AEROSPACE SUBCONTRACTORS.Ranked by 2000 L.A. County revenues EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ALTHOUGH the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area's aerospace industry was hit hard by Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering cutbacks during the early 1990s, a handful of surviving companies surviving company The company that emerges in control following a business combination. The surviving company is generally one of the firms entering the combination but may be a new company formed by the combination. continue to thrive in the new century. With $240 million in annual L.A.-area revenues -- more than twice as much as its closest competitor -- Meggitt Meggitt plc, a British engineering group, has its headquarters at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset, England, in Atlantic House. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Aerospace Equipment tops the list as the largest aerospace subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. in Los Angeles County. The North Hollywood-based company enjoyed a 6.7 percent revenue growth rate in 2000, after generating $225 million in revenues in 1999. Growing much more quickly was Ducommun Du·com·mun , Élie 1833-1906. Swiss journalist who organized the International Bureau of Peace in Bern (1891). He shared the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize. Inc., whose $112 million in 2000 revenues represented a 15.5 percent increase from the $97 million it generated in 1999. That was a sufficiently strong showing for the Long Beach firm to retain its position as the No. 2 company, based on L.A.-area revenues. Overall, the top 25 companies generated a combined $550.4 million in revenues for Los Angeles County projects, or an 8 percent increase from the $511.1 million they generated in 1999.
Rank Firm 2000 Revenues [1]
* name (L.A. Co. [2]/nationwide)
* address (millions)
* 2000
* 1999
1 Meggitt Aerospace Equipment $240/$250
12838 Saticoy St. $225/$235
North Hollywood 91605
2 Ducommun Inc. 112/165.7
111 West Ocean Blvd., Suite 900 97/146
Long Beach 90802
3 Composite Structures LLC 60/same
801 Royal Oaks Drive 55/same
Monrovia 91016
4 Transtar Metals Inc. 50/200
15060 Ventura Blvd., Suite 400 55/180
Sherman Oaks 91403
5 Autronics Corp. 18/20
325 E. Live Oak Ave. 15/17
Arcadia 91006
6 Delco Machine & Gear 14/15.5
3202 E. 70th Street 10/11
Long Beach 90805
7 Swales Aerospace 12/95
404 N. Halstead St. 10/88
Pasadena 91107
8 International Precision Inc. 9/WND
9526 Vassar Ave. 8.4/WND
Chatsworth 91311
9 Aero Engineering & Mfg. Co. 7/8
28217 Avenue Crocker 5/6
Valencia 91355
10 ADC Engineering Technology 5/WND
268 E. Gardena Blvd. 6.5/6.5
Gardena 90248
11 Frazier Aviation Inc. 4/same
445 N. Fox St. 4/same
San Fernando 91340
12 Composites Horizons Inc. 3/same
1471 Industrial Park St. 4.6/same
Covina 91722
13 STADCO 3/11.2
1931 N. Broadway 4.4/17.5
Los Angeles 90031
14 MS Aerospace 3/20.1
14062 Balboa Blvd. 2.2/18.9
Sylmar 91342
15 Trans World Alloys 2.5/14
334 Gardena Blvd. 2/10
Gardena 90248
Rank Products Offered
(partial list)
1 fluid management components,
valves ducting, elastomers, fire
detectors
2 aerostructure components, electro-
mechanical and avionics products,
aircraft seating, cabin components
3 spoilers, helicopter blades,
flight surfaces
4 aluminum, alloy steels,
stainless steels
5 smoke detectors and systems,
electronic control, power
switches
6 aerospace machine gears, shaft
and pistons
7 honeycomb panels, heatpipes, ther-
mal blankets, thermal louvers, astro-
naut tools, solar arrays, radiators
8 aircraft spares, airframe and
structural parts
9 machined and sheet metal
aircraft parts
10 aerospace tooling
11 commercial and military
aerospace structures, hydraulic
components
12 advanced composite parts,
ducts, airfoils, spacecraft parts,
engine parts
13 electron beam welding chamber,
dies, tooling, SMX laser tracker,
theodolite
14 aerospace fasteners, close toler-
ance bolts, studs, pins, screws
15 titanium sheet, bar billets,
aluminum sheet plates bar
Rank Services Offered [3]
(partial list)
1 overhaul, repair
2 subsystem integration,
stretch coming
3 no services
4 coil processing, shearing,
slitting, sawing, 5 axis jet
