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HALCYON MANUFACTURING
SAN JOSE SHOP WITH BIG PLANS GAINING MOMENTUM
ccording to Greek mythology, Alkyone, the manufacturing. It is a great place to be when you have daughter of the god of the winds Aeolus, big plans. Tony has plans, and early targets began to fall became so distraught when she learned that before the first machine hit the floor. Starting from just a
her husband had been killed in a shipwreck that she concept and no actual customers, building Halcyon from
threw herself into the sea and was changed into a halcyon, known more commonly today as a kingfisher. Legend is that the kingfisher built their nests on the sea during the winter solstice and charmed the wind god enough that he created a period of unusual calm that lasted until the birds’ eggs hatched. A halcyon is synonymous now with calm and prosperity and its fitting that Tony Doan opened Halcyon Manufacturing in December of 2020, at a time the world needed a little of both.
San Jose, California is strewn with manufacturing. Mom and pop shops sit across from giants of industry, there are few places in the world that are a bigger hub of
the ground up meant purchasing machine tools with the most versatility and the best options for the money. “I needed good equipment in the shop and in QC,” tells Tony. “The budget wasn’t unlimited but predicated on the work we might get, and the work we were going after. Everything needed to meet a certain criteria. I had to be selective and find the best value and performance without sacrificing accuracy and reliability. I bought three machining centers that checked all my boxes.” Tony purchased a Doosan DNM 5700S 3 axis mill, a Haas UMC 500 5 axis mill, and a Doosan Lynx 2100LSY multi spindle lathe with live tooling. A second Doosan DNM 5700S
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