March 7, 2014
By Laurie Lucas, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.
AdvertisementMarch 07–Business has taken off since two immigrants bought a Riverside manufacturer of aerospace parts.
At the controls since 2006, Iggy Araujo, 59, Henri Rahmon, 47 and a silent partner, have doubled annual sales, branched into the medical, automotive, computer, defense and dental industries and added state-of-the-art machinery that can make screws as small as a grain of sand or as fine as a strand of hair.
These miniscule components, manufactured from stainless steel, titanium, gold and other materials, wind up in everything from cameras, (…)