3’s strategy going forward,” said Les Rose, president of the firm’s National Security Solutions division. Washington Technology
Survey Shows What Jobs Engineering Students Prefer Forbes reports that a recent survey by Universum shows which companies engineering students want to work for most. Topping the list were companies that “make cool things” and whose brand is something the students identify with. Topping this year’s list was Boeing, who beat out NASA, last year’s winner. Engineering and Manufacturing companies were preferred by 70 percent of respondents, followed by energy and aerospace and defense at a significant distance. Along with salary students are also listing job A2Z METALWORKER
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Car Makers InnovateWith Green Plastics The Los Angeles Times reports that Ford Motor Co. is trying to reduce car weight and increase fuel economy by using environmentally friendly materials such as tomato skin-derived floor mats, and soy oil-based seat cushions. Other innovations include using recycled clothes as interior padding, using wheat straw in plastic storage bins, and making dandelion and marigold pulp into a non-petroleum rubber alternative for tires. Ford isn’t the only company looking into plastic alternatives, however, as both Honda and Toyota have begun incorporating their own green innovations into their cars.
Air Force taps Sikorsky, Lockheed for 112 Black Hawks The team of Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to provide 112 combat rescue helicopters to the Air Force, a deal valued at $1.3 billion initially and ultimately up to $7.9 billion. The proposal offered by the companies, the sole bidders on the project, was “technically in good shape and was quite a bit below the cost analysis that the Pentagon felt was appropriate,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said. “So it appeared to be a very good deal for the taxpayer from a cost perspective.” Defense News
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NASA Finalizes Contract To Build The Most Powe r f u l R ocket Ever
The first mission will launch an empty Orion spacecraft. The second mission is targeted for 2021 and will launch Orion and a crew of up to four NASA astronauts.
NASA has reached a milestone in its development of the Space Launch System, or SLS, which is set to be the most powerful rocket ever and may one day take astronauts to Mars.
The rocket’s initial flight-test configuration will provide a 77-ton lift capacity. The final evolved two-stage configuration will be able to lift more than 143 tons.
After completing a critical design review, Boeing Co. has finalized a $2.8-billion contract with the space agency.The deal allows full production on the rocket to begin. “Our teams have dedicated themselves to ensuring that the SLS – the largest ever -will be built safely, affordably and on time,” Virginia Barnes, Boeing’s Space Launch System vice president and program manager, said in a statement. The last time NASA’s completed a critical design review of a deep-space human rocket was 1961, when the space agency assessed the mighty Saturn V, which ultimately took man to the moon. The rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., which can carry up to four astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on long-duration, deep-space destinations including near-Earth asteroids, the moon, and ultimately Mars. The rocket, which is designed to carry crew and cargo, is scheduled for its initial test flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2017. A2Z METALWORKER
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S c i e n t i s t s Tu r n i n g To Crowdfunding To Finance Research The AP reports that scientists are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to get money for their research, calling the trend “quite a departure from the normal sources of funding for scientific research, chiefly industry, government and philanthropies.” The article notes that scientific research has yet to pull in the amount of money that “projects like developing video games and other consumer products, publishing books and making films and other entertainment programs” does, but notes that the process can fund some “relatively modest” projects.
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Smith Machinery Co. Celebrates 54 Years Serving The Manufacturing Industry In The Rocky Mountain Region
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Clark Smith, President and owner of Smith Machinery Co. Inc., says, “The US is in a renaissance of manufacturing, and the outlook for manufacturers is really bright. While there will be ups and downs, industry forecasts predict that we can expect to see growth for the next 5 years at the very least.” Clark’s educational background is in economics, and he is an avid researcher into the economic environment in manufacturing. He is the 4th generation Smith family member dedicated to serving machine shops throughout Utah, Idaho,Wyoming and Montana. You could say the Smith family is passionate about manufacturing.
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AJ Tucker joined the Smith Machinery team more than 2 years ago. Along with his aptitude and machine shop background, we’ve invested significantly in providing him with training. AJ does part process evaluations and time studies for our customers, he’s available to answer technical questions, and he provides onsite training and classroom training. While our service team fixes machines, AJ’s job is all about machine tool productivity improvement. In the end, this helps our customers operate more profitably and competitively.”
Local Mazak Fa c t o r y + Distributor Service Support – Our sales Clark is pleased to announce that his son, Spencer and service territory of Smith will be the 5th generation family member Utah, Idaho, Montana to join the machine tool distribution world when and Wyoming is over he joins Smith Machinery Co. The Smith legacy 330,000 sq. miles of started in 1923 with Arthur Smith selling machine geography (that’s larger tools. Arthur’s son Edward, equipped with an than two California’s engineering degree from Stanford University, put together). So, joined the business.Year’s later, Edward’s son Tracy creating a ser vice Smith (Clark’s father), finishing a tour in the Navy, support team that can came to join the company. respond quickly and support a broad range Clark Smith knew that Spencer would need some Smith-Neotech ServiceTechnicians Larry, Dustin, Sean, and Paul of technologies has preparation prior to joining the company beginning been a critical element of Smith Machinery’s success. We are unique this fall. Over the past couple of years, Spencer attended college to in having both Mazak Factory Service Technicians (Dave Jacobs and learn about machining, and is working as a machinist today. Clark says, Ernie Mankin) living here, as well as four (4) Smith-Neotech service “We’ve built our business with a team that is well versed in the machine technicians with both factory training and decades of experience with tool industry. Spencer’s schooling, internships and on the job training all types of machine tools and CNC’s. Larry, Paul, Dustin and Sean will better prepare him to support our customers.” make a great team to serve our customers with installs, repairs and PM’s. Larry even has his own plane. It comes in handy from time-toWhat differentiates Smith Machinery Co.? time. Applications Engineering – Clark says, “We have found that Having Mazak Factory Service Technicians here means we have the having a dedicated applications engineer on staff is absolutely critical type of support critical to the success of the higher technology to helping our customers maximize their machine tool investments. A2Z METALWORKER
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installations. “Our Mazak factory technicians are the specialists, much like surgeons.” Smith Machinery has been very successful supporting customers that have made investments in 5-axis machines, INTEGREX 5-axis multitasking centers, Gantry-Style Load/Unload Robots and Palletech Manufacturing Cells. All together there are well over 100 of these types of high technology machines, robots and cells installed here. “Higher technology keeps our customers competitive, and local factory service support is critical at that level of investment”. A Dedicated and Knowledgeable Staff – The majority of the team has been supporting Smith Machinery’s customers for many years now. Customers all know and love the office staff, Mindy, Dorothy & Sue, and the 3 have more than 5 decades combined years supporting Smith Machinery’s customers.They know every customer, every resource for parts and supplies and coordinate the unique service structure the company has created. It’s not unusual for Smith Machinery’s customers to come and take them to lunch as a “thank you” for the great support they provide. Though Klaus has only been with the company for a few years, he was a former machine shop owner and long-time customer of Smith Machinery. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his customers. And then there is the Smith legacy. Many customers still remember Edward and Tracy Smith, the 2nd & 3rd generations, and their passion for integrity that is definitely part of the company’s culture.Tracy’s son Clark has dedicated the past 33 years serving loyal Smith Machinery customers and you can expect to meet Spencer, Clark’s son, later this year. ISO Certification – Machine shops certify to ISO 9001:2008 on a regular basis, sometimes because their customers require it to ensure proper processes are in place to deliver quality parts. It is much less common for a machine tool dealer to certify to this rigorous quality standard. Smith Machinery did just this in 2006. Clark says, “We certified because we wanted to improve our in-house processes. We knew this would facilitate better transactions and improve the long-term support to our customers.” He says, “ISO certification also required that we survey our customers. We do this, and we get very candid feedback from our customers -- and it results in process improvements.” “Lastly”, he continued, “We wanted to walk the walk with our customers, understanding what they went through to certify and live by the ISO standards. It’s been invaluable to making us a better supplier/partner for our customers.”
“When our mold shop starts looking to purchase new equipment, Smith Machinery is our first call. Klaus Lassig and company have been outstanding making recommendations for the best machinery to meet our needs, not the best machinery to meet their sales quota. We have worked with Smith Machinery to evaluate our manufacturing needs and they go the extra mile to quote many different machines, and do this multiple times to meet the many requests of our purchasing department. The machinery we’ve purchased was delivered right on time and they even went the extra mile to make sure that we would have the equipment in house by our end of year purchasing deadline. It’s not just making the sale that makes buying from Smith Machinery our first choice, it’s also the outstanding service after the sale that keeps us coming back. Maybe it’s because they only represent high quality machines, and the service and support on the equipment has never been more than a phone call away. You won’t go wrong purchasing from Smith Machinery!” - Mike Woodward, BD Medical “RAM Manufacturing has been designing and developing products for the aerospace industry for 40 yrs. We have been working with Smith Machinery since the early 1980’s, when they supplied us with our first Mazak Machining Center with a pallet changer in 1981. Clark and his team at Smith Machinery have always provided RAM with top of the line machine tools combined with excellent service; this is a relationship that creates success in a manufacturing environment. Mazak with it’s ‘Done-in-One’ methodology has helped RAM maintain a competitive edge in the industry. We thank Clark and his team at Smith Machinery for years of dedicated service to make RAM a world class manufacturer in the Aerospace Industry.” - Kevin Ganowsky , RAM Manufacturing “Smith Machinery has been a great machine tool supplier to us for over 20 years. Their service, sales and machine tool knowledge have always been excellent. We have several Mazak machine tools as well as Mitsubishi wire EDM machines and both manufacturers have proven to always be on the cutting edge of technology and very reliable. Both are what we expect and need to be competitive and provide the best service that we can to our customers.” - Rey M. Rivera, High Tech Quality Manufacturing Inc. “When you are looking for machining solutions for a wide variety of manufacturing applications, turn to Smith Machinery for their expert support. For years Smith Machinery has supplied our company with machining solutions for our difficult manufacturing processes and most recently with the implementation of our new ANCA MX5 5-axis CNC grinding solution. We are very pleased to do business with the experts at Smith Machinery!” - Jarrett Meier, US Synthetic “Over the 21 years we’ve been in business, we have bought many Mazak and Star machine tools from Smith Machinery. They offer great products and great service and are a valued partner in our success.” - Mark Jones, Clean Machine
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Smith Machinery Supports Manufacturing Associations –The Smith Machinery Co. has long been active in national associations dedicated to promoting and improving manufacturing.They were very active members of the American Machine Tool Dealers Association (AMTDA), now AMT (with both Tracy and Clark serving as National Chairman), and they support the NTMA Northern Utah Chapter (a newer chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA). Smith Machinery Offers Superior Machine Tool Technologies. Mazak – 37 years ago, Smith Machinery was awarded the prestigious Mazak machine tool line, and Clark says that it serves his customers very well. “Mazak is known for always embracing high-technology, and they set themselves apart by making it easier to use. That’s a major reason why there are so many high-technology Mazak machines in our territory”. “In addition”, he continued, “Mazak is a privately held family-owned company, with factories all over the world. It was 40 years ago this year that they completed the U.S. factory in Florence, Kentucky. Since that time, they have continuously made additional investments in growing the factory here. Today their campus in Florence, Kentucky is nearly 1 million square feet, and they employ more than 800 people here in the United States. Their latest expansion will be finished by the end of this year and with it they will have the capacity to produce up to 200 CNC machine tools per month. The vision to build this factory, over 40 years ago, was amazing. The commitment to continuously invest and grow the plant since then is unmatched.They have served U.S. manufacturers through good economies and bad, but they never waivered in their long-term strategy to support their customers here.” Mitsubishi – Smith Machinery is the full-line Mitsubishi distributor for this area.They are known as leaders in EDM machines, lasers (both fiber & CO2) and Roku-Roku (graphite and H.S. milling centers), yet they also have excellent press brakes, waterjets, VMC’s & drill/ tap machines. Last year, Smith Machinery received an award from Mitsubishi for achieving greater than 30% market share in their EDM sales. Clark says that Mitsubishi accounts for more than 40% of all EDM sales in the United States. They have excellent technologies all backed by dozens of service technicians and applications engineers.
