Markets served have been a renaissance for Southfield, Michigan-based Bradley-Thompson Tool Company, who in recent years has focused their precision machining know-how on the aerospace industry…in particular, complex gear box castings.
“We’ve been successful in carving out a niche for ourselves on specific parts like gear boxes, without having multi-million dollar machining centers to do it,” says Art Watson co-owner of Bradley-Thompson. What we do have is tremendous machining and toolmaking experience born out of many years of designing, building and manufacturing parts and machining systems for the automotive industry. What our global aerospace customers have been impressed with here, right on 8 mile road in Detroit, has been our ability to accurately and consistently produce their complex parts on time, at a reasonable cost, with the tolerances and specifications they require. Like many aerospace suppliers, we first became involved by manufacturing service parts which ultimately provided us the opportunity to quote on OE components. We are ISO9000 and AS9100 certified.”
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