Antonio Silva

Rockville, MD (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal

SilvadIamonds Inc., dba Authentic Scale

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Location: Rockville
Industry: Manufacturing
Year Founded: 2004
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Growth (profitable)
Entity Type: "C" Corporation
Description: We design and manufacture scale internal combustion engines, usually 1/4 and 1/5 scale. We have under design 13 new engines. We also want to offer to UAV's and areal unmanned applications for civilian and military use. We have our own engineering team and consultants. Currently we offer 3 models, 2 radials and one (1) V-12 air-cooled using Methanol fuel of German design. The new 13 engines will use gasoline fuel only and one is V-12 water-cooled also. The first model will be ready for manufacturing late November 2011 with all others in 2012 We will follow with two (2) lines more: Opposed and Inline congigurations for narrow and low cost applications. All gasoline engines use the same parts. We already have dealers in USA, England, Australia, Brazil and Germany. Sales to military applications to be directly from the company only. Currently all manufacturing and assembly is sub-contrated. We plan to pursue capital to install a fully automatic small plant using auto-feeders w/robotic arm aplication for non-surpervised manufacturing for up to 18 hours to further reduce product cost per unit by 40% Our current profit, depending on model is between 45% to 50% over FOB cost. (URL removed)