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Local News - Local News - March 29, 2012
Idaho aerospace alliance takes off
Alliance aims to secure share of hot industry

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Unitech Composites & Structures Inc. President Rick Hundley says the company's revenues have risen quickly in recent years.
Unitech Composites & Structures Inc. President Rick Hundley says the company's revenues have risen quickly in recent years.
—Staff photo by Mike McLean
North Idaho aerospace manufacturers have launched an effort to form a statewide coalition and develop strategies to attract and keep aerospace-related business in Idaho.

The idea for the recently created Idaho Aerospace Alliance, which has a dozen member companies and agencies and is still in its formative stage, was triggered by an Idaho inquiry into the impact of the aerospace industry in North Idaho, says Jim Glenn, president of Titan Spring Inc., of Hayden.

"Some...


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