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The Defense-City Test: Walkerton's Firms in the Contract Record

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The test was run firm by firm, and is printed as run. The federal spending record was queried for the town's three plausible defense suppliers. The USAspending query as executed from this desk returned no usable result in session — no award is asserted from it, and none is denied at that strength; the recipient-name searches that could be completed returned no defense-contract record for any of the three. What the firms' own published records show is civil work, firm by firm. Polygon Composites of Walkerton publishes a civil book: PolyMed composite tubing for surgical and medical devices, built to ISO 10993 biocompatibility; PolySlide cylinder tubing; PolyLube bearings for heavy equipment and medical markets — medical and industrial customers, no defense line claimed. Ross Engineering & Machining, established 1986, lists itself for custom work — tools, fixtures, stamping dies and machines built for the aluminum-extrusion industry — a job shop's civil trade. Masonite's Walkerton plant made interior doors, the least martial product in the town's history. A town that housed an ordnance plant's overflow thus shows, on the record reached, no ordnance trade of its own: the defense-city test closes negative at search strength for all three firms, with the settler named for a harder read — USAspending's recipient search by exact legal name and UEI, and the Defense Logistics Agency's award records, read at result size.

Sources: USAspending.gov award search as run November 2026 (no usable return in session — stated as run); Polygon Composites published product record (PolyMed, PolySlide, PolyLube lines); Ross Engineering & Machining trade listing (Thomasnet — custom tools, fixtures, stamping dies, aluminum-extrusion industry; est.

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Source: The Defense-City Test: Walkerton's Firms in the Contract Record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/military/defense-city-test-walkerton-s-firms-in-the-contract/