What Precision Brand Products does

Precision Brand Products, Inc. is a Downers Grove, Illinois-based manufacturer of precision shim steel products, industrial tools, and maintenance hardware, founded in 1946 and operating as a subsidiary of Marmon, a Berkshire Hathaway-owned diversified industrial group. The company's core offering centers on the Branded Shim line, which embeds material type, thickness, and lot number directly on each shim for full traceability, supported by a broad catalog spanning shim stock (steel, stainless, brass, aluminum, copper, blue tempered spring steel), arbor spacers, die button shims, slotted shims including the trademarked Sof' Shoe elastomer shim, feeler gages, drill rod, ground flat stock, keystock, hose clamps, lubricants, blackening solutions, and bundled maintenance kits. Custom shim fabrication is offered alongside the standard catalog, leveraging in-stock raw material inventories that exceed industry thickness tolerances to deliver short-run and prototype orders.

The company serves industrial end-markets including tool and die making, machine shops, plant maintenance, power generation, oil and gas, and construction. Pricing is quote-based through a distributor network, with no direct-to-end-user sales channel. There is no public revenue or AI/ML capability disclosed in the available source material, and management team and headcount trend information is absent. Precision Brand maintains an active online presence with product documentation, downloadable price files, SDS and CERT sheets, and social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, but its operating geography is documented as United States-only with no explicit global footprint claim.

Name

Precision Brand Products

Legal name

Precision Brand Products Inc.

Website

https://precisionbrand.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Precision Brand Products is a U.S. manufacturer of precision shims, tooling, and industrial maintenance hardware serving tool and die shops, machine shops, and plant maintenance operations. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, the company is a Marmon/Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary selling exclusively through industrial distributors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Downers Grove

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Industrial Product Sales: One-time sale of precision industrial components including shims, hardware, tools, and maintenance supplies. Products sold in various packaging configurations (individual pieces, packs, assortments) to distributors and industrial customers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Precision Brand Products is a U.S. manufacturer of precision metal shims and related industrial hardware, with its flagship Branded® Shim line featuring on-product marking of material type, thickness, and lot number for full traceability. The portfolio spans shim stock (steel, stainless, brass, aluminum, copper, laminated), arbor spacers, slotted shims, die button shims, feeler gages, ground flat stock, drill rod, keystock, hose clamps, TruPunch® punch and die sets, Tool Black® metal blackening products, SLIP Plate® lubricants, hot melt coatings, tool wrap, wire products, and custom shim fabrication services. Products are sold exclusively through a network of industrial distributors for tool and die, machine shop, plant maintenance, and construction applications.

Product overview

Precision Brand Products is a precision manufacturing company offering a comprehensive portfolio of shim products, precision tools, and industrial hardware. The core offering centers on the Branded® Shim line—the company's flagship product featuring uniquely marked material identification and traceability. The product range spans multiple categories including: shim stock materials (Steel, Stainless Steel, Type 316 Stainless, Brass, Blue Tempered Spring Steel, Aluminum, Copper, and Laminated variants); arbor spacers and shims (Plastic Color Coded, Steel, Stainless Steel, and Brass); slotted shims including Stainless Steel, Sof' Shoe® Elastomer, and Plastic Color Coded types; precision tools (Die Button Shims, Drill Rod, Feeler Gages, Ground Flat Stock, Punch & Die Sets/TruPunch®); industrial hardware (Hose Clamps in multiple series, Keystock, Wire, Lubricants/SLIP Plate®, Maintenance Kits); specialty products (Tool Black/ABC Blackeners, Hot Melt Coating, Tool Wrap in Type 309/321); and custom fabrication services. The company operates as a single unified product line supplemented by value-added custom shim manufacturing capabilities, selling primarily through distribution channels to tool and die makers, industrial maintenance professionals, and precision machining operations. Precision Brand is a subsidiary of Marmon, a Berkshire Hathaway company, headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Branded Shim: A product line featuring shims with clearly marked material type, thickness, and lot number for traceability.

Products and services

• Branded® Shim

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Marmon | Berkshire HathawaycoreOthersPrecision Brand Products is a Marmon | Berkshire Hathaway company. Marmon is a privately-held group of manufacturing and industrial service companies. The company operates as a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Grainger: Grainger is a leading US industrial distribution company selling fasteners, tools, and maintenance supplies through both catalog and digital channels, with overlap into Precision Brand's product categories.
• MSC Industrial Direct: MSC Industrial is a major US industrial supplies distributor offering metalworking consumables, fasteners, and maintenance products that overlap with most of Precision Brand's catalog.
• Würth Group: Würth is one of the world's largest distributors of fasteners, tools, and industrial consumables, with a broad portfolio that overlaps with Precision Brand's shim, fastener, and maintenance product categories.
• Illinois Tool Works (ITW): ITW is a diversified industrial conglomerate with fastener and precision components segments that overlap with Precision Brand's shim and hose clamp businesses, but at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Bossard Group: Bossard is a global fastener and assembly technology specialist with deep product overlap in fasteners, washers, and shims, though it operates at significantly larger scale and global reach.
• McMaster-Carr: McMaster-Carr is a leading catalog and e-commerce industrial supplier offering a massive assortment of fasteners, shims, tools, and maintenance products, overlapping broadly with Precision Brand's portfolio.
• Fastenal Company: Fastenal is a broad industrial distributor of fasteners, tools, and maintenance supplies; it competes indirectly through its catalog but operates at much greater scale across all of Precision Brand's product categories.

Direct peers

• Boker's, Inc. Boker's is a US manufacturer of shims, washers, and precision metal stampings, directly overlapping with Precision Brand's core shim and arbor spacer product lines for industrial customers.
• MISUMI USA: MISUMI sells catalog precision components including shims, spacers, and custom machined parts, with overlapping product lines and a more digitally-native catalog/distribution model.
• SPIrol International: SPIrol manufactures shims, spacers, and specialty fasteners for industrial and automotive applications, directly competing with Precision Brand's shim, slotted shim, and maintenance kit categories.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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