move to CNC and high volume production. Recently, one of our customers was making prototype parts for a new product, and they knew that they would have to purchase their first Swiss-style machine once they were awarded the production contract. It happened, and Star made sure they had the new machine installed and were up and running the production order in less than 2 weeks.” ANCA – Clark says that the ANCA tool & cutter grinders are a unique machine tool technology, that has evolved from a supporting role (sharpening and customizing cutting tools), into a product that can make surgical Klaus In the Showroom tools & implants and has new technologies for working with Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD). ANCA is a technology and software driven company that is setting itself apart by taking the typical T&C grinder and adapting them to non-traditional applications. They also have the expertise to incorporate automation either at the factory or in the field. Romi – Smith Machinery added the Romi machine tool line to their portfolio in 2005, and Clark says it’s just been a great product for their customers. He elaborates, “Romi built all the Bridgeport Easy Path CNC lathes for many years. When Bridgeport went through a bankruptcy, Romi decided to set-up their own facility in the U.S. and sell through their own distributor network. “Today”, Clark says, “Romi refined the design of their combination (manual/CNC) lathe to be the best product available. Our customers appreciate the easy to use Romi software and that the machines are simple and fast; in essence they are an optimal solution for machine shops who are doing low volume production, tooling, prototype and also for shops that are rethreading pipe for the oil/gas industry.” The Smith Machinery Team Loves Animals – This is good for machine shop owners, because dog lovers are good people. In a study conducted by BuzzFeed Animals, the following is true of dog lovers. They’re super fun at parties, they are smart, they know the value of a little R & R, they’ll give you a hug when you need it most (typically, dog owners are more nurturing), and they are more likely to be “team players.” In our industry, if you tour machine shops, you will likely encounter a company dog (or cat) at many of the shops.
Star CNC – Clark says, “The Star CNC Swiss machine has been outstanding product line for our customers. We selected this manufacturer not only because of their capabilities, especially for serving Clark and Cade the medical industry here, but also because of their superior support in our region. Our customers have a readily available group of outstanding service and application support To learn more about Smith Machinery Co., and what they can do team in the western region”. Our customers know the support is for your for your business, contact them at 801-263-6403 or visit always there for them”. their website at smithmachinetools.com. Better yet, visit the Smith He continued, “Star has been able to take companies with no CNC Machinery team personally.You’ll find good people, and if you are a experience, train them, train them some more, and facilitate their dog lover, you will love meeting Cade! A2Z METALWORKER
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Consumer Spending Expected To Drive Solid US Growth
House Panel OKs $570B Defense Bill, Boosts Weapons Development The House Appropriations Committee passed a $570 billion defense budget for 2015, a bill which includes $491 billion in base spending and $79.4 billion for war operations. The panel endorsed the retirement of the A-10 aircraft fleet and included $63.4 billion for weapons research and development, more than the White House requested and significantly more than this year’s budget. Defense News
Pratt & Whitney Delivers First PurePower® Engine For Mitsubishi Regional Jet Pratt & Whitney delivered its first PurePower PW1200G engine to Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. The PW1200G engines will power the single-aisle MRJ90 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ). Pratt & Whitney is a division of United Technologies Corp. “Pratt &Whitney looks forward to powering Mitsubishi’s new, next-generation aircraft with PurePower Geared A2Z METALWORKER
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The Hill reports that the US economy is “set to take off,” and consumers “will lead the economy to growth in the range of 3 percent through the end of 2015.” Consumers “are now in a much stronger position than earlier in the economic recovery,” and for the second and third quarters of this year, “consumer spending growth should average more than 3 percent, and average close to that level through the end of 2015.” Economists Project Jobs Report Will Show 212,000 Positions Added Last Month. Reuters reports that economists surveyed by the news service expect that the US economy added 212,000 jobs in June, which would mark the fifth consecutive month of job gains above 200,000. Reuters says that if the report from the Department of Labor bears this out, it will be another sign that the US economy accelerated in the second quarter.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to review designs for the new X-Plane, a vertical take-off and landing aircraft capable of high-speed flight and hovering. DARPA plans to review the submissions by Aurora Flight Sciences, Sikorsky, Boeing and Karem in coming weeks.
Why Are Space Companies Flocking To Colorado? The launch of the WorldView-3 satellite-imaging space mission marked a big milestone for a triad of Colorado giants: DigitalGlobe, United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace. In a state that bills itself as a “mile closer to space,” Colorado will celebrate the mid-August takeoff as further proof that it’s a major U.S. aerospace industry player—a position that dates back seven lucrative decades. Today some 400 companies count 70,000 employees in the military, civil and private sectors of the Colorado aerospace industry. Space-related enterprises accounted for almost a $9 billion contribution to the state economy in 2011, according to the Brookings Institution. That’s 4 percent of Colorado’s private-sector gross domestic product. Indeed, the state generally identified more with buckaroos than rocket scientists is home to many of the industry’s bigger names, including Sierra Nevada, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. To say that Colorado has a lot going for it in the aerospace sector is an understatement when one considers the state’s wide range of companies; its well-respected university research programs; the military installations directly tied to NASA and U.S. Defense Department space efforts; and local, state and federal officials who have long lobbied to promote the business the state has, while pushing hard to attract more. “Without a doubt, Colorado is one of the leading states in the U.S., if not the world, in attracting new space-age tenants,” says Richard David, the CEO of NewSpace Global in New York. But there are clouds on Colorado’s space industry horizon.
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and respond much more nimbly to the changing demands of existing and new customers,” the Brookings report notes. The global space economy generated some $300 billion in business in 2011, according to the Satellite Industry Association. The U.S.’s share: more than 66 percent of that total generated by the manufacture and operation of satellites, launch vehicles and space-based services for government and commercial customers. Ball Aerospace designed and built the Operational Land Imager, an advancement in Landsat sensor technology. Ball Aerospace designed and built the Operational Land Imager, an advancement in Landsat sensor technology. In 1996, satellite services accounted for 40 percent of aerospace industry revenue in this country—a figure that rose to 60 percent in 2011 due, in part, to demand for direct broadcast TV and cell phone services. According to the Brookings Institution, aerospace is one of the six major U.S. industries that together account for 75 percent of business’s yearly R&D activities. Source: ETCNBC.com A2Z METALWORKER
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Smart Windows? Unmanned Aircraft? Colorado Awards Grants For Product Development Colorado awarded another $1.6 million in advanced-industry accelerator grants last month to six university projects and to six companies working on products ranging from unmanned aerial systems to heat-reducing windows. The awards represent the third round of grant funding given through the program created by the Legislature in 2013 and continued earlier this year. They are part of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s focus on growing jobs in high-paying industries ranging from aerospace to bioscience. He said he believes the state can take advantage of its workforce to become a bigger national player. “We are thrilled to have awarded 67 grants for a total of $8.2 million [over the three rounds] and are excited to see the successes these forward-thinking organizations have next,” Hickenlooper said. University of Colorado received five of the six proof-of-concept grants, while the Colorado School of Mines got the other. The largest was a $134,847 award for CU to develop an advanced small unmanned aircraft system. Among the six early-stage capital and retention grants for private firms, four Front Range companies received $250,000 awards.Those included Denver’s Ravenbrick LLC, which makes “smart windows” that reduce heat and glare when temperatures are high and let in light and warmth when temperatures drop.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that “energy efficiency has lately become a hot pursuit for tech entrepreneurs, big-data enthusiasts and Wall Street speculators.” Power companies are “tapping databases to profile intensely the energy use of their customers,” using technology from companies like Google-owned Nest, which enables Southern California Edison to “precool the homes of customers before the evening rush, helping the utility avoid the need to fire up extra power plants and netting cash rebates for homeowners.”
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Low Costs Just 6 years ago, partners David Metivier, Jan Leonard, Carl Skylling and Alan Hepner started a new company. Today, they are owners of 4 related companies, Skytrac, Hilltrac, Fabtrac and Skytrac Services. Skytrac designs superior ski lift technology, Hilltrac designs inclined transportation systems (enclosures that take people from their dwellings to the ski resort), Fabtrac manufactures the products for Skytrac and Hilltrac, and Skytrac Services installs Skytrac and Hilltrac products on or around ski resorts throughout the United States. The company resides in a campus that sits on approximately 5.5 acres, with facilities that total 55,000 square feet. What is remarkable is how these start up companies have done so incredibly well in such a mature industry with high barriers to entry. To secure new customers, the team at Skytrac and Hilltrac must win business that was once their competitors. Tom Ross, a young mechanical engineer who joined the company shortly after graduating from college, explains how the Skytrac/Hilltrac entities are winning business.
