a2z metalworker magazines for az, nv, & nm

Vol. 17, No. 1 Jan/Feb 2011

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Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico EditionArizona, Nevada, and New Mexico Edition

Meet US Carbide Tool LLC - A Superior, High Quality, Precision

Tool Grinding Company

“First of all Joel (Young) is my closest buddy - he bought the first machine from Lambert Machinery back in 1981, plus a lot more. We’ve vacationed with him and his wife in Samoa, the Cook Islands and Mexico.

One of Joel’s friends has a Stinson, a WWII trainer. Anyway, I mentioned to Joel one day that I never had a chance to fly in an open cockpit, and that now it’s too late.

Well not to be outdone, Joel and his friend bought a sling, rigged up a hoist to his forklift and set me up on Veterans Day for a flight. It happened, which goes to prove that anything is possible. Had a great time once I got over a bad case of nerves.” Bill

p.s. Joel Young is founder of Matrix Machine.

A letter from A2Z Metalworker founder Bill Lambert, Who Just Celebrated 82 Years. It

inspires me to make a bucket list!

CONTRIBUTORSRobbie Barrkman

Gene WirthKim Carpenter

Announcements/Releases......................6-7Shop Profile .....................................1,26-28Buyers Guide Equipment....................76-82Buyers Guide Processes ....................83-93Card Gallery .......................................76-93Index of Advertisers .................................94Editorial..................................... Throughout

CoverUS Carbide Tool LLC is a Superior Precision Tool Grinding Company using Best in Class Technology and Peoplel. This Month’s Shop

Profile. Photography by Robbie.

Published by:A2Z MetalworkerPUBLISHER/EDITOR

Linda [email protected]

Mail Address: PO Box 93295Phoenix, AZ 85070

Telephone: (602) 412-7696

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Editors Corner

Linda DalyPublisher

Published bi-monthly to keep metalworkers abreast of news and to supply a viable vendor source for the industry.Circulation: The A2Z Metalworker has compiled

and maintains a master list of approximately 6100 people actively engaged in the precison manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 18,300 people.Advertising Rates, deadlines and mechanical

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Imagine being able to say at the end of your life’s journey: “I’ve experienced everything I ever wanted in life!” And what better way to have a fulfilling, adventurous life than by creating a bucket list, and over time crossing off each item on your list? Do your bucket list now, regardless of how young you are!

If you are like most of us, you will likely include travel on your life list, but I think you should also take the time to decide what you want to accomplish in each area of your life. Think about the following:

• Starting a profitable business doing what you love; finding work that gives you a sense of fulfillment; being among the best in the world in your field.

• Finding and marrying the love of your life; having healthy, beautiful children; getting to know and enjoy your grandchildren.

• Doing all the things to help yourself stay healthy and age gracefully! Have fun, but everything in moderation!

• Volunteering at a homeless shelter; just doing things all the time that are truly altruistic.

• Having enough money to be able to finance your life goals; having enough money to give back to the community.

• Having the ability to love; to forgive; to exhibit kindness. You want to be characterized as a generous, good person.

Creating and achieving your life list is about deciding what you really want and taking the necessary actions to accomplish your goals. You will need to incorporate behaviors into your daily life which will help you to gradually become the person you are proud to be. Go ahead, make that bucket list!

I wish you a very successful, happy and healthy New Year, and God Bless our Troops.

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Announcements & ReleasesWhat Makes Absolute Turning & Machine Stand Out Among Its Competitors

In 1999 Absolute Turning & Machine, Inc. was founded as a cam Swiss and CNC lathe shop. Today, they are a CNC Swiss turning shop dedicated to providing precision parts to their diversified customer base.

They specialize in precision machining of all metals and plastics parts in their 6,000 square foot facility is located in Tucson,

Arizona. The company is capable of running prototype quantities thru high volume production of the most complex parts and usually manufacturing them in one operation.

What makes Absolute Turning & Machine stand out among its competitors is the company’s outstanding quality, its ability to produce precision components without a second or third operation, and its dedicated employees. Their metalworking professionals produce parts for some of the most recognized company names in their respective industries. When you put these elements together you get precision parts run more efficiently that cost less, by people who care.

For more information on Absolute Turning and Machine, Inc., call (520) 624-5628 or visit or website at www.atmswiss.com.

Precision Metalworks of Arizona, Inc. is under new management!

Matthew Carlson Sales Manager, is taking PMA to the next level with Lean Manufacturing concepts and Six Sigma initiatives.

PMA has a long history in the valley as a precision sheet metal fabrication center. Now with new and improved processes PMA can continue to serve their Customers and improve on the way the products flow through the facility. This improved flow allows for higher quality products, reduced lead times, and competitive pricing.

Call, Adrian Alcantar, General Manager today to receive a very competitive quote on your sheet metal requirements: 602-455-9575 • [email protected] • www.PMAofAZ.com.

Attention OMAX Users

Arizona CNC is pleased to announce that they have begun locally stocking genuine OMAX replacement parts in their Tempe facility. Customers now have the convenience of having many commonly used parts available for pick up the same day they are ordered.

“We are constantly looking for ways to better serve our customers, so when a number of them expressed the desire to have faster availability of replacement parts we decided why not keep them in stock here. ” said Greg Whelan, President of AZCNC. “Customers can avoid the delay of shipping from Kent, WA. and avoid the added expense of overnight shipping.”

For a complete listing of parts available please contact Arizona CNC Equipment at 480-615-6353.

Bob Hudzik of Sun Tech & Eng. Announces The Doors Are Open To ‘Old And New’ Customers

Bob Hudzik, formally owner of Sun EDM Inc.,.started in the valley in 1980. His entrepreneurial attitude to service and quality, with a ‘one stop EDM shop’ is alive & well, and he is ready to serve you, again. Now at his new business---Sun Tech & Eng.

Bob has always been known to reach out to others in the EDM and machining community to assist with their EDM projects. His customers say he is always trying to find a better way to “build a better mouse trap” to keep his business competitive, with the can do attitude.

Sun Tech & Eng. welcomes all quotes. For more information, call 480-921-1665, email at, [email protected] or just stop by at 1930 E. Third Street, Suite 13, in Tempe.

L.A. Specialties, A Veteran Owned Plating Company, Announces ISO Certification

L.A. Specialties, Inc. owners Lynda and Barry Armstrong are pleased to announce their recent certification to ISO9100:AS9100. Their business consultant was Anna Seedhill, IFLEX Resource Management, LLC. The plating and metal finishing company opened its doors in 1986.

Today, the company is known as “the ones you call to solve your intricate plating issues with complicated parts,” Barry said.

L.A. Specialties offers plating in electroless nickel, gold, copper, bright nickel, chromium, as well as Chemfilm (clear and yellow), passivate and polishing.

For more information, contact L.A. Specialties, Inc. at 602-269-7612 or visit their website at www.laspecialties.com

Haas Factory Outlet names Service Tech of the Year

Haas Factory Outlet in Tempe, Arizona has named Ed Laprade Service Tech of the Year.

Presenting the award for outstanding customer service at a recent company gathering, General Manager, Patrick Ellison said, “Ed goes above and beyond the already high bar that is set for our service team with his unyielding

commitment to customer satisfaction and extensive knowledge of Haas cnc machine tools.”

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Announcements & ReleasesEd Laprade came to HFO-Phoenix in January 2009 with over three decades of experience in installation, maintenance and repair of machine tools in New England. Twelve years as a Factory Certified Haas Service Technician has prepared Ed to serve the Haas customers in the Tucson area with the dedication and focus they deserve.

Haas Factory Outlet –Phoenix is a division of Ellison Machinery Company, the leading machine tool distributor in Arizona. For more information on the machine tool sales, service, parts and training the company offers call (480) 968.5877 or visit www.ellisonaz.com. SwissTech Tooling & Manufacturing Celebrated 25th Year Anniversary!

Swisstech Tooling & Manufacturing, located at 15895 N 77th Street, Scottsdale, AZ, is celebrating its 25th year of quality custom machining in the Scottsdale Airpark.

Swisstech Tooling features 15 CNC machining centers along with complete lathe, milling, grinding, and finishing departments.

Swisstech Tooling additionally added a screw machine and a 5th axis lathe to provide more versatility and faster turn around times for their customers.

Swisstech Tooling thanks their loyal customers for their continued support and they invite you to give them a call at 480-998-2005.

Adams Machinery’s Family Grows!

Adams Machinery is proud to announce the latest addition to the Adams Family Service team. Ellis James Hornbeak was born December 11, 2010 weighing in at 7 pounds 6 ounces. Though it is early to speculate, Ellis James is a potential new candidate for the Adams Machinery service organization!

Proud father Scott Hornbeak came to Adams Machinery with 11 years experience in manufacturing and design. He worked for a midwest machine shop for six years programming, autocad designing and overseeing the laser-marking department. For two years Scott serviced and sold nationwide for a workholding company. Scott has formal training in Mazatrol programming, Autocad, Mechanical Desktop, and LaserCad. The team at Adams Machinery welcomes calls to congratulate Scott!

Methods West Hosts ‘Kickin AZ’ Open House

Methods West’s “Kickin’ AZ” Open House event was a resounding success this year! Chris Porter, general manager, announced that attendance over the three days exceeded 400 guests, representing over 90 companies.

Three lucky attendees won Citizen watches donated by Citizen Machinery, and three other lucky attendees each won a $50 gift certificate donated by LNS.

Chris says, “Thanks to all that attended, and for the support from our partners!”

Swiss Precision in the Arizona Desert

Tornos represents the top of the line when it comes to Swiss turning machine tool technology, which is why North South Machinery is proud to now be representing the brand all across ‘The Grand Canyon State’. The Tornos product line offers Swiss turning machine tool solutions for manufactures of every size and scope. With the all-new versatile and powerful ‘EvoDECO’ machine, to the entry level ‘Delta’ machine dedicated to cost-effectively machining parts with simple geometries, Tornos quality and North South experience makes any manufacture’s equipment choice an easy one.

North South sales representative Glen Zachman,with 25 years of industry experience, says, “Tornos is known as the leader in Swiss Screw machines and the only manufacturers headquartered in Switzerland. With their introduction of the entry level machines they know complete the Swiss style with a full range of Swiss Screw machines.”.

Jim Swartzbaugh, President of North South Machinery, also shared his thoughts on why North South is proud to be carrying the Tornos banner in the valley of the sun saying, “We’ve built our business around the philosophy that partnering with the best is the only recipe for success. From our sales and support teams, to the products we represent, we pride ourselves having done just that. Tornos’ products are the ‘Porsche’ of turning machines. Quality, accuracy, speed and yield... there is nobody better, which is why they are a such perfect fit for us at North South.”

For information on Tornos products, contact North South’s Glen Zachman at 602.391.4696, or visit their website at www.northsouthmachinery.com!

Landmark Manufacturing Continues To Focus On Quality!

Landmark Manufacturing is in process of completing ISO/AS9100 certification. Why? AS9100 - Quality Management Systems: Aviation, Space & Defense Organizations AS9100 is the international management system standard for the Aircraft, Space and Defense (AS&D) industry.

The standard provides suppliers with a comprehensive quality system for providing safe reliable products to the aerospace industry. AS 9100 also addresses civil & military aviation requirements.

Landmark Manufacturing has the key people in place to take care of its customers; Karen Brown and Kirsten Berndsen are waiting for your call. Please call them at: 480 940-4001 or email; [email protected].

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ARIZONA CNC offers a wide range of top quality, new and used equipment, in all sizes, capabilities and prices. When it comes to machine tools or accessories to enhance your productivity, you can count on getting the right solution for the right price, without compromise.

RELIABLE SERVICE SUPPORT

Local, Responsive, Factory Certified Your emergency is our emergency. So don’t panic. If anything goes wrong with your equipment, call Arizona CNC. You will get a quick response from an expert, factory certified service engineer. On-site or over the phone, AZCNC's team of expert service personnel can solve problems fast-usually within hours. Your uptime is our goal.

Keep in mind time spent preventing problems can save you the unwanted costs of having to fix them later. AZCNC offers preventive maintenance programs to help you avoid unexpected downtime through managed care of your equipment.

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Knowledgeable, ExperiencedOur goal is to provide you with the right solution and improve your profitability. The cheapest machine on the market is seldom the best value or the most cost effective. Our sales engineers are trained professionals with the ability to recognize and apply the appropriate manufacturing process for your needs. Their understanding of processes as well as product enables them to find the most efficient machine tool for your application. Our sales staff also can present you with the financing options that make your machine tool purchases more affordable.

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Time Studies, Programming Services, Training, Turnkey Projects, AutomationIf you are looking for a partner to help solve your machining challenges and optimize your cycle times turn to our applications engineering department. You benefit from the knowledge and experience that comes with people who work full time solving tough problems for various companies every day. Whether it’s evaluating your parts to help you make your machine selection, training the people in your facility to maximize your productivity or providing you a full turnkey system we are committed to your success.

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We are proud to be a 100% locally owned and operated company and our mission has always been to be the supplier of choice to Arizona’s manufacturing companies – the ones determined to find a better way to compete in this world’s economy. We offer everything from parts to production-ready systems. And we do so with a friendly, personal touch, too often missing in today’s click-and-order environment. Call us with your manufacturing challenges. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by what we can provide!

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Hardinge Announces Alliance with a Premier Distribution Company in the US

ELMIRA, NY: Hardinge Inc. (www.hardinge.com) is pleased to

announce an alliance with Arizona CNC Equipment, LLC. They will have exclusive sales and support responsibilities for Hardinge products in Arizona and portions of Nevada. Over a transition period of the next few months they will replace the current Hardinge distributor and service support group.

“We are honored to be working with this caliber of distributor that will sell and support our products.” said Rick Simons, President and CEO of Hardinge Inc. “Arizona CNC has been serving job shops and manufacturers in the region since last century. They bring a team of well trained sales, service and applications people to assist in future sales and provide service support on existing Hardinge equipment in the field. Their reputation as capable, comprehensive and a professional organization make for a perfect fit with Hardinge.”

“Hardinge is a strong company with strong brand names of Hardinge, Bridgeport, Kellenberger, Hauser and Tschudin. We have a loyal customer base who appreciates the benefits of buying machines and accessories with our brand names. We are confident in entrusting our customer relationships to this group and are also pleased that Arizona CNC has confidence in Hardinge. We believe our products complement their existing strong machine lines,” continued Mr. Simons.

Hardinge announced earlier this year its intention to further strengthen its brand reputation for precision, continuous machining accuracy and longevity through ongoing and increased focus on the advancement of our precision, SUPER PRECISION and SP

2 technology and products. Hardinge will continue to develop and introduce the

world’s finest lathes, machining centers, grinding machines and workholding to support and enhance the businesses of manufacturers around the world.

About Hardinge Inc. Hardinge is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of machine tools, specializing in SUPER PRECISION(TM) and precision CNC Lathes, high performance Machining Centers, high-end cylindrical and jig Grinding Machines, and technologically advanced Workholding & Rotary Products. The Company's products are distributed to most of the industrialized markets around the world with approximately 69% of the 2008 sales outside of North America. Hardinge has a very diverse international customer base and serves a wide variety of end-user markets. This customer base includes metalworking manufacturers which make parts for a variety of industries, as well as a wide range of end users in the aerospace, agricultural, transportation, basic consumer goods, communications and electronics, construction, defense, energy, pharmaceutical and medical equipment, and recreation industries, among others.. The Company has manufacturing operations in the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China. Hardinge's common stock trades on NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol, "HDNG." For more information, please visit http://www.hardinge.com

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Hardinge is the leader in providing highly reliable turning, milling, grinding and workholding solutions unmatched in the industry for more than 100 years.

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Perfect ion Industr ial F inishing Announces ISO/AS9100 Certification!

Perfection Industrial Finishing is a home grown metal finish manufacturing company. The company grew largely through word of mouth and mostly with the automobile/motorcycle/bicycle re-finishers/restorers/enthusiasts, and then residential lawn and patio furniture. The company owners Charles (Chuck) and Peggy Zinke wanted to change the mom and pop type homogeneous growth and concentrate growing the business through more sophisticated offerings in metal finishing. By pursuing and

achieving the ISO/AS9100, Perfection Industrial Finishing will now be able to bid on jobs for the military, aerospace and avionics industries.

