Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Milford, New Hampshire, Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. is the premier industrial supplier of complete-to-print, high-volume, complex thin-wall investment castings and fully-finished casting-based subassemblies and components. Leading companies in the automotive, aerospace and other industries around the globe use our castings and rely on Hitchiner to provide volume production, reduced lead-times, and just-in-time manufacturing.

Finding ways to do things smarter has been a driving philosophy at Hitchiner for generations. In the 1960s, the company designed and built the first mechanized investment casting plant using automated shell-building equipment and conveyor systems. Hitchiner’s exclusive countergravity casting techniques, pioneered in the 1970s, are generally considered to be one of the most significant advancements in casting technology. Since its initial development, the basic countergravity casting process has been refined, automated and enhanced with numerous technologies that make it now unrivaled in the industry