Experience and Reputation in the Industry “Our reputation was outstanding when we first opened for business.This is because every partner and a number of the employees have extensive experience in the industry, having come from CTEC, which stands for Cable Transportation Engineering Company. CTEC was the successor to Thiokol, a company that built ski lifts between 1971 and 1977.When Thiokol exited the ski lift business, they sold the designs to Jan Leonard and another employee, who founded CTEC. (CTEC was acquired by Doppelmayr, an Austrian ski lift manufacturer, in 2002).” He continued, “Jan, David, Carl and Alan formed Skytrac, Hilltrac and the other entities to design and build ski lifts and inclined transportation systems that were made here in the United States, and with US specific designs. Our A2Z METALWORKER
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Tom says, “We embrace new technology, and this means that we invest in machines/software/tools that allow us to build more products with less people. In our 6 years we’ve doubled our sales each year, without the need to double our staff.” He continued, “We also standardize our designs and manufacturing, so that we can minimize costs. So, with lower overhead and standardization, we can build our products more economically than our competitors.We pass our savings on to our customers so that we are a lower cost solution today.”
Flexibility and Superior Customer Support Tom says, “We are a small company (less than 50 employees), and this means that we can be faster and more flexible.We will work with small operations or ski areas, when often our competitors won’t, and if they need replacement parts (not a whole new lift), we will always support them. It doesn’t even have to be replacements for our manufactured lifts.” Team member Justin Nelson says, “Our culture is one of excitement in a start up environment. Every employee is passionate about our business.” He continued, “This translates into superior customer service.We care about doing everything to make our customers want to continue to do business with us.” Justin is an integral member of the manufacturing/fabrication team for the companies. He says, “Where I worked before in this industry, the equipment we used to build our products was old -- we didn’t invest in new technology. At Skytrac/ Hilltrac/Fabtrac, our management team values new technology. Our fab shop is equipped with CNC and robotic technology. This not only means that we can build more economically, it means we can build more consistently reliable products.”
Manufacturing The company’s manufacturing was primarily fabrication, but they saw a need to open a machine shop. At the end of 2012, they purchased 2 Haas CNC machines from Moncktons MachineTools.Today, theTrac entities have an impressive number of in-house capabilities, including fabrication, certified welding, electrical design and fabrication, robotic welding,
machining, painting, laser cutting (up to 1” thick) and plasma/flame cutting (up to 3” thick). While Fabtrac does all of the manufacturing for Skytrac and Hilltrac, the nature of the business (all products must be built in time for ski season), enables Fabtrac to support outside customers. Justin says that you should contact Fabtrac if you require specialty design services. He says, “We have onsite electricians, as well as mechanical, structural, and civil engineers. In addition to our expertise in designing new technology, we have the shop capabilities to build the end product for you. And we can do it at a fair price.” Tom adds, “We can machine and fabricate very large parts.We can do weldments on parts that weigh as much at 10,000 lbs, and we can drills parts that are up to 8’ long by 8’ tall by 4’ wide.”
Delcam Software Justin says that when the team purchased their first Haas CNC machines, it was Moncktons Machine Tools who recommended that Fabtrac contact Delcam for their software. Tom says, “I used Delcam’s software while in college at the University of Utah, and I knew that it was a great software package.” Justin had used another CAM software package in the past, and he knew this wasn’t the software he wanted for the company’s shop. Justin says, “Blaine Duke was the Sales Engineer who came to introduce us to the Delcam software. We were very impressed and we purchased a license for FeatureCAM 2.5D, FeatureTurn, and FeatureRecognition.” Tom admits he wasn’t a fan of FeatureRecognition.That is, until he attended Delcam’s training. He says, “I learned a little about FeatureRecognition in college, but it was too little to appreciate its value.” He continued, “Andy Barney was our Delcam instructor, and he was fantastic. He was a mold maker in the past. He was very knowledgeable on the software, and he also is extremely knowledgeable on ‘speeds and feeds’.” Andy helped Tom to realize the power of FeatureRecognition. When asked about their Delcam Tech Support experience once they were back at the company utilizing the software, Tom says, “We haven’t used it but once or twice. FeatureCAM is just so easy to use and intuitive. And what I like about Interactive FeatureRecognition is that I can specify which feature types are to be recognized, and the software finds all the features of the specified type in a single step.” Justin appreciates full control of all machining parameters, enabling him to edit operations as required, and he also likes the guided FeatureRecognition and the Automated feature creation. He says, “With FeatureCAM, I can pull a solid model from sitting at the computer, put it into the machine, touch off the tooling, and go. Where it used to take me an hour to redraw the model without FeatureCAM, it now takes about 10 minutes. It reads the solid part directly really well, with no importing issues.” What’s next for Hilltrac/Skytrac/Fabtrac’s software improvements? Tom says that they will evaluate Delcam’s PowerMILL Robot Interface software for welding. Blaine says, “PowerMILL Robot Interface will support offline robot programming applications for trimming, machining, welding, polishing and much more. With the Delcam PowerMILL Robot Interface you can program robots with external axes such as rotary tables and linear tracks as easily as you could program a 5-axis machine. It also provides accurate 3D simulation of your robot’s behavior.” To learn more about Delcam’s full line of software, contact them at 1-877-DELCAM1 or visit www.delcam.com. To learn more about Hilltrac/Skytrac, and particularly about their design and manufacturing capabilities, contact them at 801-972-1699 or visit www.skytraclifts.com. A2Z METALWORKER
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Moog’s Gen3 Weaponizes Small Helos
aircraft to steer it to a position.”
Moog Integrated Defense Systems has introduced what it calls its Gen3 Weapons System, which made one of its first public appearances aboard an MD530G light attack helicopter at Heli-Expo 2014. Although the company says it can be used aboard any airborne military platform, it is quick to add that it was designed to be the optimum size and weight for light attack helicopters and airplanes.
Reichard adds that Gen3 is not designed to be a rack system. Its four components can be individually replaced, making it easily serviceable. The Moog Gen3 Weapons System can currently be found aboard the MD530G and the Bell 407GT, which have found customers in foreign militaries. Other aircraft, which the company would not divulge, are also being fitted with the system.
NOAA Begins Testing Use Of Drones To Measure Hurricane Strength
The primary components of the system are the stores management computer (SMC), the stores control panel, the stores interface unit, and a rocket interface. Moog engineers say the combined weight of 12 lbs. and small size can fit in the aft compartment of any light helicopter used for military applications.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will begin testing the deployment of small Coyote drones into the eye of tropical hurricanes to measure changes in barometric pressure. Forecasters hope the data will help them better predict the how strong a storm will become. “The thermo-dynamics of the ocean near a storm’s eye is not something we sample very often,” said NOAA research meteorologist Jason Dunion. “It’s hard to sample.”
“It’s the lightest in the market,” said Jason Reichard, the business unit director at Moog’s Orlando engineering center. “[And] it’s designed to be platform agnostic,” meaning it can work with any weapon system aboard any aircraft.
Rotorcraft’s Next Great Step May Start In August
Moog’s Gen3 Weapons System was designed with light helicopters in mind. The combined units, which weigh 12 lbs, and can control any weapon currently in the light attack helicopter inventory. Graphic courtesy of Moog Integrated Systems At the core of the Gen3 system is the SMC, which “talks” to all of the platform interfaces, such as sensors, navigation gear, autopilots, and digitized mission data, then use that information to accurately create a firing solution for the aircraft’s ordinance. “We can take coordinates off of a moving map, we can place targets on a moving map, show missile footprints, targets of opportunity, and communicate steering cues to get on target,” explained Reichard.”So, if you designated a target, and you needed to be in a different position, [the SMC] will calculate that and give steering cues to the pilot. It can [also] talk through the autopilot on the A2Z METALWORKER
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Want to see an advanced helicopter fly faster than 230 knots? Well, don’t get out your binoculars and cameras yet, aircraft-watchers. What may be the next great leap forward in rotorcraft technology begins a month from now with a baby step. By early August, the Army-run Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program is to choose which of four industry competitors will be given money to build a proof-of-concept aircraft incorporating new or exotic means of making rotorcraft fly faster and farther. The JMR TD is one part of a larger Future Vertical Lift program whose goals include producing a new medium-lift rotorcraft able to fly faster than
230 knots – a hundred knots or so as fast as most existing military helicopters cruise. While the JMR TD aircraft are to start flight demonstrations in late 2017, any actual military aircraft they might help spawn will fly no sooner than a decade or more later, and probably 2035. “We’re not building prototypes,” the Army program manager, Dan Bailey, told a CSIS panel discussion on the project last month. “They’re demonstrator aircraft.” JointMultiRolerotorcraft AVX concept Michael Hirschberg, executive director of the American Helicopter Society International, said that while speeding up rotorcraft flight is a key goal, speeding into production isn’t. “This isn’t as much about urgency as it is about doing a next-generation design,” Hirschberg said. “They’re trying to do it as quickly as possible but it’s practically impossible to do something faster because of how bureaucratic the defense acquisition system is. In any event, it’s better to take a little longer to have something that’s revolutionary than just another evolutionary step.” Bailey was vague about precisely how the four entrants will be narrowed down, whether two or three will be left standing, and exactly how the money might be divided among them. The Army gave the four entrants – AVX Aircraft Company, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., a team formed by Boeing Company and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., and Karem Aircraft – $6.5 million to refine their designs over the past year, and Bailey said they all have technologies he hopes they will continue to develop. With a total of $350 million to spend on a program that began in 2009, he just can’t pay them all to build demonstrators. “We will certainly — at the end of the day I believe — have opportunities in every one of the four vendors that we would like to continue at some level,” Bailey told reporters after the panel discussion, which featured representatives of each competitor. “Where we draw the line is going to be based on the resources I have to invest.” Sikorsky Boeing Joint MultiRole JMR-FVL The four entrants are offering variations on two basic concepts
designed to overcome the inherent limitations on a conventional helicopter’s speed imposed by the aerodynamics of rotors, the central challenge being to maximize horizontal as well as vertical thrust. One such concept is the compound helicopter, which adds separate means of horizontal thrust, as Sikorsky did with its X2 technology demonstrator.The other is the tiltrotor, which uses rotors to provide both forms of thrust, swiveling them upward to fly like a helicopter and forward to fly like an airplane, as does Bell-Boeing’s V-22 Osprey, in service with the Marines and Air Force. AVX and Boeing/Sikorsky are offering compound helicopters while Bell and Karem are offering tiltrotors. Industry insiders are certain the Army will keep funding at least one of each – at least one compound helicopter and one tiltrotor. Logically, they add, the fact that both AVX and Karem Aircraft are essentially design companies with no production facilities of their own while Bell and Boeing/Sikorsky are major manufacturers of helicopters and the V-22 suggests two most likely outcomes. The Army might give most of what money it has for the project to Bell and the Boeing/Sikorsky team because they clearly know how to build aircraft and have built aircraft with configurations similar to those they’re offering for JMR TD. Alternatively, on the theory that Bell and Boeing/Sikorsky need the money less, and will probably keep working on their technologies in any event, the Army might give most of the money it has to AVX and Karem to keep them going with designs most experts agree are innovative. But those are only two of many alternatives, so stay tuned.
