Pratt Burnerd America Inc

Name

Pratt Burnerd America Inc

Legal name

Pratt Burnerd America

Website

https://prattburnerd.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1897

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kalamazoo

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, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Workholding Products: Sale of precision workholding equipment including manual chucks, power chucks, hydraulic cylinders, collet chucks, and collets. Products are sold under Pratt Burnerd America, Atlas Workholding, and Crawford Collets brands. The company also offers parts and service including repair and rebuilding of workholding equipment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Pratt Burnerd America Inc supplies precision workholding products for metalworking and CNC machining operations across North America. The company manufactures, distributes, and services manual chucks, power chucks, collet chucks, collets, hydraulic/rotary cylinders, top tooling, and spindle conversion adapters. Products are sold under three complementary brands: Pratt Burnerd America, Atlas Workholding, and Crawford Collets, with in-house repair, rebuild, and warehousing operations based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Product overview

Pratt Burnerd America Inc is a workholding solutions company offering a comprehensive portfolio of industrial workholding products for machining applications. The product lineup is organized around three brands: Pratt Burnerd America (the primary brand), Atlas Workholding (sourced globally and built to North American specifications), and Crawford Collets (collets and collet chucks since 1897). The core product categories include Manual Chucks (independent, scroll, boring mill, combination, oil country, and super thin types), Power Chucks (pneumatic/hydraulic power-driven chucks including Grip Fast quick-change, constant grip, VTL, and 2/3/4-jaw configurations), Hydraulic Cylinders (MK and ATL Series for powering chucks), Top Tooling & Accessories (serrations, soft blank jaws, lubricants), Collet Chucks & Collets (manual and air-powered collet systems for 5C, 16C, B42, B60, B80, 3J collets), and Conversion Adapters & Custom Mountings. The company operates a full service shop in Kalamazoo, MI for repair, rebuild, and manufacturing operations, and markets products under both Pratt Burnerd America and Atlas Workholding brands with Crawford Collets as the preferred collet choice. The product range spans sizes from 4" to 120" diameter chucks and serves diverse machining applications including lathes, mills, machining centers, rotary tables, and grinding machines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Atlas Workholding: Workholding products sourced from around the world, including the USA, built to specifications for the North American market. Offers over 50 different series of workholding devices.
• Crawford Collets
• Pratt Burnerd

Products and services

• Manual Chucks

Quantifiable outcome

• Chuck accuracy as tight as .0003 inch TIR from rear mounting register
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered historical.

• Royal ProductshistoricalOthers · 1 January 2005Crawford Collets was sold under the Royal Products label in past years, prior to being marketed under PBA/Crawford Collets brand since 2005.
• BridgeporthistoricalOthers · 1 January 2005Crawford Collets was sold under the Bridgeport label in past years, prior to being marketed under PBA/Crawford Collets brand since 2005.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Kennametal: Large public industrial tooling company with workholding and metal cutting solutions. Overlaps with Pratt Burnerd at the workholding accessory level but operates as a broad industrial tooling incumbent rather than a focused workholding specialist.
• Atlas Copco: Global industrial group whose industrial tool division overlaps with power chuck and assembly tooling adjacent to Pratt Burnerd's portfolio. Serves a much broader industrial customer base with diversified product lines.
• Jacobs Chuck (by SECO Tools): Long-established Jacobs branded chuck line, now part of SECO Tools. Broader industrial tooling incumbent that overlaps with Pratt Burnerd's chuck categories as part of a wider metalworking cutting tool portfolio.

Direct peers

• Hardinge: US-based manufacturer of precision machine tools and workholding including collets and chucks. Overlaps with Pratt Burnerd's collet and workholding portfolio and serves the same CNC machining and metalworking customer base.
• Schunk: German global leader in workholding and gripping systems including power chucks, stationary chucks, and collet chucks. Directly competes with Pratt Burnerd across CNC lathe and machining center applications worldwide, including the North American market PBA serves.
• Forkardt (by ITW): Premium workholding chuck and jaw specialist now part of Illinois Tool Works. Competes directly with Pratt Burnerd in high-precision power chucks, hydraulic cylinders, and chuck jaws across the same North American industrial customer base.
• Röhm (ROEHM GROUP): German manufacturer of chucks, tool holders, and workholding equipment used in turning, milling, and grinding. Directly overlaps with Pratt Burnerd's lathe chuck and collet chuck portfolio and competes head-to-head in industrial CNC workholding.
• Kitagawa: Japanese workholding specialist with a broad line of power chucks, manual chucks, and cylinders. Kitagawa North America directly competes with Pratt Burnerd in CNC lathe and machining center workholding, particularly in automotive and general machining.
• Gator Chucks: North American workholding chuck specialist offering power chucks and cylinders similar to Pratt Burnerd's core line. Competes for the same mid-market CNC lathe customers in the United States.
• Bison (by ZPS America / Bison-Bial): Manufacturer of chucks and workholding accessories including drill chucks and lathe chucks. Directly comparable to Pratt Burnerd's manual and power chuck lines and competes in North American industrial distribution channels.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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