In September of 2009, Chuck made an announcement at an all employees meeting, “this will not be the same company a year from now – and you are either on board for the change or you probably won’t be here. I hope all of you are here, but this company will change!” And change we did!

Not being able to afford the cost of overtime to bring employees in to clean up the shop, Gail Holman suggested and asked for a volunteer employee Saturday. Chuck said that his employees would never go for it. The 1st volunteer Saturday, almost 70% of his staff showed up at 6AM to start a clean up of the shop – Employees were learning about 5S (5S represents 5 disciplines for maintaining a visual workplace – foundational to Kaizen: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain). When everyone came to work the following Monday, everyone wanted to know when the next volunteer Saturday would be – all of a sudden everyone at the shop started getting on board.

The Company has Volunteer Saturdays once a month for about 4 hours.

Next was the cost of the Audit – how would a small metal finishing manufacturing company be able to afford the cost? Gail contacted Pima County One Stop to find out about the “Wired Grant”. Chuck and Gail collaborated on writing a Grant that Pima County accepted – the Company was awarded a $26,000 Grant in December of 2009.

The Company selected Perry Johnson as their Auditors – the 3 day Audit was October 11 – 13, 2010. After a grueling inspection of all documents, procedures, work instructions, job descriptions, and employee interviews, the Company passed! For more information, contact Perfection Industrial Finishing at 520-434-9090.

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New Boeing Leader Takes Helm Amid Major Contract

Boeing’s new leader of Apache helicopter operations and the first $30 million contract to build the next generation of unmanned aircraft are arriving at the aerospace giant’s Mesa campus at the same time.

David Koopersmith will take over as vice president of the AH-64D Apache and AH-6 helicopter programs, as the company gears up for production of the A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter under a nearly $29.9 million contract from the Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR.

“Our Boeing people and programs in Mesa have a proven track record of providing key capabilities to our military customers in a cost-delivery and performance-certain manner,” he said in a prepared statement. “I look forward to continuing that track record as the Apache and AH-6 programs continue to evolve with new capabilities to serve the war fighters of our country and our allies. I’m thrilled to be part of this world-class team.”

In addition to the Apache programs, he also takes over responsibility for a new unmanned-helicopter contract that will provide two A160T Hummingbird vehicles, three ground control stations and training and support for the Marine Corps.

It comes as Arizona’s multibillion-dollar aerospace industry slowly shifts from conventional aircraft to unmanned aerial systems.

The contract awarded to Boeing/Frontier Systems in Mesa is one of two awarded by the Navy recently in response to an urgent-needs requirement in support of Marine Corps forces in Operation Enduring Freedom, according to Rear Adm. Bill Shannon, program executive officer for NAVAIR’s Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons.

GE Aviation lands more Air Force funds

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has increased a GE Aviation research contract that includes design, build, and test of a full turbofan demonstrator engine.

GE Aviation didn’t disclose program funding details. The company also increased its cost share to fully fund the turbofan program, it said.

GE’s ADVENT program focuses on developing technologies for future military and commercial engines to significantly reduce engine fuel burn. Enabling technologies featured in GE’s demonstrator engines include a hot section featuring advanced composite materials, GE’s next-generation cooled turbine, and the highest overall pressure ratio for any turbofan in GE history.

The Air Force had awarded GE follow-on funding in October 2009 in recognition of the value of the engine design and testing performed during the Phase I contract. Follow-on work included fan rig testing, several system rig demonstrations, and a full-scale core engine test.

The ADVENT project was initially announced in 2007 and intended to develop a highly versatile engine that could operate effectively at a range of altitude, speed and other flight conditions.

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Northrop Grumman gets $324 million for CVN-79 aircraft carrier Share Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding recently received $323.6 million from the U.S. Navy for continued preparation work on the second aircraft carrier in the Gerald R. Ford class, the yet-unnamed CVN-79.

The money will support research studies, engineering, design and the purchase of materials for advanced construction work on select parts of the 1,092-foot ship.

Mike Shawcross, the shipyard’s vice president of the Ford class’ engineering, said the contract modification “signifies the continued support of the Ford program by the Navy and the ship’s importance to our country’s armed forces.”

Including this contract modification, the Newport News shipyard has received $567.9 million from the Navy in the last two months to support the next two nuclear-powered flattops.

Each carrier of the new class is expected to cost between $8 billion and $9 billion.

Design changes to the Ford class include an enhanced flight deck with new technology to launch and recover aircraft, improved weapons-handling systems and new nuclear power plants. The alterations are aimed at reducing the ship’s crew size and operating costs.

The first-in-class Ford is under construction in the major dry dock at the Newport News yard and is expected to be complete and delivered to the Navy in 2015. The Navy plans to award a construction contract for the CVN-79 in 2013.

The shipyard is the only the nation that builds the multibillion-dollar ships for the Navy.

Northrop is taking steps to spin off its shipbuilding unit to investors. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company would be named Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.

D gets shot at missile work

General Dynamics Corp. has been named by the Missile Defense Agency as one of several contractors that will bid on systems engineering and support for the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

The five-year contract is worth as much as $1.6 billion to the companies that bid on it.

Under the contract, General Dynamics will compete for task orders to provide program management and planning, technical, engineering and general-level support and advisory and assistance services.

The Missile Defense Agency, created in 2002, is developing systems that destroy missiles in flight.

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SpaceX Gears Up for Orbital Flight

Space pioneer Elon Musk hopes to put his name in the history books once again, with the planned launch and recovery of the first commercially operated spacecraft from orbit.

But to reach this point, his closely held company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., already has managed to overcome regulatory hurdles never before encountered by the aerospace industry. And federal documents released underscore the bureaucratic complexities and huge technical risks confronting the pioneering effort.

In June, SpaceX, as the company is known, launched its 18-story Falcon 9 rocket and successfully flew it for more than nine minutes. It was the first privately funded U.S. rocket launch in decades.

However, the current scheduled mission to launch and return an unmanned, reusable Dragon capsule from low-earth orbit, anticipated to last for hours, poses many more challenges. Placing the vehicle into a such an orbit at speeds exceeding 17,000 miles per hour, then maneuvering through a fiery reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean will require a flawless trajectory, a reliable heat shield and finally, perfect operation of the redundant parachutes, according to space experts.

Mr. Musk said “the likelihood of us getting everything right “may be no more than 50% on the first try. Considering the difficulties of both the launch and the reentry, he said, in the end “the chance of mission success may be less than that.”

In addition to the stakes for SpaceX, the flight will amount to a unique public test of President Barack Obama’s controversial effort to use NASA to fund and nurture a variety of such commercial spacecraft.

The policy continues to face opposition from many lawmakers, established aerospace contractors and even some Air Force officials worried about relying too heavily on untested pr ivate rockets and spacecraft to replace the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s retiring fleet of space shuttles.

But a successful reentry would propel Mr. Musk, a former Internet entrepreneur who has invested more than $100 million of his personal fortune in the scrappy startup, further into the lead for such ventures.

SpaceX plans to use an unmanned Dragon capsule on top of the same type of rocket, featuring nine separate liquid oxygen and kerosene-burning engines, to start delivering cargo to the international space station in the next few years. The company has scheduled two more demonstration flights before a $1.6-billion NASA contract is slated to kick in to supply the station with cargo.

By relying on and adding to the advanced technology installed in the Dragon capsule, the company eventually also hopes to transport astronauts to the station and later, perhaps deeper into space. Congress, however, is poised to substantially scale back White House proposals to fund manned commercial-space projects.

N A S A h a s aw a r d e d o t h e r commercial cargo-delivery or spacecraft-development contracts, but SpaceX appears to be the farthest along in devising ways to build and fly civilian space vehicles for the government.

The earliest test flight of a rival Lockheed Martin Corp. space capsule–though one intended to be operated by NASA and designed from the outset to carry astronauts deeper into space—is slated for 2013 at the earliest.


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Although the Middle East has felt the impact of a global recession, it’s expected to be among the first of the international markets to lead a gradual recovery in the sale of business jets, Cessna Aircraft’s head of global sales says.

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Andy Wrathall, director of investor relations for BAE, cited “quite a high level of interest” in the unit, but said the process has not yet reached a point that would allow him to forecast how soon a deal might be announced.

Depending on the bids, he said, BAE would move to sell the unit or keep it.“This is not a fire sale or an emergency exit. It’s a very good, strong business,” Wrathall said.

The unit has attracted bids from heavyweights, including General Electric Co, Eaton Corp and Honeywell International Inc., people familiar with the matter told Reuters last month.

With final bids expected this month, GE and Eaton remain interested in the business that is expected to fetch up to $2 billion.

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U.S. and U.K. companies are realigning their structures to profit from a new wave of intelligence, cyber, information and electronic weaponry, as well as the sophisticated sensors that will guide them.The moves come as airborne intelligence-gathering is tied to the new and increasingly sophisticated fields of airborne electronic and cyberattack and directed-energy weapons, including high-power lasers and microwaves.

Three BAE Systems executives recently discussed with Aviation Week how their trans-Atlantic company is moving into the rearranged commercial battlefield for defense products.

“We reorganized over the last two years to fit those capabilities under the same umbrella as ISR solutions,” says Mike Roberts, deputy general manager of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). “We had pieces scattered across the organization, and we wanted more synergy from about 20 areas, including acoustics, underwater systems, advanced airborne platforms, measurements and signatures intelligence (masint), electro-optics, UAVs, identification friend or foe, signals intelligence (sigint) and space-based electronics —anything with an ISR component, and it turned out to be an interesting collection of capabilities.”

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Participants in the annual Air Force Association’s Global Warfare Symposium, including space industry leaders and company and government program managers – got what amounted to a gentle lecture from Defense Department leaders who are bracing for tough years ahead in their development and procurement budgets.

Several industry leaders agreed with the goal of reducing the cost of military space systems, but they differed on how to do it.

“It is not simply enough to demonstrate a need for warfighter capability,” Erin Conaton, undersecretary of the Air Force, said during a speech here. “We simply have to make our programs more competitive” and show that they can improve on “value” to the taxpayer. The head of Air Force Space Command, Gen. Robert Kehler, repeated his mantra that

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While some industry leaders, such as Craig Cooning, vice president of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, saw the challenge as an opportunity, others seemed more pessimistic.

“The defense sector will not be … sheltered from the perfect storm gathering around us” of ballooning national debt and a demand by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to pursue more contract accountability, efficiencies and $101 billion in savings by Fiscal 2016, said JoAnne Maguire, Lockheed Martin Space Systems executive vice president.

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She also questioned the wisdom behind the Pentagon’s recent plans to use more fixed-price contracting. “There are programs where fixed-price, incentive contracts are absolutely the right mechanism,” she said. “But, we [should not be] doing them to affect some kind of free lunch where the contractor pays the freight to the customer’s inability to say ‘no.’”

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Rolls-Royce faces a potential costly rethink of its strategy for the next spin-off of the Trent engine family as Airbus wavers over the design of the A350 and dust settles from the Qantas engine blowout.

The Trent XWB is the latest and physically largest member of the Rolls engine family which powers the world’s biggest jets.

With a fan wider than Concorde’s fuselage and built to devour more than a tonne of air every second, the engine claims to be among the most powerful and flexible in civil aviation. Rolls and Airbus say it is an all-rounder capable of powering all three variants of Airbus’s next generation of airliner, the A350.

The twin-engined jet, due in service from 2013, comes in three sizes from the A350-800 and -900 which seat 270 and 314 respectively to the A350-1000, able to carry 350 passengers.

Rolls says the same Trent XWB will offer thrust from 75,000 pounds (slightly more than the engine used on the four-engined A380) all the way up to 93,000 pounds for the A350-1000.

But industry doubts are growing as to whether the Trent XWB can be efficiently stretched to power the A350-1000 mini-jumbo.That will be a concern since the A350 family is meant to take on two different Boeing competitors -- the future mid-sized 787 Dreamliner and the larger 365-seat Boeing 777.

“The idea that you can cover airplanes from 250 to 350 seats, all at long range, with one type of engine is a fallacy,” said Teal Group aerospace consultant Richard Aboulafia.

The largest customer of the A350, Qatar Airways, joined the chorus recently. “In my view Rolls do not really have an engine for the A350-1000,” Akbar Al Baker told reporters.

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Lockheed Martin Corp. received a fourth production contract for 31 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets valued at $3.48 billion as the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program faces new questions over costs and delays

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The award provides a boost to Lockheed on the eve of their recent review of the JSF led by the Defense Department’s top arms buyer, Ashton Carter. Development and combat testing is running more than four years behind schedule on the F-35, a program with a projected price tag of $382 billion..

Lockheed and the Pentagon will share on a 50-50 basis all overruns topping the F-35’s “target price.” Lockheed would have absorb the entire overrun once the price exceeds an upper- limit “ceiling,” while any savings for beating the target price would be split between the company and the government.

The contract caps a month of negotiations in which the Pentagon sought to convert from an agreement that paid the company all expenses plus a fee for profit while requiring the government to cover any overruns. Those were the provisions for the first 3 JSF production lots of 2, 12 and 17 planes.

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The latest high-stakes maneuvering by Boeing and Airbus does not involve their top-of-the-line models, the 787 Dreamliner and the A380 jumbo jet, but instead their aging smaller workhorses.

The two companies have long been defined by their willingness to take big risks. But perhaps because of all the problems and costs involved with the bigger planes, they have turned more cautious in responding to pressure from the airlines to develop more fuel-efficient substitutes for their smaller planes, the 737 and A320.

Aviation experts say breakthroughs in engine technology offer a rare chance to re-engineer the two companies’ narrow 737s and A320s, which make up three-fourths of the fleets at the largest airlines. But while the new engines could save the airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year, Airbus would have to invest $1.5 billion to $2 billion — and Boeing possibly twice that — to test and install them on the jets.

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But with oil prices back above $80 a barrel, airline executives say that they had hoped to hear cheerier news about faster solutions.The 737s and A320s, which each typically seat 150 to 180 people,

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Alcan Pitches New Alloys

Metals giant Rio Tinto PLC disclosed advanced alloys and contracts with jetliner makers Airbus and Bombardier Inc. in a bid to stem inroads into the aerospace industry by advanced plastics.

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Composites, or advanced plastics, are quickly displacing metals on airplanes because the highly engineered synthetic materials are lighter, more durable and suffer less corrosion. Boeing Co. is using more composites in its new 787 Dreamliner than any previous passenger jet. Rivals Bombardier and Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co., have followed the example.

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During a meeting with his export council, President Obama cast the proposed export control changes as vital to helping revive the U.S. economy.

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EADS is prepared to be more aggressive in making acquisitions as it moves to increase its share of a constrained U.S. defense market.

The European aerospace giant had limited any acquisitions in the U.S. to $500 million or less as it moved to conserve cash after the global economic downturn hit. But with the outlook much improved for its commercial Airbus unit, the company’s board is now prepared to sign off on bigger deals if the right opportunity comes along.

“We’re not restricting ourselves to [the $500 million] level exclusively anymore,” EADS North America CEO Sean O’Keefe said during a Nov. 22 media roundtable in Washington. “The direction I’m getting now from [parent company CEO] Louis Gallois and the board is that we’re prepared to entertain more aggressively companies that can give us market access we don’t currently have ... which would apply to companies with bigger-dollar volumes.”

Sources in the financial community say EADS’s reputation was muddied in 2008 when its large industrial shareholders killed a deal by Gallois to acquire United Industrial Corp., the parent of unmanned systems supplier AAI. Textron later bought the company for $1.1 billion.

Large acquisitions will be needed if EADS is to come anywhere near to reaching its goal of growing its U.S. revenues eightfold by 2020, to $10 billion annually. U.S. defense spending already was flattening and now is under increasing pressure in Washington to be cut as part of a solution to reduce a gargantuan federal budget deficit, thereby limiting industry’s opportunities for organic growth.

Goodrich and Air Arabia Sign Agreement for Support of Airbus A320 Fleet

Goodrich Corporation has signed a nacelle services agreement with Air Arabia for support of nacelles and thrust reversers in the airline’s fleet of more than 50 Airbus A320 aircraft powered by CFM56-5B engines. The 10-year Prime Solutions(R) nacelle services agreement will be managed through Goodrich’s Dubai campus in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, which will provide local support to the fast-growing low-cost carrier based in Sharjah, UAE.