Tech Companies Benefit From Driverless Car Push The Reuters reports that technology and telecommunications firms are “seen benefiting the most” from investors putting their money on the development of intelligent cars. Although driverless cars are still 5 to ten years down the road from being implemented, investors are looking to cash in on the emerging market by investing in companies from Microsoft, to Google, to small European startups. A2Z METALWORKER
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Manufacturing Industry Importing As Many Jobs As It Is Exporting The Wall Street Journal reports that the American manufacturing industry is currently adding as many jobs in the United States as it is shipping overseas, according to information from the Reshoring Initiative. The article writes that although companies are coming back, some have hit pitfalls with their businesses they did not anticipate, with he most common problem being finding a suitable workforce.
Technology In Air Force’s New F-35TakesThe Guesswork Out Of War The full technological capabilities of the F-35 have been kept under wraps by the Air Force, but this article lays out what’s known about the new jet and its effectiveness in battle. Air Force Gen. Mike Hostage says the plane’s high-tech sensors give the pilot 360-degree data on what is around the plane and present the pilot with clear choices, so “the airplane is telling him with an extremely high degree of confidence what that adversary is and what they’re doing and what all your wingmen are doing.” Breaking Defense
Navy Recognizes Raytheon, Lockheed And General Dynamics The Navy has named divisions of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and other firms as “superior suppliers,” a designation that can win the firms less regulation in the supply process. Business divisions of the companies earning the recognition were chosen based on performance, cost and adherence to schedules. Bloomberg Businessweek A2Z METALWORKER
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Lockheed Martin, Ray theon Are Awarded More Than $1B In DOD Projects Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have been awarded projects by the U.S. Air Force totaling more than $1 billion. Lockheed Martin will work on the Space Fence project to develop a stationary radar system. Raytheon won the contract for the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals, or FAB-T -- a project that Boeing previously lost after years of delays. “Boeing is disappointed by the decision,” company spokesman Richard Esposito said in a statement. “We will request a formal debrief from the Air Force and will determine a path forward after that formal debrief is completed.” Defense News
Air Force Is Ready To Ramp Up JSTARS Program Companies are poising themselves to compete for the Air Force’s JSTARS initiative, a
program to replace old aircraft surveillance systems with new radar and communications technology. The Air Force is creating requirements for the program, which “will inherently bring improvements in areas such as radar and onboard data processing speed, fuel efficiency and maximum cruising altitude across the range of expected military operations,” said Lt. Col. Michael Harm, JSTARS recapitalization branch chief. National Defense
Lockheed Wins $1.9 Bln Deal For US Missile-Warning Satellites
tems (SBIRS) system.
The U.S. Air Force said it had awarded Loc kheed Mar tin Corp a contract valued at $1.9 billion to complete work on two more missile-warning satellites as part of the SpaceBased Infrared Sys-
The contract, announced in the Pentagon’s daily digest of major contract awards, runs through Sept. 30, 2022. It funds completion of the fifth and sixth satellites in the SBIRS system, and includes performance incentives and options for acoustic testing, launch operations an early on-orbit testing, the Pentagon said. The contract comes on top of advanced procurement funding awarded to Lockheed earlier to start buying parts that take a long time to order. It will also fund completion of the associated ground operations and processing updates. Reuters
Boeing Is Working On Lightweight Electric Satellites Boeing is building the first completely electric satellites, which will weigh less and be less expensive to launch. “It makes it very affordable for us to put a satellite into orbit,” said Ken Betaharon, chief technology officer at Asia Broadcast Satellite. However, one drawback is the satellites can take up to five months to launch with electric propulsion, compared to up to three weeks for gas propulsion. Daily Breeze
DARPA Awards Contracts For Space Plane Designs The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Masten Space Systems to provide designs for a new, experimental space plane. The XS-1 project is meant to delivery payloads into orbit at low cost. Space.com A2Z METALWORKER
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Utilizing Today’s Technology To Deliver Perfected Solutions Precision Plus started as most small businesses do, out of a garage with a dream. In the beginningWayne and Bret Baumann (Father and Son) worked 17 Plus hour days, with two machines and a chance to fulfill a father and sons life long dream of owning their own destiny. Maybe that’s how Precision Plus got their name? Naw, it was and always will be the extra precision that Precision Plus puts into all of their work! Wayne and Bret worked regular jobs during the day and burned the midnight oil after their day jobs were through. They worked every spare hour in tandem to build their dream business. The new company landed a sizable job in the earlier days with an ion source manufacturing company. This new work pushed them from their small garage shop with manual machines to a larger commercial workspace and this job enabled them to buy new CNC machine. As new work continued to flow through the shop the business grew and the shop would expand. During their expansion and growth Jason Van Rossum (Jason is Bret’s Brother and Wayne’s Son) had just finished his tour in Iraq (4th ID) and had an interest in expanding the machining training he had received from the Army. Jason was brought on as an employee in 2006, and became a partner in 2012. Bret is currently a Sergeant with a Police Department, and does that part time along with the responsibilities he has in the shop. As the business expanded there came a dire need to purchase state of the art CNC machines. Wayne and Bret set out to find a machine tool supplier that would stand behind them with precision machine tools. Wayne said, “When you’re a young company you have little history and the machine tool dealers look at you as a high risk. We had great personal credit together but as a company we lacked longevity.” Bret said, “In the beginning Monkton’s Machinery was the only machine tool dealer that would give us the time of day. Without them seeing us and taking a chance on us we wouldn’t have gotten off the ground. They did and we did and they are our preferred machine tool supplier” In the early years Wayne worked for Woodward Inc. a major Corporation in Fort Collins, in a variety of positions including machining and purchasing.Wayne credits Woodward for affording him a very broad education and feels he learned what he needed to run a business by working with suppliers and his team mates at Woodward Inc. Bret is also versed at machining, welding, and electronics. Harness the third Musketeer Jason to this team and you have a Plus, Precision Plus. This father and 2-son team is so in tune that they can actually hear a tool from across the shop getting to a wear point that is near its end of cycle. Chad Wadsworth Moncktons Machine Tools, Inc. and Technical Support Pro said, “When I walk into this shop there is something new going on every time, some new tool, a new way at looking at a very difficult job, or just a cool new way they come up with to make a job A2Z METALWORKER
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that no one can make pay, and they make it work and the job becomes profitable. Precision Plus is not old school tunnel vision, and they don’t say this is the way we’ve always done it and better yet they are always looking to technology and for the next greatest thing to propel their business into the future.” Bret continued, “We are also very lucky with our machine tool and cutting tool suppliers. Chad Wadsworth with Moncktons Machine Tools, Inc. has proven to be a most valuable source for us.When we need a new solution or we need to ask questions on how to tackle some new work with new technology, Chad’s knowledge is invaluable and he always directs us to the next best machine tool and the accessories we need to grow our business.We trust him and we know he’s not trying to sell us something we don’t need. This is a major reason we buy Haas machine tools from Monkton’s Machine Tools Sales.” Wayne says, “We also found Western Tool and Supply to be a great tool supplier, and their sales associate Kendra Powers who has actually made tools for a major world-class company.When she comes in here and looks at what we are doing she comes up with solutions. She is a very knowledgeable person with real information and that’s what we need This is the
type of support we look for in our suppliers, from helping us get our first CNC machine to continuing to help us grow our business with machine tools that work, stay working, and make high precision components all the time. If you don’t continue growing in your knowledge with the latest in technology, your business stops growing and you become stagnant.We listen to our business, when its time to grow it will tell us. In fact, we’ve been growing our business every day and we’re always looking to grow our business and get that next best Haas machine tool and that next great customer.” “This goes hand in hand with our work ethic; we don’t build bad parts, says Jason, we guarantee good parts.” “If you get a bad part we will make it right, we just guarantee perfectly made parts, pure and simple! We had a customer up in Wyoming that had a couple of parts that were on the high end of the tolerance, I got in my truck, drove up there early in the morning and drove them back up and handed the perfect parts right back into his hands that same afternoon.” Chad says, “When I walk through those doors it’s peaceful, everything is under control and I don’t see constant fire fighting like I see at many shops.” “That’s exactly what we strive for said Bret. We strive for a great work environment with a stable environment, we have 5 full time employees, and 3 owner/operators and we want them all to love working here. One of our Machinists Cliff Cabrera told me, “I love the attitude here, we are treated extremely fair, and I feel like they want me to be here. I love to wake up knowing that I get to head to that Job.” Today after 14 years, Precision Plus is still in the building they rented way back when they started, the only difference is they have since purchased the building and have expanded the building with an addition. They added on to bring the size of the shop to 6300 square feet.They now have 11 Haas CNC machines 7 Mills (from a Super Mini Mill to a VF3YT with 4th axis) and 4 Lathes (from a SL-10 & SL/ST-30, to secondary equipment). Precision Plus has evolved from a small job shop to a contract manufacturing company and production shop. Precision Plus retains their customers by providing them results, constant measurable results, cost savings, and responsive can do service that comes through every time, guaranteed.
