Fisher Barton Begins Construction of New Turning Center
The company expands with a fully automated 56,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its Accurate Specialties division.
Fisher Barton has begun the design and construction of a new industrial building and site development for subsidiary Accurate Specialties’ Turning Center of Excellence. To kick off construction, a groundbreaking ceremony was held on March 21.
Accurate Specialties Inc. (ASI), a division of Fisher Barton, is a manufacturer of bronze gear blanks for power transmission and agricultural applications. The company specializes in precision machining, chill casting, centrifugal casting and spun-cast gear blanks. As a full-service bronze foundry with automated machining capabilities, ASI delivers complete, fully machined, ready-to-hob bronze gear blanks and shafts made to exact customer specifications.
Scott Hoffman, CEO of Fisher Barton states, “We are expanding our capacity with this high-speed, fully automated 56,000-square-foot facility adjacent to our Accurate Specialties division to offer our customers additional manufacturing capabilities for close tolerance components, shafts and bearings that compliment Fisher Barton’s already robust offering.”
Fisher Barton is a metallurgical innovation partner for high-wear cutting
components. The company specializes in heat treating and thermal spray solutions that expand a component’s lifespan beyond the core manufacturing capabilities of stamping, bending, forming, cutting, welding, machining and casting. The company’s eight locations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Vietnam manufacture blades and turf care components, bronze motion control products, industrial knives and other wear components.
