Founded in 1952 by former Greenlee assemblers, Ed Paulson and Bernie Peterson, Kadon was purchased in 1973 by Jim and Jeff Franklin.  Kadon produced screw machine products primarily for the aerospace industry until 1980, by which time we had increased the number of Greenlee automatics to five machines.

During the early eighties, because we were able to machine parts requiring a greater expertise than the average machine shop, we began fullfilling the needs of one of the power control companies in the area.  Our experience working with high-temperature nickel alloys made machining steel and brass an easy transition.

Our business has grown from our original three machine, three thousand square foot building, into a company occupying eighteen thousand square feet, employing more than twenty people operating over thirty machines.  Our newest machines comprise some of the latest 'state of the art' equipment available.