It's all about the results: Paul Prikos, vice president of X-L Engineering, pulls no punches: when the backbone of your operation is in the medical field, you've got to be able to perform perfectly, repeatedly. You have to hit tolerances right on the nose and surface finishes that would make some companies shiver.

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It's all about the results: Paul Prikos, vice president of X-L Engineering, pulls no punches: when the backbone of your operation is in the medical field, you've got to be able to perform perfectly, repeatedly. You have to hit tolerances right on the nose and surface finishes that would make some companies shiver.

"In medical, it's all about cosmetics," Prikos says. "The look and feel of the part. This is not to say that in other fields the appearance of the part isn't important--it is. After all, we do work in aerospace, defense, electrical, hydraulics, and pneumatics; and these guys want good-looking parts, too. But medical is something else entirely different. They want an appearance that compares--or exceeds comparison--with the finest automotive detail, for example."

Although machining has been going on under the X-L name since 1943, co...

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