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This section provides an overview for gun drilling as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 31 gun drilling companies and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked gun drilling companies as of December, 2024: 1.Chesterfield Tool & Engineering, Inc., 2.Star Cutter Company, 3.HI-TAK CO.,LTD..
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Gun drilling is a precision machining process used to create narrow, deep holes in a workpiece. Originally developed for drilling barrel holes in firearms, this technique employs a long, specialized drill bit.
This method is notable for its ability to create small-diameter holes with high precision and linearity. It is effective on hard materials such as chrome molybdenum steel, carbon steel for machine structural use, and chrome steel.
Gun drilling is widely used in various industries to produce components with deep holes. Its applications include manufacturing parts for electrical equipment, railroad cars, aircraft, ships, automobiles, machinery (like spindles, shafts, and cylinders), injection machine nozzles, hydraulic equipment, semiconductor heat plates, LCD production equipment, construction machinery, and more.
The gun drilling process involves:
The gun drill has a lubricant passage, with an outlet at the tip for injecting lubricant. Grooves along the carbide cutting edge and shank enable the ejection of machining debris. By rotating at high speed and injecting lubricant through the tip, the drill shaves material while expelling debris through the grooves.
This mechanism allows efficient debris removal during machining, offering greater efficiency than other deep-hole drilling methods. Additionally, the lubricant helps control temperature and reduce tool wear.
Gun drilling is particularly suited for small holes, typically ranging from 1 mm to about 30 mm in diameter, and is less effective for drilling larger deep holes.
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Chesterfield Tool & Engineering, Inc., established in 1984, is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA, and is a manufacturer of precision machining and engineering solutions. The company offers a range of services, such as CNC machining, prototyping, tool and die making and assembly. It has received awards such as the Excellence in Engineering Award in 2016 and the Innovation in Manufacturing Award in 2019 and holds ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management. Its target markets span aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and electronics.
Star Cutter Company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The company is an ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturer of tool grinders, and precision cutting tools, and a provider of tool services. The company’s tool grinding machines include the small-footprint NXT Tool Grinder and the scalable UTG Series Broach Grinder. The company’s precision cutting tools include bits, blanks, and preforms. The company also offers tool services including round tool reconditioning, gear tool resharpening, and tool engineering services. Tool engineering includes the design and manufacture of all aspects of tools from materials to size to coating.
Precision Mold & Machining Services Inc., founded in 1984 and based in Warren, Michigan, is a manufacturer that specializes in machining and plastic injection mold production. The company offers a range of services, including CNC and EDM machining, deep hole drilling, and titanium alloys machining. Catering to automotive, defense, and medical industries, the company is ITAR compliant and holds ISO certification. Additionally, the company provides diagnostics, maintenance, and repair services, ensuring comprehensive support for its clientele.
Wisconsin Metal Tech is a US-based manufacturer and supplier of precision-machined components and parts, established in 1992. The company specializes in providing CNC machining, turning, and milling solutions for industries such as aerospace, medical, automotive, energy, and defense. Its portfolio includes a wide range of components and services, from complex aerospace parts to medical device components such as stainless steel machining, shaft turning, swiss machining and more. Its products find an use in ensuring aircraft system performance, supporting life-saving medical devices, improving vehicle safety, optimizing energy systems, and delivering consistency in defense applications.
Stegman Tool was established in 1973 and is based in Michigan, U.S., and is a manufacturer of tools and machines for various industrial applications. The company offers CNC precision machinery, landing gear components, structural components, axle shafts, and crankshafts that have applications in the oil and gas, aerospace, automotive, and, agriculture industries. The company holds AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 certifications and also offers various machining services including grinding, and gun drilling as well as products such as gun barrels, nuclear steam turbine valves, dump valves, and seal rings for power generation and defense sectors.
Midwest Precision Manufacturing, Inc. (MPM) is a contract manufacturer specializing in tight tolerance drilling services, such as gun drilling and deep hole boring. Founded in 2006 and based in Fredonia, Wisconsin, the company serves clients in a range of industries, including oil and gas, plastics, and heavy machinery. The company also offers a wide range of secondary services, such as fabrication and assembly, CNC machining, and waterjet cutting. MPM has manufactured products for various applications, including steel fracking blocks, hydraulic speed risers for the energy sector, aluminum vacuum drums, and cooling rolls for the paper industry.
