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year after Hayden moved to
Sedalia, 昀椀ve acres of land became available next door to Sierra. With Sierra settled into its
new home and everything going
well for them in Sedalia, he decided that Starline could bene昀椀t
from the same type of move. It
was back to the drawing boards
for Hayden, who acquired the
land next door and began working on a plan to move Starline to
Sedalia as well.
By the fall of 1993, the
construction of Starline’s new
manufacturing plant was complete. With the last cases produced in Covina, the machinery
was pulled o昀툀ine, loaded up on
昀氀atbed trucks and shipped to
Sedalia. Always a family e昀昀ort,
Barbara stayed behind in Covina until the old plant could be
shut down, while Bobby came
to Sedalia to put the equipment
back online as it arrived at the
new plant. Along with family
and tools, Starline brought its
commitment to high quality,
with reloading brass that has
earned its reputation as the one
to maximize reloads and minimize troubles.
More than 21 years have
passed since Starline Brass’
eastward journey to Sedalia, and
many things have changed for
the company. It has seen several
expansions, including a major
expansion in 2013 that grew
the size of their manufacturing
facility to more than 30,000
square feet, sharply increasing
its capacity. Starline now sells
more than 80 di昀昀erent types of
reloading brass cases, including
specialty brass cartridges available from no other manufacturer.
Yet some things have
never changed. Customers,
community, and family are still
priorities. The manufacturing
principles of over-design and
demanding second-to-none precision that Robert, Jr., learned
as a young man still form the
foundation of Starline’s business: never sacri昀椀ce quality for
quantity. Meanwhile, Starline
Brass and the entire Hayden
family continue to be active, integral parts of their community.
Today, Starline is faced
with di昀昀erent challenges than
those they confronted as they
made the move east from California. But regardless of location, the Hayden family and
the entire team at Starline have
never lost that “head west” attitude of self-reliance and a drive
to do things the right way the
昀椀rst time.
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