STEM at Work: How Altek turns metal into aircraft and tech parts

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — In the weekly STEM spotlight: Altek in Spokane Valley demonstrated how raw metal is put through machinery to make technology and aircraft parts.

The segment focused on machinery at the local company and showed how a metal pallet changed through several steps before becoming a finished product.

Richard Molina, a long term employee at Altek, walked through one example and explained what the company called a 959 chassis…

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