Photos by Ella Manthey
Walking through Seyer Industries‘ manufacturing floor in St. Peters, it’s easy to get distracted by the machines.
They range in scale and scope, some enormous ones, humming behind safety barriers, precisely cutting metal into shapes that can eventually find their way onto an aircraft. There are rows of computerized equipment and high-tech inspection systems. And then there are the machines that look almost quaint by comparison — vintage Bridgeport manual mills that date back to when the company was just getting started…