Butler Gear Company, Inc. has retained Heritage Equity Partners (“HEP”) to seek a buyer for the 55 year old gear manufacturing business in Butler, WI.  Located just outside of North-West Milwaukee, Butler Gear manufactures a wide variety of standard and custom gears and related products, including spur, helical, internal gears, worm and worm gears, racks, sprockets, face gears and timing belts. 

Operating in a 46,000 square foot facility, Butler Gear offers its customers a broad range of ISO compliant services, such as machining of customer supplied product, complete manufacturing from customer’s drawings, and also reverse engineering.  Turning services provide precision tolerances down to (+/-)0.001 of an inch on all part dimensions, and the Company can work with a wide variety of materials, including but not limited to stainless steel, alloy steel, non-ferrous materials and plastics.  Industries served by Butler Gear include: Mining Machinery, Heavy Equipment Manufacturers, Railroad, Satellite & Radar Manufacturing, and Clutch & Brake Manufacturing, among others. 

Fred Cross, a Managing Director at HEP, says that “This is an excellent opportunity to partner with, invest in, or acquire an established gear shop with a strong history and ability to provide customers an easy one stop solution for all their metal parts needs.” 

Heritage Equity Partners, formerly “Equity Partners”, based in Easton, MD, provides investment banking services and has completed in excess of 400 engagements throughout the United States since 1988.  In the past year Heritage Equity Partners has handled five metal fabrication/machine shops transactions.