Janicki's Innovative Molds Dec 17, 12:39
Nice ink in today's (Sunday) Seattle Times about another aspect of the super technology involved in the building of BMW ORACLE Racing's new boats....
Janicki's innovative molds changes engineering of superyachts, jets
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
SEDRO-WOOLLEY (Washington, USA) — Quaint storefronts and a red-brick clock tower beckon mountain-bound tourists to stop in this small town. But a humming factory complex on the outskirts is what draws intense attention from manufacturers around the world.
Strange, bulky objects sit in an industrial yard, many shrouded in white plastic wrap. These massive cylinders and half-pipes are monuments to one man's stubborn insistence that he can out-engineer almost anyone.
Peter Janicki, third-generation scion of a pioneer logging family, is founder and chief executive of fast-growing Janicki Industries, which supplies one-of-a-kind manufacturing molds for billionaires' superyachts and fuselages for Boeing's new 787.
In a county where the other big employers are a casino and a chicken processor, 500-employee Janicki Industries is Sedro-Woolley's Boeing and Microsoft rolled into one.
Yet it employs more than top-notch engineers.
Janicki molds shape high-end, high-tech yachts. At the America's Cup races next summer in Spain, Janicki's work will be on display in the sleekly contoured, composite hulls of two Oracle BMW yachts racing for software billionaire Larry Ellison, a repeat customer. The yachts — one completed, the second still under construction — were built in nearby Anacortes, mainly to be close to Janicki Industries.
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Janicki's innovative molds changes engineering of superyachts, jets
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
SEDRO-WOOLLEY (Washington, USA) — Quaint storefronts and a red-brick clock tower beckon mountain-bound tourists to stop in this small town. But a humming factory complex on the outskirts is what draws intense attention from manufacturers around the world.Strange, bulky objects sit in an industrial yard, many shrouded in white plastic wrap. These massive cylinders and half-pipes are monuments to one man's stubborn insistence that he can out-engineer almost anyone.
Peter Janicki, third-generation scion of a pioneer logging family, is founder and chief executive of fast-growing Janicki Industries, which supplies one-of-a-kind manufacturing molds for billionaires' superyachts and fuselages for Boeing's new 787.
In a county where the other big employers are a casino and a chicken processor, 500-employee Janicki Industries is Sedro-Woolley's Boeing and Microsoft rolled into one.
Yet it employs more than top-notch engineers.
Janicki molds shape high-end, high-tech yachts. At the America's Cup races next summer in Spain, Janicki's work will be on display in the sleekly contoured, composite hulls of two Oracle BMW yachts racing for software billionaire Larry Ellison, a repeat customer. The yachts — one completed, the second still under construction — were built in nearby Anacortes, mainly to be close to Janicki Industries.
Full Seattle Times story
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With custom-built automated milling machines, Janicki Industries carves molds that will shape yachts, airplane fuselages and other large items made with composite plastic materials. One customer says Peter Janicki pushed the idea of automation to a new level, machining molds for yacht hulls up to 80 feet long. Photo: Mike Siegel/Seattle Times.
Nice Ink | by TFE
