By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Sieg Borck is not a rocket scientist, but he certainly knows a lot of them.

Products built by his Camarillo-based company, Hi-Temp Insulation, have helped carry astronauts into space and every day they keep thousands of airliners flying by dissipating the heat from their high-tech engines.

As Stephen Nellis reports on this page, his 500-person company, tucked away in an industrial park off Pleasant Valley Road, is part high-tech design and template-making shop and part old-fashioned sewing operation.

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