25 YEARS OF POWDER METAL EXPERTISE
LEADING MANUFACTURER OF BRONZE AND IRON BUSHING, BEARING & SPACERS
For more than 30 years, Proform has been a trusted partner to OEMs and manufacturers around the world, delivering precision-engineered powder metal components that combine exceptional performance, quality, and value. As the world’s largest manufacturer of powder metal bronze bearings, bronze bushings, and bronze spacers, Proform has built its reputation on manufacturing excellence, technical expertise, and an unwavering commitment to customer success. From standard catalog components to highly engineered custom solutions, we help customers solve complex design and manufacturing challenges with innovative powder metallurgy technology.
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220 MILLION+ POWDER METAL PIECES PRODUCED ANNUALLY
Proform manufactures high-quality sintered bronze and iron parts
Operating from our 125,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Proform utilizes more than 70 compaction presses with capacities up to 200 tons to produce millions of high-quality components each year. Our ISO 9001-certified quality management system ensures consistent performance, tight dimensional control, and dependable results from prototype through full-scale production. Whether your project requires thousands of parts or millions, our manufacturing processes are designed to deliver repeatable quality, competitive pricing, and on-time delivery.
HIGH VOLUME AND COST EFFECTIVE PART SOLUTIONS
Standard & custom powder metal parts
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COMPONENTS
SPACERS
BUSHINGS
Proform’s engineering team works closely with customers from concept through production, helping optimize part geometry, material selection, and manufacturing processes to improve performance while reducing overall costs. Our powder metallurgy expertise allows us to produce near-net-shape components that minimize material waste, reduce secondary machining, and provide exceptional dimensional accuracy. We manufacture components in bronze, iron, and custom alloy formulations to meet demanding application requirements for strength, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, porosity, and self-lubricating performance.
Beyond compacting and sintering, Proform offers a complete range of value-added manufacturing services to provide fully finished, production-ready components. Our capabilities include tooling design, sizing, CNC machining, drilling, tapping, oil impregnation, assembly, custom packaging, and quality inspection. By offering comprehensive in-house services, we simplify the supply chain, reduce lead times, and provide customers with a single manufacturing partner from initial design through final delivery.
SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS A VARIETY OF MARKETS
Providing solutions to over 450 customers in diverse industries
In 2021, Proform became part of Metal Powder Products (MPP), one of North America’s leading powder metallurgy manufacturers. This partnership expands the resources available to every Proform customer, including additional engineering expertise, advanced manufacturing technologies, expanded machining capabilities, redundant production capacity, and access to one of the industry’s most experienced powder metallurgy organizations. Customers benefit from the personalized service and responsiveness that have always defined Proform, backed by the scale, stability, and technical capabilities of MPP.
Today, Proform proudly serves more than 450 customers across a wide variety of industries, including automotive, heavy truck, agriculture, industrial equipment, outdoor power equipment, lawn and garden, home appliances, medical, electrification, and power generation. Whether manufacturing standard self-lubricating bronze bearings or developing complex custom-engineered components for next-generation technologies, our mission remains the same: to provide innovative powder metal solutions that help our customers improve performance, reduce costs, and bring exceptional products to market.
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