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Gary Case began his professional career in pursuit of an engineering degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He then transferred to Pierce College to take advantage of their CNC Programming classes, where he earned an Associate of Science Degree in 1985.In 1988 Wallace Miller, owner of Micro-Tec, employed Gary as a machinist. Gary soon became shop foreman. He quickly advanced to operations manager and was responsible for all facets of Micro-Tec’s business. In 1990 Gary had the opportunity to realize his dream of independence at 31 years of age and purchased Micro-Tec from Wallace Miller. At that time Micro-Tec had three CNC Mills, three employees, one customer (Hughes Aircraft Company), and annual sales of $260,000.
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Early on Gary knew his new company’s potential. He decided that expansion and diversification was the right direction to meet his goals for Micro-Tec. His business philosophy held true to the company’s success with the expansion of his customer base, which grew from one to more than thirty customers in a variety of industries. Next, Gary knew that with the increase in his backlog, he needed to purchase the right capital equipment to meet his growing customer demands.
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Today, after twelve years of hard work and careful planning, Micro-Tec now has fifteen CNC machines, twenty employees and $2,000,000 in annual sales. Micro-Tec serves such diversified market sectors as aerospace, communications, and the medical industries. Gary Case has been quoted as saying, “We not only manufacture bone screws and bone plates for the orthopedics industries, our precision parts have been used on the Space Shuttle and almost every communication satellite built.”
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“We will continue our steady growth and build upon our success at Micro-Tec. Not only do we plan to double our size and annual sales in the next five years, we will continue our tradition of outstanding customer service, technological innovations, and excellence in manufacturing high-quality products into the 21st century.”
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