Machining

A part that needs machining, welding, and inspection can be bought two ways. You can route it through one shop that holds all three processes, or…

Sparks carries a different industrial history than Reno does. It grew as a railroad town, and the flat industrial ground east of downtown filled with fabrication,…

Northern Nevada is a manufacturing region now, not a distribution corridor with a few shops attached to it. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 31,700…

The machines that plow fields, dig mines, and move material through factories share a common muscle: the hydraulic cylinder. Behind every raised bucket, extended boom, tilted…

A hydraulic cylinder can look flawless on the outside and still fail early because of a surface hidden inside it. The bore — the inner wall…

Every hydraulic cylinder depends on one surface almost nobody ever sees: the inside wall of the tube. If that bore is rough, out-of-round, or inconsistent from…

A hydraulic cylinder is, at its core, a precisely machined assembly of metal. A steel tube, a hardened and ground rod, end caps, glands, and the…

The political conversation about American manufacturing in 2026 is almost entirely about where the work goes: which tariffs push production home, which incentives lure factories back,…

For the better part of two decades, sourcing a precision-machined part came down to a single, stubborn calculation. Offshore labor was cheaper, freight was predictable, and…