Company Profile: Workholding Solutions, LLC
According to Chuck Miller, engineering manager at Workholding Solutions, LLC—or WOHO®, as it’s familiarly known—“the Internet provides leverage, and if we don’t take advantage...
Company Profile: The Flaming Treating & Engineering Co.
He was only a boy when his father died, and his mother needed help keeping the family afloat financially, so Arthur Benoit finished the...
Company Profile: SECO/WARWICK Corp.
Years ago, at the turn of the last century, a Chicago-based company that manufactured sheep-shearing machines, hand clippers, and flexible drive shafts developed a...
Company Profile: Colonial Tool Group Inc.
Strategic planning matters, as does market diversification, and the emphasis that Colonial Tool Group has placed on both in recent years is helping it...
Company Profile: Michigan Hone & Drill
According to Ken Pape—who is president of the Parts Finishing Group, of which Michigan Hone & Drill is a member—whenever a part rotates on...
Company Profile: Vancouver Gear Works, Ltd.
You can tell a lot about a company by how well it retains employees. Using that metric, Vancouver Gear Works has an outstanding record,...
Company Profile: Toolink Engineering, Inc.
It was an offer that Tom Lang found hard to refuse, so he didn’t. Having owned one third of Toolink Engineering, Inc., in the...
Company Profile: Dayton Machine Tool Company
Since it was founded more than 50 years ago, Dayton Machine Tool—located in the Ohio city from which it takes its name—has steadily grown...
Company Profile: Chamfermatic, Inc.
The year was 1999, and the company had just enjoyed the best year in its relatively short history. Founded just three years earlier, in...
Company Profile: Canton Drop Forge
In 1903 a group of investors came together to found Canton Drop Forge, located in the Ohio city of that same name. Soon afterwards...
Company Profile: Larson Forgings
In the late 1800s a blacksmith left Sweden and traveled to America, settling in Chicago, where he planned to build a new life. He...
Barit International Corp.
It’s the story of two men who met years ago in their home country of Russia — then the Soviet Union — and eventually...
American Gear, Inc.
When Larry Brylski first asked his stepson, Greg Scott, if he and his wife were interested in joining the family company, they weren’t sure...
Aerocom Industries, Inc.
Sometimes the name says it all. Such is the case with Aerocom Industries, with “Aero” referring to the aircraft/aerospace (AS9100 certified) side of the...
Machine Tool Builders, Inc.
Whether it be in your personal or professional life, sometimes you’ve got to follow your instincts. You can gamble and lose everything, or you...
First Gear Engineering & Technology, Inc.
Considering his background, it’s easy to see how Greg Leffler came to appreciate the finer points of manufacturing precision gearing. “My dad had a...
Oliver Gear
Although Oliver Gear is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year — it was incorporated in 1907 as a gear-manufacturing company — it’s actually much...
Iosso Metal Processes
While working as a sales manager for a cutting-tool company, Richard C. Iosso found himself intrigued by the thought of somehow making the edges...
Hydra-Lock Corporation
According to Merriam-Webster innovation is defined as a new idea, method, or device, so a reference to the Hydra-Lock Corporation certainly wouldn’t be out...
Mabry Castings Ltd.
When you’re a foundry located in Beaumont, Texas, it’s to be expected that you’ll pursue contracts with the petrochemical industry. But when you’ve been...
