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New England Tooling Buyer Map

Jeff S. | New England Tooling | October 2026

As of 16 Oct 2026

New England Tooling supplies cutting tools for milling, turning, threading, drilling, boring and reaming, and reconditions round tools and inserts, with technical support from its base in Middletown, Connecticut.

This map sets out the groups of organizations that machine metal and buy that kind of tooling, and who usually signs off on it at each.

Counts are banded on purpose and shown only where a clean public count exists for the whole group.

Where the buyers sit

Each group machines metal parts in house and replaces or regrinds cutting tools as a routine cost of production.

Group	Organizations in the US	Under 20 staff	20 to 99	100 to 499	500 or more
Machine shops and contract machining job shops	about 17,000	about 14,000	about 2,400	about 370	about 140
Precision turned product makers	about 3,800	about 2,500	about 990	about 210	about 82
Tool, die, jig, fixture and industrial mold makers	about 3,200	about 2,300	about 670	about 140	about 100
Aircraft engine and aircraft parts makers	about 1,000	not published	not published	not published	not published
Surgical instrument, implant and medical appliance makers	about 2,700	about 1,800	about 480	about 220	about 190

US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.

Who usually signs off, by group

Titles vary with the size of the organization. In a small shop one person often holds all of these jobs.

Group	Usually signs	Also in the room
Machine shops and job shops	Owner or President	Shop Foreman, Lead Machinist
Precision turned product makers	Plant Manager or Owner	Manufacturing Engineer, Purchasing Manager
Tool, die, fixture and mold makers	Owner or Toolroom Manager	Lead Toolmaker, Shop Foreman
Aircraft engine and parts makers	Manufacturing Engineering Manager	Purchasing Manager, Tooling Engineer, Cell Lead
Medical instrument and implant makers	Director of Operations	Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Purchasing Manager

What each role weighs

Owners and plant managers look at cost per part and spindle time. A tool that runs longer between changes, or a regrind that costs less than a new tool, reads to them as margin.

Manufacturing and tooling engineers decide what goes on the machine. They test a tool on a real part, in steel, aluminum or high temperature alloys, before anything changes on the floor.

Purchasing managers hold the approved supplier list and the reorder rhythm. In aerospace and medical work a change of tool often needs the engineer's sign off before purchasing will move.

Who owns reconditioning

Regrind and retip decisions usually sit with whoever runs the tool crib, often a tooling coordinator or the shop foreman, with purchasing setting the budget.

In larger plants the manufacturing engineering manager sets the rules on when a tool is pulled and how much wear is acceptable, which is where a reconditioning program is won or lost.

Ten people to start with

The people who usually sign at the groups above, one a company. Work emails and phone numbers checked on Oct 16, 2026.

Name	Role	Company	Where	Email	Phone
James Burke	Owner	New England Ammonia Safety Inc.	Westfield, MA	james.burke@neas-inc.com	+1 413 231 2426
Mark Lloyd	Director of Operations	Barnes Aerospace	Enfield, CT	mlloyd@barnesaero.com	+1 860 874 8016
Avelino Campos	Director of Operations	Kinetic Engine Systems	New York		+1 203 260 0907
Bill Skillman	Vice President Commercial Development	Velico Medical, Inc.	Cambridge, MA	bskillman@veli.co	+1 410 734 6553
Leonid Moroz	President and CEO	SoftInWay Inc.	Burlington, MA	l.moroz@softinway.com	+1 781 354 1205
James Biggins	President and CEO	Access Vascular, Inc.	Waltham, MA	jbiggins@accessvascularinc.com	+1 781 710 9016
Karl Wadensten	CEO/President & Lean Operational Leader	VIBCO Vibrators	Wyoming, RI		+1 561 562 2273
Brian Montanari	President & CEO	HABCO Industries	East Hampton, CT	brian.montanari@habco.biz	+1 860 748 8337
Rachel Allard	Vice President of Marketing	Resonant Link Medical	Williston, VT	rallard@rlmedical.com	+1 802 999 9803
Tim Looney	President & CEO	Northeast Biomedical, Inc.	Tyngsboro, MA	tim@northeastbiomed.com	+1 978 771 6954

Where to start

Lead with the savings review

Your contact page offers a free bottom line savings review from a sales agent. Put that offer in front of owners and plant managers at machine shops and turned product makers as the first ask, since cost per part is the number they already watch.

Open the tool crib with reconditioning

Your reconditioning page covers economical lot sizes, operator training on when to pull tools, and a scrap carbide program. That gives a tooling coordinator or shop foreman a reason to talk without changing a single tool on the machine.

Bring engineers a hard material problem

Aerospace and medical makers cut high temperature alloys and need micro drills and deep hole work. A manufacturing engineering manager will make time for a test cut on a part that is costing them tools today.

Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.

If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.

Prepared by Matthew, matthew@enquirerconsulting.com.