Industries we serve
Industries

Aerospace

Whether guarding our airspace or delivering life-saving supplies, aviators rely on the most advanced parts to ensure their safety. TPC’s engineers and manufacturers supply precise, dependable, durable parts, components, and assemblies to leading aerospace companies.

Defense

Mission success depends on a thousand small things coming together perfectly. TPC and its network of specialty manufacturers are proud to support the defense industry with mission-critical parts, components, assemblies, and optics used by armed services and defense contractors.

Medical

Many of the world’s brightest innovators are contributing to the advancements in medical technology that cure life-threatening diseases and keep us all healthier. TPC’s engineers, materials specialists, manufacturers, and quality assurance specialists work with the medical companies that are solving the world’s most daunting health challenges.

Technology

We support the companies standing at the leading edge of technology, inspiring advancements in computing, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. TPC’s network of specialty manufacturers delivers precise thin metal parts, components, and custom-designed assemblies to turn innovation into reality.

Energy

Equal parts innovation and precision go into building a renewable energy infrastructure. The TPC network supports companies that are dedicated to creating cleaner, greener energy sources like solar, wind, and hydrogen power. With accurate and dependable parts, components, and assemblies, we can create a carbon-neutral future.

Telecom

The need for telecommunications tools — mobile phones, secure military communications, broadcast networks — is at an all-time high. The TPC network produces intricate parts and components for mobile devices and assemblies that house large communications gateways for leading telecom companies.

Our Companies
Companies

At E-Fab, ingenuity meets precision to answer our customer’s call for innovation. The company specializes in photochemical etching, forming, and bonding thin metal parts for leading defense, aerospace, and electronics companies.

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Elcon delivers precision parts built to succeed that are produced by experts in photochemical etching, brazed assembly, and ceramic metallization. Industry innovators use Elcon’s high-quality precision components and assemblies across a wide range of crucial applications.

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Fotofab is a leading provider of custom precision-etched metal parts, with expertise in photochemical etching, thin metal forming, and rapid prototype to production runs. The company works with aerospace, defense, alternative energy, and medical leaders.

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L&T is known for delivering meticulous machining, sheet metal, welding, finishing, and assembly services to customers in the aerospace, defense, medical, and commercial industries.

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Lattice Materials grows custom silicon and germanium crystals in the United States. With precision optical-curve generation, high-precision polishing, and machining, Lattice Materials can produce optics, thin film materials, laser mirrors, and semiconductor parts.

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Microphoto has decades of manufacturing experience and delivers precision photochemical etching and forming services. The company produces metal parts in prototype and production volumes from a wide range of metals, including aluminum, copper alloys, and stainless and spring steel.

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Optiforms is a global leader in optical electroforming, deep-dish optical coatings, and IR imaging. The company is a turnkey solutions provider for substrate design engineering, development, manufacturing, optical coating, and mounting needs.

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PEI boasts expertise in large production runs of precision metal and titanium parts using photochemical etching. Industry leaders from the automotive, energy, medical, microelectronics, and defense industries tap PEI’s experience and proficiency.

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The manufacturing team at Pinnacle is built to deliver highly skilled precision sheet metal fabrication services, including welding, CNC machining, assembly, painting, and silk screening. Pinnacle is well-suited for anything from rapid prototyping to full production runs.

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UPG is a single-source supplier of high-volume precision injection molding, value-added assemblies, and contract manufacturing. With facilities in Houston, Texas, Suzhou, China, and Cardiff, Wales, UPG provides concept-to-completion expertise in complex plastic parts and assemblies.

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Our Capabilities
Capabilities

COMPREHENSIVE
SUITE OF CAPABILITIES

The Partner Companies is a global portfolio of specialty manufacturers dedicated to delivering mission-critical solutions that answer our customers’ biggest challenges. We serve the world’s most important industries through our expertise across multiple capabilities.

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About

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2010

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2011

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2016

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2019

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2020

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2021

The Growth of TPC

The Partner Companies (TPC) launched with the idea that innovators and businesses could benefit from a global network of high-quality, high-character manufacturing companies dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and precision manufacturing.

2022

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