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Technifex brings Hollywood to training simulations: Valencia firm also finds work at casinos, water parks.

Publication: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Publication Date: 20-JUL-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Technifex brings Hollywood to training simulations: Valencia firm also finds work at casinos, water parks.(MANUFACTURING)

Article Excerpt
The story from the CNN website was all that Monty Lunde needed to know that he was on the right track with a new project under development at his Valencia company Technifex.

"Roadside bombs 'No. 1 threat' to troops in Afghanistan" read the headline with the story relating that in June coalition troops encountered more than 700 incidents of improvised explosive devices and 82 attacks that caused casualties.

In a building on Rye Canyon Road, staffers at Technifex are putting together a training simulator for use by American soldiers to learn how to avoid these small but deadly weapons.

Other than saying the simulator is very sophisticated, portable enough to be shipped anywhere and done in conjunction with RL Leaders, a Los Angeles-based creator of immersive and experiential training systems, there isn't much more that Lunde can say.

"I've probably said too much," Lunde quipped in the conference room decorated with large color photographs of Technifex projects and the awards...

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