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ANSONIA MANUFACTURING
DELIVERING QUALITY PRECISION MACHINED PARTS IN CALIFORNIA’S WINE COUNTRY
Ansonia Manufacturing, located in Sonoma, California, is a woman-owned CNC job shop serving a wide variety of industries. They
pride themselves on working cooperatively and creatively with their customers to provide a quick turnaround on quality parts. For more than 25 years Andrew and Jamie Storck have manufactured in Northern California’s wine country. Jamie took over operations 7 years ago, freeing up Andrew to handle estimating and programming. As a job shop, they run anything that comes their way, but Ansonia is known mostly as a turning house with 4 axis milling capabilities. CFO Jamie Storck half-jokingly claims “Sonoma makes wine, Napa makes auto parts, and we make great parts.”
Located in a rural area of Sonoma, Ca. Ansonia Manufacturing is not the typical home-based mom and pop operation. Situated on 2 acres, the 3000sq.ft. manufacturing facility houses state-of-the-art precision turning and milling machines to produce specialty machined parts for the military, medical, aerospace, agriculture, and electronics industries. “We really are a mom and pop job shop,” tells Ansonia’s CFO Jamie Storck. “We live in a rural area with lots of space and have a separate manufacturing building from our home. We
have four employees and produce parts for a variety of local customers. We routinely manufacture production line parts for companies like Labcon North America in Petaluma, or Thermal Technology and Idex that are also locals in Sonoma County.”
As a 100% job shop with no outside salesperson, Ansonia Manufacturing rely totally on word of mouth and their reputation to earn and keep business. “Run quantities vary,” tells Andrew Storck. “We take on everything from single piece prototype work to jobs that need 500-1000 parts. It all depends, but the larger the better when we can get it.” Ansonia just completed a complex 5 - part order that they earned not by being the cheapest, but by having the best turnaround time. “We got this job by knocking it out in only two weeks,” adds Jamie. “Others were estimating 6 weeks, but we were able to shift a job off one of our Okuma lathes to the other and make space without sacrificing quality.”
Purchasing a machine tool with flexibility is key at any job shop, but even more so when you are limited on space. Known mostly as a turning shop, the Okuma lathes are the star of the show while their Haas VF4 mill plays a big supporting role. Okuma #1 is a twin spindle LB3000MYW and Okuma #2 is brand new LB3000MY
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Article by Sean Buur
Photos Contributed by Ansonia Manufacturing