Taurus Tool & Engineering Co

Arrow Engineering deals in engineering, tooling and gauging services. The company specializes in hydraulic and manual work-holding fixtures and rotary cutting tools. Its capabilities include computerized numeral-control machining, modeling, assembling and grinding. The company operates more than 16,000-square-foot plant facility. It uses a variety of inspection equipment, such as surface analyzers, hardness testers, surface plates, comparators, presetters and lapping plates. The company provides various manual and hydraulic fixtures to hold machined parts. Its areas of expertise include face mills, special boring bars, end mills and slotting cutters. The company designs and manufactures parts for the automotive and aircraft industries. Arrow Engineering is located in Rockford, Ill.

Hill Engineering is a subsidiary of Formtek, which is a manufacturer of tooling and special machineries. Established in 1950, Hill Engineering offers a range of roll forming and stamping solutions. It provides a variety of stamping dies for hydraulic systems and rotary punching machines. The company maintains a more than 6,000-square-foot facility. It serves the automotive, recreational and metal, as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning industries. The company also offers flying saws, tube cutoffs and fabrication systems. It provides air and hydraulic presses that feature surge tanks, terminal boxes, regulators and bladders. Hill Engineering manages a staff of more than 90 employees, including design engineers, tool and die makers and service technicians.

Ingersoll manufactures and services machine tools for a variety of metalworking industries. The company s drills, boring machines, assembly line universal machinery and high-speed tools serve the aerospace, automotive, paper, power generation and other industries. Ingersoll s machines were used to make 50-caliber machine gun bullets for use in the trenches of World War II and naval armor for the United States battleships that fought in the Pacific theater of World War II.