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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more impor-

tantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amaz-

ing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect,

whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

Neil Gaiman, English author

CONTRIBUTORSKim Carpenter

Robbie BarrkmanGene WirthChris Seay

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Published bi-monthly to keep precision manu-facturers 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 8200 people actively engaged in the precision manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 19,300 people.Advertising Rates, deadlines and mechanical

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The glass is half full. I believe it. Yes, we have our trials and tribulations as a Nation, and personally. We all just mourned the senseless death of 27 people, mostly innocent young children, in Connecticut. And as we go to print before the Holidays in order to mail the magazine for the new year, we still are faced with uncertainty over Plan A or Plan B (or some other plan) regarding fiscal measures moving forward. Still, as we likely spent beautiful holidays with loved ones, we must know that there is so much to be grateful for. I am.

I am grateful for my family, and that I have food on the table, and can pay my bills. One of the things I recently thought about was how grateful I was to be a part of manufacturing in the United States. Granted, I am not making products that help our troops, that help families fly in the air to see one another, that are medical devices used to save peoples lives -- but I still feel a part of manufacturing as I write about those of you who do these things.

Last week, we were cleaning out the office to make room for new projects and I came across a folder with my appraisals from my previous employer. The file even contained some emails that for some reason, I retained. One was from my last boss. The email, in response to my recommendation on a new project, said, “Linda, we must not be so free-form and thinking outside of the box. We must be careful what we recommend.” I suppose I kept this email because it was so incredibly bureaucratic!

What happened to me when I experienced the distastefulness of bureaucracy was a beautiful thing. I made the decision to get out of this mentality, and to get into business myself. This resulted in the purchase of the A2Z Metalworker 8 years ago this month. It is indeed the best thing I have ever done in my business career. 8 years later, my partner and I now have 3 publications, the Southwest edition, the Rocky Mountain edition, and the newest Pacific Northwest edition. Sometimes, it takes bad things to push us to make very positive changes.

Good things happen. Accept and allow change. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Grow. May 2013 be a year of great things! And, of course, God Bless our Troops!



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February 27th: Haas Macro Programming Basics

CNC Performance Training is held at the Ellison Machinery showroom at 1610 S. Priest Drive #101, Tempe, AZ. To register and for more information call (480)968-5335 or visit www.ellisonaz.com

Kerley Corp., Full Line Distributor of Precision Measuring Tools, Opens A Showroom in Arizona!

Kerley Corporation, distributor of precision measuring tools, including the Mitutoyo line, is pleased to announce that it recently expanded with a showroom in Tempe, Arizona.

T h e c o m p a ny opened for business more than 3 decades ago, supporting customers in Southern California from their headquarters in Glendale, California. Today, the company offers solutions to your every measuring application. Their product line includes every major manufacturer of Precision Measuring Instruments – from small hand tools such as micrometers and calipers to major instruments: Optical Comparators, Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM’s) and Vision Measuring Systems. They represent the full Mitutoyo product line in Southern California and in Arizona.

Jeff Moore, Quality Manager at Helm Precision, says, “We just purchased our 4th Mitutoyo, and we now have 2 CNC Mitutoyos and 2 manual CMMs. We continue to purchase the Mitutoyo brand because it is one of the best brands out there, the service we get from Kerley is very good, and we want consistent software across our quality department.”

For more information, call 480-478-9177 or visit their website atwww.kerleycorp.com.

Sterling Fabrication Technology to represent TRUMPF in Arizona and New Mexico and Hires Arizona Sales Engineer

TRUMPF Inc. recently selected Sterling Fabrication Technology to represent its sheet metal fabricating equipment in the states of Arizona and New Mexico. Sterling has more than a decade of experience selling the TRUMPF complete line of machine tools, first in Texas and then in Louisiana. With the latest agreement, Sterling Fabrication will offer the TRUMPF line in Arizona, New

Announcements & Releases

MICRO MARK Portable DOT PEEN Marker, A Smart Solution for Permanent Part Marking

Multi Function Use….The Micro Mark is the most versatile compact dot peen marker available today. Ideal for hand held applications as well as on-machine integration.

Small Footprint Large Mark Area….The compact (3” x 5” x 6”) head size (5+ lbs) offers a generous 1.0” x 2.5” marking field to suit most industrial marking applications.

Designed for Easy Integration….Additional I/O (with logic) streamlines “handshaking” with other machinery, when required, and allows importing data from external files. Includes all software functions as the entire Kwikmark product line does.

Automatic Line centering….This feature will automatically center the marking image to your part, whether it is single or multiple lines, graphics or both with no measuring or operator input required. Just type the information you wish to mark and the Micro Mark will line it up automatically! This feature may be enabled in the X, Y or both axes. Your operators will appreciate this feature especially when marking round parts such as shafts, pipes, etc.

The Operator’s Choice….Just squeeze the trigger or touch the button. The Micro Mark’s light weight centered and balanced handle suits both left & right handed operators.

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CNC Performance Training at EllisonThe next CNC Performance Training session at Ellison Machinery Company will be held on Wednesday January 30th with a return to the popular topic of maximizing your productivity with your Haas Renishaw Probes. Machinists are invited to meet at the Tempe, AZ showroom for a presentation and discussion led by Jason Floor, Applications Engineer.

Each CNC Performance Training session is inspired by the issues and questions most frequently presented to the Ellison team of service technicians and application engineers. The bite-sized, 1 ½ - 2 hr sessions focus on improving the skillset of the machinist on a specific topic related to your CNC machines.

Please join us for our upcoming sessions of CNC Performance Training. Advance registration is preferred as group size will be limited. All sessions will begin at 3:30PM.

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Mexico, Louisiana and Texas.

“We are pleased that Sterling Fabrication Technology, under the impressive leadership of Clay Kehrer, is again affiliated with TRUMPF,” said Burke Doar, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TRUMPF Inc. “Clay and his energetic team know our machine tools firsthand, and they are well-respected for their representation of cutting edge manufacturing technology. Sterling Fabrication Technology is a great fit for TRUMPF’s products.”

Coincident with the new territory, Sterling Fabrication hired Tim Miller to support TRUMPF customers in Arizona and New Mexico. Clay says, “Tim has nearly 30 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, almost exclusively in sales positions selling to precision and industrial manufacturing customers, and he is located in the Phoenix metroplex. Tim is an excellent addition to our team at Sterling Fabrication Technology.”

Tim has sold to the Aerospace, Automotive, Agriculture, Defense/ Military, and the Appliance, Industries, including their Tier One Suppliers, most recently working with customers throughout Arizona.

Sterling Fabrication Technology represents global leaders in sheet metal fabrication equipment. The company’s mission is to present innovative metal working technologies and to assist customers by making the manufacturing process more productive, efficient and cost effective.For precision sheet metal fabrication, Sterling offers the Techni waterjet, Virtek, ARKU, Behringer and Lissmac product lines, in addition to TRUMPF. For industrial sheet metal fabrication, the company sells and services the Kinetic, Voortman, HGG, Haeusler, and Ursviken product lines.

Call to see how economical TRUMPF can be! To reach Sterling Fabrication Technology, please call (855) 898-7867 or email Tim at [email protected].

R o n a l d S n a r t l a n d j o i n s Sustaining Edge Solutions Team

Ron Snartland has over 25 years’ of experience in manufacturing, operations and quality systems management. His experience includes electronics manufacturing and the precision machining industries. Ron has held management positions with organizations such as Swift-Eckrich, Continental Circuits Corporation, and

Viasystems Group.

During his career, Ron has been deeply involved in the transformation of companies in the areas of operations excellence and quality systems management. Ron can be reached at www.sustainingedge.com, office 888-572-9642, and at [email protected].

United Performance Metals Unveils Mobile Sheet & Coil Calculating App

United Performance Metals, a leading supplier of specialty stainless steel and high temperature alloys, has unveiled a mobile app for stainless steel sheet and coil buyers: UPM Toolbox.

The UPM Toolbox app allows steel buyers to calculate the weight of sheet and coil through their mobile devices.Scott Fasse, Vice President of Marketing

commented: “ Launching the UPM Toolbox provides a platform to begin addressing the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce. As our customer needs evolve, so will our online offerings. ”

iPhone and iPad mobile applications are currently available for free download at the iTunes App Store. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id519602690

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and control software. A world leader in advanced CNC machining centers, Makino provides a wide range of high-precision metal-cutting and EDM machinery, including horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, 5-axis machining centers, graphite machining centers, and wire and Ram EDMs. Our flexible automation solutions provide reduced labor costs and increased throughput in a variety of production volumes and designs. With Makino engineering services, we offer industry-leading expertise for even the most challenging applications across all industries. For more information, call 1-800-552-3288 or visit makino.com.


consistently problem free drilling at high penetration rates. The new unique geometry combined with the new flute shape provides a cutting edge shape for effective clearance of the chip, even at increased penetration rates. Low cutting forces provide fewer problems with weak fixturing, thin walled components and loads on the cutting edge. The drill comes in lengths 3-8xD as standard. Sandvik Coromant is a world-leading supplier of cutting tools and tooling systems for the metalworking industry and is represented in 130 countries. 25 state-of-the art Productivity Centers located around the world provide customers and staff with continuous training in tooling solutions and methods to increase productivity. Sandvik Coromant is part of the Tooling business area of the Sandvik Group. For more information contact: Email: [email protected]

D av i d O l ve r a Jo i n s Makino as Senior Process Development Engineer

Makino has expanded its titanium process research and development group with the recent addition of David Olvera. Joining Makino as a senior process development engineer, Olvera brings with him extensive knowledge and experience in titanium processing.

“The addition of Olvera to the titanium research and development group solidifies our position as an international knowledge leader in titanium process engineering,” says Mark Larson, Makino’s titanium R&D manager. “His robust academic background will be a key asset in our objective to research and analyze the machining of titanium, the effects within the cutting zone and our ability to develop new processes for the highest level of productivity and efficiency.” Olvera received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Pachuca Institute of Technology in Pachuca, Mexico. He also holds a master’s degree in manufacturing systems from the Monterrey Institute of Technology. Olvera is currently working on his PhD in mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing through the University of the Basque Country near Bilbao, Spain. Olvera has been published on a variety of topics related to titanium process engineering such as ball nose helical milling of titanium alloys, analysis of a tool-tip’s radial stiffness on turn-milling centers, and the prediction of tool stiffness for machine tools. In addition to his academic background, Olvera has worked with a variety of machine platforms

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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.

PROFESSIONAL SALES ENGINEERS

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.

EXPERIENCED APPLICATIONS ENGINEERING

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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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.

Products include: • HARDINGE, manual lathes to high-performance, Super-

Precision multi-tasking CNC lathes, world’s largest manufacturer of precision collets and workholding systems.

• BRIDGEPORT, manual knee mills to high-performance vertical and horizontal multi-tasking CNC machining centers.

• KELLENBERGER, precision CNC universal grinding machines for OD, face and ID grinding.

• TSCHUDIN, compact, high precision CNC grinding machines for low or high-volume OD production CNC grinding.

• HAUSER, multi-axis precision jig grinding for complex profiles.


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United Performance Metals is one of more than a dozen companies that comprise O’Neal Industries (onealind.com), the U.S.A.’s largest family-owned group of metals service centers. With sales of approximately $2.5 billion in 2011, O’Neal Industries is based in Birmingham, Alabama, and has more than 90 specialized facilities throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information on United Performance Metals visit us at www.upmet.com, call us at 1.888.282.3292 or email [email protected].

Comco and Larry Arroues Explain MicroBlasting

To understand how MicroBlasting can be used for precision deburring it is best to start by understanding its origins. The process is an offshoot of large cabinet blasters. Back in the 1950’s an engineer believed that with with greater control over the parameters and a more focused abrasive stream the technology could be applied to a wide range of different applications.

Unlike its larger cousin MicroBlasting does not require large volumes of air and heavy gloves to protect the operator from the abrasive stream. This technology uses a handpiece about the size of a pencil and nozzles ranging from 0.018” to 0.060”.

The original use for MicroBlasting was to remove excess film on hybrid resistors. The abrasive cut through the ink quickly without damaging the ceramic core underneath. The flexibility of the process resulted in its quick adoption into other industries.

Comco was very fortunate to be founded very near the old Lockheed Skunk Works facility in Burbank, CA. They were always looking for new manufacturing methods to help them achieve significant engineering obstacles. On their precision assemblies they were looking for a method to remove burrs without causing dimensional changes to the part. At the time most deburring processes cut deeply into the base material to make sure all of the burr was removed. The burrs were very fine, often difficult to see let alone remove. Through a series of tests we found that MicroBlasting could do this very effectively.

In the blasting process a fine abrasive media is mixed with compressed air and accelerated to about 200meters per second. Once the abrasive particles strike the root of the burr all of the energy is transferred to this very brittle region of the part. With enough energy the abrasive stream will quickly break off the burr at its root.

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Modular, automated pallet systems and 24/7 machining capabilities are opening whole new doors of productivity. And opportunity. With the Makino MMC2 and MAS A5 cell controller, you know you’re working with the industry standard for virtually eliminating setup and changeover times. While helping you manage what matters most: production schedules, costs and throughput.

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Modular, automated pallet systems and 24/7 machining capabilities are opening whole new doors of productivity. And opportunity. With the Makino MMC2 and MAS A5 cell controller, you know you’re working with the industry standard for virtually eliminating setup and changeover times. While helping you manage what matters most: production schedules, costs and throughput.

For more information on all Makino products in Arizona, contact:David [email protected]

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An important consideration with this process is the proper selection of abrasive media. The equipment is capable of using a wide range of different abrasives; from soft materials like sodium bicarbonate or plastic media to much harsher aluminum oxide or silicon carbide. It is important to select the right abrasive for the type of burr and base material being used. It is not uncommon for MicroBlasting to be used on everything from aerospace aluminum and stainless to PEEK and nylon.

The biggest advantage of MicroBlasting comes from its ability to pinpoint the abrasive stream. There are a wide range of different nozzles that can be used with the MicroBlasting technology. These nozzles can be very small to focus the energy of the media at a very specific location.

They can also have side ports on them. These are regularly used for manifolds and shuttle valves. A right angle nozzle will reach down inside the valve and focus the abrasive stream on the side wall. These nozzles are also relatively small, less than 0.125” in diameter, making the process appropriate for a wide range of part geometries.If you are struggling with a deburring project, suffering from either inconsistent results or high labor costs, the MicroBlasting process might be right for you. The process and technology are unique, it is not uncommon for a customer to be unshure how to start.

That’s why Comco offers sample parts testing to determine if MicroBlasting can achieve the desired results,and the best process to achieve those results. For more information on precision deburring

or sample testing ,contact Larry Arroues and Associates at larry@larroues or 623-444-0430 or visit his website at www.larroues.com.

Ganesh Offers High Speed CNC Vertical Machining Center VFM-4024B

Combining Box-Way Strength with Speed for Optimum Productivity. To Keep Manufacturing Industry in Pace, Manufacturers looking for a vertical machining center but still requiring the capability to machine which can rigidity of a high-strength heavy box-way Meehanite processed cast iron frame the Ganesh VFM-4024B can handle all your tough materials like stainless steel and titanium “VMC” new technology is a key to success in today’s competitive environment next generation’s Machining Center. Ganesh can show you how to meet tomorrow’s needs today by unveiling the new machining centers. Ganesh new machining center models are well-suited for those who are thinking about how to remain competitive by both getting the job done in one handling and having ample tooling flexibility to have multiple jobs setup on the machines at one time.

Ganesh VFM-4024B massive meehanite machine construction 13,228 lbs machine, with 43.3” X 19.68” Table size, is capable of 24 station


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LAI International’s CEO named to manufacturing council

The Arizona Manufacturers Council has elected Patrick J. “P.J.” Gruetzmacher, Chief Executive Officer and President of LAI International, Inc., as a director of the board for the organization. The AMC, which joined forces in 2007 with Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, promotes a positive business climate for manufacturing and supports a strong industrial manufacturing base. It works to provides a globally competitive environment for the manufacturing sector of the economy and promotes innovation and investments in research and development.

The council, which elected new directors to the board Nov. 28, deals with a variety of policy issues that affect Ar izona manufacturers, including the environment, energy, education, workforce development, human resources and intellectual property.

LAI International, a strategic supplier of precision components and subassemblies for original equipment manufacturers, was recognized as AMC’s Outstanding Small-to-Medium Manufacturer of the Year in 2011.

LAI International is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise. For more information, see www.LAIco.com.

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Metal Supermarkets Franchising Family of Companies is expanding its franchise network. As part of the companies’ revamped marketing strategy, the small quantity metals distribution franchisor has launched a new franchise website to accelerate expansion.

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D&R Machinery Announces Expansion With Move To Its New Facility!

D&R Machinery, co-owned by brothers Randy and Jeff Flores, is pleased to announce that they have moved to a new, larger facility.

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Announcements & Releases Continuedoffers larger square footage for the company’s showroom, where they will feature machine tools from the product lines they carry, including Hurco, Hyundai Wia and TRAK ProtoTRAK.

Randy says, “Our new facility, just a few miles from the facility we resided in for the past 6 years, will allow us to demonstrate the superior machine tool lines we carry first hand. We think this will be a real advantage for our customers.”

D&R’s phone, fax and email will remain the same. To contact D&R Machinery, call them at 480-775-6462 or email Randy at [email protected].

Roentgen USA Introduces the HM Titan SET Tooth Carbide blade

Roentgen USA is introducing an addition to their Carbide tipped line with the HM Titan Set tooth Carbide tipped blade. The Set tooth carbide blade is designed for tougher to cut materials that pinch together while cutting on band saw. The set tooth design eliminates the blades tendency to strip teeth.

Roentgen currently manufactures 4 types of Carbide tipped blades. The Titan MU is a line of unset multi chip ground Carbide tipped blades designed for cutting a majority a materials from Aluminum to tool steels. Roentgen also produces the Titan Forte C, a coated Carbide blade launched in late 2010. The remaining two carbide blades

available would be the Titan B0 a carbide blade designed for sawing induction hardened chrome materials and the Titan ALU, a carbide tipped blade for Foundry applications.

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Delcam programs used for turbo milling demonstrations

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The milling approach, which is based on the trochoidal machining strategies in PowerMILL, has been patented by Iruba, a German provider of engineered solutions. It allows complex “fir-tree” profiles to be produced on five-axis milling machines, rather than having to use specialist broaching equipment. For the Massachusetts event,

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The use of trochoidal strategies gives a number of benefits, in particular giving high material removal rates with lower, and more consistent, cutting forces. The more consistent cutting forces also ensure higher accuracy in the position and in the shape of the slots, with minimal thermal effects on the surface of the profiles. The process also reduces the number of specialist cutting tools that are required, and cuts the machining time in steel alloys by between 30 and 40 per cent, compared to alternative standard milling solutions, giving a time almost equal to broaching.

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Aerospace, Aviation, Defense and Manufacturing Requirements Day Scheduled for March 14th

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The Council is collaborating with the Arizona Commerce Authority, and others to stage the conference. The Conference will consist of presentations, a keynote speaker and cocktail reception/expo. For detailed information and registration visit AZTC website at www.aztechcouncil.org

Pioneer Dis tr ibut ing Announces That is Now Offer ing the Premier ChemArrow Metalworking Fluids Line

Pioneer Distributing is proud to announce that it recently added ChemArrow to the array of products it offers its customers.

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Today, Pioneer Distributing is a woman-owned and family-owned business, with Sally Voyles as the President and CEO. Sally’s father opened the business, which now serves customers in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. The company specializes in offering price competitive solutions for lubricants, additives, aviation fuel, chemicals, and cleaners. They are an ideal distribution partner for machine shops throughout Arizona.

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Wave-Powered Robot Completes Record-Setting 9,000-Mile Journey Across the Ocean

Liquid Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup behind the surfboard-sized robots known as Wave Gliders, announced today that the Papa Mau robot completed a record-breaking 9,000 mile trip across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia. During its more than 365 days at sea, the robot reportedly survived shark attacks, weathered gale-force storms and battled the East Australian Current. But the wave-powered robot it reached its destination, setting a new world record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle.

Last year, Liquid Robotics sent four wave gliders on trips across the Pacific Ocean, beginning in San Francisco. The robots were intended to measure oil spills and salinity levels, while also testing their own

endurance. Two of the robots that were headed for Japan experienced rudder problems, causing them to abandon their missions, and a third robot is currently about 750 miles east of Australia.

Papa Mau completed its mission, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the record-setting wave glider. In addition to powerful storms and curious sharks, the robot encountered several cloudy days, which affected its ability to produce enough energy to power its sensors.

