Many other companies would simply outsource the same components to China or South Korea, both nations with abundant skills in machining precision hydraulic components.

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Before I came here I visited the EMC Precision Machining plant.

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And by the end of that two-year time period they can do precision machining and the other types of high-tech work that I think we want to have in this country.

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