I’m sitting at the Boston airport preparing to return to Baselodge Country. I just spent a couple of days with the XTech and Triple E team for the Extrusion Technology Global Sales Meeting in Taunton, MA.

There is no substitute for meeting face-to-face with the people who actually manufacture the products and run the company. In an earlier article I wrote about The Joy of the Factory. While I have been in many different types of factories, this was my first opportunity to tour a factory doing aluminum extrusions and metal manufacturing. To say I was impressed would be an understatement.

XTech has been in business for over fifty years offering high quality aluminum extruded and sheet metal front panels and enclosures for their customers. The engineering support at XTech is second to none, the factory is ISO certified, ITAR registered, and is an active practitioner of lean manufacturing techniques to wring waste out of the processes and deliver more value to the customers.

With the recent acquisition of Triple E Corporation, XTech now has two strong brands to offer to their customers. Triple E offers ruggedized chassis, enclosures, card guides, front panels, and latches. These solutions include VME, cPCI, and other systems.

One of the exciting things about representing XTech and Triple E is that they not only offer serious support to existing customers and technologies, but they also belong to several important industry groups dedicated to the continued development of standards, such as PICMG.

While many people know XTech for aluminum extruded products, the company has extensive sheet metal capability and is now The Front Panel Source regardless of whether you need aluminum or sheet metal.

Baselodge Group is excited about serving our customers in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana on behalf of both XTech and Triple E. Please let us know if you have needs for enclosures, front panels (ATCA, cPCI, AMC, FMC, MicroTCA, VPX, etc.), filler panels, ejectors, latches, chassis, card carriers or anything related to ruggedized systems.

XTech will be expanding their online store soon and make many of their XTech Xpress products as well as their enclosures, filler panels, latches, and hardware available for purchase on the website. We will let you know when that new online store launches. In the meantime it is already up and running for many items you may need.

Thanks again to the entire XTech team for hosting such a well planned and helpful event. Now, back to Texas….