Near Miss

Uteco had parts shipped from Italy to the Chino facility within two weeks. "They brought three people out here from Italy working on it to get it done," continues Taylor. "They just did an excellent job in correcting a poor set of circumstances."

Verini adds that involved parties quickly realized that requisitioning all the necessary components to repair the press would take too much time. Based on the initial assessment at M&M, Uteco decided to strip the necessary components (to the tune of 150,000 Euros) from a fully assembled press at the factory and air-shipped them to California. "Two crews traveled from Uteco Italy to work on opposite sides of the press for two weeks to remove and reassemble all the electrical and mechanical components, and to redo a complete checkout and start-up procedure," says Verini.