Manufacturing 2018 Manufacturing Week Bus Tour | Page 42

FarWest Fabricators Moxee FarWest Fabricators was founded in 1983 to make wood stove inserts. It now manufactures metal parts for everything from espresso machines and wheelchairs to complex telecommunications devices. This 35-year-old employer emphasizes training and growth potential for its 100 employees. Neri Cisneros has worked on the factory floor at FarWest Fabricators in Moxee for seven months. Her daughter, who has been a welder at FarWest for a year and a half, recruited her. What does the job mean to her? “Everything,” Cisneros said. State Rep. Bruce Chandler, R-Granger, joined the tour and signed the bus at FarWest Fabricators on the sixth day of the Manufacturing Week bus tour.