Automatic Products

What Automatic Products does

Automatic Products Corporation (APC) is a family-owned, U.S.-based contract manufacturer founded in 1957 and headquartered in Garland, Texas, where it operates a single 118,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. The company specializes in precision CNC machining across five core processes — CNC Milling, CNC Lathe, CNC Swiss, Screw Machining, and TIG Welding — complemented by Sub Assembly and Value Added Services. APC serves customers across the full product lifecycle, from rapid prototyping through short-run production to full-scale manufacturing, and holds AS9100 D / ISO 9001:2015, ITAR (Cage Code 60366), JCP, and Federal Firearms Licenses, qualifying it for defense and aerospace supply chains.

The company targets eight end-markets: Aerospace, Defense, Energy, HVAC, Computer, Beverage/Food, Valve, and Automotive, with Aerospace and Defense treated as primary verticals. Its revenue model is project-based and quote-driven: customers submit RFQs with drawings, CAD files, materials, and quantities; APC's technical staff reviews specifications and returns custom per-project pricing. Sales channels are deliberately minimal — a corporate website, an RFQ form, and a LinkedIn presence — reflecting a relationship-based, sales-led motion rather than demand-generation marketing. The customer base is described as global and includes Dock-to-Stock certified relationships across multiple industries, with many original customers reportedly retained across decades.

APC is governed and operated under three generations of Tedford family leadership: founder Charles E. Tedford (1957), Gary E. Tedford (President/Owner since 1981), and G. Christopher (Chris) Tedford (President since 2007). The company is privately held, financially self-funded (no institutional investors, no public listing, no disclosed funding rounds), and incorporated in Texas under U.S. governing law. No revenue, headcount, M&A, or partnership data is publicly disclosed, and AI/ML capabilities are not present in the operating stack.

Name

Automatic Products

Legal name

Automatic Products Corporation

Website

https://ap-corp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Automatic Products Corporation is a family-owned U.S. precision contract manufacturer (founded 1957, Garland, TX) offering CNC milling, lathe, Swiss, screw machining, TIG welding, and sub-assembly services across aerospace, defense, energy, and other industrial verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Garland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Contract Manufacturing Services: APC generates revenue through custom precision contract manufacturing services, providing rapid prototyping, short-run production, and full-scale manufacturing of mission critical parts and assemblies. Revenue is project-based, driven by customer-specific orders with flexible capacity for both development-stage and high-volume production customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Automatic Products Corporation (APC) is a family-owned contract manufacturer providing precision CNC machining and metal fabrication services, including CNC Milling, CNC Lathe, CNC Swiss, Screw Machining, and TIG Welding, complemented by Sub Assembly and Value Added Services. The company serves mission-critical parts and assemblies across the product lifecycle, from rapid prototyping and short-run production through full-scale manufacturing, with flexible capacity including segregated resources for development and high-volume production customers.

Product overview

Automatic Products Corporation is a family-owned contract manufacturer offering precision CNC machining and metal fabrication services. The core portfolio consists of CNC Milling, CNC Lathe, CNC Swiss, Screw Machining, and TIG Welding capabilities, complemented by Sub Assembly and Value Added Services. Manufacturing solutions span the product lifecycle from Rapid Prototyping and Short-Run Production through Full-Scale Manufacturing, with flexible capacity allocation including segregated resources for development and high-volume production phases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CNC Milling

Quantifiable outcome

• Dock-to-Stock certified supplier to many customers in many industries
• +1 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Bodycote: Bodycote provides heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing, and metal joining services used by precision manufacturers serving aerospace, defense, and industrial markets. It is a complementary service provider rather than a direct competitor, but its customer base closely overlaps with APC's.

Direct peers

• Protolabs: Protolabs offers CNC machining, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication as a digital contract manufacturer serving aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial customers. It is a direct competitor in custom precision manufacturing with overlapping end markets and a similarly broad capability set.
• MW Industries: MW Industries manufactures precision engineered components including springs, stampings, and machined parts serving aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial markets. It is comparable to APC in custom precision manufacturing with similar quality and certification requirements.
• Mayville Engineering Company: MEC is a vertically integrated contract manufacturer providing precision machining, metal fabrication, and assembly services to aerospace, defense, industrial, and commercial markets. It directly competes with APC in mission-critical precision components and assemblies.
• NN Inc. NN is a precision engineered components manufacturer serving aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial markets with machining and assembly capabilities. It overlaps with APC in tight-tolerance machined parts and assemblies for highly regulated end markets.
• Precision Resource: Precision Resource is a precision metal stamping and machining company serving automotive, aerospace, industrial, and electronics markets. It competes with APC in tight-tolerance custom metal components for demanding applications.
• Sybridge Technologies: Sybridge Technologies provides prototype and low-volume production tooling and precision components primarily for automotive and industrial markets. It overlaps with APC in custom CNC machining and rapid prototyping for engineered applications.

Broad incumbents

• Howmet Aerospace: Howmet Aerospace manufactures precision engineered components for aerospace, defense, and industrial markets, including machined parts and assemblies. It competes in APC's core end markets at significantly greater scale and with proprietary metallurgy capabilities.
• Precision Castparts Corp (Berkshire Hathaway): Precision Castparts manufactures complex metal components and assemblies for aerospace, power, and industrial markets, including machined parts. It is a much larger incumbent with overlapping capabilities and end markets, particularly aerospace and defense.
• Curtiss-Wright Corporation: Curtiss-Wright is a diversified aerospace and defense manufacturer producing engineered components, systems, and precision-machined parts. It is a much larger incumbent serving the same end markets as APC with broader product portfolios.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/automatic-products-corporation

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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