Americhip International (fka ACII)

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dream: I think Ford is going to fall by the wayside. The bureaucracy at Ford is thick and Rhonda said they are not dealing with decisionmakers, things just keep getting put-off. She said this other company is different, they ARE dealing with the decisionmakers and things are happening fast. She said they could not announce the name just yet as this company does not want its competitors to know about the deal until it's final. My feeling was that this deal will be signed in the next couple of weeks and then we'll see KSI finalized probably a few weeks after that. She also said I should be able to figure out who it is ... said they came to ACHI one year ago this month, so I'll be reading some PRs and old board stuff. My feeling is the oil patch deal will be done late September the earliest.

In my DD phone call, our buddy said that no chipbreaker on the market can handle steel, he spends 5 - 6 hours per week cleaning out the stringy stuff from the machines. They don't need chipbreakers with LACC, just a "flat top" which I assume is the cutting tool. He said once LACC gets going in the marketplace, anyone cutting steel is going to want it.

Rhonda claims it will work on aluminum as well, started talking about airplane wings or something like that which take FOREVER to get machined according to her due to tight specifications, so that could be something in the future as well.