On March 4-5, 2009, the Design2Part Show in Grapevine, Texas brought together over 1200 manufacturing engineers, purchasing executives, research technicians, and sales personnel to discuss contract manufacturing along with their manufactured products.
At the show pictured above, Jerry Quinn, Sales Manager and Brian Everling, Market Research & Development hosted Booth #422 for Precision Grinding.
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Ted D'Elia, SE Regional Sales Manager and the rest of the The Job Shop Company who support the Design2Part regional shows helped all of us find ourselves comfortable at the posh Gaylord Texan Convention Center. More than 140 exhibiting companies from all over the United States found this to be one of the premier venues for a Design & Contract Manufacturing Event. We wish to thank The Job Shop Company, the greater Dallas / Ft. Worth community, and the attendees from Texas and surrounding states who became our visiting attendee "hosts" for this event.
The Grapevine area is located nearby the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. While many of the concrete roads remain white with newness, the convention center and the surrounding lodges and restaurants are a model for this century's building and construction efforts. We also passed by the new, centrally located, Dallas Cowboys stadium where we could see that members from Arlington have worked together to grow a successful manufacturing community, rich with modern amenities. The Arlington/Grand Prairie area remains headquarters for several prominent, international companies, such as Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopter and is a major international hub for companies such as Atlas Copco Secoroc.
Precision Grinding has plans to make other tours across the country. We look forward to visiting with you, then. If you ever find yourself in the Birmingham, Alabama area, possibly for a Talladega event or a Barber Motorsports event or just traveling through, please, stop by to pay us a visit.
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We believe that steel prices may have bottomed for now as steel plate manufacturers have declared plans to manufacture steel plate upon purchase order. In aggregate, steel plate manufacturers announced they have been operating at 70% capacity.
