Badger Industries

Ellwood City Forge is a family-owned forging, heat treating and machine operation that was founded in 1910. Known worldwide as an industry leader in the open-die forging industry, Ellwood City Forge manufactures concentric and eccentric contoured forgings and single cross-section products from carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steels in weights up to 80,000 lbs., lengths up to 50 feet and diameters to 90 inches. It specializes in a variety of custom forgings including shafting, blocks, large multi-throw crankshafts and eccentrics, smooth forged billet, plastic mold steel, rough turn bar and hollow and disc forgings. Its forgings are fabricated into a wide variety of products for the capital equipment, mining and construction, steel mill, oil and gas, aerospace, shipbuilding, automotive and pulp and paper markets. Ellwood City Forge is half-owner of North American Forgemasters and operates two production plants, located in Ellwood City and New Castle, Pa.

Precision Kidd Steel is a leading producer of engineered cold finished products. These customized cold-finished steel bar and wire products are produced in a broad range of sizes, shapes, chemistries and finishes. Having a wide variety of precision applications, its cold-finished steel bar and wire comes in rounds, squares, hexagons, flats and special shapes, as well as centerless- ground and polished products. A full range of carbon, alloy and tool steels are also available. Precision Kidd Steel maintains its headquarters in Aliquippa, Pa., and has an additional location in Clinton, Pa. The company has approximately 70 employees.

Founded in 1923, Blair Strip Steel Company is ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100 certified. It is a manufacturer of precision cold-rolled strip steel. The company offers a wide range of steel grades, such as alloy, high carbon, low carbon, electromagnetic iron, high strength low alloy, aircraft quality and customized grades. Additionally, it provides automotive, fine blanking and heavy gauge stamping applications. The company s operations include tandem cold rolling mills, custom annealing, slitting, shearing, edging and oscillate winding. Its lab facility specializes in performing testing for hardness, yield, tensile, elongation, microstructure, chemistry, surface topography and heat-treatment response. Blair Strip Steel Company is located in New Castle, Pa.