Go Inside Aircraft X-Ray Laboratories, Los Angeles

Starting out more than 35 years ago on the loading docks and driving a forklift at Aircraft X-Ray Laboratories, Justin Guzman has seen firsthand how almost every facet of the finishing industry was run, albeit the good, the bad and the ugly. That was back in 1985 and over the next three decades Guzman worked his way up the ladder at the Huntington Park, California, metal finisher, located near Los Angeles. Since his promotion to lead the company, Guzman has made many significant changes to Aircraft X-Ray Laboratories (AXL), many of which have propelled the shop into becoming one of the premier facilities in the U.S. and earning it a Products Finishing Top Shops award from the annual benchmarking survey.