Hill Manufacturing Co

Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing offers a broad range of build-to-print tooling, manufacturing, general and contract machining, hydraulic/pneumatic machine building, engineering, design, automation and integration services. The company is one of the United States primary suppliers of machinery and tooling for the tube-fabricating industry. It also provides short-run production expertise in CNC turning and milling. Wauseon s engineering capacities range from simple 2-D tool drawings to complete 3-D machine designs. Software capabilities include 3-D parametric solid modeling and support IGES, DXF, DWG, XMT, SAT, STL and VRML file formats. The company serves leading companies in industries, such as automotive, heavy trucks, aerospace, agriculture and food preparation. Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing is based in Wauseon, Ohio.

Baxter Machine & Tool specializes in short and long-term production of CNC Turning, CNC Milling, Centerless, Blanchard and Opposed Face Grinding. Located in Jackson, Mich., the company s full-size tool room manufactures molds, dies, jigs, gages, weldments and shafts. Baxter Machine works in coordination with the automotive and government industries. It s CNC turning and milling department manufactures a variety of materials with the thickness ranging from half-inch diameter to 24-inch diameter and employs state-of-the-art processing machinery. Baxter s precision grinding department utilizes advanced product quality planning technology for centerless, opposed face and Blanchard grinding.

In 1968 Bob Fitzgibbons started an auto body repair shop known as Airport Collision. A few years later, in 1973, his son Robin joined him as a painter, and the body shop expanded to include truck equipment and repair. In 1978, they decided to switch to truck fabricating and moved their facilities on I-94 in Jackson, MI. Once there, they became known as Fitzgibbons Fleet Fabricators, LTD Although the days have long since past that Bob and his wife Gloria have run the business, the family name continues to carry on, and is now into its third generation. Robin, his wife Kathy, and their two sons Robbie, and Jason currently operate the family business on I-94. Tracy Rochefort is their office manager, and is Bob and Gloria's granddaughter.