Mountain View Machine & Welding (a.k.a. Mountain View) is celebrating 20 years in business this year! The company, founded by Jason Crook, is a family-owned business tucked away in Logan, Utah, a quaint town in the mountains. It is also a woman-owned and Veteran-owned business.
The company continues to thrive, and Jason has plans in the future to build an adjacent building on his land to accommodate the growth. Today, the business occupies a 26,000 square foot facility.
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Mountain View retains the philosophy of doing everything they possibly can in-house. Jason says, “This is one of the ways we are able to control nearly the entire process involved with delivering parts to our customers on-time.” It also allows Mountain View to keep their costs down.” Jason says, “I haven’t had a customer in 5 years tell me our prices were high.” The company offers in-house machining, tooling, grinding, certified welding, wire EDM, heat treat, black oxide, waterjet cutting, painting, inspection and complete assemblies. The only work they outsource is anodizing and sinker EDM work, though Jason says that if more sinker EDM work comes into Mountain View, the company will purchase its own machine.
Loyalty is an attribute that Jason and the team at Mountain View value highly. Jason says, “When we celebrated our 20th anniversary this year, we invited our employees and their families to the event. We also invited our past employees, who are still like family members to us. Though many had moved away from Logan to other parts of Utah, or elsewhere, many of them still came to celebrate our event.”
Loyalty extends to Mountain View’s suppliers. Jason started buying machines from Scott Trumble when he first opened for business. Jason says, “Nearly every CNC machine we own was purchased through Scott. Scott is honest and I consider him a friend. I trust him and that is why we do business with him. Scott knows our business so well, and he always recommends the right machine tools for our requirements, today and in the future. He doesn’t just sell us something.”
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Jason says, “We already owned 2 Romi machines, and they are still working well for us.” He continued, “The Romi 620 offers us extensive work flexibility for multiple applications with several chucks and tool holders configurations. It gives us great power levels, speed movement and machining precision.”
Before Jason purchased the Romi 620 lathe, the team was using an older Cincinnati machine. Jason says, “We still have the Cincinnati, and we’re still using it, but we like that the Romi 620 offers a bigger spindle bore and is much easier to run.” He continued, “We recognize that our customers value the fact that we invest in new machine tools and that they realize the benefits of the technology it offers.”
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The two older Romi machines used Bridgeport EZ-Path and EZ-Track controls. The new Romi comes with the Siemens Sinumerik 802D CNC Control. Jason is very pleased with the high performance and reliable hardware of the Siemens Sinumerik 802D CNC Control, and he says it offers multiple means of programming, operating and machining simulation resources, including a Graphic module for machining simulation. He says that his team likes the new Siemens Sinumerik control; it easier to program. He admits it was relatively easy for his team to move from the EZ-Path CNC to the Siemens control.
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Romi manufactures Machine Tools (metal cutting machines and metal removal equipment such as CNC Lathes, Conventional Engine Lathes, and Machining Centers); Plastic Injection Molding Machines; and Rough or machined grey, ductile and vermicular castings.
Romi invests about 4% of its annual net earnings into developing new products and technologies. It holds over 60 patents and has a further 30 patents pending in Brazil and overseas.
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