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Senate appropriators included language approving the Navy’s revamped acquisition strategy in an omnibus spending bill that they want to pass, marking a victory for the Navy.

The House of Representatives passed a similar message in a bill recently.But Senator John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been a vocal critic of the Navy’s decision to switch its acquisition strategy and could still hold up approval by the full Senate.

“The story of this ship is one that makes me ashamed and embarrassed,” McCain told Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and other officials, noting that the cost of the new Littoral Combat Ship had more than tripled since its start.Mabus acknowledged the LCS program had a troubled history but said the new acquisition plan was specifically intended to get more ships

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Business groups say tax-cut deal will give boost to growth

The business community gave mostly good reviews to the tentative tax-cut deal between President Barack Obama and Republicans.

If the deal is passed by Congress, all the Bush-era income tax cuts, including those for wealthy Americans, would be extended for two years. The estate tax would be reinstated for two years with a 35 percent rate and a $5 million exemption.

Businesses would be able to expense 100 percent of their capital investments next year, instead of depreciating them over time. The research and development tax credit would be extended for two years.Workers would benefit from a one-year reduction in their payroll tax rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. The long-term unemployed would get a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits, and tax cuts for college students and families with children would be extended as well.Without action, most Americans would face a tax increase Jan. 1.

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A United Technologies Corp. unit entered a joint venture to make the electric power system for a Chinese jetliner, the company said recently.

United Technologies said its Hamilton Sundstrand unit will partner with AVIC Electromechanical Systems Co., a division of the Commercial Aviation Corp. of China, to make the plane’s power system.

United Technologies did not disclose the value of its agreement with AVIC. However it said Hamilton Sundstrand has also been chosen to make the electric system, pilot controls, and fire and overhead protection system for 150-seat C919 jets. The company said those contracts will be worth around $1.5 billion combined.

Boeing gets order for UAV cargo aircraft

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has given Boeing a $29.9 million contract for Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems Services to support the U.S. Marine Corps.

Under the contract, the company will provide two A160T Hummingbird unmanned vehicles, three ground control stations, spares, training and support.

Boeing said the A160Ts are near completion at its facility in Mesa, Ariz.

The contractor-operated contract is the first for Hummingbirds from the company-funded production line. It calls for a period of predeployment operations at a military facility in the continental United States, followed by options for a six-month deployment to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

U.S. Coast Guard Orders New Cutter

A $480 million contract for a new National Security Cutter (NSC) for the U.S. Coast Guard was awarded recently to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding - welcome news for a shipyard in need of new work.

The new ship, which will become the USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753), is the fourth NSC. The new ships are needed to replace a 40-year-old class of cutters that has become harder to keep in service.

Northrop’s Ingalls shipyard already has delivered two NSCs and is working on the Stratton, now 65 percent complete and scheduled to be delivered in the back half of 2011.

The new contract also includes options for long-lead material for NSCs 5 and 6, and an option to build and deliver the fifth NSC.

The new ships are an enormous leap in capability for the Coast Guard, having many new features to carry out a variety of maritime security missions.

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Boeing announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations conducted by Summit Aeronautics Group in Helena, Mont. Summit employs 135 people to manufacture titanium and other hard metal structures for commercial and military aircraft.

This acquisition extends a strong partnership between Boeing and Summit. Summit currently performs hard metal machining on 747-8 fail-safe bars, which allow the flaps to move on the wings; 787 edge frames that fit around the doors; and 767 main-landing-gear beams, which facilitate the landing gear rotation. After the transaction, Summit will continue its work on these Boeing programs and manufacture other machined parts for the 787. Summit also will continue to support existing military programs.

“Bringing this successful partner and its talented employees into Boeing provides additional flexibility to support increased production rates,” said Ross Bogue, vice president of Boeing Fabrication. “It grows our capacity to manufacture titanium and other hard metals structures in support of current and future airplane production requirements.”

Tom Hoffman, president of Summit Aeronautics Group, said, “The acquisition recognizes that our people and capabilities are world class. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Boeing and becoming an integral part of the Boeing production team.”

Through the agreement, Boeing will acquire, among other things, the building, assets and inventory as well as assume operation of the site.

Once acquired, Boeing Fabrication will manage the Helena facility. Boeing Fabrication, which is currently located at 10 sites worldwide, provides key manufacturing and assembly capabilities and technologies to Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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52 markets added private-sector jobs between October 2009 and the same month this year. 46 suffered declines, and 2 were unchanged.

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Chicago recorded the sharpest one-year decline in private-sector employment, losing 56,700 jobs. Runners-up on the downside were San Francisco-Oakland (down 26,200), Detroit (down 25,800), Las Vegas (down 22,000) and Sacramento (down 17,900).

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Boeing received a two-year, $88.1 million contract for Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems, a manned airborne intelligence system.

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“It’s certainly a testament to the strength of the King Air,” said Hawker Beechcraft spokeswoman Nicole Alexander, and it means more work for Wichita.

The system will allow the Army to detect, locate, classify, identify and track surface targets, Boeing said.

The initial contract is for engineering and manufacturing development for four King Airs with options for two additional aircraft and contractor logistics support.

If the options are exercised, the work will span 42 months, Boeing said.Each King Air 350 will be equipped with an electro-optic and infrared full-motion video sensor, a communications intelligence collection system, an aerial precision guidance system, line-of-sight tactical and beyond line-of-sight communications suites, two operator work stations and a self-protection suite.

“It’s definitely an important contract for us,” said Boeing Phantom Works spokeswoman Deborah VanNierop. “We’re excited to have the contract and start executing it.”

The system is tailored to the Army’s needs, Boeing Network & Space Systems president Roger Krone said in a statement.

“The sensor and network capabilities Boeing is offering, along with the reliability and flexibility of the King Air platform, will provide the Army with a new level of battlefield mission support,” Krone said.

Force Protection Receives $17.4 Million in Additional Field Service Awards

Force Protection Industries announced that it has received a firm fixed price modification to existing contract M67854-07-C-5031 from U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command with a total value of approximately $17.4 million extending 54 field service representatives to provide the full spectrum of support, modernization, and upgrade work on the Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle fleet.

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Tokyo Steel Raising Prices By 10 Percent

Reuters repor ts that according to an official with Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., the company plans across-the-board increases on its steel products of about 10 percent, to take place next month.

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Pratt & Whitney Wins Airbus Engine Order

Airbus has selected Pratt & Whitney’s next-generation engine, giving the Connecticut manufacturer a big boost for the jet engine it says saves fuel and reduces noise.

Parent company United Technologies Corp. has spent $1 billion over 20 years to develop the geared turbofan engine. It says the engine significantly improves fuel efficiency, generates fewer carbon emissions and produces less noise than other airplane engines.

Kathleen Padgett, a spokeswoman at Pratt & Whitney, said the company believes the scale of the Airbus order could put the jet engine manufacturer back at a volume similar to what it had when it produced its JT8D engine program beginning in the 1960s.

The market potential is for 4,000 aircraft over 15 years, which would require 8,000 engines and spare parts.

Pratt & Whitney is the No. 3 jet engine maker, after General Electric Co. and Rolls Royce.

The Airbus A320, Pratt & Whitney’s fourth customer, could be its most important for the engine, said analyst Matt Collins at Edward Jones.

The East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney has previously won engine orders for regional jets manufactured by Bombardier, Mitsubishi and Russian

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“Those were an OK start but to get an Airbus or a Boeing is obviously the goal,” Collins said. “This is a major victory.”

The geared turbofan engine has been the highest profile product developed by United Technologies, Collins said.

Analyst Rick Whittington of JSA Research said Boeing is now under pressure to compete, “but I think the reality is that Airbus is in a strong competitive position with these parts.” “It should be a nice spillover for Pratt & Whitney and Airbus,” he said.

The Toulouse, France-based Airbus’ A320 aircraft is scheduled to enter service in 2016.

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“Industry looks at this and rightly asks: ‘So you’re going to force me to pay, but [the overrun] resulted from something you told [industry] to do?’” said Jacques Gansler, a former Pentagon acquisition executive who still is a DoD adviser. “This is certainly one of the issues that will have to be addressed as this is implemented.”

Steve Grundman, an aerospace and defense consultant at Charles River Associates in Boston and former Pentagon industrial affairs chief, sees the guidelines as giving “companies that are willing to take on additional risk a chance to make a lot more money.”

Grundman said he met last week with officials at a firm that typically is a subcontractor on U.S. weapon programs. “They were basically applaud-ing” the new guidelines, Grundman said. He said the unnamed company was especially pleased with one reform announced by Carter: Pentagon contracting officials will be encouraged to break out portions of a larger program that the prime contractor “is not managing efficiently” and give it more focused attention, such as holding a new competition for that work.

The new rules also will require the kind of “should cost” analysis that led Pentagon officials to revamp the F-35 program.

Last year, Carter said he wasn’t satisfied with what the F-35 program office and prime contractor Lockheed Martin told him the new fleet of jets will cost. Carter told Gates the Pentagon should not pay that price, prompting a DoD review to find what the F-35 program “should cost.”Higher profits for contractors?

Gates, Carter and other Defense officials have been meeting semi-regularly with industry to craft the new rules. The duo said they attempted to write them in a way that will lead companies to keep costs down.

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This approach already was used on the Navy’s next-generation nuclear sub-marine, they said. The review helped bring down the expected cost of that program “by 16 percent en route to 27 percent,” Carter said.

Meantime, industry sources also said they have concerns about another part of the new guidelines that appear to remove awards to defense companies that effectively manage subcontractors. While Carter has attempted to assuage such worries by saying that it is not the intent of the rule, AIA’s Sylvester says, “It’s what we’ve been seeing … for several years.”

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OMAX Corporation engineers have accomplished what could be termed a waterjet industry first with their successful adaptation of terrain following technology to a high angle tilting waterjet head. The resulting system is definitively more compact and streamlined than any other previous industry attempts, yet robust to endure the rigors of the

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What a Year For Airline Profits!

What a difference a year makes. On Dec. 15, 2009, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicted the global airline industry would lose $5.6 billion in 2010.

This Dec. 14, Geneva-based IATA said the world’s airlines will instead turn a projected profit of $15.1 billion this year, a swing of more than $20 billion.

While carriers still face big challenges—including the risk of higher oil prices and slim profit margins that fail to cover the cost of capital—the industry clearly has rebounded from the global economic downturn more quickly than anyone imagined. IATA is projecting another $9.1 billion in profits in 2011, with passenger and cargo demand both growing by more than 5%.

Meanwhile, AIA finds that the sky is not falling on military contractors, despite mounting concerns that aerospace will not escape unscathed from the budget deficit turmoil in Washington. Sales of military aircraft by U.S. contractors increased 8% this year to a projected $64.5 billion, more than offsetting the decline in civil aircraft sales. But while AIA sees military aircraft sales rising another 2% in 2011, Blakey says it is clear that military contractors will need to rely more heavily on exports to generate growth as Pentagon budgets tighten.

Sempra solar plant begins operation

Sempra Generation’s Copper Mountain solar power plant in Boulder City, the largest photovoltaic plant in the U.S., opened last month.

The 48-megawatt facility, located on 380 acres in Eldorado Valley on the city’s edge, will generate enough electricity to power about 14,000 homes in a day, Sempra said in a news release.

Construction began in January, employing about 350 workers, who installed nearly 775,000 razor-thin photovoltaic panels at the site.

The plant’s completion “demonstrates that large-scale solar can be developed at a rapid pace to help this country meet its clean energy needs,” Sempra President Jeffrey W. Martin said in the release.The energy produced by the plant has been sold to Pacific Gas and Electric in California under a pair of 20-year contracts.

Boulder City has four projects open or under construction in Eldorado Valley as part of an initiative to generate new revenue for the city, which has seen traditional sources falter and been forced to make budget cuts in response. This year, Sempra will pay $650,000 to the city for its lease.


Arizona MEP delivers results for manufacturersBy Steve Macias

As we slowly emerge from the biggest recession in modern memory, the manufacturing industry is being required to dramatically increase efficiency to remain competitive and profitable. This is despite a volatile political and regulatory environment.

Owning a small manufacturing shop, I am constantly approached by salesman attempting to hawk the newest widget or consulting program that, for a “small fee,” is guaranteed to make my business more efficient.

Over the years, I have become jaded toward the latest and greatest consulting fads. However, during this same time I have always been impressed by the amazing work that the Arizona Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Arizona MEP) does for the manufacturing sector.

The Arizona Manufacturers Council has maintained a strong relationship with Arizona MEP for as long as I can remember, and they are true partner in the health of our industry.

Arizona MEP is a private, not-for-profit company that is faster, less expensive and more flexible than any government-run manufacturing assistance program. The job of the Arizona MEP is to provide consulting and assistance to manufacturers to help them streamline their operations and reduce costs. Manufacturers pay for the services in order to keep

Arizona MEP responsive to market needs, but through public investment, the fees to small manufacturers are kept reasonable. Arizona MEP has proven to be an excellent way to draw down federal dollars and maximize those dollars’ impact on the Arizona economy.

Arizona MEP’s impact on the Arizona economy is significant. During the last five years, Arizona MEP helped to generate $2 billion in positive economic activity from higher sales, cost saving and business investments all centered in the manufacturing sector. Some additional five-year highlights of Arizona MEP include:

• Increased or retained sales of $ 480 million • $34 million is cost saving based on process improvements. • 641 new jobs created • Helped to retain 1,974 jobs • $27 million in cost avoidance • Incentivized $57.1 million dollars in new invest.

The service that Arizona MEP provides to Arizona manufacturers is important to make our state a more competitive place to operate. As we work with policymakers to develop a system to improve Arizona’s economic future, we should think about the valuable role that Arizona MEP plays in our economy. For more information about Arizona MEP go to: http://www.arizonamep.org.

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Oshkosh Defense will provide the U.S. Armed Forces with the first MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) tactical ambulances, giving military medics new capabilities for reaching injured military personnel in otherwise inaccessible battlefield environments. Oshkosh received an order for 250 of the armored, highly mobile ambulances from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC).

“The addition of this vehicle to the U.S. services’ fleets will allow the military to provide urgent medical care in landscapes that are too rugged for other tactical ambulances,” said Ken Juergens, vice president and general manager of Joint Programs for Oshkosh Defense. “We invested in the development of the M-ATV ambulance in response to the military’s need for additional patient recovery and ground transport capabilities. This vehicle expands the military’s M-ATV family of vehicles currently protecting troops and supporting operations in Afghanistan.”

Oshkosh product-design teams worked closely with the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) on the M-ATV tactical ambulance’s design and interior layout. The vehicle can transport two litter patients in a side-by-side layout, and can be configured to carry up to four ambulatory patients. It will be equipped with military-grade ambulance equipment needed to care for patients, including oxygen concentrators, on-board power for medical equipment and IV stabilization equipment.

Based on the M-ATV platform, the new tactical ambulance variant delivers the same proven mobility and MRAP-level protection for reaching military members in the field and transporting them safely back to medical facilities. Deliveries under this order are scheduled to begin in spring 2011. The contract award is for approximately $161 million.

The Oshkosh M-ATV was designed to provide superior off-road mobility for harsh mountainous terrain and unimproved road networks in places like Afghanistan. Oshkosh has received awards to date for nearly 8,400 M-ATVs, as well as spare parts kits, upgrade kits and aftermarket support.

Amtech Announces $68 Million in New Solar Orders Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received approximately $68 million in new solar orders for its diffusion processing systems from existing customers in China and one new customer in Taiwan. Amtech’s fiscal 2011 began October 1, 2010.

J.S. Whang, Chief Executive Officer of Amtech, commented, “These latest orders further demonstrate our ability to provide excellent product and service to the industry and the quality and depth of our expanding solar customer base. We believe the intense effort by our customers and the solar industry to increase cell efficiency will continue to drive demand for our superior diffusion technology. We continue to see excellent quotation activity and remain focused on continued successful execution of our solar growth strategy.”