cutting
5 no services
6 no services
7 no services
8 no services
9 no services
10 no services
11 overhaul and repair
12 tooling, care-mold
13 welding, precision machin-
ing, tooling, assemblies
14 no services
15 cutting, sawing, certified
destruction of new parts
Rank Primary Customers Average Size
(partial list) Contract
* government (thousands)
* private
(percentages)
1 Boeing, GE, US Government $500
20%
80%
2 Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon 500-93,000
1
99
3 Boeing, Bell WND
WND
WND
4 all major original equipment manufacturers 10-300
30
70
5 Thales, Eaton, Rockwell 250
5
95
6 Honeywell, Hamilton Sundstrand 7
50
50
7 NASA, DOD 100
70
30
8 U.S. Air Force and foreign air forces 10-400
40
60
9 U.S. Government, Lockheed Martin, Boeing 6.5
60
40
10 Boeing, Northrop, Bombardier 100-4,000
0
100
11 U.S. Government, Boeing 50-100
WND
WND
12 GE, Boeing, Honeywell 200
0
100
13 Raytheon, Boeing, Hughes, Northrop 50-200
40
60
14 Boeing Rocketdyne, Pratt & Whitney, GE 6.1
40
60
15 Boeing, Airbus WND
1
99
Rank Profile Top Local Executive
* employees * name
(county/total) * title
* headquarters * phone
* year founded in L.A.
1 180/600 John Stobie
UK president
1945 (818) 765-8160
2 900/1150 Joseph C. Berenato
Long Beach chairman, ceo
1849 (562) 624-0800
3 375/same Brad Spahr
Monrovia president
1997 (626) 305-3227
4 120/380 Steve Scheinkman
Sherman Oaks president
1998 (818) 728-4888
5 115/same John Kuperhand
Arcadia president
1957 (626) 445-5470
6 115/same David Timmerman
Long Beach president
1985 (562) 634-9918
7 125/925 Burton J. Squires
Beltsville, Md. dir. engineering svcs.,
1997 west (626) 351-0205
8 20/same Ron Brendel
Chatsworth president
1968 (818) 882-3933
9 28/same Dennis Junker
Valencia president
1948 (661) 295-0875
10 40/same John Wright
Gardena president
1979 (310) 756-1112
11 36/same Lee Frazier
San Fernando president
1956 (818) 898-1998
12 60/same Tom Hynes
Covina president
1974 (626) 331-0861
13 171/same Harvey Ross
Los Angeles president
1945 (323) 227-8888
14 WND Michel Szostak
Sylmar president
1992 (818) 833-9095
15 20/30 Sandy Shadrow
Gardena president
1985 (310) 217-8777
16 Hi-Temp Insulation $2/$25
4700 Calle Alto $2/$27
Camarillo 93012
17 Castle Precision Industries 2/4
15148 Bledsoe St. 2/2.9
Sylmar 91342
18 Cicoil Corp. 1/3
24960 Avenue Tibbitts 1/3
Valencia 91355
19 Coast Metal Craft 1/2
18518 Susana Road 1/2
Rancho Dominguez 90221
20 Networks Electronic Corp. 0.9/5.5
9750 De Soto Ave. WND/WND
Chatsworth 91311
21 Burton Electrical Engineering 0.5/6
1510 W. 135th St. 0.4/5
Gardena 90249
22 Sierracin-Harrison 0.3/10
3020 Empire Ave. 0.3/10
Burbank 91504
23 Twist Tite Manufacturing Inc. 0.2/1.4
13649 Pumice St. 0.1/1.1
Santa Fe Springs 90670
24 Electro-Mech Components 0.06/1.6
1826 Floradale Ave. 0.1/1.4
S. El Monte 91733
25 ICS Radiation Technologies Inc. 0.05/0.3
8416 Florence Ave., Suite 207 0.03/0.3
Downey 90240
16 thermal and fire protection tooling
insulation blankets and
products
17 landing gear, hydraulic actuators offload package programs,
and assemblies, cutting tools assemblies, repair, mainte-
nance, overhaul
18 flex cable, cable assemblies assemblies
19 aerospace hardware and sheet metal, welding,
assemblies metal forming, bonded
assemblies
20 aircraft bearings and no services
pyrotechnic devices
21 aircraft ground power cables repair service for cable
and receptacles assemblies
22 hydraulic fittings and tooling tooling for and training on
hydraulic systems
23 aerospace fasteners, bolts, no services
studs, pins, screws
24 pushbutton switches, lenses, no services
indicator lights, switch
assemblies
25 none radiation effects testing of
semiconductor devices
16 Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop $10 275/same
5% Camarillo
95% 1972
17 manufacturers of aircraft 100 220/same
25 Sylmar
25 1927
18 Hamilton Standard, Raytheon, Northrop 30-40 75/same
30 Valencia
70 1956
19 Boeing, Lockheed Martin, US Government 70 60/same
30 Rancho Dominguez
70 1947
20 Government, Textron Systems, Lockheed 200 47/same
Martin Chatsworth
25 1943
75
21 airlines, airframe, air cargo & ground 3 45/55
oper. cos. Boston
25 1952
75
22 Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier 8 85/same
5 Sylmar
