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Igel

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21. Sounds like what a decent engineering school would look at and say, "Hmmm..." at.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 10:08 PM

Apr 10

[Our] products require really advanced tooling. The precision that you have to have in tooling, and working with the materials that we do, are state-of-the-art, and the tooling skill is very deep here.

In the US you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China you could fill multiple football fields.

Probably requires knowledge and effort, though, so the average class size would be < 1.

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Sounds like what a decent engineering school would look at and say, "Hmmm..." at. Igel Apr 10 #21

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