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U.S. Senate spending bill funds second F-35 engine

A 2,000-page Senate spending bill included $450 million to continue work on a second engine for the Lockheed Martin Corp fighter plane, a program the Pentagon has tried for years to cancel.

The Pentagon wants to save money by canceling the F136 engine being built by General Electric and Britain’s Rolls Royce Group Plc as an alternate to an engine built by United Technologies Corp unit Pratt & Whitney.

But lawmakers, arguing that maintaining competition between the engine teams will save money in the longer term, have continued to fund the controversial program in recent years.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has repeatedly told lawmakers that he will recommend that President Barack Obamaveto any measure that funds the second engine program.

His spokesman, Geoff Morrell, said Gates continued to strongly oppose the “extra engine” and would repeat his views about a veto to the president “at the right time.”

“Given the on-going fiscal pressures facing the nation, the case against it is more pressing and persuasive today than ever before,” Morrell said.

“As this legislation works its way through Congress, the secretary urges lawmakers to reconsider spending another half-billion dollars on an

engine the department neither needs nor wants.”

The Senate spending bill also includes thousands of projects known as earmarks that have become a symbol of wasteful spending for many voters, which could complicate efforts to ensure continued funding for the federal government before Saturday, when the current spending bill expires.

Republicans, who will take over control of the House of Representatives next year, are strongly opposed to earmarks and the $1.1 trillion measure will not be able to pass the Senate without at least some Republican support.

The Senate bill included $102.7 billion in procurement funding, but it cut the proposed purchase of F-35 fighters by seven planes to 35. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; editing by Andre Grenon)

Boeing Sees `More Adding Than Subtracting’ in Defense

Boeing Co., the second-biggest defense contractor, plans to grow through smaller acquisitions in new industries and by boosting international sales, even as U.S. military spending declines.

“I’d like to build out additional capacities and get more balance,” Dennis Muilenburg, president of the company’s defense unit, said in an interview today at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York. “It’s more about adding than subtracting.”

Boeing Defense Systems has bought 10 companies in three years to expand in unmanned systems; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; computer networks; and logistics services. Chicago-based Boeing will stick with that strategy rather than seeking to join with a similar-sized rival because mergers in the past two decades have shrunk the industry, Muilenburg said.

“I don’t see large-scale consolidation,” he said. “In some cases our customers are left with a single or two suppliers at the prime level. Even in the second and third tier, the number of competitors is dwindling.”

Boeing is second only to Lockheed Martin Corp. in military sales, with $33.7 billion in 2009 revenue, compared with $34.1 billion for the company’s commercial-airplanes business.

The company will have to look to countries such as India for sales growth as U.S. military spending will be unchanged or even drop slightly over the next five years, Muilenburg said. Foreign contracts make up about 18 percent of Boeing’s defense sales and will grow to 25 percent in five years, he said.

Annual sales growth will exceed 10 percent in cyber- security, the focus of about half of Boeing’s recent purchases, Muilenburg said. He said he would continue to look for “selective, niche” takeover targets.

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Semprius Installs High Concentration Photovoltaic Demonstration System at Tucson Electric Power

Semprius, Inc., a developer of High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) panels, announced the installation of the industry’s first microcell-based High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) Research Development & Demonstration (RD&D) system. Deployed at Tucson Electric Power (TEP) in August, 2010, the system combines Semprius’ innovative high efficiency HCPV modules with a highly optimized, automated solar tracking system developed by Siemens. The TEP project is part of a joint development agreement signed by Semprius and Siemens in January 2010 that will result in the deployment of numerous new HCPV systems at test sites around the world.

Semprius supplied the HCPV modules for the TEP system. HCPV offers the lowest solar levelized cost of energy in sunny, dry climates of any photovoltaic technology by providing higher conversion efficiency and higher energy yield. Using a patented production process, Semprius has developed innovative microcells which increase system performance and reliability and decrease cost. These high efficiency gallium arsenide-based microcells, measuring only 600 microns by 600 microns in area and less than 10 microns thick, are up to 300 times smaller than cells used by competing HCPV manufacturers. Optics concentrates the sunlight 1,000 times so that only 0.1% of the module area is covered with the microcells. The microcell’s very small size enables use of low cost optics and electrical interconnects, which remove the heat eliminating the need for costly thermal management solutions.

“Our technology’s extremely small footprint and high efficiency play a key role in minimizing HCPV system cost and improving performance and reliability,” said Joe Carr, CEO of Semprius. “By collaborating with such leaders in renewable energy as Siemens and Tucson Electric Power, we believe this demonstration system will represent a major step forward in the continuing effort to drive down the cost of solar power.”

Siemens supplied the 2-axis tracker for the RD&D system at TEP. The tracker, which uses Siemens’ Simatic S7-1200 automation system and NREL’s Solar Positioning Algorithm, provides a tracking accuracy of better than 0.2 degrees. The Siemens industrial electronics components are designed to operate in Arizona’s arid desert climate. The tracker also features built-in remote data acquisition capability that allows Semprius to monitor the performance of the system.

“Competitive project deployment cost for HCPV will be the key for the success of this technology,” noted Peter Krause, Business Segment Manager for Siemens Industry, Inc. “By combining our advanced automation and control equipment with Semprius HCPV panel, we believe this project will demonstrate the technology’s potential to deliver grid-level prices to utility customers.”

“We’re looking forward to learning how Semprius’ HCPV technology performs in our service territory, particularly during periods of peak electric usage,” said Steve Metzger, Superintendent at Tucson Electric Power. “This collaborative project will contribute significantly to our efforts to evaluate and improve the performance of solar technologies employed by TEP customers.”

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Study: Arizona top solar exporter, but lags in consumption

It should come as no surprise if I write that Arizona is a great place for solar energy.

The latest proof, other than the sun rising in the east this morning, is a study out of Arizona State University that finds Arizona is the best place for companies interested in exporting solar power.The study, published in The Electricity Journal and authored by Matthew Croucher, an assistant research professor at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business, used statistics from sources, including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in compiling his list of best solar energy exporters.In addition to sunshine, Arizona has many qualities that make it a good power exporter, such as a lower cost to deploy, Croucher said. “We should really be looking at deployment and exporting as much as possible.”

A lot of people agree with Coucher, most in the solar industry.

First Solar Inc., for instance, is working on a project outside of Yuma to export power to California. Other utility-scale solar providers are looking at doing the same. In fact, the only project keeping all its power in the state is Abenoga Solar’s Solana Generating Station outside Gila Bend.

Arizona leads the pack of solar power exporters, followed by Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Hawaii, Arkansas, Wyoming, Alabama and Missouri, which tied for eighth, and California.

The interesting thing about Croucher’s study is that while Arizona ranks at the top in exporting solar power, it ranks only 13th for its own consumption. Topping that list was Hawaii.

The reason, Croucher said, is because Arizona has relatively low electricity prices and because the state isn’t as reliant as some on fossil fuels. With much of its power provided by Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the state’s carbon dioxide emissions are lower than many others.

In consumption of solar power, Hawaii was followed by New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, a tie between Alabama and Mississippi, and a tie between Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center gets capacity boost

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In early 2011, LANSCE—one of the nation’s highest intensity linear proton accelerators—will begin upgrades that will effectively double the facility’s capacity for experiments and tests on electronic devices by Laboratory, industrial, and academic users.

The facility has been used for more than a decade by a virtual Who’s Who of the semiconductor industry to simulate the potential failures posed by cosmic-ray-induced neutrons upon miniature electronic devices, such as chips that help control aircraft or complex integrated circuits in automobiles.

The facility can simulate the effects of hundreds or thousands of years of cosmic-ray-induced neutrons in a single hour. This capability aids scientists in understanding how components of nuclear weapons age.

Industry users such as Honeywell, Intel, Oracle, Texas Instruments, AMD, Freescale, and others have used the ICE House facility; the tests have also played a key role in helping Los Alamos fine-tune its own supercomputers.

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Embraer SA’s new defense and security unit will expand the company’s market beyond aerospace and allow it to boost growth through increased exports, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Fleury Curado said.

“We’re talking about applications for the army, for the navy, and for security forces like the police,” Curado said in a telephone interview from Sao Paulo.

Embraer’s new business will surpass 1.5 billion reais in sales next year, the company said in an e-mailed statement today. In 2009, Embraer had 949 million reais ($553.8 million) in sales from its defense division.

The world’s fourth-largest planemaker produces the light attack aircraft known as Super-Tucano and is developing a military transport, dubbed KC-390, that should have its first flight in 2014.

Embraer also manufactures jets for government personnel transport and for surveillance, mostly based on its commercial jet platforms.

Embraer is the only Brazilian company able to “put itself in the center of the chain” of the defense and security market, Curado said. “Occupying such a role would inevitably amplify our ability to export.”

DARPA, Boeing ink deal to expand A160 uses

Under a $12.8 million contract Boeing will adapt its A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter to carry signals intelligence (SIGINT) payloads and BAE Systems’ Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Imaging System (ARGUS-IS) surveillance system.

The deal with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) extends work the agency has already done with Boeing and the Hummingbird on ARGUS-IS operation. BAE has been developing ARGUS-IS - a high-resolution daytime surveillance system with onboard processing - since 2007. It can simultaneously and continuously detect and track the presence and motion of thousands of small or large targets over broad areas. BAE is also working on an infrared version of ARGUS for night operations.

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ASU gets $2.5M science grant for K-12 prototype

Arizona State University School of Arts, Media and Engineering has received a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its research on science, technology, engineering and math learning.

The grant, par t of NSF’s Discovery Research K-12 program, will serve to develop the research group’s Situated Multimedia Art Learning Lab into a model that can be implemented in schools nationwide.

Phoenix Country Day Sc hool and Scottsdale’s Coronado High School are research sites for the program, in addition to one school in New York.

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The ASU grant is estimated to reach over 20 teachers and 750 students.

Saft Wins Order from AAI for Lithium Batteries to Power Universal Ground Control Station

Saft has received an order for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries from AAI to supply back-up power for its universal ground control station (UGCS), which controls unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

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Honeywell Says Its New Approach To Flying Saves Money, Reduces Carbon-Dioxide Emissions

Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix is part of a national effort to change the way aircraft fly, using what the company says is revolutionary technology that helps free up airspace, while saving airlines money and improving their carbon footprint.

Called performance-based navigation, the technology allows aircraft to navigate around terrain, traffic and busy airports to arrive in the least amount of time and use less fuel. The navigational improvements reduce costs for airlines, increase capacity by allowing more flights and lower carbon-dioxide emissions because less fuel gets burned, thereby improving their carbon footprint.

Ultimately, the equipment used for performance-based navigation, which Honeywell has been upgrading since the 1970s, will be used to help free up clogged airspace so passengers can have quicker trips to destinations.

The technology is in use at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and has shown promise in reducing arrival times and pollution. Some of Honeywell’s technology is being tried onboard United Airlines aircraft in the South Pacific. Tempe-based U.S. Airways, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines also have adopted performance-based navigational equipment on some planes, Honeywell said.

Three airlines received approval to use Honeywell’s technology for operations and three others are in the process of seeking approval to use its equipment, the company said. The airlines chose to remain anonymous, the company said.

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to modernize the national air-traffic management system by 2025, using performance-based navigation as part of a plan to improve the efficiency of air-traffic routes.

The technology, called NextGen, is being developed by the aviation industry in conjunction with the FAA.

Honeywell’s flight-management systems are key to airlines wanting to adopt performance-based navigation. And the company argues the range of products it offers will work for customers who have different sizes of aircraft.

Changesinnavigation

The FAA is moving from a ground-based system of radars to a system of 24 satellites that can continually track planes anywhere in the world.For years, pilots have used radio beacons on the ground to navigate. In some cases, the navigational aids replaced bonfires that early pilots used, said Paul Takemoto, an FAA spokesman.

Radar coverage degrades over distance and can’t go through mountains, he said. The limitations mean the FAA must have separation standards

between aircraft. The precision of satellites will allow the agency to decrease those distances.

“You get more airplanes in the sky safely and get more people moving,” Takemoto said.

Honeywell’s technology combines a global-positioning sensor with an onboard system to measure the aircraft’s changes in acceleration. Called an inertial-reference system, it eliminates the pilot’s need to fly over beacons, which can often lead to circuitous or angled routes.

Instead, pilots have the freedom to fly directly where they want to go around the world without the need for ground-based navigational aids.For example, passengers flying from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., on planes that use the beacons might have to go to Albuquerque across to Wichita, Kan., up to Columbus, Ohio, and then to Washington, D.C., as opposed to flying straight there from Phoenix.

“It was kind of organized, in terms of a metaphor, into streets and highways, so they could control the traffic,” said Bill Reavis, Honeywell spokesman, of ground-navigation beacons. “Now you’ve got a freeway system.”

And, because the system knows exactly where the plane is, changes in altitude can be performed more smoothly and more easily because the pilot doesn’t have to call controllers for clearance as often to head higher or lower.

The technology also allows improved landings because pilots can

level off more efficiently and avoid changing speeds, according to the company and the FAA.

Jet engines are also more efficient when they are flying full thrust at certain altitudes. Bringing aircraft down in the atmosphere burns more fuel to get the same amount of thrust.

“If I can get straight up to altitude, stay at altitude and then pull the throttle all the way back and come straight down, that’s the most efficient flight path I can have with a jet aircraft,” said Chad Cundiff, vice president of crew-interface products.

Staying aloft longer instead of making a series of steps down for landings also creates less noise for those below, he said.

Mountainsandseas

The new technology is particularly helpful on approaches to airports or near mountains where a tight route is necessary, Honeywell said. Alaska Airlines often uses performance-based navigational equipment for landing in Alaska or Palm Springs because it allows pilots to get on the ground more efficiently and safely, Cundiff said.

Australia and New Zealand are also big backers of Honeywell’s equipment.

Performance-based navigation is also being used so that pilots can take tighter turns into New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Under certain wind conditions, a runway at Kennedy Airport can’t


be used because of the traffic at La Guardia Airport.

“Now, with this kind of technology, we can turn those guys around shorter and bring them in tighter, so then you lose the interference that you had at La Guardia,” Cundiff said.

The company says its technology can also enhance the way pilots communicate, which has mostly been done by voice over radios. Now, traffic controllers and pilots can exchange route and altitude information by text thanks to a system called ADS-B, or automatic dependent surveillance broadcast.

“It communicates to air-traffic control and all the other aircraft not just your location, but also what you’re planning to do, what kind of aircraft you are, which direction you’re going and how fast you’re going,” Cundiff said, adding the FAA has mandated that the tracking device be on all aircraft by 2020.

Honeywell is trying the system with United Airlines over the South Pacific. Because there is no ground radar, air-traffic controllers keep planes apart by as much as 60 miles. If pilots want to climb to save fuel, they often are not allowed to because of the separation standards, Cundiff said. With the improved system, pilots can see nearby planes and make their own decisions on where to go.

ADS-B is used in pockets now, particularly in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, Cundiff said, adding that Honeywell expects it to be used with regularity in the next five to six years. It is hopeful the FAA will

allow a quicker adoption time for those who want it.

SkyHarborresults

The FAA found significant benefits when the next-generation technology was used in October 2006 to change flight paths for arrivals at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

The agency said there was a 38 percent reduction in the time the aircraft remained at level flight. If planes have to level off in steps as they come down, it’s an inefficient arrival, Cundiff said.

The FAA also found the technology saved airlines $2 million annually and it reduced carbon-dioxide emissions by 2,500 metric tons. Honeywell research suggests planes using the technology burn 1 metric ton less of carbon dioxide on a single flight and the airline saves about $200 in fuel.

“If you take an average airline’s profit and divide it by the number of operations they do, they’re making about $200 to $500 a flight,” Cundiff said. “They run on such lean operational budgets, this can be the profit margin they’re making on some of the flights currently.”

Overall, the company says using its technology could save companies $2 billion annually, while reducing fuel consumption by $1.3 billion gallons.

The FAA has a host of research agreements concerning NextGen technology, including pacts with Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, universities and airlines.




“It’s such a massive enterprise, you can’t turn it on with a switch,” Takemoto said. “So we have to seed different areas to get the involvement of a lot of different companies.”

In August, 66 airports had the ability to use forms of NextGen technologies, according to Honeywell. The FAA planned to change procedures at another 26 airports before the year is out.