“To say we are excited and proud of Papa Mau reaching his final destination is an understatement,” said Liquid Robotics CEO Bill Vass in a statement. “We set off on the PacX journey to demonstrate that Wave Glider technology could not only survive the high seas and a journey of this length, but more importantly, collect and transmit ocean data in real-time from the most remote portions of the Pacific Ocean. We’ve demonstrated delivery of ocean data services through the most challenging ocean conditions. Mission accomplished.”

Liquid Robotics recently launched the PacX Challenge, a global competition calls on scientists to submit research proposals for data collected by the wave gliders. Five finalists were announced this week; the winner will receive a $50,000 research grant.

NASA Awards $30 Million To Commercial Spacecraft Companies

Reuters reports NASA is adding $30 million, about $10 million each to SpaceX, Boeing, and Sierra Nevada, to help them develop their commercial spacecraft to transport astronauts to the ISS.

NASA’s Phil McAlister, who manages the commercial spacecraft programs, said, “NASA and its industry partners are committed to the goal of safely and cost-effectively launching astronauts from home within the next five years.”

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Honeywell’s UOP Technology Selected By Petrobras For Offshore Natural Gas Processing UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its technology has been selected by Petrobras to process natural gas aboard up to eight Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels.

Honeywell’s UOP Separex™ membrane systems will be installed on the new FPSOs that will operate in the Lula oil field. Each Separex membrane system will remove carbon dioxide and water from as much as 6 million standard cubic meters of natural gas per day.

“The continued selection of our gas processing membrane systems extends a long business relationship with Petrobras,” said Rebecca Liebert, vice president and general manager for gas processing and hydrogen. “UOP Separex technology offers high hydrocarbon recovery, a solvent-free process and low operating costs.”

Petrobras awarded the units in October 2011, and Honeywell’s UOP is slated to deliver the units between 2013 and 2017. Commissioning will take place between 2014 and 2017. The new UOP Separex systems for Petrobras join two units already installed aboard FPSOs owned and operated by a third party in the Tupi and Guará fields.

Honeywell’s UOP, which opened a sales office in Rio de Janeiro in 2011, will fabricate a significant portion of the membrane system locally in Brazil.

Separex technology upgrades natural gas streams by removing carbon dioxide and water vapor. These contaminants must be removed to meet the quality standards specified by pipeline transmission and distribution companies, as well as end users of the natural gas. Within systems designed to a compact footprint, Separex membranes are the thinnest in the industry, yet have the longest membrane life in natural gas service. Separex membranes eliminate the need for solvents, which could spill and damage the marine ecosystem.

Honeywell’s UOP technology operates with very high on-stream factors for difficult-to-treat gas streams in remote locations. Systems can be used onshore or offshore, at the wellhead or at gathering facilities. To date, more than130 of Honeywell’s UOP membrane systems have been installed worldwide.

This year, Honeywell’s UOP acquired a 70 percent stake in Thomas Russell Co., a leading provider of technology and equipment for natural gas processing and treating. With the acquisition, Honeywell’s UOP expands its offering of key technologies and products that allow shale and conventional natural gas producers to remove contaminants from natural gas and recover high-value natural gas liquids used for petrochemicals and fuel.

In 2011, Honeywell’s UOP expanded its portfolio of natural gas treatment technologies through an alliance with the Netherlands-based Twister B.V. The company now offers the Twister supersonic gas separation technology, which is used to remove water and heavy hydrocarbons present in natural gas when it comes out of the ground.



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GDC4S to deliver additional AN/PRC-155 radios to US Army

General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) has been awarded a $306m contract for delivery of additional AN/PRC-155 joint tactical radio system (JTRS) handheld, manpack, small form fit (HMS) radios to the US Army.

The company will supply 3,726 more PRC-155 radios, along with vehicle integration kits and associated accessories as part of the

army’s Capability Set 13 networking and communications gear that is scheduled to be deployed with brigade combat teams (BCTs) in 2013.

General Dynamics C4 Systems assured communications vice president Chris Brady said: “The two-channel PRC-155 completes the army’s tactical network by connecting upper to lower tiers, legacy to future waveforms and terrestrial to over-the-horizon links.”

The AN/PRC-154 is a two-channel manpack radio designed to provide line-of-sight (LOS) and

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GDC4S had already started AN/PRC-154 radio production in anticipation of this new order and also started shipments in November.

Around half of the radios under the latest contract will be manufactured by Rockwell Collins under an undisclosed subcontract from GD4CS.

Industrial Production Rises 1.1 Percent In November

The AP repor ted, “US factor ies rebounded in November f rom Superstorm Sandy, boosting production of cars, equipment and appliances. But after factoring out the impact from the storm, the broader trend in manufacturing remained weak. The Federal Reserve said that factory output increased 1.1 percent in November from October. That offset a 1 percent decline in the previous, which was blamed on the storm.” Auto production rose “4.5 percent last month, the first increase since July. Production of primary metals, wood products, electrical equipment and appliances all showed gains. Total industrial output at factories, mines and utilities rose also rose 1.1 percent last month, after a 0.7 percent decline in October.”

B l o o m b e r g N e w s r e p o r t e d , “Manufacturing, which stumbled in the second half of the year, is stabilizing as housing recovers, auto sales improve and growth in countries such as China shows signs of picking up.

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Delcam to launch new milling options in FeatureCAM at IMTS

Delcam will launch the 2013 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software on booth E-3222 at the IMTS exhibition to be held in Chicago from 10th to 15th September. This will offer a new series of options for three-axis milling and enhancements in five-axis machining, plus improvements in the turning and mill-turn modules.

FeatureCAM was the world’s first feature-based programming software when it was launched in 1995. Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths giving greater productivity on a wider range of machines.

The main change to the 2013 FeatureCAM product family has been the introduction of three levels of 3D machining functionality. FeatureMILL 3D Lite offers single-surface machining with a basic range of strategies and so provides an introductory product for companies moving into 3D machining for the first time.

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Aero Tech Manufacturing, Inc. Achieves ISO9001: 2008 Certification

Aero Tech Manufacturing, in business since 1967, is pleased to announce that it suc-cessfully certified to ISO9001: 2008. The scope of the company’s certifications are for fabrication and finishing of sheet metal and light structural steel products. The Registrar Company, Inc., was the certifying auditor.

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The military’s mysterious mini-shuttle is set to launch this week on a classified mission that has captured the imaginations of everyone from amateur satellite trackers to anti-nuclear protestors and potential military adversaries Russia and China.

Built by Boeing’s secretive Phantom Works in Huntington Beach, Calif., the Air Force X-37B spacecraft is rumored to be everything from a

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The Air Force is revealing little.“Inquiring minds want to know, right?” said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a leading source of defense, space and intelligence information.

“But posing this question presumes that (the mini-shuttle) does serve some specific purpose. And I think that might be imposing greater rationality on the whole thing than is warranted.”

Birthed by NASA in 1999, the project shifted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency (DARPA) in 2004, and then to the U.S. Air Force in 2006. Tuesday’s planned launch of the winged vehicle will be the X-37B’s third mission.

Pike thinks the program exists, well, because it exists.

“To the extent that it does have a purpose, I think its purpose is to keep the Chinese guessing as to what the purpose is.”

The Union of Concerned Scientists holds a similar view. The nonprofit group says that bureaucratic inertia “may help keep the space-plane concept alive.”

“In a time of tightening budgets, the administration and Congress should take a close look at the X-37B program and figure out why they’re spending money on a program that has no persuasive rationale,” said Laura Grego, a senior scientist with the organization.

Here’s what we do know about the mini-shuttle set to launch atop an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station:

• About one-fourth of the size of a NASA shuttle orbiter, the X-37B is a reusable, robotic vehicle.

• The unmanned spacecraft has no crew cabin, no life support systems, and neither the Air Force nor NASA has indicated a desire to upgrade it for human spaceflight.

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Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk

This still from a SpaceX mission concept video shows a Dragon space capsule landing on the surface of Mars. SpaceX’s Dragon is a privately built space capsule to carry unmanned payloads, and eventually astronauts, into space.

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip.

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• Vehicle wraps are easily removed. If you are leasing your vehicle, the vehicle wrap can be taken off prior to turning your vehicle back in to the dealership.

• Vehicle wraps are an economical way to promote your business. The one time cost can be as low as a few hundred dollars for small signage to a few thousand for a complete vehicle wrap on a large vehicle.

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If you own your business, are a sales person, or you own company delivery trucks, you are missing a critical, cost effective way to market your business if you don’t utilize

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Jim quips, “A business with no sign is a sign of no business. At Fry Fabrications and Fry Media, we create fun and entertaining e n v i r o n m e n t s . We are known for our industr ial yet c o n t e m p o r a r y des igns, and you can see them at our facil ity, from our unique conference room table, to the door signage that covers the back and front of our inside doors, to the kiosks in our front lobby, to the window signage.


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Fry Media did a great job, and I believe they use some of the highest quality materials.”

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New Technology Uses fMRI For Robotic Prosthesis

Reuters reports that researchers have developed a robotic arm that is controlled via instant fMRI scans of the brain.A study published describes how a 52-year-old woman - a quadriplegic for nine years - has spent the past 10 months learning to maneuver the robotic arm with her thoughts, allowing her to pick up objects of various shapes, shake hands, and even grasping a chocolate bar and taking a bite.

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Spacex Awarded Two Eelv-Class Missions From The United States Air Force

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“Black hole for light” drastically improves efficiency of solar cells

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In continuing to pursue its mission of bringing additive manufacturing technology into the mainstream of U.S. manufacturing, NAMII made three major announcements: an open call for projects; opportunities to become an NAMII member, and a new director (Ed Morris) to take the helm from acting director Ralph Resnick. Some additional details:

Open Call for NAMII Projects — With an unprecedented cadence from the government, NAMII is now formed with a Governance Board (consisting of the 1st and 2nd tier membership representatives) and the Executive Committee (two industry, two academic, two not-for-profits, two at-large and three government representatives). The next steps are to finalize the Additive Manufacturing National Roadmap and select projects. The call for projects was released publicly at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) in Orlando, Fla. The link for the process of responding to the Request for Proposals (RFP) can be found here: http://namii.org/projects/.

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Bell’s new 525 Relentless moves into initial production

Bell Helicopter has entered the production phase of the first proto-type of the 525 Relentless, a “super-medium”-class product and the company’s boldest move to reclaim share in the commercial market. The company started releasing digital design models to suppliers after completing a preliminary design phase on 26 June. That al-lowed suppliers of certain components, such as a tail rotor assembly actuator, a main rotor gearbox carrier development part and the accessory gearbox, to enter production, says Larry Thimmesch, Bell’s vice president of commercial programs.

Bell announced the Relentless program in February, finally taking the wraps off what had been internally known as Project Magellan. Aimed at the oil and gas, corporate and VIP transportation, and parapublic and emergency medical services markets, the 525 is Bell’s biggest commercial helicopter and the beginning of an entire series of medium- and heavy-lift helicopters.

Bell has not released its internal deadline for the 525’s critical design review, but it must come before the prototype begins assembly in the second quarter of 2013 at the company’s Xworx facility.

In the meantime, Bell has activated a 525 systems integration lab comprised of a main rotor test rig, avionics test bench, tail rotor test rig and two flight control systems test benches.

Bell has held its first interim certification type board meeting with the FAA. Although it is the first such commercial helicopter to be certificated, Bell says it has benefitted having conversations with the FAA for several years over the requirements to certify the fly-by-wire controls of what was then called the BA609 tiltrotor.

For now, the company has chosen to downplay its performance claims for the 525. It has released only the minimum value for the helicopter’s range - 400nm. Thimmesch says he wants to keep the company focused on making the aircraft as good as possible, rather than meeting a particular specification. The company also has not launched a sales drive on behalf of the aircraft prior to first flight, and only released an unquantified order from oil and gas transpor-tation service PHI.

US Automakers Sales Increase In China For October

The Detroit News reports, “The dispute between Japan and China over island territory continued last month to benefit US automakers. Ford Motor Co. sales jumped 48 percent in October, and General Motors Co. sales increased 14 percent in China, the automakers said Monday.” China and Japan “are jostling over islands in the East China Sea, which Japan nationalized in September but also are claimed by China. The hostility has brought on calls to boycott Japanese goods - including automobiles - in China.”

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Tioga Energy, a leading provider of renewable energy services to commercial, government and non-profit organizations, announced the completion of a 961 kW solar energy project for two sites in the Washington Elementary School District (WESD). This undertaking will save the WESD more than $1.5 million over the next 20 years, including over $28,000 in the first year of operation alone.

Solar electric systems are now in operation for WESD’s Mountain View and Sunnyslope Schools, meeting 61 and 82 percent of the schools’ electricity needs, respectively. Wilson Electric Services Corp. served as the engineering, procurement and construction partner for the project, installing more than 3,300 solar panels on rooftops and solar shade structures for school carports and playgrounds.

Through its 20-year SurePath® solar services agreement (SSA) with WESD, Tioga Energy developed, financed and owns each system, also taking care of operation and maintenance. Tioga will sell the generated electricity to WESD at locked-in rates that are lower than those of the local utility, offering the district immediate energy savings as well as a hedge against future utility rate increases.

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Airplane Mechanic’s Need For Speed Leads To DOD Innovation Award For Delta Sigma

An airplane mechanic’s need for speed has led to a revolutionary change in how large, complex products are built. A pioneering technology called ProjectionWorks is saving aircraft manufacturers hundreds of hours and has earned its inventor, Delta Sigma Company of Kennesaw, Ga., one of the nation’s top manufacturing innovation awards.

ProjectionWorks is the key component of the Fastener Insertion Live Link System (FILLS), developed by a team of aerospace companies.

“This disruptive manufacturing technology has saved more than 200 hours per plane and a potential $111 million for the F-35 program alone,” said David See, Project Manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory. “FILLS will revolutionize how we assemble, maintain and repair our fleets – from jets, to submarines, to ships, to satellites.”

“The FILLS process automates data input and compares the data against original specifications,” said Dave Thomas, F-35 Center Fuselage Build Manager, F-35 Joint Program Office. “Now, dozens of mechanics on the F-35, P3, C-5 and C-130 production lines are using Delta Sigma’s ProjectionWorks 3-D technology to project assembly instructions directly onto aircraft parts.”

“Early adopters of the ProjectionWorks technology have seen an average savings of more than 85 hours on aircraft assembly,” said Roger Richardson of Delta Sigma. “We look forward to sharing our ProjectionWorks technology with manufacturers worldwide for greater efficiency and accuracy with mechanical assemblies.”

“FILLS changes the way we think about assembling complex structures the way that CAD programs changed the way we think about designing them,” said Joe Festa with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. “With this progressive technology, we expect to save up to $91 million for the center fuselage assembly at our Palmdale F-35 program. There’s no going back.”

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New Eclipse Aerospace jets up for sale

The first two brand new Eclipse Aerospace jets are about to roll off the assembly line and go on sale. The 2012 Total Eclipse Jets are the first to be produced in years. The former company, Eclipse Aviation, declared bankruptcy in 2008. What was left of the company was bought by a group run by CEO Mason Holland who named the new company Eclipse Aerospace. The two new planes were made entirely in Albuquerque and Holland hopes to keep it that way. Right now Eclipse employs 140 people in New Mexico. Holland hopes to add another 50 to 75 jobs in 2013. The Total Eclipse Jet goes for almost $2.4 million that climbs to $2.7 million next year.

Boeing forecasts first $100 billion aircraft finance market

Buyer s o f com m er c i a l jetliners are likely to draw more financing from capital markets in 2013, as the value of jet sales rises about 9.5 percent to a record $104 billion, Boeing Co said.

Capital markets will account for about 14 percent of total jet financing, up from 10 percent this year. About 95 percent of the total is divided between Boeing and Airbus.

The credit markets are filling a gap caused by diminished lending by export-credit agencies, which will finance only about 23 percent of total sales in 2013, down from 30 percent this year, the report said.

United Technologies Completes Sale of Industrial Products Businesses to The Carlyle Group and BC Partners

United Technologies Corp. announced it has completed the sale of its Milton Roy Co., Sullair Corp. and Sundyne Corp. industrial products businesses to BC Partners and The Carlyle Group for $3.46 billion. Sale of the three former Hamilton Sundstrand industrial products businesses is another step forward in UTC’s ongoing portfolio transformation to focus on its core of aerospace and building systems.

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Boeing, Orbital Sciences Corp. Complete First Of Three Satellites For Mexico

Boeing and Orbital Sciences Corp. have completed the first of three communications satellites for the government of Mexico, which launched on December 19.

The St. Louis Business Journal reports that Boeing and Orbital Sciences Corp. have “completed the MEXSAT Bicentenario communications satellite for the government of Mexico” and launched “aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on Dec. 19.” Boeing is responsible for “two larger satellites in the MEXSAT series that are scheduled for launch in 2013 and 2014.”


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BAE and Northrop reveal details of hybrid Ground Combat Vehicle

BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman have released details of their proposed vehicle for the US Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program.

The hybrid GCV is an armored tank, designed to carry three crew and nine squad members

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“The 1,500 horsepower HED is capable of providing 1,100kW of electricity and can run silently, which could be an advantage during night operations.”

The GCV is powered by a hybrid electric drive (HED) propulsion system for economical fuel use, although even with a mechanical drive the design could have saved the army 10,492gal of fuel over a 180-day campaign.

A 10% to 20% improvement in fuel economy is possible without compromising power, as an HED GCV can accelerate from 0mph-20mph in just 7.8 seconds, which a mechanical GCV would require 10.5 seconds to reach.

The 1,500 horsepower HED is capable of providing 1,100kW of electricity and can run silently, which could be an advantage during night operations.

In addition to fuel cost savings, the proposed GCV would require fewer parts and maintenance hours than existing systems, lowering operational cost to the army over the vehicle’s service life.

The hybrid GCV weighs some 70t and is almost twice as heavy as that of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, which it will replace under the $40bn GCV program.

Ducommun Receives Contract From Boeing For 787 Dreamliner

Ducommun Incorporated announced that it has received a contract from The Boeing Company to produce titanium detail components and subassemblies for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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“We expect 2012 to be another year of strong execution for Honeywell, building on an established track record over the past decade,” said Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote. “We’re achieving good sales growth, record margins, and double digit EPS growth while continuing to generate strong free cash flow. Importantly, we’ll have achieved these results while continuing to invest in our future growth. We’ve done a lot over the past decade to transform Honeywell and today we’re achieving top-tier performance with a differentiated and balanced mix of long- and short-cycle businesses, a successful pipeline of new products, geographic expansion, and continued focus on our key initiatives.”

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Receivables over 30 days decreased for the fifth consecutive month to 1.7 percent, down from 1.8 percent in September and down 23 percent when compared to the same period in 2011. Charge-offs were down from the previous month at 0.4 percent, and down by 43 percent compared to the same period last year. Credit approvals were unchanged in October at 79.5 percent. Sixty-six percent of participating organizations reported submitting more transactions for approval during October, up from 54 percent the previous month. Finally, total headcount for equipment finance companies was up 1 percent from the previous month, and declined 2 percent year over year. Separately, the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s Monthly Confidence Index (MCI-EFI) for November is 49.9, a decrease from the October index of 53.3, reflecting industry participants’ post-election concerns over issues including the fiscal cliff, economic policy and taxes. A confidence level of 50.0 indicates a neither positive nor negative outlook overall. ELFA President and CEO William G. Sutton, CAE, said: “Lease financings continue to show modest growth overall, despite soft patches evident in certain equipment and end-user sectors recently. With U.S. elections now behind us and recent indications by policy makers to find a solution to the ‘fiscal cliff,’ the cloud of uncertainty that has frozen the economy during the past 12 months may be lifting. We hope that the recent no-growth scenario gripping our nation’s economy will transition to a more normalized recovery that will cause businesses to feel more confident about their future and result in additional investment in capital equipment and job creation.”

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Solar Power Prices to Continue Falling Through 2025, Experts Say

Prices for solar modules -- the part of solar panels that produce electricity -- will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, , a nonprofit energy research organization. However, for prices to keep falling for the long term will require continued commitment to research, such as on materials used for making solar modules. To get a sense of what future prices for solar power are likely to be, as well as other challenges and bottlenecks that the industry faces, Near Zero conducted a formal, quantitative survey (an “expert elicitation”) that drew on from industry, universities, and national labs. Such

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The survey asked experts for their expectations about future prices for modules as well as the expenditures for other parts of solar power systems, known as “balance of system” expenses. The experts were also asked how much solar power they expected would be installed in the coming years.

The experts expected the price of solar power systems will fall sufficiently that it will be far more competitive than it is today. The experts forecast a large expansion of the amount of installed solar power, increasing more than 10 times over the decade from 2010 to 2020, an expansion that will continue at a similar rate until at least 2025.

