WHY USHER?

History

Usher Enterprises started in 1974, the brainchild of Darryl Usher, an IBM technician. Usher Enterprises' first product was airplane wing ribs for Van's Aircraft, now the largest supplier of kit airplanes in the world. Working out of their garage, Darryl, wife Bobbie, and son Karl began manufacturing several different parts for Van's. Soon the company business outgrew the garage and moved into the family airplane hanger.

A pilot and airplane owner himself, Darryl had no visions of building an empire. But in 1989, Usher Enterprises garnered a contract with Payless Drug Stores for custom made cash registers. This contract forced the Usher Enterprises out of the airplane hanger and into a 7500 square foot building in North Plains, Oregon.

Karl (now company president) designed a state-of-the-art cash register for Payless Drug Stores. Usher Enterprises' cash registers revolutionized Payless' business and gave the little "mom and pop" business from North Plains national acclaim. Not only were the cash registers thousands of dollars cheaper than their IBM counterpart, but they were less expensive to maintain and technologically superior.

Over the next 7 years, Usher Enterprises would build 7500 cash registers that would span the entire Payless system. Darryl retired in 2000 and Karl took over as president with a vision of growing the business to be one of the top full-service machine shops in the Pacific Northwest.

During the ensuing years, the company evolved into a "full service" machine shop capable of handling the needs of an impressive list of customers including Oregon Aero of Scappoose, Wilson/Demarini baseball bats of Hillsboro, Van's Aircraft of Aurora, as well as NIKE and Intel. In addition to these local clients, Usher Enterprises produces high quality machined parts for many companies across the United States.

In the spring of 2006, the company moved to its new 25,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Forest Grove, Oregon and changed its name to Usher Precision Manufacturing, Inc.