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upon those opportunities. The company
continually grew and eventually moved into
a 65,000 square-foot facility located in an
enterprise zone south of downtown San Jose.
Vice President Mike Nevin credits the
company’s growth to Airtronics’ inordinate
ability to devise efficient and cost-effective
solutions for transforming a concept into
a manufacturable component. “We work
closely with our customers in the design
process,” explains Nevin. “Most companies
already have their own engineers and they
know what they want. The key is determin-
ing whether it can be built more economi-
cally. They may come up with an initial mod-
el, but we can make suggestions to help make
it more manufacturable. In other cases, the
customer may only have a concept and we’ll
create the model, design for manufacturabil-
ity from the beginning. We can make virtu-
ally anything, but the challenge is finding
the way to make it as affordable as possible
for the customer without compromising on
quality.” Airtronics has been helping its cus-
tomers overcome manufacturing challenges
for more than fifty years, and to be sure, over
