Blogs can create community. This Clinkenbeard Blog seeks to go beyond community and create value for all of its participants. Clinkenbeard www.Clinkenbeard.com is a worldwide leader in the rapid production of complex castings and machined parts using a wide variety of metals and plastics. From five-axis CNC machining www.clinkenbeard.com/cnc-machining/capabilities to product design, development, prototyping and manufacturing in markets ranging from aviation and aerospace to automotive, heavy trucking and more, we have Clinkenbeard experts who will address best time-to-market solutions of the day. From issues like International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) www.Clinkenbeard.com/about/certifications-accreditations to
AS9100 Certification, our professionals will offer perspectives that will help you in your business decision-making. And finally, the Clinkenbeard Blog will be a forum for local Rockford, Illinois, business, economic and political leaders and media to offer their commentary and feedback on issues ranging from aerospace and aviation expansion in Rockford to area manufacturing to economic development.

Guest bloggers. In an effort to expand the depth and breadth of the information available at the Clinkenbeard Blog, we have invited many guests from the metal casting, product design and development, rapid prototyping, rapid manufacturing and CNC industries to offer their opinions on issues of the day. Similarly, we have asked several Rockford political, economic and business leaders and media involved in aerospace, aviation, manufacturing, commerce and government to offer their insights and outlooks as well.

Please comment on any and all blog entries you’d like. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please email Reg@Clinkenbeard.com.

Enjoy and participate all!

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Companies serious about Speed to Market require good prototype and short run suppliers to support the effort. Production suppliers have a production mindset and are geared for production; it is difficult to cross the boundaries between the prototype and production worlds. Clinkenbeard has streamlined the prototyping process, from initial contact for quotation to shipping and tracking the package to your door. We eat sleep breathe the flexibility necessary to make things happen quickly. This includes taking HOT orders which change our personal and work schedules daily, implementing engineering changes throughout our business and manufacturing processes, and finding a way to get parts to your door Monday morning when they were just finished Sunday night. Believe it or not, we were just discussing parts which will be done this Sunday night, and need to take a trip to be delivered by 7AM Monday morning 4 states away. We are often involved in projects which Clinkenbeard is the dual source – to be sure that our customer has parts one way or another. Dual sourcing parts is an expensive insurance policy; companies who engage in this type of activity are very serious about Speed to Market.

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Please see release below.  Clinkenbeard will be the only Rockford company communicating from the Paris Air Show in real-time with aerospace and aviation customers and prospects and the Rockford business community.  The Rockford Area Economic and Development Council will be blogging on a local Rockford television website.

News Release

Date: June 9, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, please contact Ron Jr. (Reg) Gustafson, 815.226.0291, reg@clinkenbeard.com

Clinkenbeard Will Blog and Tweet from Paris Air Show

Key audiences will be Clinkenbeard aerospace and aviation customers and prospects, the Rockford business community, and Rockford-area and industry media; the company encourages participation by individuals and companies that comprise each of these key audiences.

(Rockford, Ill.) — Ron Jr. (Reg) Gustafson, project manager for Clinkenbeard, a Rockford, Illinois-based rapid manufacturing and prototyping company, will be communicating with customers, prospects, the Rockford business community, and the media through a blog and Twitter while he attends the Paris Air Show, June 15 through 17, 2009.

According to Gustafson, he will be using the social media tools to build and reinforce relationships with Clinkenbeard customers and prospects by providing information from the show about trends, events and products being discussed, presented, and exhibited at the show.

Gustafson indicated that he also will be communicating about news and information he learns about that could impact the Rockford business community in a positive way.

Gustafson encourages anyone to join the conversation and participate, including the trade press and the local and regional Rockford media.

“We are encouraging our customers and prospects to participate, and hope that other Rockford companies and organizations as well as the media will join the conversation,“ Gustafson said.

With respect to Clinkenbeard customer and prospects, Gustafson added that, “One of Clinkenbeard’s key metrics of success is our adherence to meeting and exceeding the time-to-market requirements of our customers. Our company slogan is ‘Fasterestest.’ We think our communicating in a real-time mode from the show is a form of our ‘Fasterestest’ way of doing business.“

Clinkenbeard’s blog can be accessed at http://clinkenbeard.info and the Twitter page can be accessed at http://www.twitter.com/Clinkenbeard

Both sites are being designed for the show and will be show-ready June 11.

Social media company D.D. Griffith Consulting will be consulting and assisting Clinkenbeard in organizing its social media communications.

For more information, please contact Ron Jr. (Reg) Gustafson, 815.226.0291, reg@clinkenbeard.com

About Clinkenbeard
Clinkenbeard is a worldwide leader in the rapid production of complex castings and machined parts using a wide variety of plastics and metals. The company’s principal markets include US defense and government, aerospace, aviation, automotive, truck, marine and agricultural.

Some of Clinkenbeard’s aerospace and aviation clients include Hamilton Sundstrand, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls Royce.

The patented Clinkenbeard® Toolingless Process is industry renown for producing metal castings efficiently, affordably and extremely fast. The process is based on machining sand cores and molds without the expense of tooling. All machining is done using CNC, which produces superior speed and accuracy.

About the Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show takes place every two years, and brings together global leaders of the aerospace and aviation industries. This year’s air show will take place June 15th through June 21st in Le Bourget, France, which is just north of Paris. The Paris Air Show that took place in 2007, which Clinkenbeard attended, brought together almost 2,000 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and was attended by more than 400,000 visitors, which included manufacturers, suppliers, trade representatives, public officials, media, and delegations from around the world.

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Mark A. Ricotta
815.708.7254
http://www.linkedin.com/in/markricotta

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Ron Jr. (Reg) Gustafson, project manager for Clinkenbeard, will be attending the Paris Air Show June 15 through 21 in Le Bourget, France. Reg will be attending the show to support current Clinkenbeard customers such as Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney and Hamilton-Sundstrand as well as to help generate new business for Clinkenbeard.

The Paris Air Show takes place every two years and brings together global leaders of the aerospace and aviation industries. The Paris Air Show that took place in 2007, which Clinkenbeard also attended, brought together almost 2,000 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and was attended by more than 400,000 visitors.

Clinkenbeard operates two facilities in Rockford, Illinois. For the first time in history, the city of Rockford will be sending a delegation to the Paris Air Show to help generate business for the Rockford area. Clinkenbeard will be a part of this delegation.

A press conference was held in Rockford May 28 to announce the delegation’s trip to the air show. Clinkenbeard was selected as the host company for the press conference because of its past history with the air show and its leadership position relative to the aerospace and aviation industries.

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