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Take a look at the technology inside the growing job shop, though, and you will see the way things are shaping up for the future. Across the 200,000-sq.-ft. facility, lasers cut and presses stamp. But when Edwin Stanley, vice president of operations, surveyed his bending capabilities he "felt like we weren't on the leading edge of press brake technology and where we needed to be."