Balax Inc

About

Founded in 1958, Balax Inc. is one of the leaders in designing and manufacturing cold forming taps. Based in North Lake, Wis., it offers products that include thredfloer taps, thredshaver cutting taps, miniature thread gages and roughing end mills. The firm provides services, such as blank making, heat-treating, shank and square grinding, fluting, thread grinding and surface treatment. It maintains a fully equipped tapping laboratory to test new design concepts for tapping torque, tapping speed, tool geometry, coolant or lubrication performance, pretap hole sizing and material compatibility.