Aerospace ball screws are a specialty of Thread-Craft Inc.

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Manufacturer of Aerospace Ball Screws and Ballscrew Repair

Aerospace Ball Screws

Thread-Craft is a premier global supplier of aerospace ball screws. We specialize in highly technical custom applications with stringent lead times. Thread-Craft specializes in, and welcomes your low to mid quantity production. We are the perfect supplier to support your ball screw spares and aftermarket requirements. We excel at manufacturing the aerospace industry’s most complex parts that demand short lead times, precision manufacturing and high efficiency operation.

Thread-Craft began major aerospace production in 2001. Many OEM’s expressed a desire for a more effective ball screw source. They wanted the following:

Aerospace Ball Screw

  1. An aerospace ball screw company that was attentive not only to production orders, but small quantity aftermarket and spare parts support as well.
  2. A company that was responsive, flexible and adaptive.
  3. A ball screw company that could manufacture a diverse range of technically difficult parts from prints or via reverse engineering.
  4. A company that would listen, innovate, and provide solutions to evolving challenges, based on almost 50 years of experience in linear motion products.
Aerospace Ball Screws
We continuously invest in new manufacturing processes and equipment upgrades like new CNC machines, mills and lathes. Last year we completed an expansion for additional machining space, and doubled the size of our inspection facilities. We are also breaking ground on our new facility in Ramos, Mexico.

Products Types:

  • Acme screws, jack screws
  • Control tab actuators
  • Flap actuators, slat actuators (leading edge, trailing edge)
  • Horizontal stabilizer ball screw (HSTA)
  • Landing gear ball screws
  • Primary flight control actuators

  • Reverser screws, reversing screws
  • Roller screws
  • Telescoping ball screw assemblies
  • Thrust reverser housings
  • Thrust reversers
  • Vertical stabilizer ball screw

ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100B Registered


Thread-Craft, Inc.
43643 Utica Rd.
Sterling Heights, MI 48314
Ph: 586.323.1116
Fax: 586.323.1910