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Hey NASA – Need Some Help?

May 9, 2019

by Milesandco Featured News General

Once in a while, we will read an article that reminds us of the challenges that face not only us, but also our customers. Since NASA has been a customer of ours in the past (did you know that moon rocks are handled inside of a gloved isolation box that was designed and built by Custom Powder Systems?), the recent story of their failed rocket launch hit close to home. Not because of the rocket, but because of what caused the failure.

Custom Powder Systems - NASA glovebox — NASA needed to handle moon rocks. This glove box was the solution we built for them.

As Bloomberg reports, an Oregon supplier for NASA had been falsifying test results and providing faulty materials to the agency for over 19 years. The result? Over $700 million in losses, charged to the U.S. taxpayers.

NASA’s Director for Launch Services called out the problem in plain English.

NASA relies on the integrity of our industry throughout the supply chain.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking, and it’s the difference between being able to solve a problem, or creating a new one.

What does it take to build a great product, and do so with integrity? As far as we can tell, it takes a hard day’s work and an honest desire to help your customer succeed.

Some folks say that makes us different. But if you’re asking us, it’s just the way that things should be done.

As we keep helping more people, our business grows to meet their needs. When we’re looking for a new welder, project manager, or shop maintenance person, we seek out exceptional people who understand the challenges that we solve without sacrificing the quality standards we put in place.

Your success is too important for us to settle for anything less.

We’re fortunate to have hired some of the best people in the world from right here in Missouri. At the end of the day, we’re not only building custom projects, but we’re also building relationships for the long term. You can bet that every member of our Custom Powder team will do what’s right, work hard for you, and never try to take a shortcut.

If this sounds like you, we’re hiring, and we’d love to talk to you.

Custom Solutions for the Cannabis Industry

April 16, 2019

by Denise Featured News General Integrated Containment Systems

We love a challenge. When you make custom products, built to meet the needs of highly-specific markets, you have to love a challenge. We’ve kept a close eye on the emerging cannabis business and the challenges that it creates. Traveling to the MoCannBizCon + Expo gave us an opportunity to talk with many of you face to face about your specific needs and how we at Custom Powder Systems can help.

The Two Major Challenges Facing The Cannabis Industry

Those of you in the cannabis industry already know the problems that need solutions. For us, the conference was an opportunity to meet with speakers from government relations, industry groups, and seed-to-sale businesses to find out more. The most important thing that we learned is that there are a lot of unknowns.

1.Regulation

One challenge for business owners is that regulation won’t be happening on the federal level. This means that your budding business can’t turn to FDA regulations.

Instead, in most cases, the individual states are handling the regulatory load. For many business owners that we spoke to, this leads to a lot of confusion and leaves unanswered questions.

2.Unknowns

We also learned that many business owners don’t yet know what they need to help them get their products to market.

For example, we spoke to producers who were still trying to come up with the best ways to extract everything that they need from their plants. They’ve been resorting to slow, inefficient processes that work well enough for testing, but running a business requires that your methods scale. Many were at a loss when the discussion turned to increasing output to meet the demands of the wider market.

The Custom Powder Solution

What we took away from the conference was a revelation for us.

We are a company that builds custom, novel solutions to difficult problems. State regulations will, almost certainly, be less demanding than those at the federal level.

For us, these unknowns are not obstacles, only challenges. We have helped companies of all sizes meet or exceed their production demands, and we can do the same for the cannabis industry.

We work in a world where the status quo isn’t good enough. We don’t expect you to take our existing products and make them work for you.

We want you to tell us your problems, and then let us go to work designing a solution. From grow cycle management to defoliation, extraction to storage, we are here to build you what you need for success.

When you are ready to take the next step in expanding your cannabis business, give us a call.

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New Year. New Possibilities With Custom Powder Systems and Integrated Containment Systems.

January 17, 2019

by Milesandco Featured News General NEWS Setup

New Year. New possibilities.

2018 was a doozy. Budgets, trade deals, and steel tariffs steamrolled discussions and left many so focused on their restrictions, that they forgot to look at their opportunities.

Not this year.

2019 is now in full swing and all we see in front of us at Custom Powder Systems and Integrated Containment Systems is a blank canvas.

No, we’re not so naïve to think there won’t be challenges to overcome.

No, we don’t think we’re immune to obstacles on the path to success.

Instead, we are choosing to embrace them. We choose to let the constraints fuel our creativity, not diminish it.

“Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.”

–Tom Kelly

We see you there right now, suppressing the urge to high five your computer or possibly do a couple enthusiastic fist pumps…because you get it. You’re our kind of weird.

So, to you, we ask…

“How can we help?”

If you have an idea, one that may help your organization, or one that may better the world – no matter how crazy, we’d love to hear about it. We need to hear about it. Because we can help. Whether you have pages of blueprints or just a smudged and tattered bar napkin sketch. We. Can. Help.

Here at CPS/ICS, we are going to use the new year to focus on, among other things, aseptic isolation, bin production, and helping companies find ways to retrofit containment solutions to keep costs down.

2019 is going to be a wondrous year full of discovery and creation. Join us!

Custom Powder Systems and Integrated Containment Systems Have An In-House Testing Clean Room

November 13, 2018

by Milesandco Featured News General Integrated Containment Systems

So we have an in-house testing clean room…

Right now, you might be thinking, “Good for you. But what does that mean for me?”

Good question.

A cleanroom ensures a stable, low particulate background to measure down to the lowest threshold of detectability of your products. Whether your product is hazardous to humans, combustible, pyrophoric, a controlled substance, or you simply need a clean facility to handle your materials, our in-house cleanroom testing allows us to certify the barrier technology performance of your project before it leaves our facility. And all that extra planning and testing on the front end can save you time and money.

You DO like saving time and money, don’t you?

Oh, and if you’re wondering, we also perform blending and segregation tests, isolator surrogate testing, and deagglomeration demonstrations of hardened materials in our drum massagers.