95 1951
23 Defense Supply Center 3.5 27/same
85 Santa Fe Springs
15 1994
24 Avtech Corp., Boeing, C&D Aerospace 5 10/same
5 S. El Monte
95 1963
25 DPA Labs, Alcatel, Sundstrand, 5 9 [4]/same
Interpoint Downey
0 1986
100
16 Sieg Borck
president
(805) 484-2774
17 Bill Windette
president
(818) 362-5665
18 Peter Nogradi
president
(661) 295-1295
19 Richard Yang
president
(310) 537-0570
20 Mike Pattison
president
(818) 341-0440
21 Richard Foust
sales manager
(800) 847-2878
22 Amir Hosseinian
president
(818) 842-2131
23 Terry Masl
general manager
(562) 407-1733
24 Walter Trumbull
president
(626) 350-8070
25 Dr. Michael K. Gauthier
president
(562) 923-1837
WND WND Wind WND World Net Daily WND Waarnemend WND Wilson Disease Gene (genetic medicine) WND Will Not Disclose WND Waving Not Drowning WND Why Not Design (Citrus Heights, CA) -- Would Not Disclose (1.)Amounts are approximated and rounded to the nearest number. (2.)Revenues from subcontractor work in L.A. County. (3.)Design, engineering, manufacturing are not considered as services. (4.)Part-time part-time adj. For or during less than the customary or standard time: a part-time job. part employees. Note: The information for this list was provided by representatives of the firms themselves. Firms are ranked by 2000 L.A. County revenues, 1999 L.A. County revenues and number of employees in L.A. County, respectively. The survey was completed during the week of April 9, 2001. To the best of our knowledge, this information is accurate as of press time. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and thoroughness of the list, omissions and typographical errors typographical error - (typo) An error while inputting text via keyboard, made despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in. This usually results from the operator's inexperience at keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness. Compare: mouso, thinko. sometimes occur. THE PACESETTER MEGGITT AEROSPACE EQUIPMENT MEGGITT Aerospace Equipment, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based aerospace firm Meggitt, earned its billing as the top Los Angeles-area aerospace subcontractor through its highly successful production of fluid management components, fire-detection devices and rubber seals. Not exactly the most glamorous glam·or·ous also glam·our·ous adj. Full of or characterized by glamour. glam  or·ous·ly adv. products on the market, but
they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be crucial components for the industry, and purchased in huge volumes. The North Hollywood-based operation -- which is comprised of three operating companies operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. , Whittaker You may also be looking for Whitaker Whittaker is a surname and given name, and may refer to:
1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. , Meggitt Safety Systems Inc. of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. and Avica US of Simi Valley -- also overhauls and repairs the products it makes. Meggitt Aerospace Equipment was formed in 1945 and currently employs 180 people in Los Angeles County and 600 nationwide. Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. Co. and General Electric Co. comprise To embrace, cover, or include; to confine within; to consist of. In the law governing patents—grants of an exclusive right or privilege to make, use, or sell an invention or product for a term of years—the term comprise essentially all of the subsidiary's private-sector customer base, generating 80 percent of the group's revenues, while the federal government makes up the remainder. Meggitt's average contract is $500,000, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. Meyer Mey·er , Annie Florance Nathan 1867-1951. American writer and a founder of Barnard College at Columbia University (1889). Her plays include The Dominant Sex (1911) and Black Souls (1932). , the company's vice president of marketing. [Graph graph, figure that shows relationships between quantities. The graph of a function y=f (x) is the set of points with coordinates [x, f (x)] in the xy-plane, when x and y are numbers. omitted] [Graph omitted] |
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