However, this success story is dependent on solar power prices continuing to fall, which will require continued and possibly increased levels of spending on research and development, the experts said. If solar power prices continue to fall as expected in the survey, then the large expansion of installed solar power could be achieved while requiring spending less each year than the world currently is spending on solar power installations. But if prices were to hold steady rather than falling, then the same expansion of solar power, over the period 2012 to 2025, would cost at least 50% more -- adding up to several hundred billion dollars.


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While the overall veteran unemployment rate of 6.3 percent for October is lower than the national average of 7.9 percent, post-9/11 veterans face 10 percent unemployment, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Top Talent Consulting CEO Kyla Bonnstetter hopes to turn things around by using her position to match job seekers with employers and providing a free service to veterans. “We’re the eHarmony of jobs,” Bonnstetter said. “We’re using this technology in a whole new way.”

Top Talent Consulting has a partnership with Bonnstetter’s former father-in-law’s company, Scottsdale-based Target Training International, which boasts of helping to “lay the foundations for companies such as eHarmony.”

Target Training holds a patent for “a method of predicting success of an individual for a particular job,” which iVetX uses to generate a 23-page report from a survey each veteran takes on its website.

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Federal Reserve Ties Interest Rates To Unemployment Rate

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The Washington Post reports that the Fed said it will “take unprecedented steps to bolster the economy.” The Post calls the Fed decision “a historic move that for the first time explicitly spells out the Fed’s goals for the nation’s economy and how it will respond to changing conditions.” The Post says the announcement “amounts to a major new commitment to trying to reduce unemployment. But it also shows that Fed officials remain concerned about the long-term prospects for the US economy.”


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Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced it was selected as one of

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Raytheon receives US Army contract for JAGM continued technology development

Raytheon Company received a contract from the U.S. Army’s Aviation Missile Command to develop and deliver a next-generation guidance section for Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) continued technology development (CTD). During the first four months of CTD, Raytheon will update its design and complete a delta preliminary design review.

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With deep Pentagon cuts slated to kick in Jan. 2, the Senate, by a 98-0 vote, authorized $525.3 billion in baseline military spending, trimming only a small chunk from the administration’s $525.4 billion request. The upper chamber’s bill also authorizes $88.5 billion more for ongoing wars.

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The Senate measure would add $60 billion to the Navy’s plans for the F-18 fighter program, and endorses the Navy’s plan to buy 26 F/A-E/F aircraft and a dozen EA-18Gs.

The upper chamber endorsed Air Force plans to upgrade F-15 and F-22 fighters, as well as C-130J cargo planes.

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Dur ing several days of work, most amendments offered by senators focused on personnel and policy matters. The Armed Services Committee’s proposals on major weapon programs were left unscathed.

The f inal amendment, passed 92-6, was offered by Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain, R-Ariz. It would require the Pentagon submit to lawmakers a report describing options for establishing a no-fly zone over civil war-plagued Syria, where rebels have for months been pleading for U.S., Western and regional help against Bashir al-Assad’s government forces.

The chamber also approved an amendment that clears the way for the Pentagon to stay heavily involved in the biofuels industry, as well as one that proposes changes to wartime-contracting practices.

It failed to find enough common ground to craft language for another amendment focused on funding a GOP-proposed East Coast missile shield, meaning a House-Senate conference committee will decide what to do about a House-passed provision to establish such a system.

A non-binding sense of Congress amendment passed with GOP support that endorses a faster transition of security and governing tasks to Afghan troops and officials.

Other amendments have been focused on issues such as terrorist detention policy, and protecting federal civilian and contractor employees from layoffs tied to a specific target, among others.

The White House is threatening to veto the bill over changes made on the floor to terrorist detainee procedures that would prohibit the Defense Department from spending any funds to transfer prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison to the United States.

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The Combined Ar ms Suppor t Command is responsible for training over 180,000 students annual ly through 541 courses taught by the Ordnance, Quartermaster and Transportation schools, Soldier Support Institute a n d A r my L o g i s t i c s University.

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The 19-week 91E course provides training in machining and welding, two highly sought after trades in the civilian manufacturing industry, according to Master Sgt. Alvin V. Beehler, Allied Trades chief instructor.

While learning the skills required for performing their military jobs, students can also advance their professional trade credentials.

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The machining portion of the course is based on the National Institute of Metal-working Skills, also known as NIMS, curriculum, which is recognized nationwide as the standard used in the manufacturing industry.

After passing each section of the course, students have the opportunity to take the NIMS written test online. The 1 ½ hour test is provided before the start of the duty day so as not to interfere with the 91E course schedule.

“Everything we teach is applied towards credentialing, but in the end it all depends on how the student performs as to whether or not they receive the NIMS credit,” Beehler said.

Benefits of the credentialing program include increasing the level of professionalism in the force, promotion points and that it could one day help secure a civilian career. The more credentials a service member achieves, the better their chances of advancing in their military career, Beehler added. But whether they remain in service or not, credentialing and technical certifications are important to have.

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NASA Launches Program To Certify Space Taxis With an eye toward breaking Russia’s monopoly on flying crew to the international space station (ISS) by 2017, NASA has launched a two-stage certification process aimed at ensuring commercial passenger spaceships currently under development will meet the agency’s safety standards, schedule and mission requirements.

NASA expects to award multiple firms a Certification Products Contract (CPC), each of which will run for 15 months and be worth up to $10 million. The program dovetails with the agency’s ongoing partnerships with Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Sierra Nevada Corp. to develop privately owned space transportation systems capable of flying astronauts to the space station.

CPC’s first phase is scheduled to begin in February and run through May 30, 2014. The timing is intended to influence commercial spaceship design and operations plans early enough to meet NASA’s space station mission requirements and minimize potentially costly changes and schedule delays later in the development process.

After three rounds of Space Act Agreements that leveraged U.S. government funding with private investment to stimulate development of passenger spaceships, NASA is shifting to fixed-priced, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)-based awards for the CPC

effort. The first buy will be for data products related to “an end-to-end Crew Transportation System (CTS) for an ISS design reference mission,” NASA wrote in its Sept. 12 solicitation.

“The government expects that only Phase 1 contractors will be capable of successfully competing for Phase 2,” NASA wrote.

NASA intends to run its ongoing, 21-month, $1.1 billion Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) projects with Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada separately from any awards the companies may win under the Certification Products Contract.

Under its existing program, NASA was not able to formally evaluate if a company’s design met agency requirements for flying crew to the station.

“This bridge will allow us to either move down the road toward getting design concurrence assessment or potentially waivers for areas where we don’t fully meet all the design requirements,” said John Mulholland, Boeing vice president and program manager for commercial space programs.

“The big benefit of [CPC] is that bridge is going to allow us to move down together and hopefully get certified to fly to the international space station and fly NASA crew,” Mulholland told Space News. Proposals are due Oct. 12.

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Students are not the only ones to benefit from the program, as the instructors are also encouraged to earn credentials. To date, 95 percent of the instructors are enrolled, with 70 percent having received multiple certifications.

The 91E course trains 500 students annually from the Army, Army National Guard, Army Reserve and U.S. Marine Corps. Since the credentialing program began in July, 156 have registered, 106 have passed at least one certification and 25 achieved multiple certifications. Thirty-five more students are getting ready to take the test for additional certificates.

The credentialing initiative is part of a life-long learning program.“Once the service members arrive at their duty stations, they can continue the credentialing process,” said Jack Peters, Metal Working and Services Division chief. “There are a total of 12 credentials to be earned, which would provide the service member with a NIMS Certified Machinist certificate.”

A future initiative is to certify the welding portion of the training. Due to the many materials, techniques and types of welding, it is a more complicated process.

“We are working to offer service members in all levels of training,

opportunities to earn American Welding Society, or AWS, Level 1 Welder qualifications,” Peters said. “Additionally, the Ordnance School is seeking to become an AWS Accredited Test Facility to help them earn welder certification.”

The credentialing initiative is in support of a Presidential Task Force on veteran employment opportunities. The task force’s focus is on promoting civilian credentialing for service members to enhance their employment possibilities when they leave the military.

Boeing, BMW To Share Information On Carbon Fibers

Reuters reports Boeing and BMW will come together to share information on developing carbon fibers in order to improve the field in areas like production and recycling.

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Apple Inc. plans to build some Mac computers in the U.S. for the first time in about a decade, investing $100 million next year in an effort that could serve as a high-profile test of American manufacturing competitiveness.

The world’s most valuable company has faced political pressure to bring jobs home and reduce its reliance on foreign subcontractors whose treatment of workers has come under harsh scrutiny.

The investment is a small sum compared with the billions of dollars Apple spends annually on manufacturing world-wide, mostly in Asia, whose factories produce the bulk of its high-tech goods.

Apple isn’t providing details about the plans disclosed by Chief Executive Tim Cook, beyond stating that it will work with manufacturing partners and do more than assemble parts built elsewhere. It said the investment would go toward production of an existing Mac line.

A company spokesman declined to comment on which parts would be made on U.S. soil.

Investment bank Piper Jaffray estimates that the sum would amount to 2% of Apple’s 2013 capital expenditures. The company spent $9.5 billion on product tooling, manufacturing process equipment and other corporate facilities and infrastructure in its last fiscal year.

“It is almost like a trial,” says Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at tech research firm Gartner Inc. IT +0.13% “If it works it works, and if it doesn’t work they can say they tried it.”

Apple CEO Time Cook said the company will produce one of its existing lines of Mac computers in the U.S. next year. George Stahl has details on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.

Apple’s plan runs counter to a decades-old shift of production of computers, smartphones, TVs and other gadgets to Asia, particularly mainland China.

The Cupertino, Calif., company has built up one of the industry’s most sprawling and complicated global supply chains, a feat often credited to the efforts of Mr. Cook before he succeeded Steve Jobs as Apple’s chief executive last year. Mr. Cook disclosed the new plan in interviews with NBC News and Bloomberg.

Apple has taken heat from human rights groups for safety incidents and high working hours in factories where their products are assembled, prompting Mr. Cook to invest in improvements. He has also publicly lamented the loss of manufacturing skills in the U.S. and played down the odds of bringing the bulk of production back from Asia, where years of investment have created sophisticated networks of parts suppliers and factories with specialized production tools.

But Tom Mayor, a Cleveland-based expert on manufacturing at Booz & Co., a management consulting firm, says Apple’s latest move appears to be “more than just political expediency.”

He said some technology companies have been rethinking their manufacturing strategies after last year’s earthquake in Japan, which disrupted global supply chains.

Some now believe they should reduce reliance on Asia and avoid being caught “with a supply base that sits on the ring of fire.”

Labor costs in China, which have been rising in the double digits annually, are also changing the equation on the margin.

Still Matt Sheerin, a senior supply chain analyst for Stifel Nicolaus, says doing PC manufacturing “in a very big way” in the U.S. doesn’t make sense.

He says electronics manufactures like Flextronics International Ltd. and Jabil Circuit Inc., which both make parts for Apple, have largely exited the PC business. “They would have to get major margin and price concessions or they would take a big hit,” he said.

Apple faces a series of challenges with the Mac production plan, including likely investments in production tools and training. Apple sold 18.2 million Macs in its last fiscal year.

Another hurdle will be qualifying for a “made in the U.S.A.” label.

The Federal Trade Commission, which sets standards for such claims, says that products can carry that label only if “all significant parts and


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Mr. Cook has also identified increasing Apple’s manufacturing investment in the U.S. as a priority. Samsung Electronics Co. already makes Apple-designed microprocessor chips for the iPhone and iPad in Texas. Some new iMac desktop computers have been stamped with “Assembled in America.”

SolarWorld Solar Panels Power Largest Array for Nevada School

Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School, the largest private school in Nevada, is now home to the state’s largest school-based solar array. The 1.11-megawatt system, unveiled at the school’s 39-acre Las Vegas campus this fall, features more than 4,000 solar panels from SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer for more than 35 years. Designed and installed by SolarWorld Authorized Installer Bombard Renewable Energy of Las Vegas, the installation demonstrates growing demand for rooftop and carport solar installations in a state often associated with sprawling, utility-scale desert solar farms.

Although Faith Lutheran launched its solar installation in 2011, with a 100-kilowatt array on the roof of a classroom and administrative building, the project blossomed in October when the school installed more than 900-kilowatts of SolarWorld solar panels on its student center, maintenance facility and atop a 341-space carport structure custom-engineered by Bombard Renewable Energy. Faith Lutheran administrators expect to offset about half of the school’s annual power needs with clean energy generated by the array and save about $140,000 a year on utility costs.

The project was funded through NV Energy solar rebates and the Federal Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit. Bombard Renewable Energy will own, operate and maintain the solar array for five years under a power purchase agreement with Faith Lutheran.

“This project helps reduce our energy costs and provide covered parking for our faculty and students, but more importantly, it allows Faith Lutheran to be among the leaders in clean energy in southern Nevada,” said Dr. Steve Buuck, Faith Lutheran’s chief executive officer.

“Ever-growing energy needs, supportive state policies and, of course, some of the most abundant sunshine in the country combine to make solar an attractive investment for both nonprofit and for-profit businesses in Nevada,” said Kevin Kilkelly, president of SolarWorld Americas. “We are pleased to help meet that demand with SolarWorld’s high-quality, American-made solar panels and, thanks to our installation partner Bombard Renewable Energy, 100 percent local labor.”


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2013 Economic Outlook Report Forecasts 2.9% Growth In Equipment and Software Investment

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases its 2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook. The report, which is focused on the $725 billion equipment leasing and finance industry, forecasts equipment investment and capital spending in the United States and evaluates the effects of various related and external factors in play currently and into the foreseeable future.

The 2013 Outlook projects equipment and software investment will grow, although at a below-average rate of 2.9%, hampered by weak demand and fiscal uncertainty. The report notes that the outlook for investment in 2013 is largely contingent on the resolution of the “fiscal cliff,” which could either continue to send negative shock waves through the economy or offer businesses encouragement. Even once the fiscal challenges are resolved, it will take time to work out the details and for businesses to regain confidence. Looking forward into the third and fourth quarters of 2013, growth in equipment and software investment is expected to begin to regain momentum. William G. Sutton, CAE, President of the Foundation and President and CEO of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, said,

“The 2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook projects positive but muted growth in equipment investment through the beginning of 2013, as policy uncertainty continues to weigh on business confidence. However, if policymakers find a solution to key fiscal issues, we expect businesses will feel more confident in the second half of the year, leading to increased equipment investment.” Highlights from the study include:

• Domestic political risk is the major concern on the radar for 2013. The report calls for the U.S. economy to grow at a rate of 2.4% once major fiscal issues are resolved. Without a smooth solution to current fiscal challenges, growth is forecast to fall significantly below 2%.

• Equipment and software investment took a significant hit in the third quarter of 2012, declining 2.7% (annualized rate) after a 4.8% increase in the second quarter. The data suggest that businesses have essentially “hit the pause button” on investment until there is a resolution to the “fiscal cliff.” Looking ahead to the second half of 2013, a strengthening housing sector and a reduction in political uncertainty could have an unlocking effect on business investment.

• Trends in equipment investment include: Agriculture equipment investment is likely to contract in Q4 2012 and Q1 2013. Computers and software equipment investment is projected to stagnate for the next 3 to 6 months. Construction equipment investment is projected to average strong growth (about 15%) as the housing market maintains its


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Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA For TEMPO Air Pollution Mission

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is part of a team selected to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent for NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission.

Led by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., the TEMPO team will build a geostationary ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrometer to continuously measure ozone, aerosols and other trace gases over greater North America. The geostationary position of the instrument will allow delivery of regional, hourly readouts of atmosphere data during daylight hours. This data will advance air quality research on how air pollution affects climate change and air quality on a continental scale.

“While Ball is at the forefront of low Earth orbit instrument development, the TEMPO spectrometer will be the company’s first geostationary instrument for NASA,” said Cary Ludtke , vice president and general manager for Ball’s Civil and Operational Space business unit. “TEMPO takes advantage of our expertise and technology developed for previous ultraviolet-visible instruments that have already flown or are currently on orbit.”

Those instruments include the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) flying aboard the nation’s newest climate and weather satellite, Suomi NPP, and the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE). The sophisticated optical system built by Ball Aerospace for the James Webb Space Telescope relies on the same UV-VIS heritage.

NASA anticipates the TEMPO instrument will catch a ride on a commercial communications satellite as a hosted payload when it is completed in September 2017. Mission costs will be capped at $90 million, excluding the launch vehicle and integration to the selected satellite platform.

“With TEMPO’s assistance you may eventually check your smart phone, for example, to obtain a read-out on your city’s current air quality information before you lace up your sneakers and head out for a run,” said Ludtke.

Led by the Smithsonian’s principal investigator, Kelly Chance , TEMPO is part of NASA’s Earth Venture Instrument program that includes small, targeted science investigations designed to complement NASA’s larger research missions. TEMPO is NASA’s first Earth Venture Instrument award under the agency’s Earth System Science Pathfinder program.

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Robert LeTourneau, a roving American evangelist and inventor, decided in the mid-1930s that a plot of lakefront land a mile and a half northeast of downtown Peoria would be a fine place to make earth-moving equipment. Skilled labor and suppliers were plentiful; transport links were good.

Nearly eight decades later, Japan’s Komatsu Ltd., which owns the plant, still thinks Mr. LeTourneau chose the right location—even though most giant mining trucks made there are shipped overseas to Latin America, Australia, Asia and Africa.

About 80 miles south, in Decatur, Ill., rival Caterpillar Inc. makes its large mining trucks, most of which are exported. Caterpillar, No. 1 in this market, and No. 2 Komatsu account for roughly 85% of global sales of these trucks, roughly the size of two-story houses.

Their presence has created a cluster of skills and suppliers that feeds the industry. At a time when politicians are hoping for a job-creating revival of American manufacturing, this is one area where U.S.-based plants are still global champions.

Inside a dimly lit Komatsu building roughly the size of seven football fields, workers weld together the 30-ton frame of a mining truck. They choreograph their movements to avoid spraying each other with sparks or searing their eyes with blue light.

“You almost have to make it a ballet,” said Jim Mathis, a general manager at the plant. Some workers have fathers and grandfathers who made trucks here.

The U.S. had a deficit of $509.7 billion in trade in manufactured goods in this year’s first nine months, largely due to gaping deficits in such major categories as consumer electronics and clothing. But in certain areas—notably aircraft, industrial engines, excavators and railway and mining equipment—the U.S. exports far more than it imports.

These industries produce relatively small numbers of very expensive goods, requiring specialized technology and labor. Their competitive advantage rests partly on expertise built by U.S. companies in making durable, high-tech weaponry and other equipment for the military—frequently applicable to other products.

“We have a very strong and very innovative military,” said Cliff Waldman, a senior economist at Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, an Arlington, Va., research organization.

That creates an infrastructure for manufacturing and spurs innovation in such areas as metallurgy and engines. Determining where the U.S. can gain competitive edges is part of the challenge of creating more well-paid manufacturing jobs, a priority of the Obama administration, which is budgeting more money for research into manufacturing processes.”

Can the U.S. return to a surplus on manufacturing trade? “Probably not,” said Mr. Waldman, “but I think we will do better.” “We need to broaden our capabilities,” said Gary Pisano, a professor at Harvard Business School, who writes about global competition. He prescribes more training of engineers and high-skill manufacturing workers, a longer-term investment horizon for managers and government support for research in advanced materials, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

Manufacturers benefit from clusters of suppliers and workers with specialized skills. Such clusters make Taiwan a powerhouse in semiconductors and China nearly unbeatable in smartphones and other consumer electronics.

Illinois, home to such heavy-equipment pioneers as Caterpillar and Deere, has maintained its expertise in building large metal structures needed for mining, construction and agricultural equipment. That local expertise attracted Komatsu. After being owned by Mr. LeTourneau, Westinghouse Electric and Dresser Industries, the Peoria plant was sold to Komatsu about two decades ago as part of the Japanese company’s effort to establish a major American presence. Komatsu makes smaller mining trucks in Japan, but its largest trucks, able to carry as much as 360 tons of ore, come from Peoria.

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The global market for large mining trucks, those that can carry 200 tons or more, is likely to reach about 1,900 to 2,000 vehicles this year, up from 1,591 in 2011, said Peter Gilewicz, managing director of Parker Bay Co., a mining industry research firm. The trucks typically sell for $2.5 million to $6 million each, executives say.

More than 90% are built at North American plants owned by Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. of Japan and Liebherr Group, based in Switzerland. Hitachi aims to more than double its capacity for making mining trucks at a Guelph, Ontario, plant, through a 33 million Canadian dollar expansion. Liebherr makes mining trucks in Newport News, Va.

