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Local News - Local News - October 30, 2009 |
By Richard Ripley
Of the Journal of Business
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SANDPOINT, Idaho—A quiet but longtime Sandpoint-area manufacturer believes it stands to help sharpen the leading edge of the U.S. economy as it recovers.
The concern, Encoder Products Co., makes devices used in just about every type of automated industrial equipment that involves moving parts. The devices provide information to motion control systems.
"I think you'll find encoders in anything that moves," says Bill Watt, who founded Encoder Products in 1969.
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The concern, Encoder Products Co., makes devices used in just about every type of automated industrial equipment that involves moving parts. The devices provide information to motion control systems.
"I think you'll find encoders in anything that moves," says Bill Watt, who founded Encoder Products in 1969.
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