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TWST: We would like to begin with a brief historical sketch of LaBarge
and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time.
Mr. Nonnenkamp: LaBarge, Inc., was founded in 1953. The company entered
the electronics manufacturing business through a reverse merger in the
late 1960s. Today, we are approximately a $200 million electronic
manufacturing services (EMS) company that provides very highly
sophisticated electronic products and complete systems. We service
customers in a variety of industries like defense, natural resources,
industrial, government systems, and commercial aerospace, and we operate
out of six manufacturing locations, all in the United States. TWST: Is it in your interest to keep the manufacturing within the
States?
Mr. Nonnenkamp: We establish partnering relationships with our
customers, and we operate in a niche focused on low to moderate
production volume of very high complexity, very high performance
applications that have what we like to refer to as a very high cost of
failure. We become our customers' electronics assembly arm. There is a
tremendous amount of communication that goes back and forth between our
customers and our engineers and operations people on a daily basis, so
having our manufacturing facilities located in the United States with
easy access to our customers works very well for us.
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