There are potential challengers in other parts of the world, including Belarus-based BelAZ and Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Corp. of China. In Peoria, Komatsu over the past two years has expanded manufacturing space about 7% to 764,000 square feet, spread among three buildings, one dating to 1935. Most equipment isn’t cutting-edge:

There are about 575 factory workers and no robots. Komatsu tried welding robots years ago, but “we couldn’t get the quality where we wanted it,” said Mr. Schrader. He said the company continues to look at automation possibilities. Rio Tinto PLC’s Bingham Canyon copper mine near Salt Lake City uses 89 Komatsu trucks. Because they are so big, pieces of the truck are partially assembled in Peoria, loaded onto highway trucks or railcars and assembled at the mine.

Like many factories, the Komatsu plant draws on both local and faraway suppliers. The diesel engines come from the Daventry, England, plant of U.S.-based Cummins Inc. Some of the electronics come from Asia, while certain steel parts are molded in Brazil. But Komatsu says the U.S.-made content of the plant’s biggest-selling trucks is more than 70%.

Raytheon’s US Navy satellite terminals reach Full Rate Production milestone

Raytheon Company’s Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT), which will be installed on more than 300 U.S. Navy ships, subs and shore stations, has successfully completed a Full Rate Production (FRP) review by the Navy.

The review included a report that determined NMT was both operationally suitable and operationally effective, and further recommended the continued fleet introduction of NMT as a replacement for legacy military satellite communications systems.

Raytheon has already delivered 75 terminals under contract, with an estimated total of 350 over the life of the 15-year program.

NMT provides secure, protected communications links with orbiting military satellites. The terminals will give the United States and three international partners -- Canada, the Netherlands and the

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“Our Navy terminals can withstand the harshest of environments at sea while maintaining constant contact with the satellite,” said Scott Whatmough, vice president of Integrated Communication Systems in Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business. “That means warfighters can accomplish their missions knowing they have secure, reliable, protected communications.”

NMT is one of three Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) terminals from Raytheon that have passed production acquisition milestone decisions and successfully tested with the on-orbit AEHF satellite. All three terminals have supported, and are fully compatible with, the military’s two on-orbit AEHF satellites, as well as with the legacy Milstar satellites.

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Under the terms of the initial $81m contract, a total of 143 IR seekers will be manufactured and supplied by the company to the THAAD prime contractor and systems integrator, Lockheed.

The company also secured $5.3m in initial contract funding for tooling and test equipment for accelerating the monthly production rate.

Commenting on the missile, BAE Systems THAAD programme manager Barry Yeadon said the weapon has scored nine-for-nine intercepts and successfully destroyed two separate targets during the most recent test firings that were carried out.

The seeker is capable of guiding the THAAD interceptor to its target by detecting IR radiation from the target missile and warhead, eventually leading to its destruction through direct hit-to-kill technology.

“The missile is also capable of engaging ballistic missiles at both endo and exo-atmospheric altitudes.”

A total of 100 THAAD seekers have been delivered to date by the company to Lockheed.Assembly, integration and testing of the IR seekers will be performed at the company’s facilities in Nashua, New Hampshire, and Lexington, Massachusetts, in the US, while the delivery schedule has not been disclosed by the company.

Equipped with launchers, missiles, battle management / command, control, communications and intelligence (BMC3I) units and radars, the THAAD missile is designed to intercept and destroy short, medium and intermediate ballistic missiles using hit-to-kill technology.

The missile is also capable of engaging ballistic missiles at both endo and exo-atmospheric altitudes.

Serving as a key element of the US Ballistic Missile Defence System (BMDS), THAAD is intended to defend the nation and its deployed forces and allies against ballistic missile threats of all ranges during all phases of flight.

Ultrathin Layers Of Platinum Could Make Hydrogen Vehicles Affordable

MIT Technology Review reports, “A new method for quickly and cheaply depositing ultrathin layers of platinum, described in the journal Science, might make it practical to reduce the amount of platinum used in fuel cells, thereby lowering the cost of fuel cells significantly.

Current methods for applying atom-thick layers of platinum are slow and complicated. The new approach is ‘incredibly cheap and easy to implement,’” said Thomas Moffat, a metallurgy researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who led the research.

The researchers “showed that platinum dissolved in a solution can be deposited on a gold surface in one-atom thick layers by alternately applying a positive and negative voltage. The negative voltage causes two things: first, an atom-thick layer of platinum forms; and second, once those atoms are in place, a layer of hydrogen forms, thus preventing any more platinum from accumulating.”

Honda Hopes To Expand Exports From US Plants

The Wall Street Journal reports that Honda aims to increase vehicle exports from the US to avoid the strong yen, hoping to increase exports from US plants from six or seven percent up to 20 percent.

The Journal adds that Honda is also moving engineering facilities for its popular Civic to the US, and may do the same for its Accord model.

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Arizona’s medical device sector growing faster than the national average

Arizona’s medical device industry is growing much faster than the national average, contributing to the state’s efforts to develop a strong biosciences industry.

From 2002 to 2010, the number of medical device jobs nationwide decreased by 0.3 percent and the national growth rate for medical device companies was fl at, according to Battelle, a global research and development organization.

During that same period in Arizona, the number of medical device

company positions grew 28 percent and the number of companies increased by 4 percent. Still, these numbers somewhat lag the growth rate of Arizona’s overall bioscience sector.

In 2010, the average annual salary for medical device jobs in Arizona was $56,651, a 4 percent increase from 2009. The 2010 average was slightly higher than the overall biosciences average of $55,353, and 32 percent more than the private-sector average of $42,858, according to the Arizona Bioscience Roadmap.

Commissioned by the Flinn Foundation and conducted by Battelle, the Bioscience Roadmap has its 10th anniversary this year.

Flagstaff has a high concentration of medical device workers. Sean Ahern, economic development manager for the city, said the medical device and biotech industry is a huge component of its economy.

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. employs more than 2,200 people in metro Flagstaff, which has a population of 65,000 within the city limits and 150,000 outside the city limits, he said.

“The clusters we have here in biotech have grown significantly over the last several years,” Ahern said. “We do everything we can at the city level to continue and spur that growth to give them a great and predictable environment to do business in.”

Metro Phoenix is also home to a large medical device manufacturing sector. For example, Minneapolis- based Medtronic Inc. employs 800 in Tempe to design and manufacture circuits for pacemakers, defi brillators and other devices.

“We continue to recruit top-notch people,” said Ron Wilson, general manager of the Tempe campus, where about 10 percent of the engineers have Ph.D.s. Medtronic reported $16.2 billion in revenue for its fiscal year ended April 27.

Dr. Richard Heuser, chief of cardiology at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Phoenix, said some of the world’s leaders in the medical device industry are located in Arizona.

Study: Companies Expanding Overseas Create Jobs In US

Bloomberg News reports, “US companies operating internationally help spur economic growth that creates domestic jobs to meet demand in foreign markets, according to a study conducted for two business associations.” When American “companies trade or invest overseas, it fuels hiring and investment in the US, the Business Roundtable and the United States Council for International Business said in the study released” last month.

“The study is aimed at encouraging US policies that will support American businesses seeking to operate in global markets. President Barack Obama has set a goal of doubling the value of US exports from 2009 through the end of 2014.”

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New dawn for U.S. nuclear industry means more power plants

After decades of economic d o l d r u m s , t h e U. S . nuclear industry is making a comeback.

Until recently, the last license for a U.S. reactor was issued in 1978. But in

February, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed two reactors in Georgia. Five plants are under construction in the U.S., said Elizabeth McAndrew-Benavides, a workforce specialist with the Washington-based Nuclear Energy Institute. Another 20 license applications are being drafted.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating facility, however, likely will remain Arizona’s only one for some time, said plant spokesman Mark Fallon.

“We do not have any plans to build additional nuclear facilities at this time,” he said. “But it is certainly one of the options in the future, not just for us, but also for utilities around the country. When you look at the various technologies that are available, certainly nuclear is a viable option.”

Arizona Public Service Co. operates and maintains the plant, but has other ownership partners including Salt River Project.

“Palo Verde has such a good reputation locally, and APS has a great reputation within the community,” said Clay G o o d m a n , v i c e p r e s i d e n t f o r occupational education at Estrella Mountain Community College. “People are less concerned about TMI (Three Mile Island) and Fukushima, and looking at it as an opportunity ... They’re stable jobs, they’re well-paying jobs.”

In the nuclear industry, it pays to look ahead. Palo Verde broke ground in 1976, and the people who built the plant are at or near retirement age. Recently NRC extended the three reactors’ 40-year license for another 20 years.

After that, the plant probably will be decommissioned. In addition, it has the capacity to store radioactive waste for 100 years.

“The message there,” said David Heler, Palo Verde’s senior human resource

consultant and program manager, “is that the generation that will be decommissioning this plant probably hasn’t been born yet. So this is a multi-generational facility and offers great jobs and careers.”

A Skill Shortage? Yes... BUT!by Gary Howard

This manufacturing jobs shortage issue is getting a lot of attention. I have given the subject a lot of thought and I think my two cents worth might be of interest. I’m not saying I have the solution to the idea of the US having a skills shortage but I do think my opinion will be thought provoking.

After 40 years in the machine shop business I retired in 2008. My retirement only lasted for about 6 months. I went back to work for one of the job shops near my home just to keep myself from driving my wife to the brink. I’ve obviously hired and fired enough machinists and “would be” machinists of my own to form a opinion that I think is worth sharing.

Just to get right to the point. Yes, I do think we have a skills shortage. As you might guess there are a number of reasons for the skills shortage. The first and most important is recruitment. All the other reasons have little or no bearing on the issue. If you can’t get them in to tour your shop to see what you have got you have got no shot. I admit, I’m biased

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but I can not think of another trade that even comes close to providing the self satisfaction, super working conditions and environment that comes with being a machinist in 2012.

So what’s the problem? If a machinist job is so great why aren’t they lined up just waiting for a chance? Well as bad as I hate to say it, the pay is not so great in the beginning and it takes too long to get to the good part. The traditional answer to how long does it take to become a machinist is 4 years of a combination of classroom and hands on training. In addition to the all mighty dollar, it’s also as it has always been the “impatience of youth”.

There is also a little disparity between what we have advertised and what we really have openings for. Let’s be honest. Just where are all of these hypothetical openings. My short run production shop ran 3 shifts a day and had an average of about 30 machinists. Of those jobs a good 75% were not machinist jobs at all, they were machine operator jobs. I’m willing to bet that ratio is about the same in your shops too. My point? What is being called a serious shortage of machinist is a little misleading. It’s troublesome to me when we don’t follow thru with the promise of good pay and the opportunity for advancement. I don’t know if you have noticed or not but as strange as it may sound, “machine shops don’t hire machinists any more”. There are exceptions like prototype, tool & die, mold, R&D etc, etc. But for the most part the shortage is in general manufacturing skills.

General blue collar manufacturing skills do not require nearly as much training as highly skill based jobs like machinist, electricians, plumbers and so forth. Some of my best CNC machine operators had little or no previous training in the trade. What they did come with was a good work ethic. A precious few actually went on to become setup or something better.

The issue is the shortage of manufacturing jobs and the question is are we in a position to fill those jobs with a trained workforce. With one exception, yes I think we can and with very little trouble. What we do need is a new crop of CNC programmers in the worst way. The machine tool builders today have really out done themselves. If the design engineers can dream it, the machines can do it.

Five axis machines are as common today as three axis were yesterday. In order for today’s shop owners to make ends meet these pricey babies have to run long and hard for two or three shifts per day. One spindle is still just one spindle. If that spindle is not running at peak efficiency or if that load meter is not moving you’ve got problems.

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Solar Energy Generation Costs to Compete with Fossil Fuels by 2017by Timon Singh Despite recent clashes between the US and Chinese solar industries, it seems that the entire solar power sector is prospering. As stated in a new report from GlobalData, with the ever-increasing number of solar power installations, the cost of energy generation is falling. In fact, it is falling so quickly that the report predicts that by 2017 it’ll be cheaper than generating power from traditional fossil fuels. The report, which is called “Grid Parity for Wind and Solar Power – Future Outlook and Impact Analysis”, shows that the global solar PV capacity increased by 100% between 2009 and 2011. This figure is expected to soar as both China and the US reach grid parity within the next few years.

It is amazing to think how far the global solar industry has come in just a few years. Despite China being the world’s leader in PV cell production, the report states that it will be the US that reaches grid parity first. Domestic solar PV technology is expected to reach grid parity for some PV projects in 2014, while most regions in the country are expected to reach grid parity in alignment with average electricity prices in the residential sector by 2017. China isn’t far behind and is set to transform their domestic national grid in similar ways. They are expected to reach grid parity in most regions by 2015-2016.

However, the key part of the report concerns the Levelized Cost Of Electricity (LCOE). This is the price at which electricity must be generated from a specific source to account for the cost of the energy-generating system. Over the next few years, the LCOE for solar PV will continue to decrease due to declining capital costs and increasing capacity factor. All of this combined with no fuel costs, low operations and maintenance costs (not to mention ever-increasing fossil fuel costs) mean that

the LCOE of solar PV technology is predicted to be lower than average retail electricity prices by 2017.

Currently, solar power accounts for 14% of the global renewable capacity, but this is just the start. It is the fastest growing renewable power source in the world, eclipsing (no pun intended) wind and tidal power, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 56.4% over the past five years. If solar power continues to grow at such a rate, the global solar PV installed capacity will reach 362,842 MW by 2020.

Te x t r o n s e c u r e s Canadian Army’s TAPV program contractThe Canadian Government has selected Textron Systems Canada as the prime contractor for the country’s Tactical Armored Patrol Vehicle (TAPV) program.The TAPV contract is worth C$603.4m under which Textron, along with Textron Marine & Land Systems and Rheinmetall Canada, will manufacture and supply a total of 500 vehicles.

As a prime contractor, the company will also deliver overall TAPV program and configuration management; it will serve as design authority for change management and also coordinate vehicle integration activities by Canadian subcontractors.

The TAPV team primarily comprises of Kongsberg Protech Systems Canada, Rheinmetall Canada and Engineering Office Deisenroth Canada (EODC).

Other local companies such as Michelin, General Kinetics, Evraz North America, SED Systems, Ontario Drive and Gear, Mobile Climate Control are expected to participate in the Textron TAPV supply chain, as the program moves ahead.

Designed to replace the Canadian Army’s existing fleet of armored patrol vehicles (APV) and Coyote reconnaissance vehicles, the TAPV will ensure that the army remains capable of effective training, supporting domestic operations and sustaining deployed forces as part of the Canada First Defense Strategy.

qualified programmers of these highly complicated pieces of equipment. Hard to believe, but In some of our training centers the curriculum we are still teaching is old-school skills that we taught 30 to 40 years ago. Teaching conventional machining skills on manual lathes and mills is a complete waste of time! The skills required for general machine operators are definitely teachable or growable. Piece of cake. On the other hand programming sophisticated simultaneous 5 or 6-axis machinery however takes guys or gals with special backgrounds.

If you think you have that kind of in house talent already you can think your lucky stars and just keep moving forward. Most shops don’t. In summary, I do agree we are not skills-ready, for rapid manufacturing growth. But we could be ready with most of the put-em in and take-em, out skills. For those skills we just need to keep on, keeping on putting special emphasis on recruiting. I might suggest we might have a little better results if we increased our efforts in the rural areas of the country.

We need to also get our message out to the elementary & secondary education providers. In addition, we are going to have to get the starting wages up. If are going to attract the smartest and the brightest that will have to come at a cost. Something creative to fast track those that are a cut above the average would also help to hang on to those new recruits. As for the programmers of the future, I don’t think I would consider anyone with less than a minimum of a two-year associate’s degree & some post-secondary education before I would invest a dime. Better yet, a mechanical engineering degree.


Equipment Finance Sector to Surpass $740 Billion in 2013

U.S. businesses and government agencies will finance more than $742 billion in equipment acquisitions in 2013, according to the U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study 2012-2013, released last month by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. The study, conducted by IHS, provides a comprehensive look at the size and expected growth of the U.S. equipment finance market. According to the study, the equipment finance sector has emerged from the Great Recession with finance volumes at an all-time high, as a result of double-digit growth in equipment investment and a favorable interest rate environment. However, equipment finance volumes are expected to expand at a more moderate pace over the next 12 to 18 months as equipment investment growth remains constrained by uncertainties at home and abroad. Companies are expected to remain cautious about taking on the risks associated with large capital investments until after important tax and regulatory decisions impacting short- and long-term fiscal stability have been made.

“The Foundation is delighted to present this essential study, which illustrates that the equipment finance industry is a critical source of funding for U.S. businesses,” said Cameron Krueger, Chairman of the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation and Director and National Asset Finance & Leasing Practice Leader at Deloitte. “The data provides a fresh and comprehensive picture of the domestic equipment finance sector and how it contributes to the U.S. economy.” “Equipment financing plays a significant role in helping businesses acquire the

equipment they need,” said William G. Sutton, CAE, President of the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. “The equipment finance sector not only contributes to businesses’ success, but to U.S. economic growth, manufacturing and jobs. This study reveals the importance of resolving political and regulatory uncertainty so businesses can feel more confident about their futures and invest in capital equipment and job creation.” Key Findings

Highlights from the U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study 2012-2013 include:

• In 2012, equipment finance volume returned to pre-recession levels, with the 2012 estimate for the equipment finance market expected to reach $725 billion. The market is expected to expand over the next two years; however, the growth rate is expected to slow.

• The equipment finance sector is a significant contributor to capital formation in the U.S. economy. Of the projected $1.3 trillion invested in plant, equipment and software in 2013, 55%, or $742 billion, of that investment is expected to be financed through loans, leases and lines of credit. In 2014, the market size is projected to grow to $778 billion.

• Seventy-two percent of companies use some form of financing when acquiring equipment, including loans, leases and lines of credit (excluding credit cards). Companies with less than $1 million in revenues use financing in 49% of their equipment acquisitions, while companies with revenues between $25 million and $100 million use


financing in 86% of their acquisitions.

• Companies with sales between $25 million and $100 million doubled their share of financing volume from 2006—when the Foundation’s first market-sizing study was conducted--to 2011. Companies with fewer than 51 employees also doubled their share equipment acquisition via financing in this time period. This may be in part a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining other forms of credit for these segments of the market.

• Cash as a method of purchasing declined for large companies from 2007 to 2012 as larger companies enjoyed greater access to credit markets. In the current low-interest-rate environment, financing equipment acquisitions is especially attractive.

• Corporate perceptions of the economic outlook are the primary driver behind equipment investment decisions. When presented with a list of potential factors that will drive future investment spending, companies surveyed by the Foundation overwhelmingly chose “general economic conditions.” The financing decisions of smaller companies are especially sensitive to general economic conditions.

• Even with the relatively high degree of uncertainty over the economy and regulations/fiscal policy, nearly 30% of companies surveyed anticipated increasing their equipment investment over the next 12 months. This group of companies is disproportionately represented by large companies. For example, among companies with sales over $100 million, 51% indicated they would increase spending, yet only 17% of businesses with sales less than $1 million had similar plans.

• Over the next 12 to 18 months, businesses faced with rising uncertainty over the economy and regulatory policies are expected to be more cautious about spending on equipment and software, as well as taking on more credit. The silver lining to this cloud is that technological innovation and equipment replacement needs should spur rapid growth in volume in late 2014 and beyond. About the Study

U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study 2012-2013 was conducted by IHS for the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, an independent organization that publishes research for the equipment leasing and finance industry.

The study draws on data from a number of sources, including the Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, the Federal Reserve Flow of Funds, the 2012 Monitor 100, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 2012 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity, the IHS Equipment Market Monitor, and surveys conducted by the Foundation. A key input came from a custom survey of businesses that purchased equipment in 2011.

The survey was conducted in August and September of 2012 by IHS on behalf of the Foundation. Responses were collected from 427 businesses, of which 372 acquired business equipment in 2011. For the purposes of the study, equipment financing refers to retail or end-user financing of equipment and software. The financing market estimates reflect lending to businesses and government agencies.

Skilled machining jobs go unfilled despite high jobless rateCory Baltazar, operations manager for Owens Precision of Carson City, says that finding a qualified computer-numeric controlled machine operator can take months. He’s not alone in his frustrations. Filling skilled positions is a growing problem at machine and fabrication shops throughout the region. Machine shops in both regions are hard-pressed to fill openings for welders, fabricators and CNC operators, as well as engineers and programmers, despite July unemployment rates of 12.5 percent in Carson City and 13 percent in Reno-Sparks.

