GKN Sinter Metals

Abbott Ball Company, founded in 1909, is one of the world s largest manufacturers of steel balls. The company supplies stainless steel balls of all types, along with carbon steel and specialty balls to original equipment manufacturers across the world. It stocks steel balls in a variety of alloy grades and sizes. Operating from West Hartford, Conn., Abbott Ball Company produces more than 5,000 million balls every year. The company manufactures its products as per the clients technical specifications and requirements. Abbott Ball Company has a special department to administer the production of metal balls of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, titanium and specialized alloys for use in electrical contacts, switches, relays, brazing and jewelry. The company inspects and tests random samples of steel balls for hardness, structure and finish.

Bodycote is one of the world s leading suppliers of specialist testing and thermal processing services. The company operates more than 300 facilities in over 30 locations. It serves the aerospace, automotive, construction, defense, fire protection, fluid handling, mining, oil and gas, plastics and polymers, power generation, rail and architectural markets. The company provides material testing, engineering, measurement solution, heat treatment and metal joining, hot isostatic pressing and metallurgical coating services. Its metallurgical coatings offer indispensable coatings systems for anti-corrosion, wear and high-temperature resistance, anti-coking, metal cutting and forming and decorative applications. Bodycote has been operational for more than 80 years and maintains a location in Worcester, Mass.

Founded in 1914, J.L. Anthony & Company specializes in metal rolling capabilities and tight tolerance work on straight length and specialty stock. Located in Providence, R.I., it offers metals processed to exact standards and requirements of a range of electronic, aerospace, marine and other customers. As rerollers of custom nonferrous metals, the company manufactures alloys, rolled to precise tolerance, slit, annealed, cut to lengths, tension leveled, coiled or traverse wound. All J.L. Anthony & Company's materials is shipped with a Certificate of Analysis as well as a Certificate of Compliance for all conversion work performed.