Pacific Precision Metals Inc

WHO WE ARE

Pacific Precision Metals maintains a staff of senior engineers domiciled in Southern California, as well as a wholly-owned 150,000 square foot facility just across the Mexico border from San Diego. This allows us to seamlessly bring together U.S. design and management with low-cost manufacturing and hand craftsmanship.

OUR NEAR SHORE ADVANTAGE

With a dedicated electrical substation and a gated campus in a modern industrial park adjacent to Highway 1, Pacific Precision Metals' Mexico plant is the ideal resource for clients who require capable low-cost manufacturing as their unit volumes rise. Our U.S. engineers remain in control of the design and process, and the transition is seamless for our customers, who are uniformly delighted with the results.

Many purchasing managers have discovered that over the last few years, manufacturing in the industrial parks of Mexico has quietly surpassed Asian alternatives for cost, quality, and control. A 2009 Business Week cover story concluded, “while China was around 5% cheaper on average than Mexico in 2005, China is now 20% more expensive.' Pacific Precision Metals, your near-shore supplier, combines the low cost of offshore manufacturing with the flexibility and superior engineering of domestic suppliers. For our customers, it’s truly the best of both worlds.

OUR DISTINGUISHED HISTORY

Our comprehensive history in metalworking began in 1941, with the founding of Tubing Seal Cap in Azusa, California, a sleepy ranching town in that era. Our founder came up with a creative solution to the problem of oil leakage in farm tractors with a uniquely designed seal, which in classic inventive fashion, he manufactured by using a farm tractor engine to power a makeshift metal press.

That was the first of many innovations. Over the years, Tubing Seal Cap became a leader in deep draw and hydroforming technology, which it applied to products as widely varied as doorknobs and the stub ends of aluminum baseball bats. By the early 1980s, an article in People magazine highlighted Tubing Seal Cap as the manufacturer of the majority of the world’s doorknobs.

The late 1980s brought growth and change to this specialty manufacturer. Private financial buyers acquired Tubing Seal Cap and merged it with a complementary company, La Verne Metal Products, a high-volume sheet fabrication firm. This merger resulted in the establishment of corporate parent company Pacific Precision Metals Inc. and ultimately created an organization that could handle most manufacturing projects that organized with sheet metal.

High-tech precision manufacturing was added to the enterprise in 1998 with the acquisition of Pacific Fabrication, a leader in tool design, progressive stamping and four-slide products. Pacific Fabrication’s senior executive still leads our combined manufacturing efforts today.

Another major step in our evolution came in 2000, when Pacific Precision Metals Inc. acquired BII de Mexico, a maquiladora company operating out of a modern industrial park in the heart of Tijuana, Mexico. BII had been formed in 1990 by a former executive of one of Pacific Precision Metals Inc.’s constituent companies. Its fit with the U.S. operation of Pacific Precision Metals Inc. was already very close, and today our U.S. engineers still work with BII’s skilled Mexican production and assembly teams in a uniquely collegial relationship.

The most recent chapter of our company’s development was realized in November 2010, when it was purchased by private investment group Triyar Capital. We remain Pacific Precision Metals, an established identity with a 70-year heritage of metal forming leadership. We posses the resources and know-how necessary to meet the majority of manufacturing challenges, and in utilizing our assets, we will continue to carry forth the tradition of achievement set forth by our founders and predecessors.

OUR VALUES

Quality

From product development to delivery, we do it right the first time, on time, all the time!
Innovation
We continuously seek out creative approaches and new technologies to satisfy our customers’ metal products requirements.

Commitment

We pledge to unceasingly improve our product and service lines in order to fulfill all obligations and exceed metal manufacturing industry standards.

Accountability

It is our obligation to maintain organizational integrity and ensure that our products and operations are in the best interests of all our business relations.

SHEET METAL FABRICATION

We operate CNC turret presses for precision sheet metal first-processing. From the turret presses, products proceed to second-processing stages where they are welded, mechanically fastened, painted, assembled and packaged for final delivery.

PUNCH PRESS

We operate a variety of punch presses with ratings from 30 tons to 270 tons. Presses are strategically placed inside of manufacturing cells or adjacent to them.