December 20, 2019
To: Our Customers
Re: Update
Continuing our communication on status of key actions as we work to recover from the fire at our Orange location. We understand that this event has caused an interruption in normal service from us.
- The 2500T press in the refurbished building has successfully re-entered service. We are back in the building impacted by the fire and in production.
- The 2500T press at the remote site in Michigan has been fully decommissioned and is in transit to Orange, CA. We are targeting to re-enter this press into service during February, 2020. Site preparation for this press has begun at Orange, CA.
- The 2000T press has begun installation. We are targeting entry into service during February for this press as well.
- When the press from MI and the 2000T press are entered into service, this will mark overall added capacity for production since the fire.
- The remaining two presses to be refurbished are in the component repair/replacement cycle
- We are utilizing two different specialists in order to speed the timeline as much as possible.
- We will continue to work directly with customers to discuss any impact to scheduled deliveries as quickly as possible. In order to ensure prompt and efficient responses, we ask that if you have questions, please work through your normal point of contact at the Orange facility.
This is our last update for 2019. We sincerely appreciate all the scheduling support, encouragement, and understanding the vast majority of our customers have demonstrated over this past year. With this active collaboration we have been able to avoid stopping any aircraft or rotary craft build lines. Thank you! We look forward to fully recovering the site during 2020 and fully supporting all of our customers forward from that point. We will post our next update on January 10, 2020.
May the season be filled with happiness and peace for all of you, and all success in the new year.
In service,
Pete Knapper
President and Chief Executive Officer