Industrial Grinding Competitors

Founded in 1956, Fritz Industries is an employee owned company that has grown into an international research and manufacturing company serving oilfield customers worldwide. Fritz Industries has integrated manufacturing, customer service and on-site research and development. Corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Mesquite, Texas. We have become known for our strength and flexibility in custom manufacturing, employing an array of unique processes, allowing us to pilot new products and rapidly scale-up to volume manufacturing. Fritz Industries combines a talented employee base with cutting edge technology to provide its customers with proven results in six key areas: * Cementing * Drilling Fluids * Stimulation * Completion Fluids * Flow Assurance * Research & Development * Pet Products Additionally, our toll manufacturing capabilities make us a strategic partner to companies hoping to supplement their product offerings. www.fritzind.com www.fritzaquatics.com

For information about Ohio Tool Works and its leading lineup of honing machines, tooling, and abrasives, please visit: www.ohiotoolworks.com. The Company: Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Northeast Ohio, Ohio Tool Works (OTW) is a leading manufacturer of industrial honing machines, tooling, and abrasives. Trusted by the world’s largest tubing and cylinder manufacturers, OTW designs and builds tailored honing solutions for a diverse and growing base of customers and applications across the global oil and gas, industrial, aerospace, automotive, and metal working industries. Customers choose OTW over the competition for a few simple reasons: -- Turnkey Honing Solutions -- Best-in-Class Product Quality & Performance -- Superior Engineering & Applications Support OTW’s standard and custom systems and consumables ensure that its customers’ own mission-critical products - such as down-hole piping and high pressure cylinders - are precisely finished for performance and reliability. To support its diverse and growing customer base, OTW operates a 50,000 sq. ft. sales, engineering, and manufacturing facility in Ashland, Ohio, with additional sales offices in Houston and expanding distribution channels worldwide. Products: -- Horizontal Honing Machines -- Vertical Honing Machines -- Honing Tooling & Fixturing -- Vitrified & Metalbonded Abrasives -- Fluids & Accessories Markets: -- Oil & Gas -- Hydraulic Cylinders -- Aerospace & Aviation -- Metalworking & Job Shops

Single-source supplier that is ISO certifies, with multiple locations, providing multiple metal-working products & services: Production stamping, fabrication, value-added assemblies, machining, tube bending, roll forming, design & build tooling. We believe that our approach to our Lean Continuous improvement effort distinguishes us from many of our competitors. We have been recognized by customers for our "lean" manufacturing program. . Our customers operate their businesses in very competitive environments. It is important that they have suppliers who partner with them so that our customers are competitive in the marketplace. We understand that and run our business with this in mind. As a learning organization that uses Lean practices, we are able to aggressively identify opportunities to drive out cost in our business that make us more competitive. This affects not only the direct price but allows us to provide repeatability, accuracy, and timeliness of our product. All locations operate under the same ERP system, so we have complete visibility of all operations.