With roots reaching back to Hardinge’s 1890 founding in Chicago and Forkardt’s 1923 founding in Düsseldorf, Forkardt Hardinge carries more than a century of workholding history. Today, the company designs and manufactures precision equipment for machining operations, with more than 90% of its products made in-house at facilities in New York, Michigan, and Germany. Its specialized capsule collets reflect a 50-year relationship with capsule manufacturers.
Northfield Precision Instruments CorporationFounded in 1952 by William A. Steffen, Murray Farber, and Robert Levy, Northfield Precision Instruments Corporation has spent nearly seven decades building an American manufacturing business around exacting workholding. The company’s Island Park facility combines manufacturing with design engineering and customer service, while its engineers provide support from quotation through installation. Northfield serves manufacturers working with materials ranging from metal to glass and guarantees standard chuck accuracy as fine as 0.000010 inch.ISLAND PARK, NY
Riten Industries, IncSince 1933, family-owned Riten Industries has made precision workholding equipment in central Ohio, with live and dead centers and face drivers as its sole business. The company also engineers custom tools for demanding applications and operates a full-service repair and rebuilding program, including work on competitors’ equipment. Riten’s 35,000-square-foot American manufacturing facility maintains an ISO 9001:2015-certified quality system.WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OH
MicroCentric CorpFounded in 1969, MicroCentric Corp. is a Plainview, New York manufacturer known for unusually precise workholding, with many of its chucks repeating within 0.00005 inch. Its in-house facility also develops custom workholding systems for specific machining applications, serving customers through a European subsidiary established in 1995.PLAINVIEW, NY
Positrol, IncEstablished in 1961, Cincinnati-based Positrol designs and builds industrial workholding devices, with a particular focus on custom solutions for demanding manufacturing applications. The privately held small business approaches its work as an engineering problem, developing and testing customer-driven designs and guaranteeing repeatable part holding to the provided specifications. Its brands include Superior Cincinnati for standard collet chucks and pads, Langlois for aerospace workholding, and City Machine for prismatic applications.CINCINNATI, OH