After 3 production seasons at our original SE Portland factory, the need for more space to manage and support our growing production volumes led us on a search for a new factory space. Finding the right fit is harder than one might think. After several months of searching with limited success, we knew from the moment we walked onto the shop's massive factory floor that our new NE location was what we had been looking for all along.
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8400 square feet (up from 2400 sf), better offices, dedicated kitchen space, a real loading bay, amazing highway access and thus a shorter drive to the mountain, and, most importantly, the space needed to redesign and rebuild our factory in a way that would ensure we could continue to grow for years to come. Over the next 6 months, we planned, developed, and tweaked our new production line based upon our experience the past 3 years in our old space, which had included two complete factory rebuilds and three exhausting production cyclers, resulting in the most efficient and enjoyable production facility to date.
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It will likely take us several more years of evaluating and tweaking before it runs as smoothly as it should, but just knowing that someone can operate one tool without impeding the work of someone else (a constant problem in our old space) is enough to make all the work of moving worthwhile.
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Since this video has been shot, we've added a new Reichmann stone grinder, a new Reichmann belt grinder, a completely badass, custom build deflash sander, a custom built detuner that saves us from having to hand file for hours on end, a new annealing and sandblasting station, and have doubled the number of stations throughout the factory to ensure that as we scale up our volume, we will have the space and resources to handle the increase without sacrificing quality.
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Once this current production cycle has been completed, we will go back and reevaluate the entire shop, tweak and redesign the sections that need improvement, and continue our mission to build every pair of ON3Ps better than the one before it, all done completely in-house, right here in Portland, OR.
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Stop by for a tour sometime and see you on the mountain soon!
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