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PHOTO: COURTESY OF AEROMETALS
Aerometals, an aerospace parts manufacture based in El Dorado Hills, doubled its footprint in 2016 with a new additional facility.
HIDDEN AMONG THE HILLS
Technology and manufacturing welcomed to the suburban Highway 50 corridor
BY KAREN WILKINSON
Lorie Symon is literally watching her company double in size. The view from her office at Aerometals, an El Dorado Hills-based aerospace parts manufacturer, gives way to what will be another 75,000 square-foot facility that will foster the company’ s five-year growth plan.
“ Every year we seem to do a little better than we have before,” says Symon, executive director of Aerometals.
The company is one of many tucked away in the hills of Folsom and El Dorado Hills that’ s part of a technology and manufacturing“ cluster”— businesses that benefit from proximity to similar businesses, and can grow together. Due to the availability of land and business-friendly local governments, these areas that are considered part of the Highway 50
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