(…) Carlsson is a Senior Principal Engineer at Alcoa Fastening Systems. The company makes nuts and bolts for airplanes under the umbrella of the multinational aluminum producer, Alcoa. Eighty percent of all the nuts and bolts for airplanes are made right here in Southern California.
Survival is not mandatory
On a tour of Alcoa Fastening System’s Torrance facility, Carlsson stops to admire a mountain of plastic bins filled with tiny aluminum parts in jewel tones. “When you look out the window of an aircraft and look out onto the wings and you see all those little screws, on the inside is invariably one of these,” he says. (…)
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