Meeting Description
Tampa Brass and Aluminum Tour
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Time: 6:00pm
Speaker: Paul Rehsi, VP of Sales and Engineering
Location: 8511 Florida Mining Blvd, Tampa, FL 33634
(First street East of Anderson Road along Waters Ave,
behind the FedEx facility)
Cost: Free of Charge to attend!
RSVP: Online at: http://time2meet.com/fwcs-pes4/index.html (Select Reservations)
Space limited to the first 20 registrants!!!
Questions: Tim Doolittle at 813-735-2722 or tdoolittle@fastmail.fm
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Additional Information
Tampa Brass & Aluminum Corp. began as a three-man foundry in 1957. Sam Leto Sr., a first generation American of Italian immigrant parents, his 19 year old son, Sam Jr. and an uncle leased a small building and began pouring metal castings for the shipping and phosphate industry in the Tampa area. Between the three, they made the molds, poured the metal, dumped the molds, finished the cast pieces, then packed and delivered them to the customer.
Just prior to 1986, TB&A became aware that the government, Raytheon, McDonnell-Douglas and other defense contractors were seeking quality minority suppliers of castings and machining. By this time, Sam Jr., whose mother was Cuban-American, was running the business. He recognized the opportunities his Hispanic descent would lend him, and planned for increased business. TB&A built a new facility adjacent to the existing machine shop. The result is its present location on 5 acres of land and a 56,400 square foot facility.
Through the years, Tampa Brass & Aluminum has provided parts and supported programs such as Hawk, Patriot, Amraam, Sidewinder, Tactical Tomahawk, Maverick Missiles, Armoured Tanks, Various Radars, Communication Systems, Power Breaker Units, Electrical Switches, Submarines, Destroyers, Mine Detectors, and Minehunters.
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