Browsing: Company Showcase

Winslow Automatics, Inc. is a contract manufacturer providing custom metal fabrication services which has been serving the aerospace, commercial, and medical industries since 1956. The company is a well-respected aerospace and aircraft parts equipment manufacturer with an outstanding reputation for CNC milling and turning as a contract manufacturer and job shop producing quality machined products. Through a combination of precision CNC machining, engineering expertise, innovative CNC programming production techniques, and a diverse array of CNC machinery and equipment, Winslow can handle both large and small milling and turning production lots. Winslow’s substantial equipment inventory also allows it to serve as a job shop, performing single or multiple operations on existing parts.

This month we sat down with the folks over at Plastic Design Inc. (PDI) out of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts and presented them with a handful of questions that would best place their company in the spotlight.

Howard Products located in Worcester, MA, was founded in 1948. From its modest beginnings, and through several shifts in family ownership, for the last 73 years Howard Products has used engineering ingenuity and keen attention to customer service to fabricate parts in a way that delivers value add to its customers. This steadfast belief in quality and customer service has seen the company through the thinnest of circumstances.

From humble beginnings in 1954, Boulevard Machine has grown to serve some of the largest Tier 1 aerospace and defense customers across the industry. Originally launched as a family business all those decades ago—transitioning from founding father, to an uncle, and finally, on down to a son— Boulevard Machine was established as a gear company in the Pioneer Valley, storied home of the paper mill industry.

Sharples has been manufacturing steel rule dies since 1967. The company has decades of experience in all aspects of steel rule diemaking and serves multiple diecutting industries with its technologically advanced equipment.

This month we sat down with the folks over at Monalex Manufacturing, Inc. out of Douglas, Massachusetts and presented them with a handful of questions that would best place their company in the spotlight. What you’re about to read is the meat of that conversation. If you have any further questions, or would like to learn more about Monalex – who are quite excited to announce that they’ve recently become ISO 9001:2015 certified – their contact information can be found at the end of this feature. Without further ado, please join us in learning all about Monalex Manufacturing, and what they’ve been working to accomplish within our industry for nearly three-decades…

Based in Center Ossipee, New Hampshire, Mitee-Bite Products, LLC began in 1986 in an oversized two-car garage where the original Mitee-Bite hex clamp was created to save time on a reoccurring production job. That first, simple job, to address a fairly straight forward pain point grew the company to become the innovator of compact, low-profile edge clamps for the CNC machining industry.

This month we sat down with the folks over at HORST Engineering out of Hartford, Connecticut and asked them all the hard questions that would best place their company in the spotlight. The following is the fruit of that conversation. Please join us in learning about all the fascinating work HORST Engineering has been producing since their inception in 1946.

County Heat Treat, located in Millbury, Massachusetts, was founded in 1967 and remains true to its roots as a family-owned and operated business in its second-generation of – as the name aptly suggests – a heat treat services provider. Currently owned and operated by Bill Nartowt, County Heat Treat is a company that strives to meet the needs of its customers that exist throughout New England. Whether it’s simple stress relief of a low carbon steel weldment or the exacting specifications of a helicopter drive shaft, County Heat Treat have “been there and done that,” and are capable of meeting any of your prospective thermal processing needs.

VentilationUSA LLC began its operative journey in 2002. The company was founded by owner/operator Richard Egan, who had years of service to the industry prior to starting his own business as a means to further his desire to offer exemplary ventilation solutions with bolstered customer service.