CONTRACT SIGNED WITH SMITHS We now officially represent Smiths Industries Tubular Systems : Titeflex and Lewis & Saunders

Southwest Products has a web site !!! See sidebar link
The catalogs and cross references are available on CD as well.

Introduction to PCSWe just signed up Preferred Composite for USAIR, Delta, Germany, Scandinavia, and Italy. Introduction came from Nigel who represents them in the UK. We have made one quote so far and the pricing was significantly lower than the competition. SAS ought to be a good opportunity.

CORRECTED: Airline Says In-Flight Toilet Ordeal Story False

Acoustic Engineer Steve Skelley will be at Airbus Hamburg next week as part of the Astech team to review our design for A-380 APU exhaust muffler. www.astechmfg.com/ He will also be visiting other German customers.

BBC News | EUROPE | Italian police probe 'plane parts scam' Counterfeit parts scandal which may have caused Airbus crash at JFK.

I am back from France.

Kjell Lagerstrom checked in this week. Weather conditions in Sweden are terrible.

Alec Ulmann will be visiting clients in France the week of Jan 14. Darryl Sauer will be attending the ASHRAE show in Atlantic City.

John Nablo has been appointed QA Manager for all of Allied International.

We are pleased to announce that John Nablo has now joined the Acoustic Engineering Division in Ormond Beach full time . John has the distinction, among others, of being the second generation in his family to work with Fibermetal. John has been helping us out up until now on a part time basis.

Darryl Sauer is pleased to announce the birth of a 7 lb (3.175147 KG) grandson, Beau . Daughter Ashley is doing well.

Welcome to Ernie Ng of AEROMARINE VEHICLES, our new representative in Singapore.

We have been experimenting with the format of this site. It is definitely a work in progress. Under the links on the right side we have added aerospace news and a stock ticker for aircraft parts distribution companies.

AIC is closed until Wednesday Jan 2, 2002. Despite the economic conditions generally and more particularly for the airline industry we are projecting revenue growth in 2002.In January we should be able to officially announce new product lines and new territories.

Thank you all for your hard work in 2001.

Allied International's USA Domestic Sales operation is now up and running. We have a sales presence in the Northeast, Florida, Kansas, Texas and California. We are looking for more foreign aviation products to sell. Currently we are selling our own acoustic products as well as capacitors, wiring harnesses, shock detectors, digital displays and composites.

Next week we will be at NBAA in New Orleans.

I was in Italy last week. We see some good acoustic applications in development. Maurizio, although suffering from the Flu, put together an excellent string of meetings.

November was a busy month. In the US we had visits from Eurofarad and Daher Lhotellier and we completed our first sales of Eurofarad capacitors.In Sweden, Finn made the first sale of the Shaw Development pressure refueling system to one of his customers.

Best Wishes for a happy Thanksgiving. We will be closed for the Holiday Thursday and Friday.