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Our company has several job openings. The precision manufacturing industry, particularly in the aerospace sector has shown positive signs of growth in 2012. We have opportunities in manufacturing, support, and office functions.  Click here to view our careers page and see a full list of opportunities. Horst Engineering celebrates its 66th year in 2012 and offers competitive wages and benefits. We invite you to learn more.

Our company hosted the Aerospace Components Manufacturers Purchasing Team for their regular meeting. We are one of more than 60 members of this vital industry cluster that spans Connecticut and Massachusetts.  ACM is a network of independent aerospace companies; a non-profit partnership that is part of Connecticut’s Industry Cluster Initiative. Working together as a network, member companies collectively offer broader capabilities than they could as individuals. ACM helps capture new business opportunities for Connecticut’s aerospace industry. ACM member companies are united by a single goal: Be the world leader in providing customers with aerospace components of unsurpassed quality, competitive prices and on-time delivery.

The Purchasing Team has shared market intelligence, best practices, and collaborated to group the purchasing power of ACM companies. We welcomed them to our plant for a round-table discussion and tour. It was nice to share what we do and it was good to get updates from other ACM companies at the start of year.

2011 wasn’t a banner year for solar energy in Connecticut, but Horst Engineering still managed to generate nearly 40,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean energy at our 41 Cedar Street plant. We have 128 rooftop solar panels that provide 40% to 50% of the power needed to run that facility depending on our annual production and usage.

At the start of the year, the panels were covered by a record amount of snow thanks to a brutal winter. Spring was cloudy and wet, early summer was on par with prior years, while late summer and early fall were also cloudy and wet. Our total 2011 production trailed 2010 by a whopping 14% because 2010 was a fantastic year with lots of sunshine. 2010 was 10% better than 2009, the year our system went live.

Solar estimates are based on decades of analysis, so one year is only a blip when a system has a 25+ year lifespan, but the numbers are fun to track. In terms of clean energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Calculator is a fantastic tool. Pick the equivalency that makes the most sense.

2011′s total productin of 40,000 kWh’s is equivalent to 27.6 metric tons of CO2, or one of the following:

• annual greenhouse gas emissions from 5.4 passenger vehicles
• CO2 emissions from 3,092 gallons of gasoline consumed
• CO2 emissions from 64.1 barrels of oil consumed
• carbon sequestered annual by 5.9 acres of pine or fir forest
• CO2 emissions from 1,149 propane cylinders used for home BBQ’s
• greenhouse gas emissions avoided by recycling 9.6 tons of waste instead of sending it to landfill

In three years, we have produced more than 129,000 kWh’s of clean energy and produced 44% of the 41 Cedar Street plant’s total electricity demand. This is fantastic. Most of 2012 is still in the future, but so far, we are much better off than 2011. The sun is shining brilliantly today, and let’s hope it keeps shining!

To learn more about our solar PV electric power system and all of our environmental initiatives, click here.

To view our live monitoring system, click here (check it on a sunny day!)

Horst Engineering de México, LLC announces that it has received Nadcap accreditation for Chemical Processing. The launch of the company’s in-house Surface Treatment/Passivation process expands the capabilities that it can offer its aerospace customers.

“Accreditation is the culmination of excellent work by our team. This is the first such Nadcap certification for our company, and we are
proud of our Guaymas team’s efforts,” said Scott Livingston, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Horst Engineering de México, LLC received Nadcap accreditation for demonstrating their ongoing commitment to quality by satisfying customer requirements and industry specifications.

“Achieving Nadcap accreditation is not easy: it is one of the ways in which the aerospace industry identifies those who excel at manufacturing quality product through superior special processes. Companies such as Horst Engineering work hard to obtain this status and they should be
justifiably proud of it,” said Joe Pinto, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Performance Review Institute.

Click here to view the full press release

Click here to view our Nadcap certificate

Click here to learn more about the Passivation process