Nicholas Heymann, a stock analyst who follows Honeywell for New York-based Sterne Agee, said Honeywell’s flight-management systems software was easily adaptable to business, regional and commercial jets. As a result, the company sees reduced development costs on a disproportionately large amount of sales, he said.

“This is going to make for a good environment, obviously for margins (in) aerospace,” Heymann said, adding that target margins are expected to increase from roughly 17 percent to as high as 23 percent.

He said growth in commercial aerospace at Honeywell would help make up for losses expected in other divisions of the company as the U.S. Department of Defense scales back spending in the future.

Honeywell’s principal competitor for mid-to-large aircraft, Rockwell Collins, does not currently offer flight-management systems that are considered the core of NextGen, Heymann said.

“They have to go through certification,” he said. “They’ll be a couple of years behind.”

Implementation

Honeywell says it, and many within the aviation industry, want to deploy the new route equipment faster. Cundiff said the slowdown was the result of several factors, including a lack of new stimulus funding.

Another hurdle is the environmental-impact studies done with route changes.

In order for aircraft to be outfitted with the equipment, it has to be operationally approved by the FAA, and pilots and staff must be trained on its use.

The FAA is deploying performance-based navigational procedures throughout the country with different airlines employing different types of NextGen technologies. Getting the technology in use more quickly has challenges, Takemoto said.

“We have to maintain a current system while we’re implementing a new system,” he said, adding the agency must integrate the performance-based routes into airspace that already has existing routes. “It’s a very complicated, delicate weave. It involves different types of technologies.”

By 2018, the agency is expecting new technology to reduce delays by 21 percent and to result in 20 percent more flights.

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Unmanned Fire-X Achieves First Flight

The Northrop Grumman/Bell Helicopter Fire-X demonstrator achieved first flight last month in Yuma, Ariz., just days after arriving there for flight testing, according to officials on the program team.

This is a major step toward the two teammates entering the evolving and potentially lucrative market of unmanned rotorcraft for cargo carriage or intelligence collection. Northrop approached Bell and crafted the jointly funded project in early 2010 with the goal of flying within a year.

“From initial concept to flying a prototype was extremely quick,” says Cathy Ferrie, director of Bell’s Xworx rapid prototyping division.

The aircraft, which also retains the ability to be piloted, was ferried to Yuma two weeks ago from Bell’s Xworx facility in Arlington, Texas, says Charles Shepard, director of technology business development for the rapid prototyping unit.

The Fire-X demonstrator, built on the commercial Bell 407 platform, was modified at Xworx with computers, actuators and other systems from prime contractor Northrop’s MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. “Our philosophy was to be minimally invasive,” says Bob Davis, Northrop’s director of business development for air and land advanced concepts. “The physical elements of the aircraft between the cyclic and flight control surfaces have to be removed for it to be piloted,” he adds.

The initial flight was intended to test the vehicle management system’s

flight control software which was previously only ground tested in Northrop’s Rancho Bernardo simulation facility in California.

Initial flight test objectives covered basic handling qualities and safety-of-flight assessments. “We want to demonstrate that we have not changed the handling qualities and that it can be flown safely and reliably, Davis says. “Over time we will develop a reliability database and understand what the nuances will be.”

The flight test plan will cover “a handful of flights” by year end, and “we will do limited unmanned aircraft systems demonstrations, but not using the external sling load. We will just be carrying cargo in the cabin,” he adds.

In commercial service the Bell 407 platform has an internal volume of 85 cu. ft. in the aft cabin — a volume essentially unchanged in the unmanned modification. In its civilian utility role the 407 has a useful load of almost 2,600 lb. and a maximum external (hook) load limit of 2,646 lb.

The Fire-X flight occurred too late to capture the interest of the U.S. Marine Corps, which recently issued contracts to unmanned rotorcraft competitors Boeing and Lockheed Martin/Kaman for demonstrations of their systems in Afghanistan. Boeing’s A160T Hummingbird and the Lockheed Martin/Kaman K-Max,will be used to provide small supply loads to forward-based Marines there.

John Garrison, Bell CEO, says that the first flight is a major step toward proving the capability of the Fire-X configuration, a requirement for possibly garnering a similar demonstration sponsored by the Pentagon.

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3880 E. Hwy 66 Ste. 6 Flagstaff, AZ 86004Ph. (928) 526-9032 F: (928) 526-2301

CAD/CAMSoftware

Filtration Equip.Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901Hangsterfer’s _______ 800-433-LUBEQualichem, Inc. ______ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966Total Filtration Services __ 800-224-4244EDM Materials & Supplies

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-710-1547EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782EDM Performance acc's __ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330Qualichem Inc _______ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales _____ 480-710-1547EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782EDM Performance ____ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330Filtration -Grind Wheels & BeltsS. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000

HammersAbbott Workholding ___ 800-528-6459

Laser AccessoriesCanyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773

Lubricants / SystemsCanyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Hangsterfer’s _______ 800-433-LUBEStar Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

Horizon Carbide Tool __ 480-968-0957Mountain Rep ______ 480-899-1900Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Alloys: SpecialtyAerodyne Alloys_____860-289-3820

AluminumBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651Metal Supermarkets __ 480-377-0233MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Phoenix Metal Trading _ 602-257-4660Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Tolleson Steel ______ 623-936-3325Tube Service Company _ 602-267-9865

Aluminum ExtrusionsBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765

Armor:CommercialTemtco Steel ________480-389-2883

Armor:Military GradeTemtco Steel ________480-389-2883

Bar: Large DiameterBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466TW Metals _________800-203-8000

BrassBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061

Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________800-367-9966

SpindlesSetco-Pope Spindles ______866-362-0699

Steel Service CenterRyerson ____________602-455-3374

SubplatesStevens Engineering ______800-635-0657

Toolholders- TeknicsUnique Machine ________ 602-470-1911

Tooling ColumnsAbbott Workholding ______800-528-6459Vacuum Pumps & WorkholdingAirtek _____________480-966-5267Industrial Workholding ___ 714--935-9686

Vibratory EquipmentAdams Machinery _______480-968-3711Production Tool Co _______800-266-3253

Vises and Vise Jaws Arizona CNC Equip _______480-615-6353Elrod Machinery ________928-526-9032Industrial Workholding ___ 714--935-9686

Waterjet AbrasivesBarton Mines Co. ____ 951-676-7837KMT Waterjet Systems __800-826-9274Lone Arrow_________480-507-8074Waterjet Replacement PartsBarton Mines Co. ____ 951-676-7837KMT Waterjet Systems __800-826-9274

Work HoldingAbbott Workholding __ 800-528-6459ATS Industrial Supply __ 602-276-7707Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5877Kurt Manufacturing Co. 602-315-5258Industrial Workholding _ 714--935-9686Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Hardinge _________909-225-9292Schunk _________ 602-315-5258

FIXTURINGIndustrial Workholding _ 714--935-9686Stevens Engineering ___800-635-0657

Fixturing DesignsStevens Engineering ___800-635-0657

HARDWAREMATERIAL

Alloys: High TemperatureAerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820

Machine Tool AccessoriesIndustrial Workholding _ 714--935-9686Machine Tool Cool. Filtration

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________800-894-7773D & R Machinery ________480-775-6462Hangsterfer’s _______ 800-433-LUBEProduction Tool Co _______800-266-3253Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________800-367-9966

Magnetic Particle Ins Equip.DCM Tech ___________800-533-5339

Metal Finishing ChemicalsGalaxy Associates, Inc. _____ 480-393-3218

Mist CollectorsProduction Tool Co _______800-266-3253Total Filtration Services _____ 800-224-4244

Pallet SystemsAdams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery ________480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5877

Parts Washing EquipmentBlaser______________801-722-4095Hangsterfer’s _______ 800-433-LUBEProduction Tool Co _______800-266-3253Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________800-367-9966

PunchesTipco Punch___________513-874-9140

Solvents & Degreasing Agents

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________800-894-7773Hangsterfer’s _______ 800-433-LUBE

InnovativeTool Sales

Manufacturers Representatives

9842 E. Diamond Dr.Sun Lakes, AZ [email protected]: (602) 350-1658

755 East Debra LaneAnaheim, CA. 92805Office: (714) 780-0730Fax: (714) 780-0735

Bill Chambers

www.innovativetoolsales.com

Technical Support


Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Metal Supermarkets ___ 480-377-0233Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals __801-978-0562

BronzeCoastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals __801-978-0562

CarbonCoastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651Metal Supermarkets ___ 480-377-0233

Cast IronWestern States Metals __801-978-0562

CastingsInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Mountain Rep _______ 480-899-1900Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

Castings, InvestmentMountain Rep _______ 480-899-1900

CeramicsMarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801Davia Water Jet ______ 602-442-4452

Chrome RodWestern States Metals __ 801-978-0562

CobaltUnited Performance Metals _ 888-282-3292

CopperApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals __ 801-978-0562

ExtrusionsTW Metals _________ 800-203-8000

LeadInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500

Material SalesSamuel, Son & Co. ____800-631-9765TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888

MetalsAdvanced Metal Sales__ 623-434-8343 Arizona Tool Steel LLC __ 480-784-1600Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Metal Supermarkets ___ 480-377-0233Ryerson __________602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ____800-631-9765State Industrial Pro ____ 602-275-0990Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325

Temtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000Ulbrich of California ___ 800-237-2888United Performance Metals _ 888-282-3292Western States Metals __ 801-978-0562

Metals-Bar & PlateAerodyne Ulbrich Alloys __800-337-3766Arizona Tool Steel LLC ___480-784-1600Ind. Metal Supply ______602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ______877-977-6061Samuel, Son & Co. ____ 800-631-9765Temtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883

www.upmet.com

3 475 Symmes Road Hami l ton , O H 45 016

9 83 0 Norwa lk B l vdSu i te 155

S ant a Fe Spr ings , CA 9 0 670

ph 8 8 8 .282 .3292 fax 513 .8 6 0 .6516

An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz

Senior Sales Engineer

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308

[email protected]

www.qualichem.com

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

All Products Proudly Made in the USA


Southwest Metals _____623-435-2986Recycling: Carbide

Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901Rubber

MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Scrap Metal Recycling

Barry Metals Company _ 602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009Phoenix Metal Trading _ 602-257-4660Southwest Metals ____ 623-435-2986

Stainless SteelApache Steel Company _ 602-323-2200Arizona Tool Steel LLC _ 480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Davia Water Jet ____ 602-442-4452Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Metal Supermarkets __ 480-377-0233Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888

Metals-Strip, Wire & BarTW Metals _________ 800-203-8000Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888

Mold SteelApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200Arizona Tool Steel LLC __ 480-784-1600

New & used MetalsPhoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

Nickel AlloysApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200Arizona Steel LLC _____ 480-784-1600Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651MarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801Samuel, Son & Co. ____800-631-9765Ulbrich of California ___ 800-237-2888Samuel, Son & Co. ____800-631-9765United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Plate: Wear and Structural

Temtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883Pre-Honed Tube

Western States Metals __ 801-978-0562Recyclable Metals

Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

SteelAdvanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343Apache Steel Company _ 602-323-2200Arizona Tool Steel LLC _ 480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Davia Water Jet ____ 602-442-4452Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Phx Ornamental Iron Supply 602-484-9393 Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883Tolleson Steel ______ 623-936-3325Tube Service Company _ 602-267-9865United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

Steel Coil-sheetInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

Steel Service CentersAdvanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765

StructuralsInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500

TitaniumAerodyne Alloys ______ 800-237-2888

MarZee Inc. ________602-269-5801Mountain Rep _______480-899-1900Ulbrich of California ___800-237-2888

TubingInd. Metal Supply _____602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Tube Service Company __602-267-9865

TOOLINGCutting Tools

Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Micro 100 _________480-495-1454

Boring BarsB & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Criterion _________ 602-315-5258Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________480-495-1454

CarbideBC Tool Grinding ______ 602-252-3507B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481CVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Magnum Precision Mach _602-431-8300Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Diamond Coated End Mills

CVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788Drills

CVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788

Delivering Alloy Solutions to the World. Nickel Cobalt. Titanium. Stainless.

Bar / Plate 24 Hour Delivery

Patricia Negoro 800.337.3766 x 148AerodyneAlloys.com Santa Fe Springs, CA

[email protected]


Phone: 951.324.3221 Cell: 951.551.2685 Orders: 800.741.7756 E-mail: [email protected]

Richard Amy Regional Sales Manager

High Performance Garnet Abrasives

Six Warren Street | Glens Falls, NY 12801 | www.barton.com

Doug Klein, ASQ CQE

5730 E. Leith LaneScottsdale, AZ 85254480-626-8131Fax [email protected]

BC Tool Grinding ______ 602-252-3507Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Moore Tool & Equipment _602-455-8904

End MillsCVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788Elrod Machinery ____ 928-526-9032Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000

Form Tools B & T Tool & Engineering 602-267-1481

Inserts, IndexableHorizon Carbide Tool __ 480-968-0957Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295

Inserts, PCD/CBNMarshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295

Loose Abrasive GrainsS. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000

Marking DevicesMarking Methods Inc ___626-282-8823

Reamers & Drills, PCDMarshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295

Thread MillsCVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788

Feature Cam _______602-502-9654Osprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Tooling SystemsGlobal EDM Supply ____480-836-8330

REPAIR/DESIGNMachine Tool Design/

EngineeringDDi (Solidworks) _____ 602-241-0900 Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5877

Machine Tool RebuildingA&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________ 602-397-4008CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Setco-Pope Spindles ____866-362-0699The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809Machine Retrofitting/CNC

Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711

AMTS____________602-397-4008Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032

Machinery MovingAdvanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___602-550-1339

Maint/Repair ServicesA&J Ind Mch. Repair ___602-550-1339Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________602-397-4008Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5877Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541State Industrial Prod ___602-275-0990The Werks C&C, Inc ____602-569-1809

Mold RepairsB&B Tool. ________ 520-397-0436

Stamping RepairsB&B Tool. ________ 520-397-0436

Prev. Maint ProgramsA&J Ind Mch. Repair ___602-550-1339Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353

3021 S. 35th StPhoenix, AZ 85034

Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Tooling Columns

Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5877 Tooling Systems

Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5877Global EDM Supply ____480-836-8330Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454

Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment

BC Tool Grinding ______ 602-252-3507B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481

Tombstones/SubplatesStevens Engineering ___800-635-0657

METAL DISTRIBUTORSWestern States Metals __801-978-0562

PROG. SYSTEMSCAD/CAM

Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Delcam __________877 335 2261DDi (Solidworks) _____ 602-241-0900Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032Feature Cam _______602-502-9654TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, Inv. ControlDelcam __________877 335 2261Feature Cam _______602-502-9654

Software,Lean/6 Sigma4 Sight Technologies ___ 480-922-6484

Software, NC ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Delcam __________877 335 2261Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5877Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032Feature Cam _______602-502-9654TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, ServicingDDi (Solidworks) _____ 602-241-0900Delcam __________877 335 2261Elrod Machinery _____928-526-9032


D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5877Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Repair -HydraulicA&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156Road Machinery ________ 520-623-8681The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Repair - PortableA&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Spindle RebuildingSetco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699

MACHINERY REPAIR PARTSBelts

All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111Bearings(Precision)

All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111Metric O-Rings

All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111Switches (Proximity, Limit)

All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111Valves (Hydraulic,

Pneumatic)All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111

SERVICES Appraisers/Liquidators

Hoff-Hilk Auction Services 612-521-5500Banks

Alerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876

Business ConsultingBMSC ___________ 480-445-9400O’Donnell & Assoc. ____ 602-843-8018Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856

Cash Flow ManagementBank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876Cleaning Services: IndustrialOpenWorks__________602-909-1167Cleaning Serv. Clean RoomOpenWorks__________602-909-1167

Consulting 4 Sight Technologies ___ 480-922-6484BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Advanced Custom Screens 800-992-7936Arizona MEP _________480-874-9100Quality Advisory Services __602-910-1510Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions __888-572-9642

Contract InspectionAdvanced Coordinate Tech _ 623-780-4137Klontech Measure Sol ___480-626-8131

Contract ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5877Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

CNC TrainingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5877Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749

Design ServicesDDi (Solidworks) _____ 602-241-0900Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889Osprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445

