Any manufacturer who’s survived more than 30 years in business has weathered the usual ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and could write a “how-to” book with a chapter devoted to…
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Two machinists from Hughes Aircraft founded Astro Machine Co in 1965 at the height of the space race. Everything Astro related was cool, from Astro the cartoon dog to Astronauts….
The oil business has its ups and downs and it’s no secret that Bakersfield, Ca. knows this better than most. Kern County is a large producer of oil in the…
Vaughn Wilson immigrated to the United States from England in the late 80’s and found work in the local aerospace industry. “Dad came here with $250 bucks, my mom and…
MacKay Manufacturing started back in the late 40’s under different owners and a different name. They were a small mom and pop shop servicing the local industries in North Eastern…
Tony Martindale has been in manufacturing his whole life. After college he worked at the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Ca. NUMMI was the joint venture between Toyota and GM, after…
Roncelli Plastics is headed into their 50th year of business, and even after 30+ years with the company CEO Riley Cole is still blown away by the parts and processes….
Maintaining tight tolerances on large precision parts is no easy feat, which is one of several reasons that manufacturers shy away from projects of the massive variety. Such is not…
At 29 years old Rick Erickson already had a decade of experience in manufacturing. He opened Wire Tech with a single wire EDM and a small workspace in a Phoenix…
Premier Manufacturing Company (Tualatin, Oregon) designs and manufactures heavy duty coupling components used for tractor-trailers and construction equipment. In business since 1924, the company produces parts that link trailers to…