Hear what some of Precision Plus’s customers have to say about Precision Plus: “We go way back 2007; those guys bend over backwards for us and for our military customers. Precision Plus has great turn around, and their prices are very competitive, quality is very good. We have fairly complex parts and they have grown to meet our needs. I highly recommend Precision Plus as a valued supplier.” - An owner of a robot company in Colorado “Precision Plus is a fabulous supplier. They do more of the complex metal work and they do it all very well. I’ve been here 3 years and Precision Plus has been
just a great supplier for me and they have been supplying our company for more than 10 years. They are a long-standing preferred supplier. 1st rate quality, nice guys to work with, and I appreciate working with them, very professional.” -A Buyer, from a major contact manufacturing company in Colorado “We’ve been working with Precision Plus for a long time, 10 or so years. They have always been extremely responsive, any kind of rush or concerns that we may have are always accommodated. We do a lot of R&D and need it right away and they always come through for us.They are so easy to work with. They always come up with ways to make things better or cheaper. They are a great source to work with and they are always brain storming on ways to help us and reduce cost.” – A Production Manager at a major manufacturing company in Colorado “We’ve been working with Precision Plus for over 6 years. When we were a start up company we needed parts quickly and they were flexible enough to help us meet our deadlines. Today we do higher volumes and Precision Plus grew to meet our higher volume and grew to help us through our drawing problems. They do very complicated parts in stainless steel with high tolerance and complexity. They’re a terrific shop and do really good work for us.” - Director of R&D For A Designer Of High Tech Medical Instrumentation. “They’re fantastic and they do everything we ask of them and in a timely manner.They are easy to work with. I can’t say enough about how great Precision Plus has been for our company.” – Sales Manager for a major distribution company in Indiana For more information on Precision Plus and how they can help your company contact them at: 970-484-9511, www.precisionplusmachining.com For more information on Moncktons Machinery contact them at: 303-571-4933, www.moncktons.com A2Z METALWORKER
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Vestas Teams With RES Americas, Xcel Energy For North Dakota Wind Farm
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Three companies with Colorado operations are teaming up to build a North Dakota wind farm named Border Winds. Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer with four plants in Colorado, said that it’s landed a contract to build 62 of its V100-2.0 megawatt wind turbines for the project. Broomfield’s RES Americas is the developer of the Border Winds wind farm in Rolette County in north central North Dakota, near the Canadian border. And when the project is complete, RES Americas will transfer ownership of the Border Winds power station to Xcel Energy Inc., which is based in Minneapolis and also is Colorado’s biggest provider of electricity and natural gas. Vestas said it expects to deliver the turbines for the Border Winds project in the third quarter of 2015; commissioning of the turbines is expected to take place before the end of 2015. Vestas said its Colorado factories are expected to be involved in the manufacture of the turbines’ nacelles, blades and towers. The Border Winds wind farm is expected to generate 150 megawatts of power. The order represents about 124 megawatts of power. RES ordered turbines for the remaining 26 megawatts of power in September 2013, when the company signed a master-supply agreement with Vestas for the manufacture and delivery of up to 610 megawatts worth of turbines, Vestas said in its announcement. Vestas said of the 610 megawatts involved in the master-supply agreement with RES, Vestas has locked in 444 megawatts of actual orders either directly from RES or from other companies that bought RES’s projects and then placed an order for the turbines with Vestas. Source: Denver Business Journal
U.S. Unveils More Export Control Changes, For Military Electronics The U.S. government published another big batch of changes to export control laws affecting military electronics, and said it was on track to finish reviewing remaining categories for possible streamlining by the end of the year.
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Ken Handelman, deputy assistant secretary of state for defense controls, said the latest changes would shift some less sensitive military electronics and components from the State Department’s U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Department’s list of commercial items, easing exports of those items while maintaining strict controls
on more sensitive technologies. The changes are part of a major drive to reform U.S. export control laws that was launched by President Barack Obama in August 2009. Changes have already been announced for satellites and aircraft, among others. Military electronics are the second largest category released so far, measured by number of applications handled by the State Department, Handelman said. He said reviews of remaining categories, including cloud computing, would be completed by the end of the year. Handelman told Reuters in an interview this month that the Obama administration’s review of Category XI military electronics was particularly difficult since such items comprise “the heart and soul of what gives the U.S. military its edge.” In the end, he said administration officials agreed to shift a “huge amount of stuff ” from the State Department’s weapons list to the Commerce Department list, easing exports of those items, especially to NATO countries and other close U.S. allies. Handelman said the drive was aimed at reducing ambiguity for companies about which items required export licenses and which did not. The changes take effect Dec. 30. “The rule itself is now much more precise,” he said. He said the changes should allow companies to better track and predict which items most concerned national security officials, he said. For instance, specific bandwidths were established for weather radars that had previously not been so clearly defined. U.S. companies have generally welcomed the government’s export control efforts, but are pressing for quicker action on some items not yet addressed, including unmanned planes and items associated with commercial spaceflight. Compliance with the changes has also resulted in a huge amount of work for big weapons makers like Lockheed Martin Corp , Raytheon Co and Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp, which must reclassify hundreds of parts used in different weapons systems. Handelman said the State Department had received some critical comments about the reform effort from industry and other groups, but the “vast middle is generally positive.” He said the changes were aimed at improving security, enhancing cooperation and joint operations with close allies, and helping U.S. companies by reducing incentives for foreign buyers to deliberately avoid U.S.-origin parts and components. Items were left on the U.S. Munitions List if they were found to be inherently military, or had characteristics that gave the United States a critical military or intelligence advantage, and were almost exclusively available from the United States. Source: Reuters
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Aerospace Firms Place Long-Term Bets On 3D Printing The prospect of huge time savings, less waste and more design options have drawn aerospace firms to invest in additive layer manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, though it may be years before parts made this way are common in planes and weapons. In 3D printing, components are made by building up layers of titanium or other raw materials using computer-driven machines, compared with traditional casting which involves taking a piece of material and cutting away to create the desired part. The new technology has found a use in a wide range of industries, from designing shoes to dental technology, because it means complex prototypes and products can be shaped much more quickly and with much less wastage of expensive materials. Analysts predict rapid growth over the next decade, which could boost the shares of companies that make the printing machines, such as 3D Systems, Stratasys, ExOne , Voxeljet, Arcam and SLM Solutions . Another big company in the sector is EOS of Germany. A McKinsey report this year estimated 3D printing could have an economic impact of up to $550 billion a year by 2025, mainly from consumer uses and manufacturing. The technology is expected to have far-reaching consequences for the aerospace industry too, and especially the maintenance repair and overhaul business, because it reduces the time and effort needed to produce parts or find spare parts. Because 3D parts are often lighter, the process could also have a profound impact on the way aircraft and satellites are designed. Aerospace and defence companies such as Airbus, Lockheed Martin, GE, Pratt & Whitney, GKN and BAE Systems are all investing in the technology, with BAE executives calling it “game-changing” at the Farnborough Airshow. GE Aviation announced plans to invest $50 million in its own additive facility in Alabama, while GKN said it was leading a consortium in a 13.4 million pound ($22.9 million) additive manufacturing research project. In some cases, the technology is already being tried out. The U.S. Navy, for example, is experimenting with 3D printers that could go aboard its aircraft carriers to print out replacement parts on site instead of waiting days or weeks for parts to be found and delivered. Lockheed’s space business, meanwhile, has a 3D part flying on a NASA spacecraft called Juno that was launched in 2011, and is working with the U.S. Air Force to qualify parts that could be used on military satellites in the future. Still, industry watchers caution it will be a while before the technolA2Z METALWORKER
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without massive lead times is really interesting. If you can win hearts and minds that way, then you can move onto structural applications,” he said. The technology opens new design possibilities too. “Where we drill a hole in a part for the cooling air to run through, today we’re limited by a straight hole,” said Allen Paxson, executive vice president at engine maker CFM. “Additive manufacturing allows you to drill a hole to be any shape you want. It could even be a corkscrew.” CFM, a joint venture between GE and Safran, is taking the technology a step further and giving it a tougher test. The fuel nozzles on its new LEAP engine, due to enter into service in 2016, are made using a 3D printing process and GE is investing $50 million into an additive facility in Alabama. BAE Systems, which has used 3D printed plastic parts as protective covers for items such as radio and shafts on the UK’s fleet of ageing Tornado fighter jets, is working with Cranfield university on a much larger metallic part - a 1.2 metre long titanium component known as a spar. The piece takes 37 hours to produce, compared with around 12-18 months previously, BAE said. It hopes the technology will be ready to move out of the research phase within 2.5-3 years. Reuters A2Z METALWORKER
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Colorado State University Hitches New Micro Electric Rides Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) will get the opportunity to shed some light on the true value of electric vehicles after it was one of four universities in the county selected to receive all-electric micro vehicles. CSU joins the University of Pittsburgh, University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin in receiving the small electronic cars. The vehicles will help drive sustainable transportation research projects by giving campus employees access to the four University Electric Vehicles. (UEVs), provided by Washington D.C.-based education research company Internet2 and Chicago-based electronic vehicle company Innova UEV. “[CSU] has an outstanding history of research and engagement in not only the field of electrified transportation, but also in improving the sustainability of the University community,” said Patrick Burns, vice president for IT at Colorado State. Tablet-size computers will control the advanced technologies of the UEVs, and use the university’s Wi-Fi network to log operational data for analysis. In addition, campus employees looking to use a UEV can check their Internet2 InCommon app to see where available vehicles are located. “With the Innova vehicles in the University motor pool, campus employees will have the opportunity to choose a unique and innovative vehicle option when they need to make off-campus trips,” said Scott Baily, director of Academic Computing & Networking Services and a principal investigator on the Innova project. CSU currently has charging stations to accommodate six electric vehicles installed around campus, and plans to expand that to 10 by August.Source: Denver Business Journal
Commercial Aviation Market Soaring: Boeing Increasing demand from low-cost airlines and booming airline travel in Asia – China in particular – drove Boeing to raise its forecast for new airplanes. “It’s a market that’s exceeded our expectations,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of Marketing,Boeing Commercial Airplanes. “With new and more efficient airplanes entering service, the growth in air travel is being driven by customers who want to fly where they want, A2Z METALWORKER
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when they want.” Boeing’s 20-year industry forecast calls for 36,770 new airplanes over the next 20 years. That’s an increase of 4.2 percent compared to last year’s forecast. “We believe we’re well positioned for future growth,” said Tinseth. Narrow body boom - The biggest growth in new airplanes is expected to come in the narrow body market. Boeing believes the industry will need 25,680 single-aisle planes over the next 20 years. “The single-aisle market is the backbone of the airline system,” said Tinseth. Boeing’s narrow body 737 has long been the most popular plane sold by the company.
Both planes will be in demand by low-cost airlines adding service on new routes over the next 20 years. China, Asia booming - Another reason single-aisle planes are in demand is the rapidly growing airline markets in Asia, especially China. In fact, Boeing expects the Asia Pacific region to require 13,460 new planes by 2033, with majority being single-aisle planes. China Eastern Airlines this month announced plans to start a low-cost carrier. The airline, which is run by the government, gave no indication when it will start its budget airline but, like other discount carriers, it will likely rely almost exclusively on single-aisle planes.
By late 2017 Boeing will start delivering the 737 MAX, a newer, more fuel-efficient version of the 737 which has already has a backlog of more than two thousand orders.
“Based on the overwhelming amount of orders and deliveries, we see the heart of the single-aisle market in the 160-seat range,” said Tinseth. “There’s no question the market is converging to this size, where network flexibility and cost efficiency meet.”
Boeing’s competitor, Airbus, will start delivering its new narrow body plane, the A320neo late next year.
