Founded 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.
Forkardt HardingeForkardt Hardinge designs and manufactures precision workholding products and machine-tool accessories for manufacturers. Its heritage combines Forkardt, founded in 1923 in Düsseldorf, and Hardinge, founded in 1890 in Chicago; Hardinge acquired the Forkardt operations in 2013. The company reports more than 130 years of workholding history and manufacturing facilities in Elmira, New York, Traverse City, Michigan, and Reutlingen, Germany.ELMIRA, NY
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
Northwood Industries, IncStarted by Jim Miller in a Northwood, Ohio garage in 1968, Northwood Industries is a family-owned precision machining company that makes component parts and mechanical assemblies for manufacturers. Now led by second-generation owner Kurt Miller, the Perrysburg shop pairs experienced toolmakers with in-house engineering and operates from a 23,500-square-foot facility serving customers across North America, Europe and Asia. Long-standing customer relationships—including one dating to 1970—reflect a shop known for helping engineers refine designs as well as producing the finished parts.PERRYSBURG, OH
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