Cleveland Gear Company
In an age of vast corporations involved in a plethora of markets and activities, it’s sometimes refreshing to recall a time when a company...
Brelie Gear Co., Inc.
When he first toured the company he was considering purchasing, Steve Janke encountered a sight that many who’d experienced the "old days" of the...
Advanced Machine & Engineering Co.
When Willy Goellner immigrated to the United States from Germany in the late 1950s he brought with him business contacts that would lead to...
West Michigan Spline
As a teenager he was working at a hamburger joint in the early seventies when he got to know a couple of guys who...
KGK International
As a longtime distributor of Okuma machine tools, KGK International — which is based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois — was already well acquainted with...
Excel Gear Inc.
In the late eighties, while working as a design engineer for a large machine tool company, N.K. Chinnusamy — who is known familiarly as...
Company Profile: Roto-Flo
In 1946 George Simon, Sr., launched U.S. Equipment Company in Detroit with the purpose of buying, refurbishing, and selling used tool room and production...
Company Profile: Romax Technology
There’s a reason why Romax Technology’s logo is a butterfly, according to Younsu Park, the company’s director of transportation engineering. “We believe in what...
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...