Carlson Tool & Manufacturing Corp. was established in 1958 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA, as a manufacturer of precision engineering solutions and services. The company provides engineering, tooling, drilling, and machining services, including tool design, manufacturing, EDM, CNC machining, various turning and milling processes, deep hole drilling, honing, and fabrication of tools using metals and plastics. These services find applications in customized part creation, intricate designs, bore finishes, and optimizing assembly processes. The fabrication of tools supports diverse production needs, encompassing plastic molds and cast metal tooling. The company serves the automotive, agriculture, defense, medical, transportation, mining, and aerospace industries.
Sunnen Products Company, founded in 1924, is an American manufacturer and supplier headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in of high-precision and bore sizing machines, tools, and abrasives. Joe Sunnen, founder of the company, invented the first manual cylinder hone in 1928. Over the years, Sunnen has developed industrial honing machines, tools, and abrasives with bore sizing and finishing systems, lapping machines, deep hole drilling machines and tools, bore gaging and roller burnishing systems. These products find applications in various industries, such as honing solutions in the automotive sector, as well as a line of machines, tools, and abrasives for energy drilling.
Absolute Machine Tools, established in 1988 and headquartered in Lorain, Ohio, USA, is a manufacturer and supplier of CNC machine tools. The company's product range includes horizontal & vertical machining centers, bridge mills, mill & turn centers, Swiss-type lathes, and wire EDM machines, serving industries such as aerospace, agriculture, automotive, construction & mining, energy, and medical sectors. The company also offers automation solutions, installation, service maintenance, and training services. With an emphasis on cutting-edge engineered solutions in their ISO 9001:2015 and ITAR accreditations, the company, with decades of experience, consistently exceeds expectations in quality and service.
HI-TAK Co. Ltd. Gun has been a manufacturer of drilling machines since 2008 and is headquartered in Japan. The company is known for providing small-diameter deep hole drilling technology to handle challenging drilling tasks, especially for workpieces with small diameters and high L/D with its products like Medical gun drilling machines, Relative rotational type of deep hole boring machines, Gun drill polishing machines, and for the efficiency of these machines there is built-in spindle motor for the gun drills and coolant tanks. The gun drilling machines cater to diverse industries, such as medical, aerospace, automobile, and semiconductor.
TIBO Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH is a manufacturer of modular deep hole drilling machines based in Germany since 1994. The company provides precision solutions for deep hole drilling with gun drilling machines, cross table machines, and BTA deep hole drilling machines that are made from modular system components offering broad configuration possibilities. It also supplies single-spindle and multi-spindle drilling machines for a broad range of applications and overall the company benefits the oil and gas, renewable energies, hydraulics and pneumatics, automotive, and aeronautical industries.
SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED was established in 1936 and is a manufacturer and supplier of high pressure jet cleaning equipment, water cutting equipment, and industrial devices based in Namerikawa, Toyama, Japan. The company manufactures various products such as water beam machine, ultrasonic cutting machine, gun drill machine, dimple forming tool, and roller burnishing tool. The products are used in various applications such as aerospace, robotic, nuclear power plants, machining manufacture, and biosciences field. The company has obtained the ISO 9001 certification standard in 1998.
Baity Screw Machine Products Co, Inc. has been a manufacturer screw-machined goods and CNC-turned parts in St. Chickasha, Oklahoma, employing copper, stainless steel, brass, aluminium, and cold-rolled steel materials, since 1947. The industries that employ the products include equipment, refrigeration, oil & gas, agriculture, and automobiles. The business provides services like grinding, swaging, tumbling, honing, and shipping, as well as screw machining, thread rolling & tapping, CNC turning, gun drilling, and deburring. The business adheres to ISO standards and Q9001:2000 requirements.
Apollo Machine & Welding Ltd. is an ISO certified custom machined component manufacturer with multiple facilities, founded in 1980. The company possesses three primary divisions of manufacturing service: machining, laser cladding, and premium threading. It possesses CNC milling, deep hole drilling, EDM machining, laser heat treatment, and laser welding capabilities and additionally offers metallurgical lab tensile, compression, hardness, fatigue, and stress testing. Components the company produces are suitable for fossil fuel, paper, mining, agriculture, and various other industries.
Nelson Precision Drilling Co., Inc., founded in Glastonbury CT in 1972 is a manufacturer of deep hole drilling and honing. The company's product portfolio includes gun drilling, precision drilling, deep hole drilling, grinding and CNC machining. The company serves industries such as Oil and Gas, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Transportation, Construction, and Power Generation. The company also provides services such as Product Selection Guidance, warehousing and distribution and customer and technical support.