Employment ServicesResourceMFG ________480-961-1555

Engineering ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __ 623-780-4137Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Niagara Testing West _____ 480-968-2315Osprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445

Financial ServicesAlerus Bank & Trust _____480-905-2407Arizona Bank & Trust ___ 480-844-4562Bank of Arizona _______480-642-2876Country Financial ______602-321-3232Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5877O’Donnell & Assoc. ____ 602-843-8018SBG Capital ________ 480-897-4988

HeavyhaulIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Insurance ServicesCountry Financial ______602-321-3232HUB Intl __________ 602-749-4190Leavitt Group _______ 602-264-0566

International TradeMountain Rep _______ 480-899-1900

IT/ Network SupportGartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121

Leasing and FinancingAlerus Bank & Trust _____480-905-2407


Rob SchwisterRelationship Manager

[email protected]

alerusfi nancial.com

30 Years Experience

MIKE SMITH

602-397-4008

[email protected]

Arizona Machine Tool Service, AMTS

Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona as Machinery Sales

Co. Senior Service Engineer, servicing Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto,

and many others, CNC and Manual Machine Tools, I will continue to provide service

and repair to Arizona,

Thank you

Mike Smith

602-550-1339

[email protected]

•Wire EDM •Surface Grinding

•Small Hole EDM •Advanced CAD/CAM

•CNC Machining •Fast Quotes

•CNC Turning

•Waterjet Cutting .....And More

Arizona Bank & Trust ___ 480-844-4562Bank of Arizona _______480-642-2876Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5877O’Donnell & Assoc. ____ 602-843-8018

Lean Manufacturing4 Sight Technologies ____480-922-6484Arizona MEP _________ 480-874-9100BMSC ____________480-445-9400Niagara Testing West _____ 480-968-2315Sustaining Edge Solutions __888-572-9642

Manufacturers RepOsprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445Trepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110K-zell Metals, Inc. ____ 602-232-5882Pro-Salez _________480-773-3239Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Mechanical System Design

Osprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445Mexican Shelter Programs

Mountain Rep _______ 480-899-1900Online Machine Auctions

Hoff-Hilk Auction Services 612-521-5500Rigging/Machinery MovingIRH ____________ 800-334-2409Quality Consulting: Mission

AssuranceNiagara Testing West _____ 480-968-2315

Retirement PlanningCountry Financial ______602-321-3232

RecyclingBarry Metals _________ 602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009

MMR,LLC ___________ 623-937-0385Phoenix Metal Trading ___ 602-257-4660

Reverse EngineeringAdvanced Coordinate Tech__623-780-4137Copperstar Engineering _928-778-7513Datum Inspection ___ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol ___480-626-8131Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571

RiggingIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Schools, Custom TrainingDDi (Solidworks) _____602-241-0900Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5877Jet Products ________623-869-6749Osprey Technologies _____480-755-0445Quality Advisory Services __ 602-910-1510

Services: UT/Networks Support

Shop Floor Automations ___ 877-611-5825Supplier Auditing

BMSC_____________480-445-9400Systems Integration

Arizona CIMTECH ______480-834-4404Ellison Machinery ______480-968-5877

Testing, MetallurgicalMetals Eng & Testing Lab. __602-272-4571

Trade Show Booth DesignFry Fabricators _______602-454-0701

TransportationIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Web DesignGartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121

Working Capital, Credit Lines

Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876O’Donnell & Assoc. ____ 602-843-8018SBG Capital ________480-897-4988

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Michael Manning

2233 S. 15th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85034(602) 252-4426 phone :: (714) 713-0006 cell

[email protected]

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TIONHardware

USBShop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825

SchedulingShop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825

Serial PortShop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825Software:CNC Networking

Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825RS232 Cabling

Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825Virtual CNC

Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825

ASSEMBLYArizona Laser-Jet ________ 602-455-8908CAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239Seal Methods ________ 800-423-4777Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911

Cable/Harness AssemblyBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385

Clean Room AssemblyJan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305L&W Fluid ________ 602-323-2560Electrical Assembly (UL508A)Southwest Metal Fab ____ 602-470-1200Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911

Large/X-Large AssemblyVroom Engineering & Mfg __520-293-3819

BENDING

Advanced Metal Sales____623-434-8343Harco Metal Products ____480-829-0450Southwest Metal Fab ____ 602-470-1200Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855

BONDINGDiffusion

Vacco Industries _______ 626-443-7121

BRAZINGCAD Enterprises ________ 602-278-4407Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404

BROACHINGApache consolidate, Inc ____ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Mach ______ 623-934-6913Lewis Aerospace ________ 623-581-0764

CASTINGSAATC ___________ 602-268-1467May Foundry & Machine __ 801-531-8931

Castings: PrototypeAATC____________602-268-1467

May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931Castings: Production

AATC____________602-268-1467May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931

Castings: RepairPrecision Casting Repair __800-622-2404

CLEANINGA2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566

COATINGAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117CVD Diamond Corp. ____ 661-254-1788LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530MPI International ______ 956-631-6880Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Precision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

Coating: Black OxideCoating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117Louie's Black Oxide ______ 602-257-0530

Coating: Chem FilmCertified Inspection Service____602-267-0661Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries _____ _480-968-1930Jet Products __________ 623-869-6749METCO Metal Finishing ____ 602-276-4120LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting _ 602-256-0260Treffers Precision _______ 602-744-2636

Mandrel Tube Bending & Exhaust FabricationsCustom Headers


LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160Phx Ornamental Iron Supply 602-484-9393 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448

CNC RouterShielding & Sealing Sol. _ 602-278-6064

DieShielding & Sealing Sol. _ 602-278-6064

LaserArizona Laser-Jet _______602-455-8908APMI ____________ 480-668-0024Fine Line Laser Cutting __ 602-863-3196Shielding & Sealing Sol. _ 602-278-6064Taycar Enterprises ___ 505-265-2121

Tube Laser CuttingTube Service Company __602-267-9865

DIESArizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Precision Die & Stamp'g __ 480-967-2038

Steel Rule DiesShielding & Sealing Sol. _ 602-278-6064

EDM

email: [email protected]

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530

E-CoatMPI International ______ 956-631-6880

Electro-Coating ServicesPMA PhotoMetals ______ 800-899-3366Vacco Industries _______ 626-443-7121

HVOF Metal SprayingPrime Machine _______ 801-575-8430

Powder CoatingPrecision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224

CUTTINGAdvanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343Arizona Laser-Jet ________ 602-455-8908Davia Water Jet _______ 602-442-4452Echols Saw & Supply ____ 602-278-3918EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514

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EDM: Drilling Small HoleArizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530CAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001LAYKE, Inc. __________ 602-272-2654Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Sun Tech __________480-921-1665

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Quality Mold _________ 480-892-5480Sun Tech __________480-921-1665The Tech Group _______ 480-281-4500Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939

EDM: Dialectric Systems/Filtration

6532 W Flint St. Ste. 1 Chandler, AZ 85226

LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231The Metal Man ________800-448-9448

Coating: Dry Film LubeCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648Jet Products __________623-869-6749Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting _602-256-0260

Coating: Nickel/TeflonCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117

Coating: NP3Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648

Karen BrownEmail: [email protected] (480) 940-4001 • Fax (480) 940-4004 • Cell (480) 289-0811


[email protected]

[email protected]

Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901EDM: Wire

3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530Astrotronics Inc ________ 480-926-8969Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Landmark Precision_____ 480-940-4001Hawkeye Precision ______ 480-926-8642Micro-Tronics, Inc _______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300PGI_______________505-884-5782Powill Manufacturing____623-780-4100Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480Sun Tech _________ 480-921-1665The Tech Group _______ 480-281-4500Toolcraft of Phoenix ___ 623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool ______ 480-507-4620

Whitley Machine _______ 602-323-5550Graphite Services

CAD Tools __________ 480-753-4290Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995

EXTRUSIONAluminum

Elixir_______________480-834-1484FABRICATION

Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329APMI ______________480-668-0024Arizona Laser-Jet ________ 602-455-8908Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419ASHER Metal Products ____ 773-276-5007Astra Fab __________ 480-497-8250BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304CAID Industries _______ 520-294-3126Central Components ___520-571-1433CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Capital Stainless _____480-967-0016

Continental Machining __800-777-2483CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Elixir Industries ______480-834-1484Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Gerome Mfg ________ 520-622-8402Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952Innofab Source _______ 480-491-5938JPS Manufacturing _____ 480-367-9540M-DOT Aerospace _______480-921-4128Nelson Engineering ______602-273-7114New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Phoenix Metalcraft ____602-279-4810Plastic Eng._________480-491-8100Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404Prime Machine___________801-575-8430Scottsdale Precision. Inc. _____480-991-0317Scriven Precision _______ 480-961-9775

Southwest Metal Fab ____ 602-470-1200Systems 3 __________ 480-894-2581TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855Whitley Machine _______ 602-323-5550Wintech __________ 602-437-9001Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800

Fabrication: Custom Metal

Arizona Laser-Jet ________ 602-455-8908Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419ASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007Capital Stainless _____ 480-967-0016CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Systems 3 __________ 480-894-2581

Fabrication: Medium & Large

Geno FormanPresidentTel: 602.454.7385Fax: 602.454.7389Cell: 480.710.8420Email: [email protected]

Precision CNC Machining

3342 E. Wier Ave.Phoenix, AZ 85040

NADCAP Approved Facility

www.x5mfg.com

Your Manufacturing Solutions Partner

SCOTT BAYERPhone: 480.968.1778 | Fax: 480.968.0576 | Email: [email protected]

CERTIFIED ISO 9001:2000 AND AS9100:2004 REV. B


[email protected]

Precision Die Cutting

APMI______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419ASHER Metal Products ____ 773-276-5007 Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Elixir Industries _____ 480-834-1484Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Prime Machine___________801-575-8430Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911Vroom Engineering & Mfg _ 520-293-3819Fabrication: Rebuild/ Large

Vroom Engineering & Mfg _ 520-293-3819Fabrication: Sheet Metal

ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171APMI______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419Astra Fab __________ 480-497-8250Capital Stainless ____ 480-967-0016CygnetStamping & Fab ___ 818-240-7574Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305Landmark Precision _____480-940-4001MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Phoenix Metalcraft ___ 602-279-4810Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Scottsdale Precision. Inc. ____ 480-991-0317TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

FINISHINGAnodizing of Mesa______ 480-833-6412Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671

Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Harco Metal Products ___ 480-829-0450Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530METCO Metal Finishing ___ 602-276-4120Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733Phoenix Heat Treating ____ 602-258-7751Precision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

Finishing: One StopPerfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

LaminatingShielding & Sealing Sol. _ 602-278-6064FINISH OPS-CLEANING

Cleaning: AF 5333Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749Semiray Aerospace Testing _ 623-842-3030

Dry Film LubricationJet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Glass Bead Clean ABS Metallurgical Processors 602-437-3008Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612

Dave CrockettPresident

www.osprey-tech.com

Composite/Metal Structure DesignFinite Element Analysis Fabrication/Prototype

480-755-0445 6100 S. Maple Ave., Suite 117, Tempe, AZ 85283

SEAL METHODS INC.11915 shoemaker ave.santa fe springs ca 90670

800.423.4777562.944.0291CELL 562.665.0804FAX [email protected]

WWW.SEALMETHODSINC.COM

Johnny FrewBusiness DevelopmentManager

manufacturer of custom designed

shapes

ANISO-9001ANDTS-16949REGISTEREDCOMPANY

GASKETS,SEALS,DIE CUTS,AND TAPES


Southwest Powder Coating __ 602-272-0878ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171

Gun DrillingACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171

Gun FinishingLouie’s Gun Finishing _____ 602-257-0530

Heat SealingSeal Methods _________ 800-423-4777

PassivationABS Metallurgical Processors _ 602-437-3008Certified Inspection Service____602-267-0661Coating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117Jet Products __________ 623-869-6749L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612METCO Metal Finishing ____ 602-276-4120Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917

PolishingArizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931GEAR CUTTING

Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Machine ____623-934-6913

GLASS BEADA2Z Sandblasting _______602-716-5566Lone Arrow_________480-507-8074

GRINDINGArizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Astrotronics Inc _______ 480-926-8969Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637BC Tool Grinding _______ 602-252-3507Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088ChemResearch _________602-253-4175Grindworks __________623-582-5767JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701

Grinding, BlanchardSteel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701

Grinding, CNC/ContourBlue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Powill Manufacturing_ ___623-780-4100Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding: CenterlessBlue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding… CylindricalGrindworks _________ 623-582-5767

Grinding… Double DiscPhoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401

Grinding: ID/OD Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671

L A Specialties _________602-269-7612Powder Coating

Precision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224Precision Die Cutting

Seal Methods ________ 800-423-4777Rapid Prototyping

Seal Methods ________ 800-423-4777Sand Blasting

A2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566ABS Metallurgical Processors 602-437-3008Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

StrippingCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749Semiray ____________602-275-1917Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

FIXTURESEDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Paul W. Marino Gages __ 800-528-9785Profiles Tool & Engineering _ 480-894-1008

FORGINGSAluminum Precision _____ 805-488-4401R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

Forgings: AluminumAluminum Precision _____ 805-488-4401

Forgings: TitaniumAluminum Precision _____ 805-488-4401R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

FOUNDRYAATC____________602-2681467

General Manager

Shawn Carlin [email protected]

TEMPERATURE

PROCESSING

Eric Engelhard

11042 N. 24th Ave. Suite 101 Phoenix, AZ 85029


East Valley Laser Tucson Inc __ 520-888-1259Marking Methods Inc ____626-282-8823TechMark __________ 480-820--9444

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

INDUSTRIAL SEALINGSGaskets:Manufacturing

Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301Industrial Sealings

Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301Packing

Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301INSPECTION

CalibrationAdvanced Coordinate Tech __623-780-4137Southwest Metrology, Inc. ___520-744-8510Washington Calibration ___ 480-820-0506

Inspection, First ArticleAdvanced Coordinate Tech __623-780-4137Datum Inspection _______602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection ServicesAdvanced Coordinate Tech __623-780-4137Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Datum Inspection _______602-997-1340

Astrotronics Inc _______ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding:MattisonSun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595

Grinding: ODArizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671BC Tool Grinding _______ 602-252-3507Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681

Grinding: Precision Tool

US Carbide Tool LLC _____ 480-755-3812Grinding: Surface

Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Quality Mold _________ 480-892-5480Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595

Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620

Grinding: Tool & CutterBC Tool Grinding _______ 602-252-3507B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701

Grinding: Ultra PrecisionSystems 3 __________ 480-894-2581

Grinding: ODArizona Hard Chrome _____602-278-8671BC Tool Grinding _______ 602-252-3507Grindworks __________623-582-5767Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Road Machinery ________520-623-8681

Grinding: SurfaceArizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Grindworks __________623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding _______602-437-8401Quality Mold _________ 480-892-5480Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701

WC Machine & Tool ____ 480-507-4620Grinding: Tool & Cutter

BC Tool Grinding ______ 602-252-3507B & T Tool & Engineering___ 602-267-1481Gilbert Metal Stamping __ 480-503-1283Superior Grinding ______888-487-9701

GUNDRILLINGTrepanning Specialties __562-633-8110

HEAT TREATINGABS Metallurgical Processors 602-437-3008CAD Enterprises ______ 602-278-4407Controlled Thermal Tech'y __602-272-3714Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600L A Specialties ________602-269-7612Phoenix Heat Treating ___ 602-258-7751Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868Temperature Processing __ 303-772-0250

Heat Treating/ AerospaceCAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407Temperature Processing __ 303-772-0250

HONING/LAPPINGGrindworks __________623-582-5767LAYKE, Inc. _________ 602-272-2654Road Machinery ______ 520-623-8681National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100

IDENTIFICATIONTool / PartMarking (Laser)

Ace Laser ___________ 480-924-3232East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137


Klontech Measure Sol ____ 480-626-8131Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Niagara Testing West ____ 480-968-2315Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection Services (NDT)CAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407Futureweld _________ 602-437-2426Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600Niagara Testing West ____ 480-968-2315Semiray Aero. Testing ____602-275-1917Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868Inspection Services, WeldingMetals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Niagara Testing West ____ 480-968-2315

ISO ConsultantArizona MEP ________ 480-874-9100BMSC_____________480-445-9400Gladhill Assoc _________623-939-4412Quality Advisory Services _ 602-910-1510Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.BMSC_____________480-445-9400Gladhill Assoc ________623-939-4412Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017

