Bronson & Bratton, Inc. Email Format
Industrial Machinery ManufacturingIllinois, United States51-200 Employees
Bronson & Bratton, Inc. is a mid-sized industrial machinery manufacturer based in Burr Ridge, Illinois, specializing in tungsten carbide and ceramic tools, dies, and precision parts. The company serves customers requiring high-precision tooling for challenging materials and tight tolerances, with divisions spanning seals, powder-metal tooling, draw dies, can tooling, rolls, aerospace, and medical applications. It has expanded its capabilities into high-precision machining to support aerospace and medical industries. Founded in 1948 by Walter D. Bronson and William J. Bratton, who had previously worked as engineers with G.E. Carboloy, the firm began with wire and bar drawing dies before expanding to mandrels and other forming tools. Today the company operates from a third site and is led by the third generation of the Bronson family, having grown from a small team to a mid-sized operation with broader capabilities.