The Ferrous USA Division is the core of Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. and has been since its inception. The Ferrous Division alone employs over 1,100 workers at two plants located in Milford and Littleton, New Hampshire. These facilities have a combined manufacturing space in excess of 400,000 square feet.
The Milford plant is the main production facility for wax injection, pattern assembly, shell building, casting and heat treat operations. Production capacity at Milford is 1,600 molds per day. Each mold may contain as few as one or as many as 500 individual castings, depending on part size and configuration.
Hitchiner workers in Littleton provide medium-to-high volume machining and finishing. State-of-the-art high volume machining equipment enables Hitchiner to supply castings machined to print and sub-assembled, when required.
The Ferrous Division produces parts in a wide array of sizes and configurations for markets as diverse as the automotive, hand tool, business equipment, pump and valve and defense.
The division is ISO-9002 and QS-9000 certified, globally recognized standards of total quality management. These certifications, along with technical innovations such as countergravity casting, has enabled the division to achieve its leadership position as a parts supplier for a wide range of customers, including: General Motors, BMW, Callaway Golf, Smith & Wesson, BF Goodrich, Delphi Saginaw and many others.
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