QUALIFORM Competitors

McMaster-Carr is trusted by industrial customers around the world to keep manufacturing lines running, operations moving, and turn new ideas into real products. Since 1901, we’ve earned that trust by offering the right products, making them easy to find, and delivering them quickly. Our industry-leading e-commerce experience, indispensable product selection, and world-class service bring hundreds of thousands of customers to our site each day. But we never stop innovating. We turn ambiguous problems, new challenges, and disruptive technologies into opportunities to refine our operations, expand our offering, and deliver the best experience for every customer. Behind it all are our people: curious, exceptional problem-solvers who take pride in getting every detail right for our customers.

We are a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. At Gates, we are driven to push the boundaries of materials science to engineer products that continually exceed expectations. We don’t rest on our rich heritage of innovation. We leverage it to inspire solutions that will power the next hundred years. We invest continually in R&D and technology, so our products not only outperform industry standards; they exceed our customers’ demanding expectations. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers’ diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow. And we are constantly expanding our product catalog and value-added service offerings to support every facet of our customers’ operations. In the most extreme environments and those more familiar, Gates is there with the right product, in the right place at the right time. Whether building original equipment or maintaining products in the aftermarket, we enable companies in every industry to be more efficient, productive, and profitable. We are Gates.

Established in 1919 by Thomas Kirk Hill, Kirkhill, Inc., is a leading diversified manufacturer of highly engineered, organic, and in-organic elastomer based products. We are a leading domestic producer of precision silicone seals for commercial and military aircraft, rocket and missile liner insulation material, and application specific engineered products serving the defense, industrial, and commercial markets.