The Technology Alliance consists of design and manufacturing organizations with the following capabilities:

• System concept to detailed design of gearboxes and transmissions.
• Produce and test prototypes components and systems.
• Short run component and system production capabilities.
• Steady state production castings and machining capabilities.

The Alliance members:

Berkshire PowerTech Inc. (http://www.berkshirepowertech.com/)

• Conception and design of gearboxes, transmissions and other systems
• Detailed design of components
• Develop and test prototypes systems
• Pilot production run
• Program management

Lawton Pattern (http://patterns.calawton.com/)

• Sand casting tooling
• Permanent mold tooling
• Lost foam patterns
• Rapid product introduction
• Cast to size tooling
• Large pattern shop with in-house CAD software

ECK Industries (http://www.eckindustries.com/)
Aluminum castings:

• Green sand castings
• Shell molding
• No Bake molding
• Gravity and low pressure Permanent mold castings
• Die Castings
• Prototype and production quantities
• Engineering & NDT

Waukesha Foundry (http://www.waukeshafoundry.com/)
Cast Iron, cast steels, anti-galling alloys:

• No bake process
• Resin shell molding
• Replicast process using foam pattern
• Engineering capabilities
• Non-destructive testing

Manitowoc Machining (http://www.mantool.com/)
Machining of all materials:

• Prototype machining
• Production machining
• Stamping dies
• Assemblies and fixtures
• In-house engineering using Pro-E, AutoCAD and others