>18% PPS Increase in Last 2 Trading Days

My take on what is going on, and it certainly isn't new groundbreaking information:

The recent 18% increase in the PPS over the last two trading days is most likely related to the GE Aviation's good news coming out of the Farnborough International Airshow. It I was a potential investor sitting on the sidelines, but paying relatively close attention to Sigma, this news would make me jump in:

GE and its Joint Ventures Garner More than $36 Billion in Orders/Commitments at 2014 Farnborough Air Show http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140717-907556.html

GE Aviation selects Auburn for $50 million 3D printing facility
http://www.oanow.com/news/auburn/article_f6e0...f6878.html

Executive: The Leap Engine Will Be One of General Electric Company's Most Important Products
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07...ral-e.aspx

Quote:

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"Steve Heller: I wanted to talk about the LEAP jet engine, particularly -- we're at a 3-D printing conference -- the fuel nozzle. I wanted to know if you could update us at all, how the progress is going with that?

Stephan Biller: Progress is going great. We're making great progress. The LEAP is obviously going to be one of our [General Electric's] most important products we're going to introduce. By 2020, we believe that we're going to have printed about 100,000 additive [3-D printed] parts going into the LEAP.

We're [General Electric is] really taking advantage of that new technology, and it's a very, very exciting time. We're working very hard on it together with our business partners in aviation, and there's lots and lots of excitement around that.

I think we're going to introduce that engine faster; usually in aviation you think about, "How long is it going to take you to make the 250th engine?" That will be faster than it has been ever before."

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The big question: is GE going to us Sigma's IPQA? I'm confident they are based on the fact that GE is ahead of schedule, IPQA is an absolutely necessary requirement of the process, and a replacement IPQA system isn't likely to come out of the blue without years of development and testing.

Here's hoping we keep this momentum.