Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Hitchiner's steady, dependable growth as industry and employer rests on sound financial management, a long-term outlook, private ownership, capital reinvestment and continuous technical innovation. Hitchiner will persist in the development of investment casting and related technologies in order to offer ever-better products and services to its established and new markets throughout the world.

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 1946 and now headquartered in Milford, New Hampshire. It is the world's premier supplier of complete-to-print, high-volume, full-service commercial investment castings. It leads the industry for highest unit volume production, shorter lead times, and reduced inventories. The company designed and built the first mechanized investment-casting plant using automated shell-building equipment and conveyor systems. Hitchiner introduced mechanized melting and pouring of metal and is the first investment-casting firm to use large-size, induction-melting furnaces and automated aluminum dies for wax patterns. The company produces castings in over 160 different alloys for a broad spectrum of domestic and offshore markets that include a significant portion of the automotive, golf, military, and aerospace industries. The firm's operations are based in the Ferrous Division (QS-9000/ISO-9002 certified) the Gas Turbine Division (ISO-9002 certified), and the Tool & Die Division-all located in Milford; the Nonferrous Division (ISO-9002 certified) operating in O'Fallon Missouri; and an offshore manufacturing facility, Hitchiner S.A. de C.V., situated in Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico. These divisions are supported by the research and development activities of Milford-based Metal Casting Technology, Inc., a subsidiary jointly owned by Hitchiner and General Motors Corporation. Hitchiner markets its castings throughout the world and licenses its technology and processes to other domestic and foreign companies. Some of Hitchiner's major customers are: General Motors Corporation, Callaway Golf Company, BMW AG, Chrysler Corporation, General Electric Company, Pratt & Whitney, B.F. Goodrich Company, and Lockheed Martin Corporation.