Bourn & Koch's Rockford, IL, headquarters includes 147,000 square feet of Made-in-America manufacturing capacity.
Bourn & Koch has been manufacturing new and refurbishing legacy machine tools in the USA for over forty years. The company's production machine tool shop includes over two dozen American-made horizontal boring machines, gear manufacturing machines, turning machines, grinders, and milling machines divided into six main manufacturing departments: Milling/Boring, Turning, Hobbing, Grinding, Scraping, and Electrical Assembly. Other key departments within Bourn & Koch's 147,000 square feet of manufacturing space are in-house repair, quality/inspection, engineering, shipping & receiving, sales & training, and a large stockroom with 600,000 spare part inventory.
Bourn & Koch remanufactures, retrofits, redesigns, rebuilds, reconditions, and repairs worn out equipment to keep machines running for decades to come. "The company has completed over 2,500 of these projects since 1975 often incorporating new technology into older machines, making improvements in accuracy and reliabilities superior to the original OEM tolerances," said a company spokesperson.
Bourn & Koch also manufactures several lines of new, American machine tools in Rockford, including vertical turning centers, vertical grinding machines, surface grinders, horizontal boring machines, volume production machines, and gear hobbers, gear shapers, gear grinders, special gear machines. These new machines are sold under the brand names: Bourn & Koch, Fellows, Motch, Springfield, Blanchard, and DeVlieg. "Over the last four decades, through numerous acquisitions, Bourn & Koch has become the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for a long list of well known, USA-made legacy machine tools," said the spokesperson. "As OEM, Bourn & Koch has all of the original documentation for every brand it owns so the new machines built by Bourn & Koch are an improvement on the time-tested designs of each legacy machine tool brand."
The company's production equipment list includes a remanufactured Gray floor HBM large capacity horizontal boring machine used to machine Bourn & Koch's new machine tool bases. It also has a large capacity Fellows 1280-300 CNC gear shaper, a remanufactured Mattison 36x144 large reciprocating horizontal surface grinder, and a Blanchard No. 11 vertical rotary surface grinder. Rounding out its equipment list are many more American-made machine tools: remanufactured DeVlieg horizontal boring mills; numerous Barber-Colman gear hobbers and Bourn & Koch CNC gear hobbers; numerous Hendey and Monarch horizontal lathes; Arter, Bryant and Norton grinders; and CNC milling machines and small Bridgeport mills. All of Bourn & Koch's remanufactured machines were done in-house.
Bourn & Koch's 60-plus person Rockford staff includes electrical and mechanical engineers, precision repair technicians, dedicated quality inspectors, dedicated stockroom employees and a full customer care specialist team which includes a service coordinator and senior applications engineer.
The company's growing staff is also comprised of factory-trained service technicians, precision machine tool assemblers, and numerous precision machine tool builders experienced in hand-scraping. "Further evidence of Bourn & Koch's interest in educating America's future machine tool builders and operators are the internships it hosts for local college students during the summer," said the spokesperson. To schedule a tour of Bourn & Koch, or to learn more about classes and employment opportunities, visit the company's website at www.bourn-koch.com.
For more information contact:
Bourn & Koch Inc.
2500 Kishwaukee Street
Rockford, IL 61104
815-965-4013
parts-sales@bourn-koch.com
www.bourn-koch.com