Springfield Manufacturing Announces Expansion to Houston

Clover, SC, November 20, 2008 – Springfield Manufacturing LLC (SMLLC) proudly announces the opening of their new manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. The new facility will be located at 4501 S. Pinemont Drive, Suite 114. The Houston facility will be supporting offload manufacturing from regional Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s).

The SMLLC equipment is made by Huffman Corporation, multiple axis abrasive waterjet systems providing increased precision, reliability and operating convenience for a wide variety of applications. The Houston facility anticipates being operational the week of December 1st.

These systems produce high quality, burr and dust free machining with no heat affected zones for cutting, drilling, milling, hole clearing, Non-FIC crack cleaning, and complete stripping and coatings removal (TBC and Bond) in any direction for complex shapes in the more exotic metals, superalloys and composites. The SMLLC abrasive waterjet process is a model of single piece flow, lean manufacturing principles and an environmentally friendly green process.

SMLLC has achieved certification to ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100-B in accordance with AS9104A through Bureau Veritas Certification North America, Inc.

ABOUT SPRINGFIELD MANUFACTURING, LLC – Springfield Manufacturing started as the process development shop for the Huffman Corporation in the late 1980s developing the waterjet machining processes for the customers purchasing Huffman's waterjet machines. In 1996, Springfield Manufacturing, LLC became a separate spin off manufacturing business due to contract machining from Huffman Corporation. Over the last decade Springfield Manufacturing has grown to a 24-hour production shop whose customers read like a who's who of the aero and land based turbine and aerospace industries. The company’s main products are multi-axis precision abrasive waterjet machine systems and the machining of flight, industrial gas turbine, and medical parts. Located in Clover, SC, a suburb of Charlotte, NC, Springfield is an ISO 9001:2000 and CE-approved supplier with global sales and service.