Ober S.p.A, established in 1952 and based in Cadriano di Granarolo dell’Emilia, Bologna, Italy, is an ISO 9001-certified manufacturer specializing in pneumatic tools and related equipment. The company primarily produces pneumatic tools for tapping, screwing, and drilling applications. It also offers pneumatic motors for powering its portfolio tools, power screwdrivers with electronic torque control, and blind rivet nut setting tools for fastening materials or workpieces together. The company’s products are used by client manufacturers in the aerospace, automotive, and construction industries.
Muraki co.,ltd., founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1906 is a manufacturer and supplier of machinery parts and tools. The company's product portfolio includes Tool bits, Cutting tools, Industrial brushes, Measuring equipment and tools and diamond pastes. The company serves markets including Medical and Healthcare, Aerospace and Defense, Consumer Goods, Industrial Manufacturing and Construction and Building. The company also provides services including national distribution, product selection, customized services, technical support and customer service.
Miroku Machine Tool Inc. established in 1971, and located in Nangoku City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, is a manufacturer and distributor of machine tools. The company's product range includes Gun Drill Machines, Gun Drills and Reamers, and Lapping Platen. These products are essential for various manufacturing and machining processes, ensuring precision and efficiency. Serving industries that require intricate drilling and lapping operations. Its offerings play a pivotal role in enhancing production quality. The company's services include tool manufacturing, deep hole drilling, sales support through multiple offices, and after-sales services.
KADIA, a part of Nagel Group established in 1959, is a manufacturer of honing and mechanical deburring technology headquartered in Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with locations in Europe, USA, China, India, and Brazil The company offers new and pre-owned honing machines, honing tools, honing abrasives, deburring machines, and deburring tools for high-precision finishing. It has attained the ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and VDA 6.4 and 6.1 certificates and its customers include vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers, as well as players in the hydraulic industry and aerospace technology.
BAT Gundrilling Services Inc., established in 1993 and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, is a manufacturer and supplier of precision gundrilling equipment. The company's product range includes heater and cooling/water holes, molds and injector holes, gas and air holes, and lightening holes. These products address the intricate manufacturing demands of various industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and energy production. The company offers services such as in-house fixturing, minor turning, facing, and deburring.
American Machine & Gundrilling, Inc. established in 1976 and based in Maple Grove, MN, USA, is a manufacturer and supplier of precision-drilled components. The company's product range includes tool steel plate gun drilling, casting gun drilling with through holes, gun drilling of irregularly shaped copper parts, and gun drilling of yaw & pitch actuators for wind tunnels. These products are designed for precise and deep-hole drilling in various materials and complex geometries. The company serves the Automotive, Printing, Medical, and Aerospace industries. The company's services include hole gun drilling, additional gun drilling, technical information support, and a c equipment list provision.
Sterling Gun Drills Inc. has been a manufacturer and supplier of deep hole drills since 1994 and is based in Vermont. The company provides various types of gun drills such as deep hole gun drills for deep and precision drilling projects and solid flute gun drills that have applications in medical instruments, automotive fuel systems, the glass industry, and many others as they can drill small holes and are made of solid carbide. There are also complete regrinding and drilling systems available and the products help serve the automotive, aircraft and aerospace, medical, hydraulics, pneumatics industries, and more.
Ranking as of December 2024
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chesterfield Tool & Engineering, Inc. |
8.8%
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| 2 | Star Cutter Company |
6.6%
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| 3 | HI-TAK CO.,LTD. |
5.2%
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| 4 | Precision Mold & Machining Services Inc. |
4.6%
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| 5 | Nelson Precision Drilling Co., Inc. |
4.5%
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| 6 | Muraki co.,ltd. |
4.2%
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| 7 | Diamond Gun Drilling & Machining |
4.0%
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| 8 | J & J Gun Drilling |
4.0%
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| 9 | Wisconsin Metal Tech |
3.9%
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| 10 | Sunnen Products Company |
3.9%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the gun drilling page as of December 2024. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
Company with a History
*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
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United States of America
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13 | 61.9% |
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Japan
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4 | 19.0% |
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Germany
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1 | 4.8% |
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Italy
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1 | 4.8% |
Canada
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1 | 4.8% |
Denmark
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1 | 4.8% |
