Airport facility may lure growing company to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway

A Phoenix-based engineering company that was recruited by Texas for its inventiveness, rapid expansion and high-paying jobs would relocate to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport under a plan expected to win approval from Mesa officials. Able Engineering and Component Services Inc. would move to a site at the Mesa-based reliever airport, where it would have room to continue growing its global business and more than double its existing workforce of 230 by 2015, airport officials said Tuesday. If the proposal is approved by the airport's governing board and the City Council, the company will move into a 180,000-square-foot warehouse and manufacturing facility that will be built on a 13-acre site near the southern side of the airport. . Able is known for developing processes to restore worn and damaged aircraft components, innovations that have saved airlines and helicopter owners millions of dollars. By the end of 2015, Able expects its growth to command a workforce of 500 with an average salary of $100,000, said Casey Denny, the airport's deputy director. Its research and development is conducted by a workforce that includes 24 engineers, four of whom are Federal Aviation Administration-designated engineering representatives, according to Able's website.

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