Comments on: “America’s Hidden Resource: Poised to hand you generous profits”

By: Borat

Borat — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:25:58 +0000

If casting is high tech, then the US is in trouble. Technologies like electrochemical machining (a form of “sculpting” using electron charges) is already in the hands of Japan, India, South Korea and China. ECM, as it’s usually referred to, is just one of the inexpensive high-precision casting methods that are fairly well-known right now (although ECM isn’t strictly a casting method but it produces the same type of products that conventional casting does). This is the one US technical capability that can’t be outsourced elsewhere? Ha. The one constant truth with technology is that anyone out there can always copy it or dream up something better.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:52:52 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with Buuce. PCP is the supplier not only of parts for new engines but of replacement parts when the engines need overhaul. My money will wait for the bottom of the Markets when the share price is at a PE of 5 or less, however, and when (almost) new airplanes are no longer being parked/mothballed in the Arizona desert.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:26:56 +0000

PCP is not only a casting company, which has bought up some of its competitors, but it is a forging company — because they bought up what used to be Wyman-Gordon. I’m surprised the Justice Department let ‘em make these purchases, what with monopoly-like control of the first manufacturing phase of the parts needed to make jet engines. I owned PCP, sold in time to make a nice profit, and I’m watching it now. Given the agony being experienced in the airline industry, and with the airplane builders, I’ll stay on the sidelines for a while.