Matthew Monnig of Spyder Manufacturing was born into the landscape business. His family has owned B & M Lawn and Garden Center since the late 70’s. Like everyone with a…
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Automatic Specialty Co is family owned and operated screw machine shop, manufacturing specialty hardware; nuts, bolts, screws, and washers. For decades they’ve relied on the accuracy and reliability of their…
From the time he was a child, Mike Hobeck was fascinated with speed. He began his time in the fast lane by racing dirt bikes. The dirt bike career was…
When you walk into Blackout Defense, you see all the expected technology of an elite defense manufacturer. But Blackout Defense isn’t making cruise missiles. They’re making America’s rifle. In…
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…
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…