Headquartered in Milford, NH and consisting of Ferrous Operations and Gas Turbine Operations, US Operations is the core of Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Ferrous Operations
Ferrous Operations consists of two manufacturing plants located in Milford and Littleton, New Hampshire. At the heart of Ferrous Operations is the Automated Casting Facility, a 90,000-plus square-foot facility that employs some of the most advanced automation known to industry. Combined with new manufacturing methods and the power of a single, cooperative workforce focused on customer needs, this technology now makes Hitchiner's complete-to-print countergravity casting more competitive than ever with alternative, lower cost but less advantageous processes, such as sand casting, forging, stamping, and fabricating.
The Milford location is the main production facility for wax injection, pattern assembly, shell building, casting and heat treat operations. 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 specified.
The Ferrous Division produces parts in a wide array of sizes and configurations with primary sales in the automotive, diesel, and military markets. Leading programs are automotive rocker arm, rocker arm shaft assembly and intermediate lever programs in high-volume production for General Motors, Daimler-Chrysler, Volkswagen and BMW. Additional products include commercial diesel
engine turbocharger wheels for industry leaders BorgWarner and Honeywell Garrett.
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Gas Turbine Operations
Gas Turbine Operations is located in Milford, NH adjacent to corporate headquarters.
Established in 1983 as Hitchiner's Gas Turbine Division, the organization has experienced steady growth since its inception. This division primarily services the jet engine component market and specializes in producing hot-section parts requiring sophisticated vacuum-melted alloys, with emphasis on complex, thin-walled applications.
The Gas Turbine Division utilizes the Countergravity Low-pressure Vacuum melt (CLV) and the Countergravity Pressure Vacuum (CPV) casting processes to produce parts as thin as .015 of an inch. This technological capability, an advantage over the conventional techniques employed by our competitors, has enabled us to create new markets by converting to investment castings many components previously manufactured by more costly combinations of processes.
The Gas Turbine Division is a fully qualified supplier to Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Westinghouse, Allison, BMW-Rolls Royce, MTU, Sundstrand, Solar and many others. Our ISO-9002 certified quality systems assure this status, and our process advantage assures our dominance as the leading producer of thin-walled vacuum castings.
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