General Tool

read moreWe are a privately held U.S. firm that has grown from a small job shop to a full-service contract manufacturing business supporting numerous aerospace, defense, power generation, and commercial industries' needs for specialty machines, equipment, and components. We manufacture fully integrated products for Fortune 500 aerospace, defense, energy, and medical OEM's, as well as for Tier 1 and 2 suppliers to these industries. Our 250 skilled and dedicated craftsmen perform a wide range of operations including precision fabrication, machining, assembly, test, and installation of sophisticated machines and components for applications worldwide.

read moreGTC has decades of experience in design support and manufacturing analysis. We invite customers to bring us their problems and tell us their requirements. Our team of manufacturing engineers is knowledgeable, innovative and technically competent. We're experienced in computer modeling, engineering analysis, product design support, and advanced manufacturing techniques. Their engineering recommendations complement our customers' CAD/CAM platforms such as SolidWorks, Siemens NX (Unigraphics), AutoCAD Inventor and SurfCam.

read moreGTC has extraordinary capabilities in fabricating complex, high-precision components for aerospace and defense customers. Our 30,000 square feet fab facility is climate controlled and equipped with a 40-ton lift capacity. GTC is NADCAP accredited for welding and NDT. We have more than 40 certified welders working in teams on two shifts using MIG, TIG and SMAW systems. Two nine-axis robotic welding cells with integrated positioning tables are available for higher volume production. A five-axis abrasive waterjet cutting system can produce components from plate as thick as 4 inches.

read moreDefense programs are the largest segment of our business. General Tool Company manufactures a wide variety of parts for defense programs using all of its capabilities of Engineering, Fabrication, Machining, Assembly and Test. General Tool Company has been an important industry player since 1947, when our neighboring GE factory began to manufacture turbine engines. Today, we continue to provide new hardware systems for the Leap and 9 X platforms.