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Q3 Economic Outlook Revises 2014 Equipment And Software Investment Growth Forecast To 2.6% Investment in equipment and software is expected to grow 2.6 percent in 2014, according to the Q3 update to the 2014 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook released last month by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. The Foundation revised its 2014 equipment and software investment forecast to 2.6 percent, down from 4.2 percent growth forecast in its Q2 Update to the 2014 Annual Outlook released in April. The Q3 report expects equipment and software investment to have modest sector growth during the rest of the year after a weak start.The Foundation report, which is focused on the $827 billion equipment leasing and finance industry, forecasts 2014 equipment investment and capital spending in the United States and evaluates the effects of various related and external factors in play currently and into the foreseeable future. William G. Sutton, CAE, President of the Foundation and President and CEO of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, said, “The Foundation’s Outlook report reflects a slowing in GDP and equipment investment growth due to a weak first quarter this year that resulted in part from the extremely cold winter. The rebound in Q2 is slower than anticipated, as recent data from the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s Monthly Leasing and Finance Index and the Foundation’s Monthly Confidence Index reflect. We do, however, anticipate that equipment investment will rise in the second half of the year as economic conditions improve and business confidence continues to recover.” Highlights from the study include: • The U.S. economy is expected to grow 1.5 percent in 2014, revised from 2.8 percent. • The downsides of the harsh winter, which included a 2.9 percent contraction in real GDP in the first quarter, should prove temporary, as the housing recovery, energy renaissance and accommodative credit markets support second-half growth. • Equipment and software investment declined at an annualized rate of 1.8 percent in Q1 2014, following the 8.9 percent surge in Q4 2013. • Credit supply continues to improve, and credit demand has held A2Z METALWORKER
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steady for all business sizes. • Equipment and software investment is expected to steadily grow over the next 6 months across most verticals, according to the Foundation-Keybridge U.S. Equipment & Software Investment Momentum Monitor. The Momentum Monitor, which tracks 12 equipment and software investment verticals, forecasts the following equipment investment activity: o Agriculture machinery investment will likely see slow growth, and potentially a contraction, through the rest of 2014, as both farm yields and commodity prices remain subdued. o Construction machinery investment will continue to experience strong growth, and the year-over-year growth figures will begin to trend positive as multiple quarters of expansion take hold amidst the housing recovery. o Materials handling equipment investment will experience stronger growth over the next 3 to 6 months. o All other industrial equipment investment will likely see moderate growth over the next 3 to 6 months as the “re-shoring” of manufacturing continues to be a dominant economic story in 2014. o Medical equipment investment will grow, but begin to level off near the end of the year. o Mining and oilfield machinery will experience improving growth through the middle of the year but will begin to level off at the end of the year. o Aircraft investment will likely experience about long-term average growth for the year. o Ships and boats investment will likely rebound to an above-average pace through the end of this year. o Railroad equipment investment will improve from its recent contraction toward modest growth. o Investment in trucks will exhibit high-single digit growth over the next 3 to 6 months as economic activity improves and competitive diesel prices keep trucking transport competitive. o Computers investment will remain muted in the short-term after strong replacement demand over the past few quarters. o Software investment will be moderate in the next 3 to 6 months as companies continue to make investments in software and cloud technologies.
About the Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook The Foundation produces the Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook report in partnership with economics and public policy consulting firm Keybridge Research. The annual economic forecast provides a three-to-six-month outlook for industry investment with data, including a summary of investment trends in key equipment markets, credit market conditions, the U.S. macroeconomic outlook and key economic indicators. The Q2 report is the first update to the 2014 Annual Outlook, and will be followed by two more quarterly updates before the publishing of the 2015 Annual Outlook in December. Download the full report at www.leasefoundation.org/IndRsrcs/EO/. About the Foundation-Keybridge U.S. Equipment & Software Investment Momentum Monitor The Momentum Monitors consist of indices for 12 vertical markets and are designed to identify turning points in their respective investment cycles with a 3 to 6-month lead time. In addition to their presence in the quarterly Economic Outlook, monthly Momentum Monitors are available to Foundation donors free of charge. Non-donors may purchase individual Momentum Monitors at http://www.store. leasefoundation.org/cgi-bin/memberdll. dll/openpage?wrp=libraryHome.htm About the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation The Equipment Leasing & Finance Founda-
tion is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides vision for the equipment leasing and finance industry through future-focused information and research. Funded through charitable individual and corporate donations, the Foundation is the only organization dedicated to future-oriented, in-depth, independent research for the leasing industry. In 2014, the Foundation celebrates is 25th anniversary. Visit the Foundation online at www.LeaseFoundation.org. Follow the Foundation on Twitter @ LeaseFoundation. About Keybridge Keybridge is a public policy economics consulting firm. Keybridge provides analytical support and strategic advice to a select clientele that includes Fortune 500 companies, global financial firms, G-7 governments, premier industry associations, and nonprofit organizations. Keybridge’s experience and expertise make it uniquely suited to assist organizations that frequently operate at the interface of business, economics, and public policy.
Unapproved Device Buys Time For New Pair Of Lungs The AP reported how an experimental machine, Hemolung, retrieved from Canada, saved a patient needing a double lung transplant.The AP noted that patient Jon Sacker’s “struggle highlights a critical void:There is no fully functioning artificial lung to buy time for someone awaiting a transplant,” in contrast to implanted heart pumps for “patients who need a new heart” or a dialysis machines for people with failing kidneys. “It seems like
it should be possible for the lung as well,” said Dr. Andrea Harabin of the NIH. The article noted that “NIH-funded researchers are working to develop wearable ‘respiratory assist devices’ that could do the lungs’ two jobs – supplying oxygen and getting rid of carbon dioxide – without tethering patients to a bulky bedside machine.”
Air Force Engineer Develops “Innovative” Method To Track Space Debris An article jointly prepared by the Partnership for Public Service, “a group seeking to enhance the performance of the federal government,” and the Washington Post reports on Air Force Research Laboratory senior engineer Richard Rast having “created an innovative way” to track space debris, “a system that could become a cost-effective supplement to the current processes used by the Air Force and NASA that rely on expensive telescopes, radar systems and considerable manpower for analysis.” Rast’s system “uses a series of small telescopes developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory that capture the faint light signals entering the lens” and then “converts the camera photos into a movie, where he uses the human eye’s sensitivity to detect variations between frames to separate man-made objects from the star background and identify objects the size of just a few centimeters.” The article notes that space debris threatens both the ISS and military and commercial satellites. A2Z METALWORKER
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Vestas Racks Up 740 Megawatts Of Wind Turbine Orders Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems received 740 megawatts worth of new orders recently, with its machines destined to generate electricity at wind far ms across the country. Vestas has four manufacturing plants in Colorado that make wind turbine blades, towers and nacelles, the housing units that sit on top of the towers. Vestas said its Colorado plants are expected to be involved in the production of machines for the wind farms in Minnesota, New Mexico, Kansas and North Dakota. Just recently, Vestas has announced orders for: 83 of Vestas’V100-2.0 megawatt wind turbines, capable of generating up to 166 megawatts electricity, for Broomfield’s Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas). The wind turbines will be for the 200 megawatt Pleasant Valley Wind project in Minnesota. 150 of the company’s V100-2.0 megawatt turbines, capable of producing 300 megawatts of power, for the Roosevelt wind farm in New Mexico. The Roosevelt wind farm is being developed by EDF Renewable Energy. 75 of the Vestas’ V110-2.0 megawatt, capable of producing 150 megawatts of power for the Slate Creek wind farm in Kansas. The Slate Creek wind farm is being built by EDF. 62 of its V100-2.0 megawatt wind turbines, or 124 megawatts worth of wind turbines, for the 150-megawatt Border Winds wind farm that RES Americas is developing in North Dakota.
