We use to be a cnc job shop, we have made parts either direct or through 1st and 2nd tier suppliers for most good and some bad high tech companies. Its common here in the silicon valley where we originated, there was a very strong base of good machining companies here at one time. its not like it was that's for sure.
We have cycled through the industries as they have come and go, from disc drive, microwave communications, extreme atmosphere robotics for semiconductor and underwater, aerospace, medical and consumer, not to mention lots of R&D, which we saw many projects evolve that are now common house hold or industrial products from the start.
Applied Materials-Kamtsu, Boeing, Motorola, United Defense, Lam Research, apple, Perkins Elmer, Dell, broad com, Samsung, Seagate, AMD. Remec microwave, space systems Loral, Brooks Automation, KLA Tencor, Novelus, PRI automation, Stryker endoscopy, abaxis, just to rattle a few off the top of my head. We still have a good size portfolio pf parts we made for these guys... the best part is getting invited into there places and talking to the buyers and engineers, and their setups and layouts....
Then in 97 get got heavy into paint ball while maintaining, our industrial customers. A Top rank player met us and we started working with him to build paintball markers, we did all of the design, prototyping, and production, to finished sub assemblies. we designed and build over 10 platforms for him, and built all of the parts for over 50,000 pro level markers, and held top rank pro players on the worlds podium for years. then our customer got greedy. and started beating us up against china and robbed us of our brand name we created "Ripper" Milling.. that when vanquish began in about 2005. We became official in 2007, and began the swtich from paintball to RC to get away from that business. We are now surpassing him 6 years later, we feel a well earned feat. now to infinity and beyond !