Great Western Registrar ___623-580-1881Sustaining Edge Solutions __888-572-9642Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 ISO RegistrarGreat Western Registrar ___623-580-1881Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017

Liquid PenetrantCertified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Jet Products __________623-869-6749Niagara Testing West _____480-968-2315Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917Team Industrial Services ___602-269-7868

MAG ParticleCertified Inspection Service___602-267-0661Jet Products____ ______623-869-6749Niagara Testing West _____480-968-2315Team Industrial Services ___602-269-7868

Metrology/inspection ServPrime Machine___________801-575-8430Process Improvement/ Audit

Arizona MEP ________ 480-874-9100BMSC ____________ 480-445-9400Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions __888-572-9642

X-RayCertified Inspection Service __ 602-267-066Niagara Testing West ____480-968-2315 1Semiray_____________602-275-1917Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

IRON STITCHINGPrecision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404

MACHININGMachining: 3D

3D Machine LLC ______ 480-239-8254Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802Hawkeye Precision ______480-926-8642JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253L&W Machine Co _____ 602-323-2560Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854Pro Precision __________602-353-0022Profiles Tool & Engineering __ 480-894-100Tooling Molds West ______480-921-9939

Machining: 5 AxisBogue Machine Co ____ 505-344-9988CAD Enterprises ________602-278-4407Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005Cling’s Manufacturing________480-968-1778Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325Industrial Tool Die & Eng 520-745-8771Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673MSL Precision _________480-773-3239Prime Machine___________801-575-8430Systems 3 ___________480-894-2581Wintech __________ 602-437-9001

Machining: AerospaceAATC____________602-268-1467Action Machine _______ 623-435-0883Adams Mfg & Eng ______ 623-486-2019Arizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Astrotronics Inc ________480-926-8969

Bogue Machine Co ____505-344-9988Cassavant Machining __602-437-4005Central Components ___ 520-571-1433Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200Excaliber ___________623-878-6800Foresight Technologies ____480-967-0080Gerome Mfg ________520-622-8402Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325HK Machining ________602-278-6704Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276JB's Precision _________623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JPS Manufacturing ______480-367-9540Jet Products __________623-869-6749Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560Landmark Precision_____ 480-940-4001LAYKE, Inc. __________602-272-2654Lewis Aerospace ________ 623-581-0764MSL Precision _________480-773-3239Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889

edgibson@continentalmachiningco.comwww.continentalmachiningco.com


Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995M-DOT Aerospace ______ 480-921-4128Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ______602-273-7114Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI ____________ 505-884-5782Pivot ______________602-306-2923Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854Powill Manufacturing ___ 623-780-4100Prime Machine ________ 801-575-8430Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022Pro-Salez __________ 480-773-3239R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261Systems 3 __________ 480-894-2581Trepanning Specialties ___562-633-8110White Rock Inc. _______ 435-750-6414Wintech __________ 602-437-9001

Machining: ContractAdams Mfg & Eng______ 623-486-2019Aero Design & Mfg _____ 602-437-8080AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481Banner Machine, Inc _____ 602-437-4984Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Group Mfg Serv_ _____ 480-966-3952HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jan’s Inc. __________ 480-833-7305Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600Lewis Aerospace ______ 623-581-0764MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Pivot______________602-306-2923Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075

Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261Wintech __________ 602-437-9001

Machining: ChemicalPro-Salez __________ 480-773-3239

Machining: CNC3D Machine LLC ____ 480-239-8254Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Action Machine _______ 623-435-0883Arizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Astra Fab __________ 480-497-8250Astrotronics Inc _______ 480-926-8969BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304Bogue Machine Co ___ 505-344-9988CAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407CAD Tools __________ 480-753-4290Challenger Aerospace___ 480-894-0802Central Components ___520-571-1433Cling’s Manufacturing______480-968-1778Continental Machining _800-777-2483Elixir Industries _____480-834-1484EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Evans Precision Machining __ 623-581-6200Foresight Technologies ____480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___480-464-0150HK Machining _______602-278-6704Hawkeye Precision _____ 480-926-8642Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Infinisys __________ 602-276-2276International Machine Parts Co. 480-832-9451Jan’s Inc. __________ 480-833-7305JB's Precision ________ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC ______ 623-587--0253JPS Manufacturing ______480-367-9540Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600JPS Manufacturing ______480-367-9540L&W Machine Co ____602-323-2560Landmark Precision ____ 480-940-4001LAYKE, Inc. __________602-272-2654Metalcraft Inc. ________480-967-4889MSL Precision ________480-773-3239Matrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451Micropulse West _______480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673New Hope Machine _____520-825-7830

Osborn Products ________623-587-0335PGI_______________505-884-5782PMBC ___________ _602-431-8131Powerhaus Precision ______480-225-8854Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100Pro Precision _________602-353-0022Pro-Salez ___________480-773-3239Profiles Tool & Engineering___480-894-1008Quality Mold _______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Stewart Manufacturing_____ 623-582-2261SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ____480-998-2005Systems 3 ___________ 480-894-2581Toolcraft of Phoenix ____623-435-5405Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool _______480-507-4620White Rock Inc. _________435-750-6414Wintech __________ 602-437-9001Wire-Tech____________480-966-1591 X5 Manufacturing________602-454-7385

Machining: LargeContinental Machining _ 800-777-2483HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Unique Machine________602-470-1911Vroom Engineering & Mfg ___520-293-3819

Mach: CNC Turning3D Machine LLC _______480-239-8254ACME Metal Works ______480-926-4171Arizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Astrotronics Inc ________ 480-926-8969Bar-S Machine _________928-636-2115Bogue Machine Co_____ 505-344-9988Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Central Components __ 520-571-1433Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483EDM Express.com _____ 877-336-4548Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ____480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253Joined Alloys _______ 602-870-5600

MSL Precision_________480-773-3239Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673New Hope Machine ______ 520-825-7830Osborn Products ______ 623-587-0335PGI ______________505-884-5782Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ____480-998-2005Systems 3 ___________ 480-894-2581Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376

Machining PlasticAbsolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628

Machining Precision3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254ACME Metal Works ______480-926-4171AATC___________602-268-1467Action Machine _______ 623-435-0883Adams Mfg & Eng_______623-486-2019Arizona Engineering _____520-586-1522Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Astrotronics Inc ________ 480-926-8969Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637BID Machine, Inc _______ 480-892-7304Bogue Machine Co ____ 505-344-9988Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Central Components ___ 520-571-1433Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483EDM Express.com _____ 877-336-4548Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Evans Precision Mach’g _ 623-581-6200Foresight Technologies ____ 480-967-0080Gerome Mfg ________ 520-622-8402

Glover Precision, Inc.____480-464-0150Hawkeye Precision ____ 480-926-8642Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704JB’s Precision _______ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC ________ 623-587--0253JPS Manufacturing ______ 480-367-9540Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749

MPI

Metal Processing International, L.P. TACOM APPROVED o ISO 9001-2000

E-Coat,Powder Coat,Wet Paint/CARC,Plating

Alodine,ZN Phosphate,Chemical Stripping,Acid

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Joined Alloys ________ 602-870-5600JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001LAYKE, Inc. ________602-272-2654Lewis Aerospace _____ 623-581-0764Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239Matrix Machine ______480-966-4451Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc _____602-437-8995M-DOT Aerospace _____ 480-921-4128Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ___ 602-273-7114Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI ____________ 505-884-5782Pivot_ ____________ 602-306-2923PMA Photometals_____800-899-3366Powill Mfg ___________623-780-4100Pro Precision _________ 602-353-0022Pro-Salez ___________ 480-773-3239Profiles Tool & Engineering __480-894-1008Quality Mold _______480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706Service & Sales ______480-968-9084Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670Stewart Manufacturing ____623-582-2261Sun Tech __________ 480-921-1665SwissTech Tooling & Mfg.__ _480-998-2005Systems 3 __________ 480-894-2581Tolleson Steel ______ 623-936-3325Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939Tri-Matrix ________ 480-844-0165Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778White Rock Inc. ________435-750-6414Wintech __________ 602-437-9001Wire-Tech _________ 480-966-1591

Machining: PrototypeAATC___________602-268-1467Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Adams Mfg & Eng ______ 623-486-2019Action Machine _______ 623-435-0883Arizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115

BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304CAD Tools __________480-753-4290Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483EDM Express.com ______ 877-336-4548Evans Precision _____ 623-581-6200Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Hawkeye Precision _____ 480-926-8642Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI_______________505-884-5782Pro Precision ________ 602-353-00220R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700Stellar Machining & Fab 480-961-3075Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Wintech __________ 602-437-9001Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Machining: Quick TurnArizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939

Machining: Milling3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Arizona Engineering ____ 520-586-1522Bar-S Machine ______928-636-2115Bogue Machine Co ___ 505-344-9988Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889

Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591 Machining: Semiconductor

Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854Satowfi _____________480-374-5706

Machining: SwissAbsolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Cassavant Machining ___602-437-4005Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670SwissTech Tooling & Mfg. ____480-998-2005White Rock Inc. ________435-750-6414

Machining: Ultra-PrecisionAuer Precision ________ 480-834-4637Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670White Rock Inc. _______ 435-750-5534

Machining: Turning: Automatic

Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628American Prec.Mach __ 602-269-6298Ayers Gear & Mach _____623-934-6913Challenger Aerospace ___ 480-894-0802Evans Precision Mach’g ___623-581-6200Hawkeye Precision ____ 480-926-8642JB’s Precision Ind ______623-581-9088Jet Products _________623-869-6749LAYKE, Inc. ________ 602-272-2654Landmark Precision _____ 480-940-4001Lewis Aerospace _______623-581-0764MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239M-DOT Aerospace ______ 480-921-4128Matrix Machine _______480-966-4451Micro-Tronics, Inc _____ 602-437-8995PGI_______________505-884-5782

MACHINING: LASERLaser Cutting

Ace Laser ____________ 480-924-3232Arizona Laser-Jet ________ 602-455-8908Elixir Industries ______480-834-1484Fine Line Laser Cutting __ 602-863-3196LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141Marking Methods Inc ___626-282-8823PMA PhotoMetals ______ 800-899-3366Pro-Salez ___________ 480-773-3239Scottsdale Precision. Inc. _____480-991-0317Taycar Enterprises ____ 505-265-2121The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865

Wrco_____________480-892-7800

Laser Cutting: X- LargeVroom Engineering & Mfg _ 520-293-3819

Laser Cutting: MicroVacco Industries _______ 626-443-7121

Laser Cutting:Rotary AxisK-zell Metals, Inc. ___ 602-232-5882Laser Engraving & Etching

Ace Laser ____________ 480-924-3232East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137East Valley Laser Tucson Inc __ 520-888-1259TechMark __________ 480-820--9444Vacco Industries _______ 626--450-6472

Laser MarkingAce Laser ____________ 480-924-3232East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137East Valley Laser Tucson Inc __ 520-888-1259Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141TechMark __________ 480-820--9444

Precision Etched PartsVacco Industries _______ 626--450-6472

MANUFACTURINGAdams Mfg & Eng ______ 623-486-2019APMI __ __________ 480-668-0024Creedbilt Inc _______623-939-8119CAD Tools __________480-753-4290Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Group Manufacturing Serv _480-966-3952PMBC ___________ 602-431-8131Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261Scottsdale Precision. Inc. _____480-991-0317Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775Systems 3 __________ 480-894-2581Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911Electrical - UL508A Panel Shop

Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911Mfg: Automotive Metal

Arizona Laser-Jet ________602-455-8908Manufacturing: Electrode

Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591METAL BAR CODING

PMA PhotoMetal_______800-899-3366METAL FORMING

Creedbilt Inc _______623-939-8119Scottsdale Precision. Inc. _____480-991-0317TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Metal Forming: Architectural

ASHER Metal Products ____ 773-276-5007METALIZING

3131 N. 31ST AVE.PHOENIX, AZ 85017


Accuwright Industries ____480-892-9595Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117

MOLDING: RUBBERMicro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995

MOLDSAdams Mfg & Eng ______ 623-486-2019PMBC ___________ 602-431-8131JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Quality Mold ________480-892-5480The Tech Group _______480-281-4500Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939

Molds: ConstructionJWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600The Tech Group _______480-281-4500

Molds: Two-ShotThe Tech Group _______480-281-4500

Molds: Plastic InjectionCAD Tools __________480-753-4290Micro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995The Tech Group _______480-281-4500Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Molds: RubberToolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405

PAINTINGArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

Valley Industrial Painting __ 602-256-6273Abrasive Blasting

STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231Painting& Blast Booths

STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231Vroom Engineering & Mfg _ 520-293-3819

PhosphateCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648

Powder CoatingArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Futureweld _________602-437-2426LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878Valley Industrial Painting __ 602-256-6273

Wet Paint/CARCMPI International ______ 956-631-6880Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Sandblast/AutomatedValley Industrial Painting __ 602-256-6273STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

Screenprinting & Pad Printing

STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231PLATING

Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671ChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117Futureweld _________602-437-2426Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530METCO Metal Finishing ___ 602-276-4120Precious Metal Plating____ 800-481-6271Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681

AnodizingAnodizing of Mesa______ 480-833-6412ChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117METCO Metal Finishing ___ 602-276-4120

Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Gold Plating

Foresight Finishing _____ 480-921-0000Hard Chrome

Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681Nickel/ Chrome

Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Tin / Zinc PlateCollins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930METCO Metal Finishing ___ 602-276-4120Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

PLASMA CUTTINGElixir Industries _____ 480-834-1484

POLISHINGGold Tech Industries _____480-968-1930L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681

PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling

Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115CAD Tools __________480-753-4290Innofab Source _______ 480-491-5938Profiles Tool & Engineering _ 480-894-1008PRECISION FLAT STOCK

Tri-Matrix __________480-844-0165PROCESSING: CHEMICAL Futureweld _________602-437-2426LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612MPI International ______ 956-631-6880

Acid PickleMPI International ______ 956-631-6880

Chemical StrippingMPI International ______ 956-631-6880

PRODUCTIONAction Machine _______623-435-0883Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Louie's Black Oxide _____602-257-0530

PUNCHINGGerome Mfg ________ 520-622-8402Group Manufacturing Serv _480-966-3952

Scottsdale Precision. Inc. ____ 480-991-0317Scriven Precision ______480-961-9775

REPAIRRepair & Overhaul,AerospaceLewis Aerospace _______ 623-581-0764Nelson Engineering _____ 602-273-7114

ROLL FORMINGElixir Industries _____ 480-834-1484

ROUTERING, CNCMicropulse West _______ 480-966-2300

SAW CUTTINGBID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304Echols Saw & Supply ____ 602-278-3918LAYKE, Inc.__________602-272-2654Unique Machine _______ 602-470-1911Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376

SHEARINGAdvanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343Creedbilt Inc ______ 623-939-8119Elixir Industries _____ 480-834-1484Gerome Mfg ________ 520-622-8402Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Scriven Precision ______480-961-9775Western Bending Inc. ___480-671-7855

SHEETMETAL, PREC. ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171ASHER Metal Products ____ 773-276-5007Central Components __ 520-571-1433Elixir Industries _____ 480-834-1484Phoenix Metalcraft ___ 602-279-4810Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Pro-Salez ___________ 480-773-3239Southwest Metal Fab ____602-470-1200

3285 E. 44th StreetTucson, AZ, 85713, U.S.A.

BUS. (520) 623-8681OR 800-989-8681

Mike Jones FAX (520) 798-1419Hydraulic Parts & Service Sales CELL (520) 269-1746Hydraulic Repair AFTER HRS. – SERVICE (520) 240-9387Hardchrome Plating & Honing PARTS (520) 240-9390

[email protected]

Mike GudinPresidentOffice: 480.306.7748Cell: 480-383-9288Fax: [email protected]

451 E. Juanita Ave.Suite #14

Mesa, AZ 85204www.SouthwestWaterjet.com

4710 E. Elwood St.Phoenix, AZ 85040

CELL 520-429-8205Todd Updyke


Dennis ReynoldsPH 602-863-3196

17464 N. 25th Ave. Ste B1 Phoenix, AZ 85023

[email protected]

Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075WC Machine & Tool_ ____ 480-507-4620X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385

SPINNING: MetalMetal Spinning Solutions __ 480-899-0939

SPLINESApache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144

SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA

Accuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595Bolt’s Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432

SPRINGSFlat and Wire Springs

AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

STAMPINGAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Astra Fab __________ 480-497-8250Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637ASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Frontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Harco Metal Products ___ 480-829-0450Precision Die & Stamping __ 480-967-2038Pro-Salez ___________ 480-773-3239Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775Seal Methods ________ 800-423-4777Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Precision Metal FormingASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007

Stamping: AerospaceFrontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129

Stamping DesignFrontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Stamping: PrototypeFrontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129

TAPPINGGilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514

TESTINGTesting: Flow / Target

Semiray Aero. Testing ____ 623-842-3030Testing: Non-Dest/ Pressure

Jet Products __________623-869-6749Semiray Aero. Testing ____ 623-842-3030

THERMAL SPRAYAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595Controlled Thermal Tech'y ___602-272-3714Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

THREADINGThread Grinding

Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767

Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925

Thread RollingShaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925

TOOL & DIE3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

TOOLINGFrontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129US Carbide Tool LLC ______480-755-3812

Tooling: Jig & Fixture Building

New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830TREPANNING

Trepanning Specialties ___562-633-8110TUBING

Assembly Formed TubingService & Sales _______ 480-968-9084

Formed TubingAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Cling’s Manufacturing____480-968-1778

Large Diam. Pipe & TubingTrepanning Specialties ___562-633-8110Tube Bending /Fabrication

Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Harco Metal Products ___ 480-829-0450K-zell Metals, Inc. ___ 602-232-5882Osprey Technologies ___ 480-755-0445Service & Sales _____ 480-968-9084Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855WATER PURIF/ RECYC.

