AT Precision Inc. is unique in a couple of ways. Not only is the machine shop located on the second floor of a building with a 12" (304.8mm) concrete floor, but the company, which was founded in 1989, didn't have to machine a single part for one production job that involved machining aluminum parts. President Chuck Thudium explained that in 1999 Greg Kaplan of K&C Machining Inc., Wood Dale, III., a friend with whom he would trade work back and forth, asked him to run some complex and expensive aluminum sample parts that had a 2-week turnaround for a customer. After AT Precision successfully completed them, the customer requested 6,000 more parts to be delivered in 6 months.
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