Since Wilbur Smith started the business in a dirt-floor shed in 1945, Smith Metal Works of Newark has grown into a family-owned manufacturer of salt spreaders and custom-fabricated metal equipment in Newark, New York. The company still produces its 1956 cabbage coring machine and is known for an electric-powered stainless steel pickup spreader design, while also taking on custom projects from industrial parts to architectural work. Smith Metal Works remains a small, multigenerational operation, with three generations of the Raes family having worked there at the same time.
Leonardi ManufacturingSince 1945, family-owned and operated Leonardi Manufacturing has made U.S.-made metal solutions, evolving from handbag frames into custom contract manufacturing and its own tree-care products. Based in Weedsport, New York, the company works with customers from design and prototyping through production, drawing on more than 80 years of metalworking experience and a long history of developing stump-grinding and other tree-care solutions.WEEDSPORT, NY
Lima Sheet MetalFamily-owned and operated since 1974, Lima Sheet Metal remains a three-generation Emerick family business rooted in Lima, Ohio. The shop is known for carrying Michael Ray Emerick’s hands-on tradition into work for industrial, commercial, and municipal customers across the state, with custom fabrication and machining handled under one roof.LIMA, OH
Gingway Products, IncFounded in 1966 by Joe Gingerich, Gingway Products is a family-owned Plain City, Ohio fabrication shop that makes custom metalwork alongside its own asphalt maintenance equipment and agricultural products. Still involving third-generation family members, the company has grown from a 40-by-60-foot shop to more than 30,000 square feet and has specialized in dairy-related products since 1970 and asphalt sealing equipment since 1981.PLAIN CITY, OH
Pro Fabricators, LLCFamily-owned since Terry and Deborah Roane founded it in 1992, Pro Fabricators has grown from its first manufacturing building into a 32,000-square-foot operation in Smithsburg, Maryland. Its experienced team builds custom metal products and assemblies for industrial and OEM customers, taking projects from prototype through production. The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified and maintains JCP certification.SMITHSBURG, MD