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which is particularly crucial given the current industry-wide workforce challenges.
“ Our most significant individual investment has been in a series of large CNC machines from Starrag, a high-end Swiss machine manufacturer, which we use for hard metal machining. We do a lot of work in titanium, Inconel, stainless steel and exotic metals, and these machines allow us to machine parts up to 12 feet long with extreme precision. The accuracy of these machines is outstanding, and in our world, it is difficult to find suppliers who can do large, high-precision hard metal parts at that level. The total investment is over $ 5 million per machine once you factor in the infrastructure around them. This capital investment is on top of the additional machines we have bought for capacity growth more broadly,” Chris adds. That investment was well-timed, given that about a year ago, Seyer began working with SpaceX.“ It is a new and significant relationship for us,” Chris states.“ SpaceX
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