He said there is always something to do , and it is not as crowded as a big city .
McAtee also noted that they have two great feeder schools for talent with Western Washington University — which offers four engineering focused programs , including manufacturing engineering . Also , the community and technical college is Bellingham Technical College , which McAtee said has been a great resource for Trulife with their machining program .
The company exhibits strength in machining and McAtee said that one thing that helps them compete in a crowded machining marketplace is their CNC prototyping and depth of knowledge of CNC engineering . This competency helps them compete in the space industry , since customers are looking for low run parts , which fits into the prototyping model .
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