“There is a lot of general labor, but they usually are coming out of construction,” Baltazar says. “Those positions I can fill without a problem, but any kind of skilled machinist position or supervisory position takes a long time to fill. It usually will be an accident if I get somebody.”

Manufacturing companies in the state have shed approximately 10,000 jobs the past few years, says the Nevada Manufacturers Association. But many of those jobs were for general production workers who lacked the technical knowledge needed to perform more complicated work.

“If you need someone with 10 years experience, a lot of people drop off,” Baltazar says. “If someone were to move into Carson City and need 25 machinists, they would have to bring the people with them; they are just not out there. It is a dwindling workforce.” Jeff Lawrence, operations manager for the northern Nevada division of Nevada

Industry Excellence, which helps manufacturing companies in the state streamline their processes, says managers of companies in the Silver State formerly could bring on unskilled labor and teach them the basics of assembly and production. However, Lawrence says, those same companies now require an employee base with a higher level of technical skills, from machinists and millwrights on the production floor through engineering and maintenance personnel.

“The skills level in manufacturing has definitely increased, and employee skills haven’t matched that increased level,” Lawrence says.

“Everything takes a higher level skills because it is almost all computer programmed.” Western Nevada College and Truckee Meadows Community College both have training programs to train manufacturing and fabrication workers, and each school also works with area companies to tailor its training programs to meet the needs of regional businesses.

Jim New, associate dean of applied technologies at TMCC, says the manufacturing technologies program includes instruction in machining, welding and production systems, as well as in supporting programs such as drafting. Each semester at TMCC about 20 to 25 students enroll in the machining program. About half are currently employed production workers hoping to upgrade their knowledge and skills to land higher-paying or less menial jobs, New says. TMCC in recent years also retooled some of its training programs to reflect regional economic trends. TMCC used to run several hundred students per year through its welding program, New says. The program once focused on the needs of the


Rooftop solar proposal could alter APS business model

A plan by the Arizona Corporation Commission staff that utilities spend more on rooftop solar has Arizona Public Service Co. defending its business model and solar practices.

ACC staff presented a plan it called a “paradigm shift” in response to APS’ annual filing that shows how the utility would meet the state’s renewable energy standard. The plan calls for APS to go beyond state requirements of getting 30 percent of its solar capacity from rooftop systems.

The issue, as written in the staff report, is that rooftop solar represents a cheaper way for the utility to deploy its renewable resources. APS contends the way commission staff figured costs doesn’t consider all factors, including prices that would rise on non-solar customers in the wake of more people adopting the technology.

“Our goal at APS is to educate stakeholders on all the costs,” said Jim McDonald, a spokesman for the utility. Those in the solar industry say the move by APS marks a change in direction and offers a glimpse of a company that is trying to protect its business.

“Unfortunately this isn’t a surprise,” said Michael Neary, executive director of the Arizona Solar Energy Industry Association, a trade group of various companies involved in the industry, including utilities. “APS is a heavily regulated monopoly that is trying to preserve its market.”

The discussion likely will continue next month, when the ACC takes up the utility’s plan to implement its spending on solar for 2013.

Different approaches

Arizona’s renewable energy standard requires utilities to get 15 percent of their power from sources such as solar by 2025. Of that total, 30 percent must come from rooftop systems on businesses and homes.

APS has been successful in getting solar on roofs, in large part through customer incentives. The money for those incentives is part of a tariff all customers pay as part of their monthly bills.

While APS would not have to add more solar panels to rooftops until 2015 for homes and 2020 for businesses, commission staff said those systems offer a better rate of return for the utility’s ratepayers and wants more focus on that instead of large utility scale systems.

The staff proposes that APS follow a least-cost model in selecting renewable sources, regardless of where those systems are installed. That would lead to increased spending on developing rooftop solar.

“The concept of pursuing the least-cost renewable (kilowatt-hour generation) is one of the fundamental elements of staff’s proposed paradigm shift for REST (renewable energy standards and tariffs) programs,” the report said.

APS’ concern is that the recommendation doesn’t take into account all

Skilled machining jobs go unfilled despite high jobless rateCory Baltazar, operations manager for Owens Precision of Carson City, says that finding a qualified computer-numeric controlled machine operator can take months. He’s not alone in his frustrations. Filling skilled positions is a growing problem at machine and fabrication shops throughout the region. Machine shops in both regions are hard-pressed to fill openings for welders, fabricators and CNC operators, as well as engineers and programmers, despite July unemployment rates of 12.5 percent in Carson City and 13 percent in Reno-Sparks.

“There is a lot of general labor, but they usually are coming out of construction,” Baltazar says. “Those positions I can fill without a problem, but any kind of skilled machinist position or supervisory position takes a long time to fill. It usually will be an accident if I get somebody.”

Manufacturing companies in the state have shed approximately 10,000 jobs the past few years, says the Nevada Manufacturers Association. But many of those jobs were for general production workers who lacked the technical knowledge needed to perform more complicated work.

“If you need someone with 10 years experience, a lot of people drop off,” Baltazar says. “If someone were to move into Carson City and need 25 machinists, they would have to bring the people with them; they are just not out there. It is a dwindling workforce.” Jeff Lawrence, operations manager for the northern Nevada division of Nevada

Industry Excellence, which helps manufacturing companies in the state streamline their processes, says managers of companies in the Silver State formerly could bring on unskilled labor and teach them the basics of assembly and production. However, Lawrence says, those same companies now require an employee base with a higher level of technical skills, from machinists and millwrights on the production floor through engineering and maintenance personnel.

“The skills level in manufacturing has definitely increased, and employee skills haven’t matched that increased level,” Lawrence says.

“Everything takes a higher level skills because it is almost all computer programmed.” Western Nevada College and Truckee Meadows Community College both have training programs to train manufacturing and fabrication workers, and each school also works with area companies to tailor its training programs to meet the needs of regional businesses.

Jim New, associate dean of applied technologies at TMCC, says the manufacturing technologies program includes instruction in machining, welding and production systems, as well as in supporting programs such as drafting. Each semester at TMCC about 20 to 25 students enroll in the machining program. About half are currently employed production workers hoping to upgrade their knowledge and skills to land higher-paying or less menial jobs, New says. TMCC in recent years also retooled some of its training programs to reflect regional economic trends. TMCC used to run several hundred students per year through its welding program, New says. The program once focused on the needs of the


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David Steiger, director of economic development and continuing education at WNC, says students who complete the 60-unit associate degree path have a well-rounded skill set and familiarity with CNC equipment. However, Baltazar of Owens Precision says, it still takes a great deal of hands-on training to master the intricacies of complex CNC equipment. CNC machines use computer programs to automatically perform a variety of milling processes, such as laser, plasma and water-jet cutting, and bending, gluing or picking and placing. Manufacturing companies in the Truckee Meadows and Carson City make anything from screws and engine parts to intricate aircraft equipment. Companies such as Owens Precision also perform contract manufacturing for a diverse customer base.

Increasing automation of the ways these products are made has led to shortages of skilled workers, Steiger says. “There are large number of manufacturing firms in Carson City, and CNC is technology is becoming more and more prevalent. In the past there have been a lot of manual machinists, but it has become common that machine processes are controlled by CNC. There are some very good machinists that have been in the trade for a long time that may not have that experience.”

TMCC’s New says that despite being slightly behind the needs of regional employers, training programs are crucial for the success of the state’s manufacturing companies. “If we didn’t have training programs we would

rely entirely on the industry to train everyone on the job, which is very expensive for them,” he says. “It is much more beneficial for the community to train these people almost on speculation that the jobs will come. “Clearly there are openings out there; it is just a matter of getting people to understand that the training opportunities are here as well.”

B/E Aerospace Awards Dynomax Aerospace Contract For Airbus A380 And Boeing 777 Seat Components

Dynomax Inc., a leader in value-added engineering and contract manufacturing, announced recently that its aerospace operations has been awarded a three-year contract by B/E Aerospace. Under the agreement, Dynomax will provide highprecision machined metal components for first class seats on certain Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft. Dynomax offered a custom kitted solution that includes the design and building of custom recyclable shipping containers with specialty compartments and shelving.

B/E Aerospace selected Dynomax because of its ability to deliver custom solutions. “We are honored to be a value-added supplier of B/E Aerospace,” stated Dr. Richard Zic, Dynomax founder and CEO. By adhering to its strict ISO 9001:2008/AS9100 quality standards, Dynomax is providing “dock-to-stock” capability which will allow the containers to go directly to B/E’s production area. The multi-year contract is extendable by one year.


costs. The utility wrote in its response that if more customers adopt solar, it will raise the infrastructure costs on those not adopting solar, and it considers the cost shift to be a subsidy to solar.

The utility is encouraging the commission to follow through with one of its two proposed options for spending on solar and renewable programs next year, offering a series of workshops to find out what is the lowest-cost solar solution.

“We don’t want to make this discussion without all the information being on the table,” McDonald said, adding the discussion also does not represent a move away from APS’ support of solar.

“We have billions of dollars invested in solar projects,” he said. “That’s made us a leader in solar, and that won’t change.”

Those in the industry say APS’ case simply is a matter of the utility trying to block people or businesses from installing solar so it can control energy production.“They’re trying to end the ability of the private sector to invest in solar at the same rate they do,” Neary said.

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The solar industry also wants more information, because it believes rooftop solar in Arizona has been undervalued.

“There have been a couple of recent studies of the value of customer-owned solar systems in Texas and in mid-Atlantic states, both of which

found that the true value of these solar systems was substantially higher than Arizona’s average electricity sales price,” said Mark Holohan, solar division manager for Wilson Electric in Tempe.

SolarReserve gets approval for Gila Bend power plant

SolarReserve received approval this week from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to build a 150-megawatt solar power plant that will feature different types of technology.

The Crossroads Solar Energy Project will have the large 150-megawatt phase as a concentrated solar power project, with an additional 65 megawatts of photovoltaic solar power.

The project by the Santa Monica, Calif.-based developer is slated to be built near Gila Bend in an area that has been targeted by several other solar developers and has access to transmission lines that traverse the state and run into California.

SolarReserve’s technology involves using heliostats or large mirrors to reflect sunlight on a tower to create the temperatures needed to turn a steam generator. The tower also is built with a molten salt storage system to provide more power when the sun is not shining.

The company currently is building a 110-megawatt facility near Tonopah, Nev.


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Next year, “the cloud” will finally be ready for enterprise workloads and big companies will finally start moving them there. Data centers will stop being enclosed by walls and those are just two of GigaOM’s 5 big cloud predictions. The cloud has moved from concept to reality. Sure, startups have been buying computing and storage on demand for years, while enterprises talked up virtualization and hoped it was the same thing. But now big companies are finally getting this whole on-demand compute thing, and the next year we’ll see big IT companies buy up startups that will help transition enterprise workloads to the cloud, more companies that offer enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) get real applications and a more viable model of hybrid cloud that enables cloud bursting. Let’s see what’s ahead.

1: Proving the public cloud can handle enterprise apps Anecdotally speaking, most Fortune 1000

companies have at least some test and development running in Amazon’s public cloud. And a subset of those companies run actual applications there; heck, even NASDAQ is an AWS customer. Yet, when it comes to truly mission-critical applications in the heavily regulated finance and healthcare sectors, many companies will not put any data or applications in a public cloud.

That’s a huge hurdle for Amazon (and Microsoft Azure). AWS cut a deal with Eucalyptus last year to make it easier for companies to run Eucalyptus private clouds that interoperate with AWS on certain jobs in a hybrid model. Startups like CloudVelocity claim they can “clone” on-premise workloads onto AWS without modification and provide complete security. That’s a big promise — and one that needs to be vetted. But look for many more such announcements next year. Any company that can successfully make the public cloud a safe and secure repository for even regulated applications will be able to print money.

Meanwhile, enterprise software giants VMware and Microsoft likewise have to

prove that their cloud technologies are up to snuff for their legacy customers as well as new prospects.

2: Make-or-break for HP For the past few years, all the legacy hardware powers — Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM– scrambled to prove their relevance in a new world where cloud computing makes hardware branding irrelevant.

But HP is in the hottest seat this coming year, with CEO Meg Whitman pleading with investors to wait out a “multiyear turnaround.” It’s by no means clear that they will. HP is in the cross hairs after years of management turmoil and questionable acquisitions — most recently of Autonomy. That $11.1 billion purchase was meant to build HP’s credibility both in big data and in cloud computing. It’s safe to say it has not done so.

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3: It’s time for OpenStack to stand (or not) on its own Now that Rackspace has stepped back from its paternal role as OpenStack backer and turned governance over to a multivendor body, it’s time to see if OpenStack has what it takes to compete with Amazon Web Services on the public cloud side as well as with other open-source options CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula.

2012 was a big year for OpenStack with HP, Internap, Red Hat, and Rackspace itself all standing up OpenStack-based clouds. Nebula is getting close to general availability on its OpenStack appliance. And there are other options coming soon including Cloudscaling’s Amazon and Google API-compliant private cloud. Watch for more services companies to build services around OpenStack as well. Mirantis just launched its own BYO OpenStack service, for example.

While many have said that OpenStack is late to the party, it’s important to remember that despite all the hype and all the cloud washing of last year, we’re still very much in early days of cloud computing. Anything can

happen. Some new company and perhaps even a legacy player could rise up and give even Amazon a run for its money.

4: Infrastructure now extends beyond the four walls of the data centerBack in 2008 Google pushed the idea that the data center was the computer, but with the launch of its Spanner database that syncs content across five data centers, we’re clearly moving into a new realm of infrastructure designed to support our favorite web services. Now the data center isn’t the computers, the data centers plus the network connecting them are.

It’s not just Google thinking this way. Netflix, a heavy user of Amazon’s cloud and one of the biggest broadband traffic drivers, has extended its network as close to the edge as carriers will let it by building out a content delivery network (CDN). Facebook has a similar effort in the works, and it is also making deals with carriers to lease fiber so it can extend its infrastructure closer to the edge. We’re going to see more deals where data center operators will have to become more comfortable stretching

their infrastructure outside the data center discovering how to keep things in sync over massively distributed networks.

5: Software defined everything doesn’t get easierSoftware-defined networking was the big buzz word of 2012 but we also saw the emergence of software-defined storage and the software defined data center. Basically the idea here is to bring the same flexibility to networking, storage and the data center that virtualization brought to computing. You can’t free your applications from the server without bringing along the networking and storage for them too.

But like any new field that could disrupt established vendors, there’s a lot of marketers throwing shade, especially around software defined networking. While we expect to see a lot of production deployments showing of network vir tualization, we don’t think we’ll see much headway when it comes to commoditizing the router or effectively linking the applications to the networking gear in an open and standardized way.


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

The system is one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed — and that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

Access to the world’s second-largest economy is critical for nearly any global company. Yet this often comes at a cost: the transfer of the very technologies that leading business officials — including GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt, who heads an Obama administration panel on U.S. jobs and competitiveness — cite as essential to the United States’ economic future. The “synthetic vision” system, for example, could be worth millions of dollars to airlines, which could significantly reduce costs from weather-related delays.

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

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

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

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

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


Rockwell Collins Awarded $295M Full Rate Production Contract For Block I Modernization Of U.S. Navy E-6B Aircraft

Rockwell Collins has been awarded a $54 million full rate production contract, with unexercised options valued at an additional $241 million, by the U.S. Navy to upgrade eleven aircraft as part of the E-6B Block I Modification program.

The Navy E-6B aircraft is used to conduct the “Take Charge and Move Out” (TACAMO) and the United States Strategic Command Airborne Command Post missions. The open system solution provided by the Block I modification addresses immediate modernization requirements and enables system expansion in the future.

The initial $54 million award covers the procurement of the material, installation and associated activities for the next three aircraft. The total program includes production engineering support, field service support, operator and maintenance crew training classes and maintenance trainer updates.

The Block I Modification being completed by Rockwell Collins features an open system approach for mission avionics, a Voice over Internet Protocol Intercommunications System and an on-aircraft, multi-level secure network for message processing, radio control/monitoring and other mission applications.

The program also improves the reliability and availability of the Ultra High Frequency Command, Control and Communication system and enhances the electrical power and cooling systems.

The Block I Modification solution modernizes the aircraft’s communication infrastructure to support moving data onto, off of and throughout the aircraft. This infrastructure will support the ever increasing bandwidth demands in this emerging age of the digital battlespace.

B/E Aerospace Announces Awards Initially Valued At $250M

B/E Aerospace, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and the world’s leading distributor of aerospace fasteners and consumables, today announced that the Company has been awarded four major aircraft cabin interior programs.

The first of these is a lie-flat business class seating program to outfit a major international airline’s new-buy Boeing 787 fleet. In addition, B/E Aerospace will provide retrofit LED lighting for this same airline’s Boeing 737, 767 and 777 aircraft.

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Finally, B/E Aerospace has won a Pinnacle® main cabin seating program and a comprehensive food and beverage preparation and storage equipment program to outfit a Russian airline’s new-buy 737 and A320 aircraft. These awards are initially valued at approximately $250 million.

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”The lighting retrofit awards are significant as we continue to expand all-LED lighting throughout the cabin into the existing worldwide fleet of aircraft and follows our recently announced Boeing 777 retrofit lighting award which was recently announced in conjunction with program awards of approximately $400 million. Today’s lighting awards include our first all-LED retrofit awards for the Boeing 737, 757 and 767 as well as additional Boeing 777 aircraft.”

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Tioga Energy Enables Solar Savings for Arizona’s Gila County

Tioga Energy, a leading provider of renewable energy services to commercial, government and non-profit organizations, today announced the company completed two solar electric systems for municipally owned facilities in Gila County, Ariz. The 390-kW project is expected to generate a lifetime electricity cost savings of nearly $500,000.

The Globe Courthouse now features a 205-kW solar electric system, designed to serve as a shade canopy for the facility’s parking lot. The Courthouse will meet approximately 39 percent of its electricity needs with solar power.

Additionally, a 185-kW solar parking canopy is in place at the Central Heights Complex, home to Gila County operations including the Department of Elections and the Office of Emergency Management. That solar energy system is estimated to meet 84 percent of the facility’s electricity needs. Both systems were constructed by Phoenix-based Kitchell.

By executing a 20-year SurePath® Solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with Tioga Energy, the County avoided all the expenses associated with system ownership. Instead, Tioga developed, financed, owns,

operates and maintains the systems; the County will simply purchase the generated solar electricity from Tioga at rates lower than those of the local utility.

“Tioga Energy helped us iron out the economics of going solar, enabling the County to benefit from federal and state-level incentives we couldn’t access on our own and implement our renewable energy program with no upfront costs,” said Steve Stratton, Director of the Public Works Department for Gila County. “These long-term savings free up resources we can redirect toward community enrichment endeavors, including facility upgrades and service improvements.”

In addition, Tioga provided the Globe Courthouse and the Central Heights Complex each with an educational kiosk that allows viewers to view real-time system production and weather data along with the corresponding environmental benefits of using solar energy.

The systems will offset the production of some 337 tons of CO2 each year, the equivalent of approximately 733,000 vehicle miles not travelled each year, or conserving 38,000 gallons of gasoline.

“Municipal leaders are increasingly investigating solar as a way to simultaneously reduce environmental impact and utility bills but often lack the means to bring their clean energy goals to life in a cost-effective manner,” said Paul Detering, CEO of Tioga Energy. “Our project with Gila County underscores Tioga’s ability to work alongside government organizations to develop long-term financial solutions that enhance the viability of renewable energy for municipalities across the country.”


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Coordinate Metrology Society Releases CMSC 2012 Measurement Study Report “The Importance of Practical Testing”

The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) announced the results of their third large-scale measurement study conducted at the 28th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference.

The 2012 measurement study was developed to support the organization’s Certification Cognitive Examination development process, which will culminate in the industry’s first level-one personnel Certification program for portable 3D metrology. The study’s main focus was to test the methodology of practical testing rather than the evaluation of the measurement results.

Nearly 95% participated in the measurement study conducted in 2011. A workshop was held on the third day of the conference to review the results and to ascertain information about future measurement studies for CMSC.For more information about the CMS and how to join the organization, visit their web site at http://www.CMSC.org.

Several Equipment Makers Building Systems Based on 64-bit Intel® Atom™ Product Family

Intel Corporation introduced the Intel® Atom™ processor S1200 product family today, delivering the world’s first low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers, as well as a new class of energy-efficient storage and networking systems. The energy-sipping, industrial-strength microprocessor features essential capabilities to achieve server-class reliability, manageability and cost effectiveness.

