Northwest Aerospace News June | July 2019 Issue No. 9 | Page 52

Precision Cutting Staci Nelson Executive Coordinator for the Inland Northwest Aerospace Consortium www.inwac.org INWAC SPOTLIGHT 52 Technologies W By Staci Nelson, Executive Coordinator for the Inland Northwest Aerospace Consortium hile researching a project at work at Johnson Matthey (now Honeywell Elec- tronics) in the late 1990’s, Clint Grassel first learned about waterjet cutting. He was so impressed with the technology and the equipment that he shared what he’d found with his wife, Brenda, and not long after, the couple purchased their first waterjet machine and started their own business, Precision Cutting Technologies (PCT) in Spokane Valley. NORTHWEST AEROSPACE NEWS