Modern Drop Forge Competitors

On February 3, 2026, Dauch Corporation (formerly American Axle & Manufacturing) acquired Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries – GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy. Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles. Follow us at @DauchCorp or learn more at Dauch.com.

Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest producer of engines for lawn and garden, turf care and job site power equipment and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion batteries, standby generators and energy storage systems through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Billy Goat®, and Branco® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in over 100 countries on six continents. Briggs & Stratton manufactures engines and parts in Wauwatosa, WI, Poplar Bluff, MO, Auburn, AL, Statesboro, GA, and Chongqing, China; commercial lithium-ion batteries in Wauwatosa, WI and Tucker, GA; and finished products in Munnsville, NY; Wauwatosa, WI; Sydney, Australia; and Curitiba, Brazil.

Alro Steel is a distributor of metals and plastics, with over 80 locations in 16 states. We focus on being a one-stop shop for cut-to-size metals and plastics with next-day delivery to over 50,000 customers in North America. Alro was founded in 1948 in Jackson, Michigan by Al & Robert Glick. Place your order online at www.alro.com. Alro sells a broad inventory of products under the following companies: Alro Steel, Alro Metals, Alro Metals Outlet, and Alro Plastics.