Welder Nate Smith, left, and technician Donald Erickson work together to maneuver a door

Although the outside of the building is unassuming - the typical metal siding associated with industrial parks accompanied by the screech of equipment from neighboring landscaping companies - the inside is anything but. Below the offices of Abbess Instruments on Bartzak Drive, workers are busy assembling devices that are used in nearly every form of industry. From a mid-afternoon snack you pull out of the cupboard to rovers rolling across the surface of Mars, there is a decent chance that at some point in its development, the product underwent testing in an Abbess device.

"It's everything from shampoo bottles to bags of chips," said Geoffrey Zeamer, president of Abbess Instruments, founded in 1982. "Most households have at least a dozen products that go through our chambers." Abbess manufactures a variety of instruments and systems used for a variety of purposes across the sciences and industry. Last week, workers in the shop attached a door to a three-and-a-half ton space simulation chamber that will be shipped out this fall to a company in Europe. The mammoth stainless steel box is reinforced with thick ribs to protect the container from the force of outside air pressure.

The interior of the chamber will be electro-polished, then the whole device will be put in a casing and have a large touchscreen control panel affixed to the side before completion, said Abbess employee Margaret Bishop. Although Zeamer declined to say who was buying the chamber, which will weigh more than four tons when complete, he said the mystery buyer's pockets are about to become about $200,000 lighter. During the development of the mold, Intertech Machinery Inc’s engineering advice will be provided, too, to the product designer for improving the original designing shortness.  After the mold is built, the first sampling job will be done in our molding factory…even the pilot run can be provided as per customer’s need.   Our website:

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