In an exciting move to extend its product line and enhance customer service, Precision Punch Corporation has acquired Eastern Industries. This acquisition combines Precision Punch's manufacturing excellence and technical know-how with Eastern Industries' specialized product line.

As a division of Precision Punch, Eastern will benefit from its new parent company's advanced manufacturing techniques. Programs include Six-Sigma manufacturing processes that result in maintaining the highest quality in products and services. These manufacturing practices contribute to Precision Punch's outstanding performance.

By uniting the two companies, the new configuration builds on the unique talents of each: Precision Punch is the premier manufacturer of high-precision standard and custom punches, dies, core pins, perforators, and hardened, precision ground cylindrical parts. Eastern Industries is the leading quality producer of feeler gage products with the largest range of available off-the-shelf gages. The company serves a wide range of markets, including aerospace, automotive, defense, electronics, medical, textile, transportation, and utilities.

Kevin Gregoire, President of Precision Punch, explains it this way: "It's a natural! We share the same values and a commitment to excellence. Eastern's customers will benefit from our combined expertise and the assurance that every feeler gage reflects the same quality and accuracy that Precision Punch customers have relied on for years."

Eastern Industries offers a complete line of standard and custom gages used to measure thickness, gaps, and spacing. The company has earned its reputation by listening to serves customers' specific measurement and assembly needs and finding solutions to their unique requests. There are very few feeler gage manufacturers worldwide, and none of them can compete with Eastern's versatility, inventory, and customer service.

Since 1965 Precision Punch (see history story) sets the standard for the highest caliber of perfection for mold making, stamping, and cold heading. The manufacturer offers a full line of ground perforators, close space punches, punch blanks, stepped punches, ejector punches, pilot punches, bevel-headed punches, core pins, mold pins, nitrided ejector pins, EDM die blanks, precision die buttons, tool blanks, sleeves, and miniature tools and components. In addition, manufacturers worldwide rely on Precision Punch's unmatched custom capabilities.