“The data center continues to evolve into unique segments and Intel continues to be a leader in these transitions,” said Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel. “We recognized several years ago the need for a new breed of high-density, energy-efficient servers and other datacenter equipment. Today, we are delivering the industry’s only 6-watt1 SoC that has key datacenter features, continuing our commitment to help lead these segments.” Intel’s Next Generation of Microservers: The Real ThingAs public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing. High density servers based on low-power processors are able to deliver the desired performance while at the same time significantly reduce the energy consumption – one of the biggest cost drivers in the data center. However, before deploying new equipment in data centers, companies look for several critical features. The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC delivering required data center features that ensure server-class levels of reliability and manageability while also enabling significant savings in overall costs. The SoC includes two physical cores and a total of four threads enabled with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology2 (Intel® HT). The new product family will consist of three processors with frequency ranging from 1.6GHz to 2.0GHz.

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Exercises marked the start of candidate capabilities evaluation for mid-tier networking radios, and also formed part of an excursion linked to network integration evaluation (NIE) 13.1 exercise providing feedback to the army as it progressed through assessments.

BAE Systems communications and control solutions vice president and general manager Joseph Senftle said: “We have developed a radio that gives our soldiers a critical advantage, by seamlessly, securely, and reliably bridging the communications gap between the soldiers on the ground, both on the front lines and in the rear, and those at headquarters.”

“We have developed a radio that gives our soldiers a critical advantage, by seamlessly, securely, and reliably bridging the communications gap between the soldiers on the ground, both on the front lines and in the rear, and those at headquarters.”

Introduced by BAE in October in response to the army’s request for proposal (RFP) for a non-developmental mid-tier networking vehicular radio (MNVR) solution, the Phoenix radios are designed to provide secure, jam-resistant communications between headquarters and dismounted soldiers.

Available in three variants, the high-throughput radio is capable of operating both next-generation, government-owned wideband networking waveform (WNW) and the soldier radio waveform (SRW) for use in multiple configurations.

Demonstrating full interoperability with existing joint tactical radio systems (JTRS), the new device helps simplify end-user training and adoption processes, and also offers full anti-jam modes in WNW to safeguard communications in hostile environments.

Designed using commercial technology, the off-the-shelf radio system features a low size, weight, and power design to support easy integration into the existing radio space present on the army’s ground combat vehicles (GCVs).


Panetta says f irst F-35 ov e r s e a s d e p l oy m e n t planned for Iwakuni Plans call for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to get its first overseas deployment in 2017 to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in line with the military’s “Pacific pivot,” according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

The F-35B Lightning II — the Navy and Marine Corps variant featuring short takeoff and vertical landing capabilities

— has been billed as the next-generation stealth fighter despite complaints about noise and cost overruns. It can travel at speeds of Mach 1.6 — about 1,200 mph — and can land on ships or damaged runways, according to the web site for developer Lockheed Martin Corp.

“We are also enhancing our presence and capabilities in the region,” Panetta said. “That includes reallocating the naval fleet to achieve in these next few years a 60/40 split between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans — hopefully, we will do that by 2020 — increasing Army and Marine presence in the region after Iraq and Afghanistan, locating our most advanced aircraft in the Pacific, including new deployments of F-22s and the MV-22 Ospreys to Japan, and laying the groundwork for the first overseas deployment of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Iwakuni in 2017.”

BAE Said Ready to Seal Typhoon Combat Jet Order From Oman

BAE Systems will sell 12 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets to Oman in a deal to be announced. The deal is valued at more than $1 billion.

Middle East sales are critical to BAE as defense spending slumps in its two largest markets, the U.S. and U.K. BAE, which is working to win a follow-on Typhoon contract in Saudi Arabia, said today earnings could be hurt because of delays in concluding price negotiations with the kingdom over a contract for the combat jet first signed in 2007.

In the aftermath of the botched European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EAD) merger, BAE pledged to conclude the Omani contract before 2013. Talks slowed earlier this year because Oman

was dissatisfied with progress on a delayed naval vessel contract and recently centered on resolving differences over support conditions for the fighter.

Oman, which is also buying F-16 combat jets from Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp., will purchase the latest version of the Typhoon.

The Middle East order would come after setbacks for the Eurofighter consortium in India, Japan and Switzerland where it lost competitions to rivals from France, the U.S. and Sweden.

Production of Typhoons could end this decade without further commitments.

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The sites will not be co-located with existing DoD sites that have been cleared to fly UAS in the United States, such as Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND, Pennington said. However,

he said the new airspace sites will likely butt up against those DoD-owned sites.

DoD will begin preliminary site selection for those locations by the end of 2012, Pennington said.

The unmanned aircraft will use a ground-based sense-and-avoid system for the early flight tests scheduled for the airspace locations. Sense and avoid technology allows unmanned aircraft to detect other planes in the area and change its course to avoid midair collisions.

The ground-based system will relay information from air traffic control and other sources on the location of all aircraft flying in the area of the UAS. That info will then be relayed to the UAS pilot on the ground, who can then maneuver the aircraft through the air traffic.

As tests progress, DoD officials plan to move to a partially automated sense-and-avoid system on board the aircraft, Pennington said.

Creation of these airspace bubbles was part of the FAA reauthorization bill proposed earlier this year. Lawmakers tabled passage of the FAA bill until September, when Congress is set to return from its summer recess.

Once passed, Pennington predicted that there would be a lot of “political jockeying” by lawmakers to land one of the test sites, given the money and resources DoD plans to pump into the effort.

Boeing Dreamliner Finishes Test Program

Bloomberg News reports the Boeing 787 Dreamliner “finished its 20- month flight-test program in the final hurdle toward approval for passenger service that could start next month.” The last flight was made on August 13 and now the FAA “must verify the paperwork in a review Boeing has said it expects this week and then certify the jet before its first delivery.

The agency, which has worked with Boeing since the 787’s inception, doesn’t discuss certification work, said Alison Duquette, a spokeswoman.” The article notes that the only the 787s with Rolls Royce engines completed testing and more are needed for those with GE Engines. The CNET News “Cutting Edge” blog notes that on the final test flight,

“the 14-person crew successfully completed simulations of a dispatch with a failed generator and failed fuel flow indication during the flight.”

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Pratt, Rolls-Royce Realign Ties

United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit and Rolls-Royce PLC are ending one aircraft-engine joint venture to start another.Pratt will pay $1.5 billion for Rolls-Royce’s share in their existing International Aero Engines consortium, which produces the engines that power the Airbus A320 jetliner family.

The two companies plan to work together in a new venture that will develop engines for future narrow-body aircraft using Pratt’s geared turbofan technology.

The new venture will go head to head with General Electric Co. to develop more-efficient engines for the single-aisle-aircraft segment, in which the companies expect demand to be around 20,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years.

It also comes after London-based Rolls-Royce declined to develop new engines for the latest upgrades to the A320 neo, produced by Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.

Pratt had all but abandoned the single-aisle market in the early 1990s but began muscling its way back in over the past few years in the face of dismissals from its rivals including Rolls and GE.

Last year, Pratt scored a coup when Airbus selected its geared turbofan engine as one of two engine options for the revamped A320.

But this summer Pratt was excluded from a similar move at Boeing Co., which opted to upgrade its 737 instead of investing in a next-generation aircraft.

The new 737 plane exclusively uses an engine from CFM, a joint venture between GE and France’s Safran SA.

The new venture will focus on the high-bypass ratio, geared-turbofan technology. The other partners in the previous partnership—Japanese Aero Engine Corp. and MTU Aero Engines GmbH—intend to join.

Roche l icenses technology from Biodesign Institute

Roche and Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) announced an agreement to license several technologies developed by Stuart Lindsay at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Colin Nuckolls of the Columbia University Nanoscience Center for the development of a revolutionary DNA sequencing system.

The licensed technologies include specialized approaches for DNA base sensing and reading and build on an ongoing collaboration between Roche’s sequencing center of excellence, 454 Life Sciences, and IBM to develop and commercialize a single-molecule, nanopore DNA sequencer with the capacity to rapidly decode an individual’s complete genome for well below $1000.

The licensed technologies offer novel approaches for reading the sequence of bases, or letters, in a single DNA molecule as it is passed through a nanopore. The team has demonstrated proof-of-concept, and is in the midst of making a third generation reader molecule that provides better discrimination between the DNA bases. The licensing agreement with Roche will help translate these discoveries into a commercial instrument.

The DNA Transistor technology, developed by IBM Research, slows and controls the movement of the DNA molecule as it threads through a microscopic nanopore in a silicon chip, while the newly licensed DNA reading technology can decode the bases of the DNA molecule as it passes through.

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

The deal was brokered by Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), the exclusive intellectual property management and technology transfer organization of Arizona State University, and includes sponsored research funding that will help Lindsay’s team move the technology towards commercialization.

ASU was the only university to receive more than one award.

Boeing and Embraer Recommend Procedures to Stem Runway Hazards

Boeing Co and Brazil’s Embraer SA have joined forces to help pilots world-wide avoid the most frequent type of airline accident: continuing off the end of a runway after a botched landing.

The two jet makers said they are recommending new landing procedures and revised training techniques to combat increasing hazards from so-called runway excursions. Those are accidents or serious incidents in which airliners career off runways, often because a pilot landed too fast and touched too far down a landing strip, or failed to gauge stopping distance properly on wet or snow-packed pavement. The effort comes several years after other companies, industry associations and air-safety experts began similar campaigns. But the initiatives haven’t reversed the growing rate of runway excursions, which sometimes are called overruns.

The Boeing-Embraer approach, featuring free training videos, relies partly on stressing verbal exchanges between pilots about the details of approaches when there is still time to pull up safely and try landings again.

The procedures also call for extended use of thrust-reversers, devices on the back of jet engines that are used to slow a landing aircraft. The companies also are working on better ways to inform pilots about braking distances.

This move is the first specific safety initiative stemming from a cooperation agreement Boeing and Embraer unveiled in April. The companies said they also are developing enhanced cockpit technology to deal with runway hazards, though the details weren’t released. New devices or software are likely to take many years to become widespread.

Corky Townsend, director of safety for Boeing’s commercial-airplane unit, said the goal is a “shared set of tools” to improve the situational awareness of cockpit crews.

Mauro Kern, Embraer’s executive vice president for engineering and technology, called it “a very important first step” for broader collaboration between the companies.

U.S.-based Boeing and Embraer hope to break new ground by plugging what they see as gaps in current industrywide safeguards against runway problems. Between 2002 and last year, roughly one-fifth of all major jet accidents involved planes rolling off runways, resulting in 780 fatalities, according to Boeing statistics.

Data from a wider range of aircraft indicate that runway excursions are more prevalent. Such incidents and accidents could account for as much as 45% of the overall safety risk facing the industry globally, according to the International Air Transport Association, the largest industry trade group. Air-safety officials working for the United


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Nations believe runway-related problems accounted for nearly 60% of all accidents involving scheduled flights from 2005 to 2010.

The Airbus unit of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. EAD.for several years has promoted its own cockpit warning system to improve pilot decision making during airport approaches.

The system has been embraced by some large non-U.S. airlines, and industry officials have said at least one big American carrier may be close to embracing the technology.

Honeywell International Inc. has marketed various cockpit technologies intended to alert pilots about dangerous approaches and situations that are likely to provide inadequate runway stopping distances.

Meanwhile, accident investigators at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and independent experts at the Flight Safety Foundation, a global advocacy organization, have prodded airlines to enhance pilot training on runway excursions.

NASA communications satellite arrives for January launch

Slated to launch Jan. 29 on a Uni ted Launc h Al l i ance At las V roc ket, the NASA communications satellite was flown from California to Kennedy Space Center’s shuttle runway in a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft. It landed around 8:30 a.m. and was to be trucked to Astrotech’s processing facility in Titusville.

The Boeing-built satellite, called TDRS-K, is the first of three in a new generation of tracking and data relay satellites.

A network of TDRS satellites provide near-continuous high bandwidth telecommunications services for spacecraft and rockets flying in low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and, in the past, space shuttles.

Seven of the nine TDRS satellites launched are operational in geostationary orbits, with the oldest having been launched aboard a shuttle in 1988, according to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The last was launched in 2002.

“This launch will provide even greater capabilities to a network that has become key to enabling many of NASA’s scientific discoveries,” Jeffrey Gramling, TDRS project manager at Goddard, said in a statement.

Two more TDRS spacecraft are expected to launch in 2014 and 2015.

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Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Factory Automation and

LogisticsMurata _________ 704-972-4469

FastenersSelf Clinch Direct ____ 801-746-2689

Filtration Equip.Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Ebbco Inc _________800-809-3901Maxum Petroleum ____602-278-8877Qualichem, Inc. ______480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids _____800-367-9966Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717EDM Materials & Supplies

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300EDM 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 FluidsHangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693

Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Houghton _________602-625-1407Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Maxum Petroleum ____602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Star Metal Fluids _____800-367-9966

Cutting ToolsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Micro 100 _________480-495-1454Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____602-628-4242Seco Tools Inc _______248-528-5960

Cutoff ToolsEclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719

Deburring EquipmentS. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000

Digital Readout UnitsAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Lone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074Magnum Precision Mach _602-431-8300

Door OpeningSystems: Automatic

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420Dust Collectors

Lone Arrow________480-507-8074

Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335Chucks

Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335Industrial Workholding _ 714--935-9686InnovativeTool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Seco Tools Inc _______ 248-528-5960

CNC Lathe AccessoriesTrusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

CNC Spindle LinersTrusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Cleaners: UltrasonicLarry Arroues & Assoc __602-938-0603Pro- Ultrasonics ______602-938-0603Compressed Air Piping Systems

Airtek ___________ 480-966-5267Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717

Coolant SystemsBlaser______________801-722-4095DCM Tech _________800-533-5339Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants)Blaser______________801-722-4095

InnovativeTool Sales

Manufacturers Representatives

755 East Debra LaneAnaheim, CA [email protected]

Office: (714) 780-0730Fax: (714) 780-0735Cell: (714) 580-7795

Rick BerryPresident


Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Hangsterfers 316-640-2462

BRALCO METALS929 E. Jackson StreetPhoenix. Arizona 85034

(602) 252-1918(800) 544-8052Fax: (602) 252-7813Cell: (602) [email protected]

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMCERTIFIED BY DNV

_ 1509001:2008_- AS9120:2002 -

.BRALCO,...".,Kevin RandallOutside Sales Representative

Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000Roentgen USA ______ 847-787-0135S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000sawblade.com _______ 877-501-7297Wayco Sales Inc _____ 562-927-3469

Bar FeedersArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Edge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

Bar Feeder AccessoriesEdge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Blast AbrasivesBarton International __ 800-741-7756

Cabinets, CustomLone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074

Chemicals: UltrasonicPetroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899

Chip ManagementArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

Chip RemovalArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

Chuck JawsArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353

A2Z METALWORKER

Total Filtration Services 602-244-0717

Larry Arroues and Associates, L.L.C.6714 West Utopia Road • Glendale, AZ 85308

Office: 602-938-0603 • Cell: [email protected]

Distributor of Pro Ultrasonics

High performance

ultrasonic cleaning

equipment.

Marshall Tool & Supply 602-269-6295

Automatic Barfeeds Of All Types

Innovative

HangsterfersHoughtonMarshall Tool & SupplyMaxum PetroleumPioneer Distributing Co.Rocky Mountain Saw BladesEllison Machinery 480-968-5335

CEchols Saw & SupplyHangsterfers

C

Ellis

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782EDM Performance ____ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330Filtration -Grind Wheels & BeltsS. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000

Gaskets

State Seal Company _____602-437-1532Guard & Vacuum Pedestals

For Grinders

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420

Industrial AutomationIEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446

Industrial ControlsIEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446

Industrial ElectronicsIEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446

Lubricants / SystemsCanyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Houghton _________ 602-625-1407Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

Machine Tool AccessoriesIndustrial Workholding __714--935-9686Machine Tool Cool. Filtration

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________800-894-7773D & R Machinery ________480-775-6462Houghton _________ 602-625-1407

Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717

Magnetic Particle Ins Equip.DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339

Micro Blasters: ComcoLarry Arroues & Assoc __ 602-938-0603

Mist CollectorsProduction Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717

MotorsFadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426

Pallet SystemsAdams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery ________ 480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335

Parts Washing EquipmentBlaser______________801-722-4095Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966

ResolversFadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426

SensorsIEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446

Solvents & Degreasing AgentsBlaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773Houghton __________602-625-1407Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Petroferm Inc. ________317-371-8899Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966

Solvents: Vapor degreasing Petroferm Inc. ________317-371-8899

Solvents:Hand WipePetroferm Inc. ________317-371-8899

EDM Tooling Systems

IEC Supply LLC

IEC Supply LLC

IEC Supply LLC

Canyon State Oil

Maxum Petroleum 602-278-8877

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

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Solvents & Degreasing Agents

Production Tool CoQualichem, IncStar Metal Fluids

Fadal CNC

IEC Supply LLC 7140 Engineer Rd. San Diego, CA 92111

Mathew EvansDirector of Sales and Marketing

www.5axisfixtures.com [email protected] (858)-505-0432

5 AXIS FIXTURES Innovative solutions for all 3, 4, and 5 axis machines.

th

Industrial Automation Maxum PetroleumMaxum Petroleum

Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730FIXTURING

5th Axis Fixtures _____858-505-0432Industrial Workholding _ 714--935-9686

Fixturing Designs5th Axis Fixtures _____858-505-0432

HARDWAREMATERIAL

Alloys: High TemperatureAerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Alloys: SpecialtyAerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584

AluminumAZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Phoenix Metal Trading _ 602-257-4660Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613Tolleson 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

Solvents: Mil PRF 680 Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899

SpindlesFadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Setco Spindles & Slides _____ 866-362-0699

Stainless Weld Discolor-ation Removal

Larry Arroues & Assoc __ 602-938-0603Steel Service Center

Ryerson ____________ 602-455-3374Vacuum Pumps & Workholding

Airtek _____________ 480-966-5267Industrial Workholding ____714--935-9686

Vibratory EquipmentAdams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253

Vises and Vise Jaws 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432Arizona CNC Equip _______ 480-615-6353Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300Industrial Workholding ____714--935-9686

Waterjet AbrasivesBarton International ___800-741-7756KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274Lone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074Waterjet Replacement Parts

Barton International ___800-741-7756KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274

Work Holding5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335Industrial Workholding __714--935-9686

Armor:Military GradeTemtco Steel ________480-389-2883

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

BrassAZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

BronzeAZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

CarbonAZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651

Cast IronWestern States Metals _ 801-978-0562

CastingsInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

CeramicsMarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801

Chrome RodWestern States Metals _ 801-978-0562

CobaltUnited Performance Metals _888-282-3292

CopperApache Steel Company __602-323-2200

AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco 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___623-434-8343Apache Steel Company __602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Ind. Metal Supply _____602-454-1500Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765State Industrial Pro ____602-275-0990TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613Tolleson Steel _______623-936-3325Temtco 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 _ 800-337-3766

AZ Metals 602-688-8003

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]


Armor:Military Grade

AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883Tolleson 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 __602-323-2200AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600

New & used MetalsPhoenix Metal Trading __602-257-4660

Nickel AlloysApache Steel Company __602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Fry Steel Company ____800-423-6651Haynes Intl _______ 619-449-1584MarZee Inc. ________602-269-5801Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Ulbrich of California ___800-237-2888United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Plate: Wear and Structural

Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883

MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Ryerson _________ 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 ______ 800-237-2888AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584MarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801Supra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138Ulbrich of California ___ 800-237-2888

Titanium:Rod, Bar & WireSupra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138

Titanium:Sheet & PlateSupra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138

Tubing & PipeAZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Haynes Intl _______ 619-449-1584Ind. Metal Supply _____602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Supra Alloys, Inc _____805-388-2138Tube Service Company __602-267-9865Tubing: Titanium & HastelloyHaynes Intl _______ 619-449-1584Supra Alloys, Inc _____805-388-2138

GASESCylinder Storage/Micro-

bulkPraxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151

Purification Units (CO2 and Hydrogen)

Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151Welding and Cutting

Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151TOOLING

Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Boring Bars

Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________480-495-1454Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960

CarbideAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763

Pre-Honed TubeWestern States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Recyclable MetalsBarry Metals ________ 602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009MMR,LLC __________ 623-937-0385Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

Recycling: CarbideEbbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901

RubberMarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801

Scrap Metal RecyclingBarry Metals ________ 602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009MMR,LLC __________ 623-937-0385Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

Sheet MetalSelf Clinch Direct ____ 801-746-2689

Stainless SteelApache Steel Company _ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613Tube Service Company __602-267-9865Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

SteelAdvanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343Apache Steel Company _ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500

Western States Metals

Barry MetalsConsolidated Resources Inc.Barry MetalsConsolidated Resources Inc.Barry Metals

MMR,LLCPhoenix Metal TradingMMR,LLCPhoenix Metal TradingMMR,LLC

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Ind. Metal Supply

Tubing & PipeAZ Metals 602-688-8003

Ebbco Inc

MarZee Inc.

