Precision Built. Performance Proven.
Since 1971 — New Athens, Illinois
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One shop. Start to finish.
Kaskaskia Tool & Machine started in Roy Albert’s garage, building stamping dies nights and weekends for a local stove manufacturer. By 1971 the side job had outgrown the garage, and Roy converted an old soda-bottling plant in New Athens into a full machine shop. Two generations later, KTM is a fully integrated CNC manufacturer — machining, grinding, welding and fabrication, wire EDM, assembly and CMM inspection under one roof. We offer design-for-manufacturing input on parts and assemblies and work hands-on with every customer, because we believe both shop and customer should have an investment in the final product.
One roof. Every operation.
From CAD file to certified component — machining, grinding, fabrication and inspection in a single 35,000 sq ft facility.
CNC Machining
Large-envelope 4th- and 5th-axis CNC milling and turning to 119" travels, programmed in Mastercam for complex, tight-tolerance work.
Explore →Precision Grinding
Blanchard grinding to 129" swing and surface grinding to 42" × 144" — flat, parallel and square at tight tolerance.
Explore →Welding & Fabrication
AWS-certified MIG and TIG welding, plasma cutting to 6" thick and a 175-ton press brake — weldments built, stress-relieved and machined under one roof.
Explore →Tooling, Dies & Fixtures
Custom tooling, dies, jigs and workholding fixtures engineered and built to print — or designed from your process requirements.
Explore →Wire EDM
Submerged wire EDM cutting of hardened materials and fine profiles on workpieces to 1,700 lb — without heat distortion.
Explore →Engineering Support
CAM programming, fixture design, design-for-manufacturability feedback and reverse engineering to customer-approved documentation.
Explore →Components for industries where failure is not an option.
KTM machines and grinds components, tooling and ground support equipment for aerospace and defense manufacturers under an AS9100 quality system — with AS9102 first-article inspection, AS9146 foreign-object-debris control and full material traceability. Component manufacture and manufacturing support: machined forgings, shells and housings, GSE, cradles and work stands.
Certified for programs where failure is not an option. →
Replacement parts, tooling and machine components delivered to print — heated platens, tube and baffle sheets, valve bodies and housings, roller and shaft repair to OEM specs, and die refurbishing. Machined and ground with lead times built on 35,000 square feet of in-house capacity.
The parts that keep plants running. →
Big parts are the KTM specialty: press rams, bolsters and crowns to 22,000 lb, machine bases flat to 0.001 in/ft, and weldments to 8 ft × 10 ft × 14 ft — fabricated, stress-relieved, machined and ground without leaving the building.
Big, flat, square — and exactly to print. →
Certified since the first Blanchard job.
KTM entered aerospace in 1998, when Boeing needed a large component Blanchard ground and KTM ran one of the largest Blanchard grinders in the Midwest. That first job grew into decades of certified aerospace and defense manufacturing: machined forgings, ground support equipment, tooling and assemblies produced under an AS9100 quality system with Boeing Digital Product Definition (D6-51991), AS9146 FOD control and AS9102 first-article inspection.
Industries we serve →Proof, in metal.
Reasons customers keep coming back.
- Family-owned and operated since 1971 — second generation on the floor today.
- Every operation under one roof: machining, grinding, fabrication, EDM, assembly, inspection.
- Large-envelope capacity beyond the average job shop — 129" grinding, 119" travels, 12-ton lift.
- Design-for-manufacturing input on every quote — we invest in your part, not just the P.O.
- AS9100 discipline with Boeing DPD D6-51991 experience.
- Build-to-print specialists in the 1–50 piece range.
- Direct access to ownership — the people quoting your job run the company.
Send us the part nobody else wants to quote.
Build-to-print is what we do — send drawings, models or a worn sample and get a real plan and a real number, most quotes within 5 business days.
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