Cerreta Candy Company
Glendale, AZ
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The Cerreta’s strive to create a fun, lively atmosphere where everyone can see candy magic being made. Take a special guided tour of our family owned hometown candy factory. We’ll show you how a sea of caramel becomes wrapped tempting taste treats. Learn how cream centers are enrobed in luscious chocolate....Click here for more details...
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Davis-Monthan's Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center Facility
Tucson, AZ
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The Famed Airplane Graveyard / Bone Yard at Davis Monthan Airforce base in Tucson Arizona. Hundreds of B 52 Bombers await the smelter, as per the Salt 2 (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) treaty with Russia. These bombers were laid out and chopped into pieces with a giant crane controlled guillotine. They were left in this state so they could be photographed by Russian Spy satellites for proof of compliance with Salt 2. Shot in 1994 this photograph shows an important part of Cold War History. After a few months trucks hauled away the scrap metal to be recycled at the local smelter. These famous relics are most likely beer and soda cans now. If you click on the image above a larger view of the complete image will pop up in another window.
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Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
Phoenix, AZ
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The distinction between manufacturing clubs and assembling them was not lost on PING inventor Karsten Solheim more than 40 years ago. Nor is it today. The family-owned company prides itself on closely controlling the entire clubmaking process.
We begin in design and engineering where new ideas are tested every day with the goal to design the perfect custom-fit golf club.
Those ideas become a reality when molds for clubheads are machined, then transferred to the foundry for investment casting. Next they are heat treated, then on to assembly for component matching and personalization.
From engineering to investment casting to calibration of every club bearing the PING name, quality is assured at every phase. PING is ISO-9001-2000 &...Click here for more details...
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Stuffington Bear Factory
Phoenix, AZ
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Stuffington Bear Factory is one of the few remaining working stuffed animal factories in the United States. They offer fun, interactive, and educational tours, field trips, and birthday parties where you will be able to use our colorful kid-friendly equipment to stuff, comb, bathe, and dress up your very own teddy bear, as well as discover interesting facts all about teddy bears at a real working factory!...Click here for more details...
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The Peanut Patch
Yuma, AZ
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The tour of The Peanut Patch, will teach you how peanuts are processed and stored.
One of the highlights, of course, is the roasting area. Here, you'll be able to watch hundreds of pounds of peanuts dry-roasted at once. You'll also have a chance to taste a warm, newly-roasted peanut. In the Kitchen, you and your family can watch peanuts ground into natural peanut butter, and see how peanut brittle and other types of candy are made. On some of the children's tours, kids even get to make their own peanut butter!...Click here for more details...
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