Specialty Machining lives up to its name

It's not called Specialty Machining just because that was the first name that came to the mind of company founder Wayne Hagel.

The business located on Geiger Boulevard along Interstate 90 near Spokane International Airport has been taking on the challenges others might not want to - or hadn'r even thought of - for nearly a half century.

"Dad kind of started the business on the back of self-cleaning plywood lathe chucks," owner Rod Hagel said. A lathe chuck goes on each end of an 8-foot section of a log when it is turned into thin sheets of wood that are laminated to make plywood.

But in the 19...