Micheline Varnum the President of  NTMA Los Angeles Chapter. The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (LA/NTMA) is the center of knowledge and action for Southern California’s precision manufacturing community.

LA/NTMA is the largest and most active chapter of our national association. Together with the other chapters in the United States, we form the backbone of modern manufacturing.

To stay flexible and state-of-the-art, the majority of precision tooling and machining shops are small, but flourish in every state. Manufacturing creates three to five times more secondary employment than service industries. Our skilled jobs command above-average salaries, offer family benefits, contribute to our nation’s economic stability, and produce tax revenues for our communities, our states, and our nation.

By definition, a machine shop is where metal is cut and shaped by machine tools. The establishment and proliferation of machine shops launched industries that depended on mass-produced products with interchangeable parts. Today, business and industry without precision metalworking is unfathomable.