“Anything that goes ‘boom,’” says Alan Soucy when asked to describe his company’s work.

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With customers including Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman and other large defense contractors, Advanced Precision Engineering (APE) is a very different manufacturer than the one Modern Machine Shop first covered in 1997.

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In addition to defense applications, the company’s then-specialty in semiconductor components provided a good foundation for transitioning into medical diagnostics equipment, prosthetics and communications assemblies, which can be no less challenging to manufacture than missile housings and firing controls. As Mr. Soucy puts it, “We don’t make brackets here.”

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To maintain an edge with its largely West Coast customer base, this East Coast supplier has been investing millions of dollars annually in new equipment. The shop tour resulting in this story was too early to cover some of the latest examples, such as a 40-pallet system serving three of APE’s […]

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