Barry MetalsConsolidated Resources Inc.Barry MetalsConsolidated Resources Inc.Barry Metals

MMR,LLCPhoenix Metal TradingMMR,LLCPhoenix Metal TradingMMR,LLC

MarZee Inc. 602-269-5801

VP/General Manager

B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000

Cutting ToolsAlmar Tools, Inc. _____503-255-2763Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Cutting Tools: CustomAlmar Tools, Inc. _____503-255-2763B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957

DrillsCutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295

Moore Tool & Equipment _602-455-8904Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242Seco Tools Inc _______ 248-528-5960

End MillsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Form Tools B & T Tool & Engineering 602-267-1481Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342Horizon Carbide ______480-968-0957

Inserts, IndexableHorizon Carbide ______480-968-0957Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Inserts, PCD/CBNHorizon Carbide ______480-968-0957Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295

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

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

Thread MillsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Horizon Carbide ______480-968-0957Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454

Sandvik Coromant ___ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ___ 602-628-4242

Tooling ColumnsEllison Machinery ____480-968-5335

Tooling: Cutting Tools Custom

B & T Tool & Engineering __ 602-267-1481 Tooling Systems

Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242Seco Tools Inc _______ 248-528-5960

METAL DISTRIBUTORSWestern States Metals __ 801-978-0562

PALLET SYSTEMSManual & Automatic Pallet

SystemsMidaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420

Manual Lift Off Pallet Systems

Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420Manual Rotory Pallet

SystemsMidaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420

ROBOTICSRobotic Part Loading Systems

Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420PROG. SYSTEMS

CAD/CAMAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Delcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, Inv. ControlDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654

Software, NC ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Delcam __________ 877 335 2261Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335

Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, ServicingDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Tooling SystemsGlobal EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330

REPAIR/DESIGNBar Feeder Repair

Edge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Machine Tool Design/

Engineering Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335

Machine Tool RebuildingAPI Services ________ 757-223-4157A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________ 602-397-4008CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507DM Machine Repair ____ 480-709-1450EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Sandvik Coromant 480-233-0997

B & T Tool & Engineering 602-267-1481


Rob SchwisterRelationship Manager

[email protected]

alerusfi nancial.com

602-550-1339

Moore Tool & Equipment

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

[email protected]

S. L. Fusco, Inc.

Marshall Tool & Supply

Almar Tools, Inc.Horizon CarbideMicro 100

Machine Retrofitting/CNCAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711AMTS____________ 602-397-4008API Services ________ 757-223-4157Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507

Machinery MovingAdvanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339API Services ________ 757-223-4157Machine Repair Parts/Filters

Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Maint/Repair Services

A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________ 602-397-4008Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353DM Machine Repair ____ 480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368State 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 ____ 602-525-0156API Services ________ 757-223-4157Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353DM Machine Repair ____ 480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717

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 RebuildingAPI Services ________ 757-223-4157Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368

Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment

Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342

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 815-943-9111

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

SERVICES Banks

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

Business ConsultingBMSC____________480-445-9400

Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220

Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coordinate Tech _ 623-780-4137Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871MTLC ____________ 602-721-8819Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Starrett ___________602-790-6073Calibration: Repair & CertifyMTLC ____________ 602-721-8819Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Washington Calibration __480-820-0506

Cash Flow ManagementBank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876

CNC Laser CalibrationMTLC ____________ 602-721-8819

Computer/Web ServicesGartman Technical Services _602-788-8121

Consulting BMSC____________480-445-9400Advanced Custom Screens_800-992-7936Quality Advisory Services__602-910-1510Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088Quality 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 ____ 480-968-5335Klontech Measure Sol ___480-626-8131

CNC TrainingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749

Design ServicesMetalcraft Inc. ________480-967-4889


Engineering ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __ 623-780-4137Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571

Financial ServicesAlerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876Country Financial _____ 602-321-3232Quick Turn Financial ___480-385-1738SBG Capital _______ 480-897-4988Human Resource/Staffing

CPI ______________480-339-0452Heavyhaul

IRH ____________ 800-334-2409Insurance Services

Country Financial _____ 602-321-3232HUB Intl __________ 602-749-4190Leavitt Group ______ 602-264-0566

ISO/AS9100 ConsultingBMSC____________480-445-9400

Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

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

Leasing and FinancingAlerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220

Lean ManufacturingBMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642

Machine Shop ReviewsJobShopRater.com ___ 800-949-0655

Machine Shop SourcingJobShopRater.com ___ 800-949-0655

Manufacturers RepTrepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Rigging/Machinery MovingIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Retirement PlanningCountry Financial _____ 602-321-3232

RecyclingBarry Metals ________ 602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009MMR,LLC __________ 623-937-0385Phoenix Metal Trading __ 602-257-4660

Reverse EngineeringAdvanced Coordinate Tech__623-780-4137Datum 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 TrainingAZPMAP __________ 602-723-8191Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Jet Products ________623-869-6749Quality Advisory Services __ 602-910-1510

Services: Network SupportShop Floor Automations ___ 877-611-5825

Software: Con’t ImprovementCIS ______________ 602-445-9400

Staffing: Engineers/MfgCPI ______________ 480-339-0452

Supplier AuditingBMSC_____________480-445-9400

Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088Systems Integration

Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5877Technical Staffing

CPI ______________ 480-339-0452Testing, Metallurgical

Metals Eng & Testing Lab. __ 602-272-4571ARTL _____________ 602-374-3770

Trade Show Booth DesignFry Fabricators _______ 602-454-0701

TransportationIRH ____________ 800-334-2409Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911

Transportation:Air/Freight/Ground

IRH ____________ 800-334-2409Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911

Working Capital, Credit LinesBank of Arizona _______480-642-2876Quick Turn Financial ____480-385-1220SBG Capital ________ 480-897-4988

SEALSEMI/RFI

State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532Films/Foils/Tapes

State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532Gaskets

State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532Liquid Dispensers

State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532Thermal

State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION

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

Machine Retrofitting/CNCMachine Retrofitting/CNCM MACHINERY REPAIR

Advanced Coord. Tech Metals Eng & Testing Lab.

Alerus Bank & TrustBank of ArizonaCountry FinancialQuick Turn Financial

ASSEMBLYCGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673

Cable/Harness AssemblyBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115X5 Manufacturing _______602-454-7385

Clean Room AssemblyJan’s Inc. ____________480-833-7305L&W Fluid _________ 602-323-2560

BENDINGAdvanced Metal Sales____623-434-8343Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701

BRAZINGPrecision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994

Brazing: VacuumSolar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994

BROACHINGAction Machine _______ 602-233-0883Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Mach ______623-934-6913

CARBURIZINGSolar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994

CASTINGSAATC______________602-268-1467

May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931Castings: Prototype

AATC______________602-268-1467

May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931Castings: Production

AATC_____________602-268-1467

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

May Foundry & Machine __ 801-531-8931Castings: Repair

Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404COATING

Accuwright Industries _____ 480-892-9595Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443Bolt’s Metallizing _______ 602-244-2432Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648


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Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117Coating: NP3

Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

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

Powder CoatingPrecision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224

CUTTINGAdvanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343bandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932Echols Saw & Supply ____ 602-278-3918

Coating: Chem FilmAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Certified Inspection _____ 602-267-0661Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries ____ _480-968-1930Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749LA Specialties _________602-269-7612Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Treffers Precision ______ 602-744-2636LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448Sav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

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 ____ 623-581-2648

[email protected]

Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448

Bandsaw Cuttingbandsawparts.com ____800-240-2932Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918

CNC RouterMicropulse West _______ 480-966-2300

LaserAPMI ____________ 480-668-0024Fine Line Laser Cutting __ 602-863-3196Taycar Enterprises ____505-265-2121

Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide ______602-257-0530Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Perma-Finish _________602-278-1733Precision Industrial Painting _602-256-0260Precision Powdercoat _____480-894-5224Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878

Coating: Black OxideCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117Louie's Black Oxide ______602-257-0530


Coating: Chem Film

DAVID MORENODAVID MORENO



12025 ROJAS DR. SUITE A

EL PASO, TX. 79936

BUSINESS: 915-856-7900

FAX: 915-857-4700


AP Industrial Certified InspectionCollins Metal FinishingGold Tech IndustriesJet ProductsLA SpecialtiesLynch Brothers MfgLA SpecialtiesLynch Brothers MfgLA Specialties

Collins Metal Finishing 602-275-3117 Harschco LLC 602-617-7514Collins Metal Finishing 602-275-3117

[email protected]

Tube Laser CuttingTube Service Company __ 602-267-9865

DIE CASTINGTVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278

Die Casting/Aluminum & Zinc

TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278DIES

Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Micro-Tronics, Inc _______ 602-437-8995Precision Die & Stamp'g ___ 480-967-2038

EDMEDM: Drilling Small Hole

Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530Critical Cut ________ 480-785-1316EDM Tech ___________ 602-278-6666LAYKE, Inc. __________ 602-272-2654Micro-Tronics, Inc _______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300

Sun Tech __________480-921-1665EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)

EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Quality Mold _________ 480-892-5480Sun Tech __________480-921-1665Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939Wright Prototype _______541-619-2760

EDM: Dialectric Systems/Filtration

Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901EDM: Wire

3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Critical Cut ________480-785-1316

EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300PGI______________505-884-5782Powill Manufactuing____623-780-4100Quality Mold _________ 480-892-5480Sun Tech __________480-921-1665Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Whitley Machine _______ 602-323-5550Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760

Graphite ServicesMicro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995

ENGINEERING/PROGRAMMING

Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957FABRICATION

Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329

Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222APMI ______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Bell Steel ___________ 480-833-5538BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304CAID Industries ________520-294-3126CAL Precision Inc. _____951-273-9901CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Creedbilt Inc __________623-939-8119Dungeon Delights _______480-215-2461Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952

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

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EDM Tech

SPRINGS-STAMPINGS-MACHINEDPARTS-WASHERS-WIRE FORMS-FORMED TUBING-ASSEMBLIES

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Phone: (602)243-4329Cell: (602)370-5777

[email protected]

3325 East Wier AvenuePhoenix, Arizona 85040

A Complete Manufacturing Facility forFabrication, Machining and Assembly

President/C.O.O.Craig Roth

AEROSPRINGS-STAMPINGS-MACHINEDPARTS-WASHERS-WIRE FORMS-FORMED TUBING-ASSEMBLIES


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Sun Tech

Precision Die Cutting

Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Nelson Engineering _____ 602-273-7114New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Phoenix Metalcraft _____ 602-279-4810Plastic Eng.___________480-491-8100Precision Casting Repair ___ 800-622-2404Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Scriven Precision _______ 480-961-9775State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Whitley Machine _______ 602-323-5550Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800Fabrication: Certified MobilePVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529

Aluminum (Medium & Large)Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

Fabrication: Custom Metal

Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419CygnetStamping & Fab ___ 818-240-7574Dungeon Delights ____480-215-2461Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037State Seal Company _____ 602-437-1532

Fabrication: Medium & Large

APMI______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419Bell Steel ___________ 480-833-5538CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110

Fabrication: MiningPVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Fabrication: Rebuild/ Large

Bell Steel ___________ 480-833-5538

Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Fabrication: Sheet Metal

ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171APMI______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419Bell Steel ___________ 480-833-5538Capital Stainless ____ 480-967-0016CygnetStamping & Fab ___ 818-240-7574Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Phoenix Metalcraft ___ 602-279-4810Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

FINISHINGAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648EPSI______________714-256-8950Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733Phoenix Heat Treating ____ 602-258-7751Precision Powdercoat ____ 480-894-5224Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278

Finishing: One StopPerfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090FINISH 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

Electro-PolishingCollins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117

Glass Bead Clean Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671


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Byington Steel Treating ____ 408-727-6630Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Southwest 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

PassivationCertified 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 _________ 602-269-7612Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917

PolishingArizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671

EPSI______________714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612

Powder CoatingAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947Precision Powdercoat _____ 480-894-5224

Sand BlastingA2Z Sandblasting _______ 602-716-5566

ChemResearch _________602-253-4175GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Grindworks __________623-582-5767JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing _____623-780-4100Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

Grinding, BlanchardSteel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

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 ______ 602-437-8401Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701

Grinding… CylindricalGrindworks _________ 623-582-5767

Grinding… Double DiscPhoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

Grinding: ID/OD Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding:MattisonSun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595

Grinding: ODArizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767

Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Coating 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

FIXTURESExactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957

FORGINGS

R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

Forgings: TitaniumR&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

FOUNDRYAATC _____________ 602-268-1467

May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931GEAR CUTTING

Action Machine _______602-233-0883Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Machine ___ 623-934-6913

GLASS BEADA2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566Lone Arrow _________ 480-507-8074

GRINDINGArizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088

Byington Steel Treating 408-727-6630

Shawn Carlin [email protected]

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


Byington Steel Treating 408-727-6630

ByingtoCoating TechnologiesJet ProductsSouthwest Powder CoatingSTP Performance Coating LLC

Coating TechnologiesJet Products

Byingto

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Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection Services (NDT)Jet Processing ______623-869-6749 x117Jet Products __________623-869-6749Semiray Aero. Testing _____602-275-1917Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868Inspection Services, Welding

Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571ISO Consultant

BMSC_____________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.ABS Quality Evaluations __ 281-673-2843American Global Standards _ 617-838-4648BMSC_____________480-445-9400

Gladhill Assoc _________623-939-4412Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017Great Western Registrar ____623-580-1881Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642Quality Training Consultants __ 928-284-0856

Micro-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 ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 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 ______ 888-487-9701WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620

Grinding: Tool & CutterB & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481CTE ____________ 800-783-2400Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

GUNDRILLINGTrepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110

HEAT TREATINGByington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Controlled Thermal Tech'y __ 602-272-3714

L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Phoenix Heat Treating _____602-258-7751Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

Heat Treating/ AerospaceByington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630

Heat Treating/ISO9001/AS9100Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/

Aluminum Heat TreatingByington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630

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

IDENTIFICATIONLabels & Bar Code

EPSI______________714-256-8950Tool / PartMarking (Laser)

Ace Laser ____________ 480-924-3232B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137

TechMark __________ 480-820--9444Silk Screen

Arizona Finishing _____ 602-438-4443Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260INDUSTRIAL SEALINGS

Gaskets:ManufacturingCupps Ind Supply _____ 602-269-2301State Seal Company ___ 602-437-1532

Industrial SealingsCupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301State Seal Company ___ 602-437-1532

PackingCupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301State Seal Company ___ 602-437-1532

INSPECTIONCalibration

Advanced Coordinate Tech __623-780-4137Washington 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 ______ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol ____ 480-626-8131


Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571

L A Phoenix Heat Treating

ISO RegistrarABS Quality Evaluations __ 281-673-2843American Global Standards 617-838-4648Great Western Registrar __ 623-580-1881Orion Registrar _______ 303-645-4017

Liquid PenetrantCertified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749Semiray ____________602-275-1917Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

MAG ParticleCertified Inspection Service __ 602-267-066Jet Products____ _____623-869-6749Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868Process Improvement/ AuditBMSC_____________480-445-9400Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

X-RayCertified Inspection Service _ 602-267-066Semiray ___________602-275-1917Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

IRON STITCHINGPrecision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404

MACHININGMachining: 3D

3D Machine LLC ____ 480-239-8254Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414

Cassavant Machining __602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Pro Precision _________602-353-0022Tooling Molds West ______480-921-9939

Machining: 5 Axis5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432Cassavant Machining __602-437-4005Clings Mfg ________ 480-968-1778Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106Industrial Tool Die & Eng 520-745-8771Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601

Machining: AerospaceAATC_____________602-268-1467Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414AzMark ____________480-926-8969Backerworks Mfg _____505-342-2943CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901Cassavant Machining __602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Continental Machining __800-777-2483Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200

Excaliber ____________623-878-6800Foresight Technologies ____480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325HK Machining ________602-278-6704Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276JB's Precision _________623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253Jet Products __________ 623-869-6749KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co _____ 602-323-2560LAYKE, Inc. ___________602-272-2654Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products ________623-587-0335PGI ____________ 505-884-5782Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8845Powill Manufacturing ___ 623-780-4100Pro Precision __________602-353-0022R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700Service & Sales ________480-968-9084Satowfi _____________480-374-5706Southwest Swiss Precision __602-438-4670St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529Stewart Manufacturing ____623-582-2261Trepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110Uni-Tek _____________602-272-2601

Machining: ContractAction Machine _______ 602-233-0883Aero Design & Mfg ______602-437-8080AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Banner Machine, Inc _____ 602-437-4984CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Group Mfg Serv. ________480-966-3952HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jan’s Inc. ___________480-833-7305KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Stewart Manufacturing ____623-582-2261TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278

Machining: CNC3D Machine LLC _____480-239-8254Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883

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Cassavant MachiningChallenger AerospaceJD Ellen LLCL&W Machine CoMicropulse WestPro PrecisionTooling Molds West

Cassavant MachiningCassavant Machining

AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304CAL Precision Inc. ___ 951-273-9901Challenger Aerospace___ _ 480-894-0802Cling’s Manufacturing______480-968-1778Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Evans Precision Machining __ 623-581-6200Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Howard PMP _______801-808-4106Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jan’s Inc. __________ 480-833-7305JB's Precision ________ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560LAYKE, Inc. _________ 602-272-2654Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Matrix Machine _______ 480-966-4451Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI______________505-884-5782PMBC ____________602-431-8131Powill Manufacturing____623-780-4100Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022Quality Mold ______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706

St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Stewart Manufacturing____623-582-2261SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620Wire-Tech___________480-966-1591 X5 Manufacturing____ ___602-454-7385

Machining CompositesAbsolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

Machining: LargeBackerworks Mfg ____505-342-2943Continental Machining _800-777-2483Empire Precision Mach. _ 480-633-4580HK Machining _______602-278-6704KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331

Mach: CNC Turning3D Machine LLC _______480-239-8254ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222AzMark ____________480-926-8969Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957Gilbert Precision Machine __480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __520-889-8325JD Ellen LLC ______ 623-587--0253Morsch Machine ______ 480-961-7673New Hope Machine _____520-825-7830Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products ______ 623-587-0335PGI _____________505-884-5782Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575RMSS_____________623-780-5904Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320

St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760

Machining PlasticAbsolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

Machining Precision3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171

AATC_____________602-268-1467Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637AzMark __________ 480-926-8969Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943BID Machine, Inc _______ 480-892-7304CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Evans Precision Mach’g _ 623-581-6200Foresight Technologies ____ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision , Inc. ____ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106JB’s Precision ______ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______623-587--0253Jemelco, Inc. ________480-804-9541Jet Products _______ 623-869-6749JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600LAYKE, Inc. ________ 602-272-2654Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575Matrix Machine _____ 480-966-4451Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc ____ 602-437-8995Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ___ 602-273-7114Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335

PGI ______________505-884-5782Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8845Powill Mfg ___________ 623-780-4100Pro Precision _________ 602-353-0022Quality Mold _______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco _____ 602-278-7700RMSS______________623-780-5904Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706Service & Sales ______ 480-968-9084Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529Stewart Manufacturing ____ 623-582-2261Sun Tech _________ 480-921-1665SwissTech Tooling & Mfg.__ _480-998-2005Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325Toolcraft of Phoenix ___ 623-435-5405Tooling Molds West ______ 480-921-9939Tri-Matrix ________ 480-844-0165Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool ______ 480-507-4620Weiser/Mile High Precision __ 303-280-2778Wire-Tech _________ 480-966-1591

Wolf Precision Tool ______ 951-296-3505Machining: Prototype

A A T C _____________602-268-1467Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883AMT-America _________602-443-1403Anewco ____________520-751-1222Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Backerworks Mfg _____ 505-342-2943Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483Evans Precision ______ 623-581-6200Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957Foresight Technologies ____ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine ___ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106Infinisys ____________602-276-2276

602-443-1403


St. Vrain Manufacturing 303-702-1529St. Vrain Manufacturing

St. Vrain Manufacturing 303-702-1529

St. Vrain ManufacturingStellar Machining & FabSwissTech Tooling & MFg.Uni-TekVal-Tech MfgWright Prototype

St. Vrain ManufacturingSt. Vrain Manufacturing

Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Nichols Precision _____480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI_______________505-884-5782Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8845Pro Precision _________602-353-00220R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Stewart Manufacturing ____623-582-2261SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Machining: Quick TurnHK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8845RMSS______________ 623-780-5904Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760

Machining: Milling3D Machine LLC ______480-239-8254ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Action Machine _______ 602-233-0883AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ____480-464-0150

Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Micro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591Wright Prototype _______541-619-2760 Machining: Semiconductor

Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706

Machining: SwissAbsolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Bar-S Machine ______928-636-2115Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Howard PMP _______801-808-4106Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670SwissTech Tooling & Mfg. ____480-998-2005Machining: Ultra-Precision

Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593

Machining: Turning: Automatic

Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628American Prec.Mach __ 602-269-6298Ayers Gear & Mach ____ 623-934-6913AzMark __________ 480-926-8969Challenger Aerospace ___ 480-894-0802Evans Precision Mach’g __ 623-581-6200JB’s Precision Ind _____ 623-581-9088

Jet Products _________623-869-6749LAYKE, Inc. ________ 602-272-2654Matrix Machine _______480-966-4451Micro-Tronics, Inc _____ 602-437-8995RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904PGI_______________505-884-5782

MACHINING: LASERLaser Cutting

Ace Laser ____________ 480-924-3232Fine Line Laser Cutting __ 602-863-3196Howell Precision ________623-582-4776LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160Precision Metal Products _408-699-5037Taycar Enterprises ____ 505-265-2121The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865Wrico_____________480-892-7800Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis

K-zell Metals, Inc. ____602-232-5882Laser Engraving & Etching

Ace Laser ____________ 480-924-3232East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137TechMark __________ 480-820--9444

Laser MarkingAce Laser ____________ 480-924-3232East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137TechMark __________ 480-820--9444

MANUFACTURINGAero Tech __________ 801-292-0493APMI __ ___________480-668-0024Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Glover Precision, Inc. ____480-464-0150Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331PMBC ____________602-431-8131PVB Fabrications _____520-623-3529Precision Metal Products _408-699-5037RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904

Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775

Manufacturing: ElectrodeWire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Mfg: PhotoChemicalAero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

Etching FabricationTurnkey Product Services

Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

METAL FORMINGCreedbilt Inc _______623-939-8119Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

METAL STAMPINGHigh Production Precision

StampingPrecision Die & Stamping __ 480-967-2038

METALIZINGAccuwright Industries ____480-892-9595Bolt’s Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117

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

MOLDSPMBC ___________ 602-431-8131JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Quality Mold ________480-892-5480Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939

Molds: ConstructionJWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600

Molds: Plastic InjectionMicro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Molds: RubberToolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405

Molds: SteelAero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

PAINTINGAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

Stewart Manufacturing 623-582-2261


Jan’s Inc. 480-833-7305

-Tech Machining & Eng 520-889-8325

Valley Industrial Painting __ 602-256-6273Abrasive Blasting

AP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

Painting& Blast BoothsAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

PhosphateCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648

Powder CoatingAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443East Valley Powdercoat ___ 480-215-2461LA 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/CARCAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Perfection 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

AP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

PLATINGArizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671ChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117EPSI______________714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louie's Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530Precious Metal Plating____ 800-481-6271Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681Sav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

AnodizingChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Brass PlatingSav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

Bronze PlatingSav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

Embrittlement ReliefEPSI______________714-256-8950

Gold PlatingEPSI______________714-256-8950Foresight Finishing _____ 480-921-0000Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

Hard ChromeRoad Machinery _______ 520-623-8681

Nickel/ Chrome/PalladiumCollins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117EPSI______________714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Sav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

Silver PlatingEPSI______________714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

Tin: MatteGold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

Tin / Zinc PlateCollins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117

EPSI______________714-256-8950Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

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

PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling

Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115PRECISION FLAT STOCK

Tri-Matrix __________480-844-0165PROCESSING: CHEMICAL LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612

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

PUNCHINGGroup Manufacturing Serv _480-966-3952 Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Phoenix Metalcraft ___ 602-279-4810Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037Stellar 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 ______ 602-244-2432Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

SPRINGSFlat and Wire Springs

AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___602-243-4329SPRINGWORKS Utah ____ 801-298-0113Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

STAMPINGAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___602-243-4329Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637CygnetStamping & Fab ___ 818-240-7574Frontier Metal Stamping __ 303-458-5129Gilbert Metal Stamping ___480-503-1283Pacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping __480-967-2038Scriven Precision ______480-961-9775Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Whitley Machine ______602-323-5550Wrico ____________480-892-7800

Precision Metal FormingSPRINGWORKS Utah ____ 801-298-0113Wolf Precision Tool _____ 951-296-3505

Stamping: AerospaceFrontier Metal Stamping __ 303-458-5129Pacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656

Stamping: BendingPacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656

Stamping DesignFrontier Metal Stamping __ 303-458-5129Pacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Stamping Flat FormingPacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping: LightPacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656

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

Mike GudinPresident

451 E. Juanita Ave.Suite #14

Mesa, AZ [email protected]


Dennis ReynoldsPH 602-863-3196

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

[email protected]

L A Specialties 602-269-7612 EPSI______________714-256-8950602-269-7612Valley Industrial Painting 602-256-6273 L A SPRINGS

Stamping: PrecisionFrontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129Pacific Metal Stampings ___ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping: Prototype

Wolf Precision Tool _____ 951-296-3505Stamping: Short Run

Wolf Precision Tool _____ 951-296-3505TAPPING

Gilbert 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 ____ 480-892-9595Bolt’s Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Controlled Thermal Tech'y ___602-272-3714Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

THREADINGThread Grinding

Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925

Thread RollingRon Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925

TOOL & DIE3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wolf Precision Tool _____ 951-296-3505Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

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

Wolf Precision Tool _____ 951-296-3505Tooling: Jig & Fixture

BuildingNew Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830

TREPANNINGTrepanning Specialties ___562-633-8110

TUBINGAssembly Formed Tubing

Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084

Formed TubingAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Cling’s Manufacturing____480-968-1778

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

Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778Howell Precision ________623-582-4776K-zell Metals, Inc. ___ 602-232-5882Service & Sales _____ 480-968-9084WATER PURIF/ RECYC.

USFilter _________ 760-525-9930 WATERJET CUTTING

Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys 800-237-2888Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Flow International ____ 800-446-3569Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305LAI Southwest ________ 602-304-1160MarZee Inc. ________602-269-5801New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830Southwest Waterjet ____480-306-7748Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Taycar Enterprises ____505-265-2121Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Whitley Machine ____ 602-323-5550

Waterjet,3D 3 - 5 AXISInnovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255LAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160

Waterjet, Multi headLAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160

Whitley Machine _____ 602-323-5550Waterjet, High Press. Cutting

Harschco LLC ________602-617-7514Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255LAI Southwest _______ 602-304-1160

WASHERSAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329

WIRE FORMSAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165SPRINGWORKS Utah ______801-298-0113

WELDINGACME Metal Works ______ 480-926-4171APMI ____________ 480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal _______ 303-427-6419AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Bell Steel ____________ 480-833-5538BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304CAL Precision Inc. _____ 951-273-9901Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483Creedbilt Inc ________623-939-8119Dungeon Delights _____480-215-2461Empire Precision Mach. ___ 480-633-4580Group Mfg. Serv ______480-966-3952Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Jan’s Inc. ____________ 480-833-7305K-zell Metals, Inc. ____ 602-232-5882Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 Precision Casting Repair ___800-622-2404Precision Metalworks ___ 602-455-9575Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037PVB Fabrications _____ 520-623-3529Quality Mold _________480-892-5480Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775State Industrial Prod ____ 602-275-0990Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Taycar Enterprises ____ 505-265-2121Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376Weiser/Mile High Precision __ 303-280-2778X5 Manufacturing _______ 602-454-7385


BOB HUDZIK E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining

Since 1980

1930 E. 3rd St., #13 Tempe, AZ 85281

(480) 921-1665 Cell: (480) 215-7144

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SUN TECH & ENG.

Total Customer SatisfactionQuality ProductsOn- Time Delivery

Matthew CarlsonSales Manager

(602) 455-9575. Fax (602) 455-0166. Cell (623) 203-96191700 N. 22nd Ave .• Phoenix, AZ. 85009

[email protected]

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

Welding: AerospaceAnewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943CAL Precision Inc. _____951-273-9901X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385

Welding: Alum. Med & LgArrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419CAL Precision Inc. _____951-273-9901Continental Machining __800-777-2483Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Welding: EnclosuresFry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701

Welding: DesignCAL Precision Inc. _____951-273-9901Dungeon Delights ____ 480-215-2461Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701

Welding: Inspection SVCTeam Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868

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

Welding: SpotNelson Engineering _____ 602-273-7114

Welding: TigBackerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943Continental Machining __800-777-2483Cutting Edge Mfg ______ 480-609-7233Jan’s Inc. ___________ 480-833-7305Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075

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Critical Cut.......................................... 100Crozier Machine Tool .........................92Cupps Industrial Supply....................105Cutting Tool Consultants ....................92CTE ..........................................................93Cygnet Stamping & Fab ....................108D & R Mchy ..........................19,82,90,96DCM Tech ...................................62,92Datum Inspection .........................103Delcam. ................................52,53,101Desert EDM Sales ......................60,93DM Machine Repair ........................97Dungeon Delights ........................ 101East Valley Laser Inc .....................105East Valley Powdercoat................108Ebbco Inc. ........................................91Echols Saw & Supply ......................90Eclipse Carbide ...............................92Edge Technologies .........................93EDM Network ..............................3,94EDM Perform Access. ..................... 95EDM Tech........................................38Ellison Machinery . 5,80,81,90,92,111Empire Precision Mach. ...............106EPSI. ...............................................108Evans Precision Mach’g ................102Exactitude ..................................... 107Excaliber Precision .......................100Fadal CNC ...................................58,91Fine Line Fabricating Inc. .............102Fine Line Laser Cutting ................108Foresight Finishing .......................108Flow Corp ........................................90Foresight Technologies ...............100Frontier Metal Stamping .............108Fry Fabrications ..............................99Fry Media ................................1,32-34Fry Steel Co .....................................94Ganesh Machinery .....................31,92Gartman Tech Services ...........82,109Geiger Electric Inc ...........................91Gilbert Metal Stamping ..................99Gilbert Precision Machine............106Gladhill Assoc ...........................68,104Global EDM Supply ........................93Glover Precision, Inc. ....................104GMN USA.........................................93Gold Tech Industries ...............60,104Great Western ..........................63,97Grindworks ...................................100Group Manufacturing .................. 101HK Machining ...............................105Hangsterfers ...................................94Harschco ......................................103Haynes Intl ......................................94Helical Solutions ..............................97Helm Precision ................................52Hi-Tech Machining & Welding .... 101Horizon Carbide .............................99Houghton ........................................93Howard PMP .................................104Howell Precision .....................50,100HUB Intl ............................................97IEC Supply LLC ................................93Ind. Metal Supply ......................54,95Ind.Tool Die ..................................104Ind. Workholding Solution ........... 96Infinisys ................................. 100,104Innovative Cutting Tools ...............93Innovative Cutting Solutions .......108Innovative Tool Sales .....................93Intech Funding ................................47Integrated Systems Inc ................109IPE Aerospace .................................74IRH ...................................................99ISMG ................................................89IVIS ..............................................86,99ITDE ...............................................104Jan’s Inc ..........................................105J B’s Prec Ind..................................104JD Ellen LLC ....................................105Jemelco Inc ....................................97J.K. Tool.................................. ........92Jorgenson ... ........ ........................35,92JWB Manufacturing ......................103K D Capital ......................................90Kerley Corp .....................................92

KLK .......................................44-45,105Klontech Indus. Sales .................90,96KMT Waterjet .................................. 91K-Zell Metals, Inc. .....................83,101Kwik Mark Inc .............................64,91L&W Machine Co. .........................104LA Specialties ........................... 66,104LAI International ............................102Larry Arroues ...................................93Layke Inc ........................................100Leavitt Group ...................................97Lindel Engineering ........................105Lone Arrow ......................................93Louie’s Black Oxide ...............101,103Louie’s Gun Finishing ....................103Lynch Brothers ...............................103Lynden Intl. ......................................99Machinery Sales .............................. 92Magnum Precision ..20-21,90-93,100Makino ........................................11,90Marshall Tool & Supply ..................96MarZee ................................50,94,102Matrix Machine ....................... 99,100Maxum Petroleum .......................2,95May Foundry ..................................102MC Machinery ............................31,93Mesa Machinery ..............................92Metalcraft Inc. ................................104Metal Finishing Systems .................29Metal Processing Intl.....................106Metal Spinning .........................48,101Metals Eng & Testing Labs .............97Methods West ................................,92Micro-Tronics ................................100Micro 100 ....................................65,95Micropulse West .............................99Midaco Corp ....................................96Milne .................................................97MMR LLC ..........................................99Moore Tool & Equip .......................92Morsch Machine ..............................99MTLC ...........................................46,99Muratec ............................................93National Grinding & Mfg. .............102Nelson Engineering .......................101New Hope Machine ......................100Nichols Precision ...........................106Noranco ............................................56North-South ....................................93OGP ................................................... 91Omax Corp. .................................59,90Orion Registrar ..............................104Osborn Products ...................100,102Pacific Metal Stampings................108Perfection Industrial Finishing .....107Perma-Finish... ...............................103Petroferm .........................................93PGI ...................................................104Phoenix Grinding...........................100Phoenix Heat Treat .......................103Phoenix Metalcraft ........................107Phoenix Metal Trading. ..................96Phoenix Small Tool .........................96Pioneer Distributing Co. ...............100Powill Mfg ......................................103Praxair Distribution .........................96Precious Metal Plating. .................104Precision Casting Repair ...............100Precision Die & Stamping ...............99Precision Industrial Painting .........100Precision Metalworks ...................109Precision Metal Products ..............109Premier Precision .....................66,101Prime Axis ................................ 24,100 Pro Precision ...................................102PVB Fabrications .............................100Quality Advisory...............................93Qualichem, Inc ..................................94Quality Improvement Consulting ... 98Quality Mold....................................102Quick Turn Financial... ......................99R&D Specialty Manco......................105RMSS .................................................107Road Machinery ...............................108Robar ...................................................87Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...... ..... 91Roentgen USA.................................... 91

Ron Grob ..........................................105Ryerson .............................................96S&S Machinery Sales .................. 41,92S L Fusco ............................................94Samuel, Son & Co. .................26,94,95Sandvik Coromant ...................... 92,98Satowfi ............................................105Sav-On Plating .................................107Savage Machine ...............................91Sawblade.com ........................ 103,111SBG Capital ........................................96Scriven Precision Fab. ......................99Seco Tools .........................................96Self Clinch .................................... 18,93Semiray .....................................51,105Service & Sales ............................... 109Setco Spindles & Slides ...................95Shaw Precision Grind’g ..................101Shop Floor Automations .................97Southwest Powder .........................103Solar Atmospheres ...........................99Southwest Spindle Service ..............96Southwest Swiss Precision ............105Southwest Waterjet .......................108SPRINGWORKS Utah ..................... 109St Vrain ............................................106Star Metal Fluids ......... 17,91,92,96,97Starrett ..............................................91State Seal Company ...................... 104State Technology ..............................94Steel Services Grind’g...............65,100Stellar Machining & Fab Inc. ......... 104Sterling Fabrication Technology ...39,91Sun Grinding .............................16,102Sun Tech ......................................... 109Superior Grinding ...........................103Supra Alloys, Inc ...............................96Sustaining Edge Solutions ......... 36,96Swisstech Tooling & Mfg ...............107TAYCAR ...........................................102TCI Precision Metals .................. ,87,94TMM Precision ..........................99,102T.S.M. Mach. ....................................90Team Industrial Services ..........72,103TechMark ........................................102Tech Mold .........................................61Temtco Steel .....................................94The Metal Man..........................99,102The Werks C&C ................................95Tipco Punch ................................... 109TMI (GibbsCAM) ...............................97Tolleson Steel ...................................94Toolcraft of Phoenix .......................105Tooling Molds West .......................105Tornquist Machinery ........................91Total Filtration Services ...................93Total Quality Sys ...............................94Tornos ..........................................37,91Trepanning Specialties ...................107Tri-Matrix Mach ..............................101Trio Tool ............................................93Trusty-Cook ................................ 43,92Tube Service .....................................94TVT Die Casting ........................84,102TW Metals .........................................95U S Shop Tools ........................... 27,93Ulbrich of CA ............................... 55,94United Performance Metals ...... 38,94Uni-Tek ........................................... 104Universal Laser Systems...................62US Carbide Tools ........................... 109Val-Tech Mfg ...................................101Valley Industrial Painting ...............108Washington Cal. ......................103Wayco Sales Inc ................................91WC Machine & Tool .......................101Weiser/Mile High Precision ...........102Western States Metal .......................97Whitley Machine ......................102Widia ...............................................101Wire-Tech ........................................101Wolf Precision Tool ..................84,108Wrico ..........................................54,101Wright Prototype .......................... 100X5 .....................................................101


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WIDTH 3/4" 1" 1-1/4" 1-1/2" 2" 2-5/8"

4'-5" 15.44 16.79 18.59 27.81 30.05 41.185'-0" 16.44 17.94 19.94 29.30 32.57 43.935'-6" 17.44 19.09 21.29 30.78 35.10 46.676'-0" 18.44 20.24 22.64 32.26 37.62 49.416'-6" 19.44 21.39 23.99 33.74 40.15 52.157'-0" 20.44 22.54 25.34 35.23 42.67 54.907'-6" 21.44 23.69 26.69 36.71 45.20 57.648'-0" 22.44 24.84 28.04 38.19 47.72 60.388'-6" 23.44 25.99 29.39 39.67 50.25 63.129'-0" 24.44 27.14 30.74 41.16 52.77 65.879'-6" 25.44 28.29 32.09 42.64 55.30 68.6110'-0" 26.44 29.44 33.44 44.12 57.82 71.3510'-6" 27.44 30.59 34.79 45.60 60.35 74.0911'-0" 28.44 31.74 36.14 47.09 62.87 76.8411'-6" 29.44 32.89 37.49 48.57 65.40 79.5812'-0" 30.44 34.04 38.84 50.05 67.92 82.3212'-6" 31.44 35.19 40.19 51.53 70.45 85.0613'-0" 32.44 36.34 41.54 53.02 72.97 87.8113'-6" 33.44 37.49 42.89 54.60 75.60 90.5514'-0" 34.44 38.64 44.24 55.98 78.02 93.2914'-6" 35.44 39.79 45.59 57.46 80.55 96.0315'-0" 36.44 40.94 46.94 58.95 83.07 98.7815'-6" 37.44 42.09 48.29 60.43 85.60 101.5216'-0" 38.44 43.24 49.64 61.91 88.12 104.2616'-6" 39.44 44.39 50.99 63.39 90.65 107.0017'-0" 40.44 45.54 52.34 64.88 93.17 109.7517'-6" 41.44 46.69 53.69 66.36 95.70 112.4918'-0" 42.44 47.84 55.04 67.84 98.22 115.2318'-6" 43.44 48.99 56.39 69.32 100.75 117.97

M42 Band Saw Blade PricesDiscounts for ordering 2, 5 or 10 bands.

WIDTH 3/4" 1" 1-1/4" 1-1/2" 2" 2-5/8"

19'-0" 44.44 50.14 57.74 70.81 103.27 120.7219'-6" 45.44 51.29 59.09 72.29 105.80 123.4620'-0" 46.44 52.44 60.44 73.77 108.32 126.2020'-6" 47.44 53.59 61.79 75.25 110.85 128.9421'-0" 48.44 54.74 63.14 76.74 113.37 131.6921'-6" 49.44 55.89 64.49 78.22 115.90 134.4322'-0" 50.44 57.04 65.84 79.70 118.42 137.1722'-6" 51.44 58.19 67.19 81.18 120.95 139.9123'-0" 52.44 59.34 68.54 82.67 123.47 142.6623'-6" 53.44 60.49 69.89 84.15 126.00 145.4024'-0" 54.44 61.64 71.24 85.63 128.52 148.1424'-6" 55.44 62.79 72.59 87.11 131.05 150.8825'-0" 56.44 63.94 73.94 88.60 133.57 153.6325'-6" 57.44 65.09 75.29 90.08 136.10 156.3726'-0" 58.44 66.24 76.64 91.56 138.62 159.1126'-6" 59.44 67.39 77.99 93.04 141.15 161.8527'-0" 60.44 68.54 79.34 94.53 143.67 164.6027'-6" 61.44 69.69 80.69 96.01 146.20 167.3428'-0" 62.44 70.84 82.04 97.49 148.72 170.0828'-6" 63.44 71.99 83.39 98.97 172.82 172.8229'-0" 64.44 73.14 84.74 100.46 153.77 175.5729'-6" 65.44 74.29 86.09 101.94 156.30 178.3130'-0" 66.44 75.44 87.44 103.42 158.82 181.0531'-6" 69.44 78.89 91.49 107.87 166.40 189.2832'-0" 70.44 80.04 92.84 109.35 168.92 192.0232'-6" 71.44 81.19 94.19 110.83 171.45 194.7633'-0" 72.44 82.34 95.54 112.32 173.97 197.5133'-6" 73.44 83.49 96.89 113.80 176.60 200.2534'-0" 74.44 84.64 98.24 115.28 179.02 202.99

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