USFilter _________ 760-525-9930 WATERJET CUTTING

Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys 800-237-2888CAD Enterprises _______ 602-278-4407Centaur Technologies___623-516-8080Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Davia Water Jet _____ 602-442-4452EDM Express.com ____ 877-336-4548Elixir Industries ______480-834-1484Flow International ___ 480-830-0431Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160MarZee Inc. ________602-269-5801New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Phx Ornamental Iron Supply 602-484-9393Pro-Salez ___________ 480-773-3239Southwest Waterjet ____480-306-7748Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Taycar Enterprises ____505-265-2121Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Whitley Machine ____ 602-323-5550Wintech __________ 602-437-9001

Waterjet,3D 3 - 5 AXISLAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160

Waterjet, Multi headDavia Water Jet ________602-442-4452LAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160Whitley Machine _____ 602-323-5550

Waterjet, High Press. Cutting Harschco LLC ________602-617-7514LAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160

WASHERSAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329

WIRE FORMSAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

WELDINGACME Metal Works ______ 480-926-4171APMI ____________ 480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal _______ 303-427-6419ASHER Metal Products _____ 773-276-5007Astra Fab __________ 480-497-8250Banner Machine, Inc ____ 602-437-4984BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304Capital Stainless _____ 480-967-0016Central Components ___ 520-571-1433Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483Creedbilt Inc ________623-939-8119Elixir Industries ______ 480-834-1484Empire Precision Mach. ___ 480-633-4580Futureweld _________ 602-437-2426Group Mf. Serv _______ 480-966-3952Harco Metal Products ____ 480-829-0450Innofab Source ________ 480-491-5938Jan’s Inc. ____________ 480-833-7305Joined Alloys _________602-870-5600K-zell Metals, Inc. ____ 602-232-5882Landmark Precision ______ 480-940-4001Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 M-DOT Aerospace ______ 480-921-4128MSL Precision _________ 480-773-3239Precision Casting Repair ___800-622-2404Precision Metalworks ___ 602-455-9575Pro-Salez ____________ 480-773-3239Quality Mold _________480-892-5480Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775State Industrial Prod ____ 602-275-0990Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Taycar Enterprises ____ 505-265-2121Unique Machine ________ 602-470-1911Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376Weiser/Mile High Precision __ 303-280-2778Western Bending Inc. ____ 480-671-7855X5 Manufacturing _______ 602-454-7385

Welding: AerospaceArrow Sheet Metal _______ 303-427-6419Central Components ___ 520-571-1433Futureweld _________ 602-437-2426Joined Alloys _________602-870-5600JPS Manufacturing ______ 480-367-9540

MSL Precision ________ 480-773-3239Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385

Welding: Alum. Med & LgArrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419ASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007Continental Machining __800-777-2483Elixir Industries ______480-834-1484Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Innofab Source _______ 480-491-5938Southwest Metal Fab ____ 602-470-1200Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Vroom Engineering & Mfg __520-293-3819Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855

Welding: EnclosuresASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007Southwest Metal Fab ____ 602-470-1200

Welding: DesignAstra Fab __________ 480-497-8250Innofab Source _______ 480-491-5938

Welding: Inspection SVCNiagara Testing West _____480-968-2315Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

Welding: OrbitalL&W Fluid ________ 602-323-2560

Welding: SpotASHER Metal Products _____773-276-5007Nelson Engineering _____ 602-273-7114

Welding: TigContinental Machining __800-777-2483Cutting Edge Mfg ______ 480-609-7233Innofab Source _______ 480-491-5938Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305JPS Manufacturing _____ 480-367-9540Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Western Bending Inc. ___ 480-671-7855

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Index of Advertisers3D Machine ....................................834 Sight Technologies..................... 81A&J Indus. Mch Repair ............24,81AATC ................................................83Abbott Workholding....................80ABS Quality ....................................44ABS Metallurgical Processors ........86Absolute Machining & Turning.... 93ACC Machinery ..........................15,74Accuwright .....................................86Ace Laser ........................................84ACME Metal Works ...................... 92Action Machine ............................. 85Adams Mfg & Eng .........................86Adams Mach .............11,29,49,74,96Advanced Coord Tech ...................75Advanced Metal Sales ....................80Advanced Precision .......................81Advanced Tooling ..............................Aero Spring & Mfg ................ ........85Aerodyne Alloys ............................79Airtek ..............................................78Alerus Bank & Trust .......................81All World Machinery Supply ......16,81Aluminum Precision .....................86American Aerospace ....................83AMTS ...............................................81Anodizing of Mesa ........................ 92Apache Gear ..................................86Apache Steel .................................78APMI ...............................................83Arizona Bank & Trust ....................80Arizona Engineering .....................88Arizona Finishing ........................... 87Arizona Hard Chrome .................. 87Arizona Laserjet .............................91Arizona MEP ..................................88Arizona Tool Steel ................. ........78Arizona Wire Spec .............. ..........83Arizona Wire Tool .........................84Arrow Sheet Metal ..................36,86Asher Metal Products .................. 85Astra Fab ........................................83Astrotronics ................................... 92ATS .................................................. 33Auer Precision ...............................86Ayers Gear & Mach .......................83AZ CNC ......8,9,18,39,59,61,68-71,74AZMARK ...................................84,92B&B Tool ........................................80B & T Tool & Engr .........................78Bank of Arizona ............................79Barry Metals .............................62,79Bar-S Machine Inc .........................83Barton Mines ...........................36,79BC Tool Grinding ........................... 87BID Machine, Inc ........................... 85Blaser ..............................................79Blue Streak Grinding .............. 58,86BMSC ......................................... 38,81Bogue Machine .............................89Bolt’s Metallizing, Inc ...................89Bralco Metals ................................78ByteBox ......................................... 53CAD Enterprises ............................88CAD Tools .......................................86CAID ................................................84Canyon State Oil ........................ 2,79Capital Stainless .......................64,82Cassavant Machining ....................91Centaur Technologies ..................88Central Components ....................89Certified Comparator ....................77Certified Inspection Services ......83Challenger Aerospace ..................88ChemResearch .............................. 87CGS Technologies, Inc. ................ 85CIS ....................................................72Cling’s Manufacturing .................. 85Collins Metal Finishing..................83CNC Machinery ............................. 76Coast Aluminum.............. ................78Coastal Metals ...........................42,80Coating Tech ...............................73,83Continental Machining .................89Controlled Thermal... ....................87

Country Financial ...........................81Creedbilt Inc ............................60,90CRI .............................................50,81Cupps Industrial Supply.....................89CVD Diamond Corp .............................79Cygnet Stamping & Fab ...............92D & R Mchy ...................................51,74DCM Tech .................................40,76DDi................................... ..........80,95Datum Inspection .........................87DaVia Water Jet ..................... 28,90Delcam ..........................................80East Valley Laser Inc ....................88East Valley Laser Tucson Inc. ......89Ebbco Inc. ..................................... 75Echols Saw & Supply ...................74EDM Express.com .......................82EDM Network .........................32,78EDM Perform Access. .................79EDM Tech ................................ 56,83Ellison Machinery ....3,45,763,74,76Elixir Industries .............................84Elrod Machine & Mfg .................. 77Empire Precision Mach. ............... 90Epilog Laser ................................30,77Evans Precision Mach’g ..............86Excaliber Precision.......................84FeatureCAM .................................80Fine Line Fabricating Inc. ............93Fine Line Laser Cutting ................92Flow Intl .................................. 65,78Foresight Finishing ......................92Foresight Technologies ...............84Frontier Metal Stamping ............92Fry Steel Co ...................................78Futureweld ...................................87Galaxy Associates, Inc .................79Ganesh Machinery ..................43,76Gartman Tech Services ..........44,82Geiger Electric Inc ........................ 75Gerome Mfg ........................... 50,84Gilbert Metal Stamping...............83Gilbert Precision Machine ...........90Gladhill Assoc .........................56,88Global EDM Supply ...................... 77Glover Precision, Inc. ...................88Gold Tech Industries ....................88Great Western ........................34,81Grindworks ...................................84Group Manufacturing .................85Haas Factory Outlet ............3,76,77Hangsterfer’s ..........................35,76HK Machining ...............................89Hanna Tools & Machinery .......... 77Harco Metal Products .................83Hardinge .......................................74Harschco ......................................87Hawkeye Precision ......................85Helical Solutions ........................... 81Hi-Tech Machining & Welding ....85Hoff-Hilk Auction .........................76Horizon Carbide ...........................78Horn...............................................76HUB Intl .........................................83Hurco .............................................47Ind. Metal Supply .....................12,79Ind.Tool Die ...................................89Ind. Workholding Solution .........80Infinisys ...................................84,88Innofab Source ............................90Innovative Cutting Tools ............. 77Innovative Tool Sales .................. 77Integrated Systems Inc ...............82International Machine Parts ......90IRH ................................................. 81ITDE ...............................................89Jan’s Inc .........................................89J B’s Prec Ind....................................88JD Ellen LLC ......................................89Jemelco Inc .....................................81J.K. Tool................................ .........76Joined Alloys .................................92Jorgenson ........... ...................76JPS Manufacturing ...............................86

JWB Manufacturing ..............................87K D Capital .................................. 74Klontech Indus. Sales ..............74,80KMT Waterjet ............................52,75K-Zell Metals, Inc. .......................... 85L&W Machine Co. .........................88LA Specialties ........................... 14,88LAI International ...........................86Landmark Precision .................48,84Larry Arroues & Co. ...................... 78Layke Inc ........................................84Leach Laser ............................... 46,91Leavitt Group .................................81Lewis Aerospace........................... 85Lone Arrow ....................................77Louie’s Black Oxide .................85,87Louie’s Gun Finishing ................... 87Lynch Brothers .............................. 87M-DOT Aerospace ........................84MSL Precision ................................ 87Machinery Sales ............................ 76Magnum Precision ..............23,75,77Marking Methods, Inc. ..................77Makino ........................................ 5,74Marshall Tool & Supply ................80MarZee ................................. 12,78,86Matrix Machine ........................83,84May Foundry .................................86Mesa Machinery ........................... 76Metalcraft Inc. ...............................88Metal Processing Intl ....................91Metal Spinnng ............................... 85Metals Eng & Testing Labs ...........81Metal Supermarkets .................... 78Metco Metal .................................88Methods West .............................. 76Micro-Tronics .............................13,84Micro 100 ...................................18,79Micropulse West ........................... 83Milne ................................................81MMR LLC ........................................82Moore Tool & Equip ..................... 76Mountain Rep ................................81Morsch Machine ........................... 83MSL Precision ................................ 85Muratec ......................................... 76National Grinding & Mfg. .............86Nelson Engineering ...................... 85New Hope Machine .....................84Niagara Testing West ....................92North-South ........................ 15,55,77O’Donnell & Associates ...............80OGP .................................................75Omax Corp. ................................ 5,74Orion Registrar ..............................88Osborn Products .....................84,86Osprey Technologies ....................86Perfection Industrial Finishing .....91Perma-Finish... ............................... 87PGI ...................................................82Phoenix Grinding ..........................84Phoenix Heat Treat ....................... 87Phoenix Metalcraft .......................92Phoenix Metal Trading. .............60,80,81Pivot............................... ....................87PMA Photometals . .......................82Powerhaus ....................................90Powill Mfg.............................. ... .......87Precious Metal Plating. ......... ..88Precision Casting Repair ......... 83Precision Die ..................................... .83Precision Industrial Painting ............84Precision Metalworks ......................93Precision Powder Coating ...............84Premier Precision.........54,84,85,86,88Prime Machine ....................................84 Pro Precision .......................................86ProSalez ................................................82Pro Ultrasonics ....................................78Profiles Tool & Eng ...................................84QTC ..............................................................80Quality Advisory...............................77Qualichem, Inc ..................................78Quality Mold.........................86

R&D Specialty Manco................89ResourceMFG ............................64,82Road Machinery ..............................92Rocky Mountain Saw Blades......... 75Ryerson ............................................80S&S Machinery Sales ..................41,76Samuel, Son & Co. ...........19,67,78,79Satowfi .............................................89Savage Machine ..............................75SBG Capital ......................................80Scottsdale Precision Inc. ................84Scriven Precision Fab. .................... 83Seal Methods ..................................86Semiray ......................................20,89Service & Sales ................................80Setco Marketing ............................ 79Sharp ................................................ 59Shaw Precision Grind’g .................. 85Shielding & Sealing Solutions .........82Shop Floor Automations ................81S L Fusco .......................................... 78Southwest Metal Fab ......................82Southwest Metals .......................... 79Southwest Metrology, Inc ............88Southwest Powder ........................ 87Southwest Swiss Precision Mchg .......89Southwest Waterjet ...................22,92Star Metal Fluids ..........21,75,76,78,81State Industrial Prod ...................... 78Steel Services Grind’g................ 10,84Stellar Machining & Fab Inc. .......... 93Stevens Engineering ...................... 79Sun Grinding .....................................37Sun Tech ........................................... 93Superior Grinding ......................86,87Sustaining Edge Solutions .............80Swisstech Tooling & Mfg ................91Systems3 ..........................................89TAIG Tools ...................................48,75TMM Precision ...........................83,94T.S.M. Mach. ...............................17,74Taycar Enterprises ..........................86Taylor Hobson Precision ................ 76Team Industrial Services ...........46,87TechMark........................................86Temperature Processing................ 87Temtco Steel .................................... 78The Metal Man......................... 83,86The Tech Group............................. 90The Werks C&C ..............................79Tipco Punch....................................78TMI (GibbsCAM) ............................ 81TNT Sandblasting ......................... 89Tolleson Steel .................................78Toolcraft of Phoenix ..................... 89Tooling Molds West...................... 89Tornquist Machinery .....................75Total Filtration Sys ......................... 77Total Quality Sys ...................... 40,78Trepanning Specialties .................. 91 Tri-Matrix Mach ............................85Tsugami ..........................................57TW Metals ......................................79Tube Service ...................................78U S Shop Tools .......................... 25,77Ulbrich of CA ............................. 31,78Unique Machine ............................76United Performance Metals ........78Universal Laser ..............................76US Carbide Tools ..............1,26-28,93Vacco Industries ....................... 14,83Val-Tech Mfg ..................................85Valley Industrial Painting ..............92Vroom Enginering & Mfg ............ 90Washington Cal. ......................87WC Machine & Tool .......................85Weiser/Mile High Precision.......... 86Western Bending, Inc. ..................83Western States Metal ................... 81White Rock Inc. ............................ 89Whitley Machine ..................... 86Widia ...............................................76Wintech ..........................................85Wire-Tech .......................................85Wrico ..............................................85X5 ....................................................85


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