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F a l l 2 0 1 8 • S T U F F 6 1 S T U F F M a d e I n C T . c o m Click Bond apprentices gather with a seasoned toolmaker to learn eyelet toolmaking basics. From left, Steve Santos, eyelet toolmaker; Kaitlyn Pierzanowski, CJ Hernandez- Velez, Tyler Baptista, Nick Ritch and Patrick Harrison, eyelet toolmaker apprentices; and Chris Hamlin, maintenance machinist apprentice. • Click Bond's products make customers' products lighter, faster, stronger, and smarter. • Click Bond paved the way for adhesive-bonded fasteners in the aerospace market, and today works with leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create innovative assembly solutions tailored to address their greatest design challenges. Click Bond adhesive-bonded fasteners come with proprietary installation fixtures that ensure consistent, high-strength bonded attachment to structure. Some of its most notable products are: • Click Patch® - adhesive-bonded patches offering rapid repair of leaking fasteners in wet wing aircraft, skin punctures and other light damage — one of Click Bond's first patented products. • The LoMas™ screw - a revolutionary new family of lightweight, threaded fasteners. • The adhesive-bonded rivetless nutplate - eliminates the drilling of attachment rivet holes traditionally associated with nutplate installation. • ACRES® sleeves - an economical solution for delivering enhanced structural fatigue life and engineered repairs with a deep-drawn method of manufacture that delivers unmatched performance and precision. Primary customers include some of the largest aerospace and defense vehicle manufacturers in the world including Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, and NASA. Click Bond is continually broadening its market reach to include partners in the marine, transport, and energy industries as well. Click Bond offers careers in advanced manufacturing, engineering, R&D, machine build, tooling, sales and support. The apprenticeship at their Watertown, Conn., facility is a state-certified, 8,000-hour, four-year program. It consists of on-the-job training in both the tool room and manufacturing areas, as well as part-time classroom curriculum in mathematics, blueprint reading and eyelet theory at an off-site facility. "The apprenticeship program for toolmakers was developed during WWII and has been the one resource to pass on the knowledge of all types of metal forming from generation to generation. Without these programs, this knowledge would be lost." – John LaMadeleine, Manager of Engineering in Watertown, CT Benefits that are unique to Click Bond are tuition reimbursement, which supports employees completing technical certification courses or advanced degrees at local colleges and universities. Other benefits include vacation and holiday pay, insurance including medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability, and a 401(k) plan. Click Bond is an active member of the local communities where our employees work and reside engaging in philanthropic work with area schools, service organizations, and charities that align with our core values and mission. Click Bond also supports STEM activities in rocketry and robotics, workforce development, and is involved with industry associations at the national level, such as National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). C A R E E R / J O B O P P O R T U N I T I E S C O M PA N Y B E N E F I T S C O M M U N I T Y E N G A G E M E N T A P P R E N T I C E S H I P P R O G R A M P R O D U C T S M A R K E T S / C U S TO M E R S "We are so proud to celebrate 10 years as a member of the Connecticut manufacturing community. The skills, talent, and the deep history of craftsmanship that we discovered here are unparalleled in the world. It is a pleasure to call our great Watertown teammates 'family' and we are busy stoking the interest of its next generation in careers in precision manufacturing. That a full 10 percent of our Watertown workforce — eight of 80 employees — are apprentices is a testament to our continuing development of American manufacturing talent." - Karl Hutter, President & CEO A DECADE OF EXCELLENCE DAVID BOHRER FOR NATIONAL ASSOC. OF MANUFACTURERS www.ClickBond.com Full-time employees: 472 Year founded: 1987; The Watertown, Conn., facility opened in March 2008, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Locations: Headquarters in Carson City, Nev.; Production facilities in Watertown, Conn. and Saltney, Wales, U.K. C O M PA N Y P R O F I L E Click Bond creates innovative mechanical hardware solutions, delivered through world-class manufacturing and customer support. Click Bond works with global partners in aerospace, defense, marine, transport, and energy to pioneer advanced solutions and enhance customer competitiveness.