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Hartwig Inc.________ 303-373-9450 Hurco___________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley________ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley________ 208-861-8991 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools__ 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co___ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery_______801-294-6390 Tornos USA_________951-695-0342 Triad Machine________303-424-0268 CNC Lathes Action Machine______ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 J.M. Grisley_________ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley________ 208-861-8991 Hartwig Inc._________303-373-9450 Hurco___________ 800-634-2416 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools___303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co____801-263-6403 Todd Machinery_______801-294-6390 Triad Machine________303-424-0268 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools__ 303-571-4933 Tornos USA_______ 951-695-0342
Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc_____650-966-9676 EDM Machines Action Machine______ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales_____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 Moncktons Mach Tools__ 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co___ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery______ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales_____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access.____ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply____ 480-836-8330 End Mills Helical Solutions_____ 866-543-5422 Micro Hole Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc_____650-966-9676 NEW MACHINERY FABRICATION PrecisionFab Inc._____303-779-9180 Band Saws AIT______________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Bar Feeders Edge Technologies______ 562-597-7824 Trusty-Cook_________ 877-240-2462 Cold Saws Fabricating Equip Sales___ 303-466-7342
CNC Plasma Cutters Desert Machine Tool Repair__480-226-3128 CNC Punching Centers PrecisionFab Inc._____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Iron Workers AIT______________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutters Action Machine______ 303-532-2900 Moncktons Mach Tools__ 303-571-4933 PrecisionFab Inc._____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Sidley Diamond Tool___ 800-544-9070 Triad Machine_______ 303-424-0268 Pipe &Tube Benders/Notchers Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Plate Rolls Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151 Press Brakes Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 PrecisionFab Inc._____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Shearing Machines Action Machine______ 303-532-2900 Fabricating Equip Sales__ 303-466-7342 Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 S&S Machinery Sales___ 602-368-8542 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_ 303-761-3000 OTHER ACCESSORIES Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales______480-816-6300 USA EDM Supply_____ 480-836-8330
PALLET SYSTEMS Automatic Pallet Systems Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 Automatic Door Opener Systems Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 Robotic Part Loading Systems Midaco___________ 847-593-8420 PRODUCTS Guns Layke Tactical_______ 602-272-2654 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Cimatron_________ 248-596-9700 Delcam___________ 877-35-2261 Feature Cam_______ 602-502-9654 SolidCAM_________ 530-863-0461 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go________801-380-7935 RECYCLING Recyclable Metals Iron & Metals, Inc_____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works_____ 801-364-5679 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc_____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works_____ 801-364-5679 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc__ 928-649-9600 SERVICES AS9100 Certification ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 BMSC___________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial_____480-948-1871 Western States Calibration___ 801-466-1700
Consultants, Health & Safety CKC Services LLC _____ 303-905-2371 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-371-7591 BMSC___________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Western States Calibration_ 801-466-1700 Calibration: Repair & Certify Western States Calibration___ 801-466-1700 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial_____480-948-1871 Western States Calibration___ 801-466-1700 Calibration Training Western States Calibration___ 801-466-1700 Contract Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Education College Of Western Idaho__ 208-562-2346 Ogden-Weber Tech College_ 801-395-3795 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Financing IEC ___________ 303-593-0403 Intech Funding_______480-699-2512 Quick Turn Financial____415-608-5692 First Article Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech _____303-469-6161 Datum Inspection______ 602-997-1340 Western States Calibration___ 801-466-1700 Heavyhaul IRH ____________801-972-5581 Injection Molding 3D Parts To Go______ 801-380-7935
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Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 ISO Registrar American Global Standards_ 617-838-4648 Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017 Lean Manufacturing MEP _____________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Machine Tool Rebuilding EDM Network_______ 480-836-1782 Process Improvement BMSC ______________ 602-445-9400 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Reverse Engineering Advanced Coord. Tech ___ _303-469-6161 Diversified Metal Services___ 801-972-6093 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Rigging & Transfer Atlas Rigging & Transfer_ 801-539-3885 IRH ___________ _801-972-5581
Methods West_________602-437-2220 PrecisionFab Inc._______303-779-9180 ReSell CNC West________480-694-9919 S&S Machinery Sales_____602-368-8542 WATERJET CUTTING TOOLING MACHINERY Arc Cutting Tools Action Machine_ _______303-532-2900 Helical Solutions_______866-543-5422 Fabricating Equip Sales___303-466-7342 Precision Toolholding Flow International_______800-446-3569 Products Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 Global EDM Supply_____480-836-8330 Jorgensen Machine Tools___800-952-0151 _ Tooling Systems Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 King Machine_________208-345-9600 OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Live Tool Holders Triad Machine_______ _ 303-424-0268 Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 Abrasives/Blast Media Static Tool Holders GMA Garnet Group_____ 832-243-9300 Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322 Fives ____________909-263-9282 TRAINING CAD/CAM Training College Of Western Idaho___208-562-2346 Call to
SolidCAM_________ 530-863-0461 Consulting/Engineering Daystrom Technologies__ 303-534-8345 Von Ruden Mfg______ 763-682-0322
Spindle Rebuilding GMN USA__________ 800-686-1679 Setco-Pope Spindles______866-362-0699 Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 Daystrom Technologies____303-534-8345 Staffing CNC/Conventional Resource Mfg_________801-265-1999 Machining SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION College Of Western Idaho____208-562-2346 Hardware: USB Bytebox____________ 888-Bytebox Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 Serial Port Machining Software Bytebox____________ 888-Bytebox College Of Western Idaho____208-562-2346 Software:CNC Networking Davis Applied Tech College___801-593-2483 Bytebox____________ 888-Bytebox USED MACHINERY Transportation EDM Network_________ 480-836-1782 IRH ____________801-972-5581 Jorgensen Machine Tools___800-952-0151 SOFTWARE King Machine_________208-345-9600 CAD/CAM/CAE Daystrom Technologies__ 303-534-8345 K.D. Capital Equipment____480-922-1674
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ASSEMBLIES Bar-S Machine_________ 928-636-2115 Dayton Rogers________ 763-717-6303 JD Machine__________801-782-4403 Progway____________435-656-9585 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 Stacy Machine & Tooling___303-465-3922 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_ 208-522-7341 Superior Metal Products___ 303-791-7550 Wasatch Laser Processing__8_ 01-972-3500 Wrico____________ 480-892-7800 Electronics Assemblies Cascade Systems Tech____ 503-640-5733 Welded Assemblies Weiser/Mile High Precision_ 303-280-2778 BAR CODING Western Sintering______509-375-3096 BENDING JQ Enterprises__________801-975-0777
BROACHING Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome Ponderosa Ind_ _ _______303-298-1801 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Precision Mach’d Products_ 970-482-7676 Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Specialty Steel Services___ 801-539-8252 LA Specialties________ 602-269-7612 CASTINGS Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. Die Casting Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 TVT Die Casting_______ 800-280-2278 Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc COMPOSITES TVT Die Casting_______ 800-280-2278 S.A. Composites________ 970-776-3877 Precision Investment Casting CUTTING Dolphin Inc._________ 602-272-6747 COATING Metal Dry Film Lubrication Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Plasma Cutting Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181 Coating: Liquid Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Plastic Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 Bandsaw LLC_________ 303-744-7181
ImageTek__________ 303-806-8111 Saw Cutting Bandsaw LLC________ 303-744-7181 DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Bar-S Machine________ 928-636-2115 H& S Machine________ 801-755-7627 DIES Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole EDM Express________800-780-7075 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) EDM Express_______ 800-780-7075 Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317
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Kitting Cascade Systems Tech____ 503-640-5733 Prototype Cascade Systems Tech____ 503-640-5733 ELECTROPOLISHING Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117
ENGINEERING/DESIGN Fabrication: Filament Winding AzMark___________480-926-8969 S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Hexatron__________ 801-363-8010 Stacy Machine & Tooling__ 303-465-3922 Fabrication: Enclosures Falcon Sheet Metal___ 801-298-5064 FABRICATION Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod_ 303-427-6419 Fabrication: Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Medium & Large Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod___ 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 Bandsaw LLC_________303-744-7181 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 EMJD Corp__________ 303-761-5236 GBC_____________303-988-6450 Falcon Sheet Metal_____801-298-5064 GBC_____________303-988-6450 Hexatron__________ 801-363-8010 Group Mfg Serv_______480-966-3952 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine __435-755-0500 Weiser/Mile High Prec___303-280-2778 Contract Star Precision________303-926-0559 Fabrication: Plastic Cascade Systems Tech____ 503-640-5733 Wrico____________480-892-7800 ImageTek__________ 303-806-8111 Design Custom Auto/Truck/Bike Fabrication: SheetMetal Cascade Systems Tech____ 503-640-5733 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod___ 303-427-6419
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AzMark___________480-926-8969 Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal___ 801-298-5064 GBC_____________303-988-6450 Group Mfg Serv_______480-966-3952 Hexatron__________ 801-363-8010 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Laser Concepts Inc._____ 801-280-7723 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Weiser/Mile High Prec___303-280-2778 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Steel Bandsaw LLC_________303-744-7181 EMJD Corp________303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal___ 801-298-5064 FINISHING Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751
Precision Mach’d Prod____ 970-482-7676 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Superior Grinding______801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting_______800-280-2278 Finishing: One Stop Precision Industrial Painting--602-256-0260 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 Glass Bead Clean Star Precision________303-926-0559 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Silk Screening Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Hand Deburring: Precision Industrialex_______ 303-456-6847 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 Potting/Encapsulation Industrialex_ ______ 303-456-6847 Liquid Painting Industrialex_______ 303-456-6847 Wet Paint/CARC Precision Industrial Painting_602-256-0260 Passivation Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 FOUNDRY Jet Processing_____ 623-869-6749x117 May Foundry & Machine_ 801-531-8931 Powder Coating GALVANIZING Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Jordan River Galvanizing__801-282-9375 Industrialex_______ 303-456-6847 Galvanizing: Hot Dip LA Specialties________ 602-269-7612 Jordan River Galvanizing__801-282-9375
Kelly Martinez Machine Shop Lifetime Products, Inc. P.O. Box 160010, Freeport Center, Bldg D-11 Clearfield, UT 84016 T: 801.726.5312 F: 801.728.1979 email: kmartinez@lifetime.com
Galvanizing: Zinc Jordan River Galvanizing__801-282-9375 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 ChemResearch________ 602-253-4175 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Fives_____________ 909-263-9282 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 GMN USA_________ 800-686-1679
Prec. Mach’d Products__ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding______801-487-9700 Superior Metal Products___303-791-7550 TCI Precision Metals___800-234-5613 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals___800-234-5613 Grinding, Centerless Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Grinding, Double Disc TCI Precision Metals___800-234-5613 Grinding: OD AzMark___________480-926-8969 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 • 61 • July /Aug 2014 61 •July/Aug 2011
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Superior Metal Products___303-791-7550 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Grinding: Surface INJECTION MOLDING ChemResearch________ 602-253-4175 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 INSPECTION Passivation Inspection, First Article Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Polishing Inspection Services Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Selective Coatings Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 ImageTek___________303-806-8111 Sustaining Edge Solutions__888-572-9642 FORMING LASER CUTTING JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Laser Cutting Star Precision________303-926-0559 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod_303-427-6419 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 HEAT TREATING GBC_____________303-988-6450 Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Laser Concepts Inc._____ 801-280-7723 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Progway___________ 435-656-9585 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Phoenix Heat Treating___ 602-258-7751 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube HONING/LAPPING Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 EMI/RFI Shielding LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Industrialex_ ______ 303-456-6847 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Laser Engraving Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 4 Axis Machining Inc.____ 303-295-1544 A2Z METALWORKER
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Laser Marking 4 Axis Machining Inc.____ 303-295-1544 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 LINE TOOLING RPM CNC Precision Machine__ 208-442-199 MACHINING A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 Fives_____________ 909-263-9282 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 GBC_____________303-988-6450 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 R&H Machine ________801-621-7922 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 St. Vrain__________ 303-702-1529 Superior Metal Products_ 303-791-7550 TVT Die Casting______ 800-280-2278 Machining: 3D Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis 4 Axis Machining Inc.____303-295-1544 Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Faustson___________303-420-7422 JD Machine_________801-782-4403
Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 St. Vrain__________ 303-702-1529 Superior Metal Products_ 303-791-7550 Machining: Aerospace AzMark___________480-926-8969 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Paramount Machine____801-282-2755 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products_ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Quick Turn Precision_____801-334-6800 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 St. Vrain__________ 303-702-1529 Stacy Machine & Tooling__ 303-465-3922 Superior Metal Products_ 303-791-7550 Machining: CNC A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 4 Axis Machining Inc.____303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117
Machining: Milling A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_208-522-7341 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Superior Metal Products_ 303-791-7550 Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Wrico___________ 480-892-7800 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 Machining: Composites Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_208-522-7341 DMSI___________801-972-6093 Machining: Contract Machining: Mold Base Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Maverick Mold & Machine___970-535-4604 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Foremaster Tool_____ 801-737--0265 Machining: Mold Making GBC_____________303-988-6450 Paramount Machine____801-282-2755 R&H Machine ________801-621-7922 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Machining: Plastic H&R Precision_______ 801-975-7400 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 ImageTek__________ 303-806-8111 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Machining: Production Machining: DoD Hexatron__________ 801-363-8010 A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Machining: Laser JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 AzMark___________480-926-8969 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Foremaster Tool______ 801-737--0265 Leading Edge Machine__ 435-563-9425 Gerome Mfg________520-622-8402 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Paramount Machine___ 801-282-2755 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Machining:Medical Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 R&H Machine ________801-621-7922 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Datum Machining______208-376-6099 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 St. Vrain__________ 303-702-1529 Stacy Machine & Tooling__ 303-465-3922 Paramount Machine___ 801-282-2755
Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 R&H Machine ________801-621-7922 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 4 Axis Machining Inc.____303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 Faustson___________303-420-7422 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 Foremaster Tool______ 801-737--0265 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine__ 435-563-9425 Micropulse West______ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine_ 435-755-0500 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Quick Turn Precision___ 801-334-6800 A2Z METALWORKER
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FOUNDER & CEO NATE WOODS nate@quickturn mach.com 3340 South 1500 W, Ogden, UT 84401
801-334-6800 www.QUICKTURNMACH.com
R&H Machine ________801-621-7922 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 Stacy Machine & Tooling__ 303-465-3922 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Superior Metal Products___ 303-791-7550 RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 TVT Die Casting_______800-280-2278 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Machining: R & D S.A.Composites______ 970-776-3877 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 St. Vrain__________ 303-702-1529 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Stacy Machine & Tooling___ 303-465-3922 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Superior Metal Products_ 303-791-7550 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 The Toolroom Inc._______801-773-6331 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_208-522-7341 Superior Metal Products___ 303-791-7550 Machining: Precision Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Machining: Swiss 4 Axis Machining Inc.___ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Focused on Machining___ 303-922-3076 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 White Rock Inc________ 435-750-6414 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Machining: Turning Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Precision Machined Prod.__ 970-482-7676 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 A2Z METALWORKER
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Datum Machining______208-376-6099 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 H&R Precision________ 801-975-7400 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine___ 435-563-9425 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine___ 435-755-0500 Prec Mach’d Products____ 970-482-7676 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Quick Turn Precision___801-334-6800 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_208-522-7341
MOLDS Colorado Tool Design Inc_ 720-218-5246 Lifetime Products_____ 801-728-1260 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Progway__________435-656-9585 Molds: Blow Lifetime Products_____ 801-728-1260 Molds: Plastic Injection Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604
Machining: Ultra-Precision Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Machining: Waterjet Colorado Waterjet____970-532-5404 Quick Turn Precision___801-334-6800 MANUFACTURING A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 Group Mfg Serv______480-966-3952 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Composites S.A. Composites________970-776-3877 Contract Apex Engineering_____ 435-713-0072 Manufacturing: Electrode Wire-Tech_________ 480-966-1591 Production Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Laser Concepts Inc.____ 801-280-7723 Steen & Sons Machine Shop_208-522-7341 White Rock Inc________ 435-750-6414 Rapid Prototyping White Rock Inc________ 435-750-6414 Robotic CNC DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Routering CNC DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Small Part Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 White Rock Inc________ 435-750-6414 Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 METAL INJECTION MOLDING (MIM) Progway___________435-656-9585 METAL STAMPING Hi-Production Precision Stamping Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping__ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453
Molds: Trim Die Design Colorado Tool Design Inc__ 720-218-5246
Molds: DieCast Design Colorado Tool Design Inc__ 720-218-5246 Molds: Injection Design Colorado Tool Design Inc__ 720-218-5246
Molds Steel DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 Arizona Finishing_____602-438-4443 ChemResearch______ 602-253-4175 Jet Processing____ 623-869-6749x117 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 PAINTING Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Jet Processing______ 623-869-6749 x117 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Mil Spec Painting IndustrialEX__________ 303-456-6847 Wet Paint/CARC Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 PARTS: MISC. Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 PLATING Blanchard Metals Proc.__ 801-972-5590 ChemResearch______ 602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties_______ 602-269-7612 Anodizing Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 ChemResearch________ 602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing___ 602-275-3117 Jet Processing_____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 Gold/Silver Plate Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Nickel/Chrome Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Tin Plate Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930
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LA Specialties_______ 602-269-7612 PRECISION FORMING Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 Wrico____________480-892-7800 PRINTING Custom Screen ImageTek__________303-806-8111 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties________ 602-269-7612 PUNCHING JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Group Manufacturing Serv_ 480-966-3952 Star Precision________303-926-0559 REPAIR Bearing Surface Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Hydraulic Cylinder Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Manufacturing Equipment Stacy Machine & Tooling__303-465-3922 ROLL FORMING Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 Rolling: thread 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 Hexatron__________ 801-363-8010
Specialty Steel Services__ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS Flat & Wire SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 STAMPING Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Lifetime Products______801-728-1260 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 Weiser/Mile High Prec._303280-2778 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Aerospace Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Stamping:Bending Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 Stamping:Deep Draw Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Design Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Weiser/Mile High Prec._303280-2778 Stamping:Flat Forming SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Light Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Stamping:Precision Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Pacific Metal Stampings___ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Stamping:Prototype Wrico____________480-892-7800 Stamping:Short Run Cygnet____________ 818-240-7574 Wrico____________ 480-892-7800
SWISS SCREW MCHG. Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 White Rock Inc________ 435-750-6414 Screwing: Lead Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 TAPPING Laser Concepts Inc._____ 801-280-7723 TEST FIXTURES RPM CNC Precision Machine_ 208-442-1999 TESTING Testing: Corrosive CascadeTEK_________888-835-9250 Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 CascadeTEK_________888-835-9250 Jet Processing_____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing___ 801-972-2146 THERMFORMING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 TOOL & DIE Foremaster Tool______ 801-737--0265 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Wrico____________480-892-7800
Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 GBC_____________303-988-6450 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 JQ Enterprises________ 801-975-0777 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Laser Concepts Inc._____ 801-280-7723 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Precision Plus Machining__ 970-484-9511 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Quick Turn Precision_____801-334-6800 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Weiser/Mile High Prec._303280-2778 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 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod___ 303-427-6419 Premier Technology Inc___208-785-2274 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Weiser/Mile High Prec._303280-2778 Welding: Robotic Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG Arrow Sheet Metal Prod___ 303-427-6419 GBC_____________303-988-6450 Mountain View Machine___ 435-755-0500
TOOLING Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Stacy Machine & Tooling__ 303-465-3922 Western Sintering______509-375-3096 TUBE FORMING Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Formed Tubing Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Tube Bending /Fabrication Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 WATERJET CUTTING Colorado Waterjet___ 970-532-5404 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 JQ Enterprises________ 801-975-0777 Leading Edge Machine___435-563-9425 Marzee Inc._______ 602-269-5801 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Quick Turn Precision_____801-334-6800 WELDING WIRE FORMING Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod___ 303-427-6419 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 65 /Aug 2014 65••July July/Aug 2009
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Desert Machine Tool Repair...49,58 DMSI...59 Dolphin Inc...59 Edge Technologies...56 EDM Express...38-39,59 EDM Network...55 EDM Perf. Accessories...55 EMJD Corp....61 Erickson Metals...53 Fabricating Equipment Sales..55 Falcon Sheet Metal...63 Faustson...12,60 Fives...54 Flow International...53 Focused On Machining...62 Foremaster Tool...63 Gage Lab Products...54 Ganesh Machinery...23,62 GBC...60 Gladhill Assoc...44,53 Global EDM Supply...40,54 GMA Garnet Group...58 GMN USA...44,54 Gold Tech Industries...48,59 Group Manufacturing...60 H&R Precision...60 HAAS Automation...2,53 Hangsterfers...54 Hartwig...53 Helical Solutions...55 Hexatron...61 HillTrac/SkyTrac...36-37 Horizon Carbide...55 Howell Precision...48,61 HPMP...12,65 Hurco...57 Hydmech...14,57 Image Tek...61 Industrialex...59 Industrial Heat Treat Co...61 Innovative Precision...59 IRH...56 Iron & Metals, Inc...47,56 JD Machine...59 J.M. Grisley...25,53,55 Jordan River Galvanizing...63 Jorgensen Machine Tools ...53,56 JQ Enterprises...64 K.D. Capital Equipment...55 King Machine...23,56 Kloeckner Metals...57 Klontech Industrial...55
Kustom Koncepts...60 L.A. Specialties...60 Laser Concepts...62 LAYKE Inc...64 Layke Tactical...57 Leading Edge Machine...62 Lifetime Products, Inc...61 LMI Machining...62 Loveridge Machine...63 Marzee...34,61 Maverick Mold & Machine...59 May Foundry & Machine...59 MEP...55 Metalcraft...63 Metal Supermarkets...55,57 Methods West...53 Micro 100...46,54 Micropulse West ...59 Midaco..56 Monckton Mach...2,35,42-43, 53,57 Mountain View...59 Nelson Engineering...60 Newport Tool...63 Ogden-Weber Tech College...55 OGP...54 Olympic Metals...24,56 Omax...53 Orion Registrar...55 Pacific Metal Stampings...65 Paramount Machine...60 Phoenix Heat Treating...62 Pilkington Metal Finishing...61 Pinnacle Precision..63 Ponderosa Industries...62 Precision Die & Stamping....65 Precision Industrial Painting...65 Precision Mach’d Products...64 Precision Plus Machining...42-43,63 Precision Tech...63 Premier Technology Inc...62 Progway...61 Qualichem...56 Quick Turn Financial...58 Quick Turn Precision...64 R&H Machine...62 Radtech...63 RD Machine...64 Resell CNC West...19,58 ResourceMfg...31,60 Richards Fab...60
RPM CNC Precision Machine...59 RMTMA...22,52 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...56 Roentgen USA...56 Ron Grob CO....61 Royal Products...41,53 Ryerson...17,53,55-57 SA Composites...65 S&S Machinery...54 Samuel Son & CO..7,29,56 Sandvik...53 Sawblade.com...5 Seco Tools Inc...54 Setco Spindles & Slides...54 Shop Tools, Inc..10,54 Skydandee Mfg...59 Smith Machinery...1,26-28,53,67 SolidCAM...18,58 Specialty Steel Serv....32,60 SPRING WORKS Utah...64 St. Vrain Manufacturing...63 Stacy Machine & Tooling,...20,59 Star Metal Fluids...9,53 Star Precision...60 Steel Services Grinding...61 Steen & Sons Machine..62 Superior Grinding..8,61 Superior Metal Products...64 Sustaining Edge Solutions...54 TAPIT All Lubricants...54 TCI Precision Metals...15,55 TechLeader Tooling...36 The ToolRoom Inc...65 Todd Machinery...20,53 Thompson Machine...61 Tornos...11,53 Triad Machinery...33,54 Trusty Cook...13,58 TVT Die Casting...50-51,59 TW Metals...56 Universal Laser Systems...22 United Performance Metals...45,57 Utah Metal Works, Inc...16,56 Von Ruden Mfg...53,55 Wasatch Laser Forming...63 Weiser/Mile High Precision...65 Western Sintering...65 Western States Calibration...57 Western States Metals...32,54 White Rock...65 Wrico Stamping...46,61
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