Technidrill is a specialized builder of precision deep hole drilling systems.  Having started in 1947 as the Ward Riddle Co. in Ravenna, Ohio manufacturing precision aircraft fuel and braking systems components. These high tolerance parts required special manufacturing processes with drilled diameters within .0005" and true position of .0005" per inch of depth.

 Hugh Riddle the owner, a mechanical engineer and teaching professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio would eventually design a gundrill system that he would adapt to his Warner Swasey turret lathes, producing the depth and diameter tolerances required.  By 1955 this inexpensive gundrill attachment was being marketed by the Warner Swasey company as an after market option.

 In the late 60's the owner retired and allowed his Chief Engineer to take possession of the company.  The new younger more aggressive owner would restructure the company, phasing out the aircraft component side of the business and promoting the gundrilling machine division.  The company was renamed Phillips Precision Drilling.  Soon the company was providing complete gundrilling systems to the Aerospace industries, its original component customers. 

  In 1970 the company experienced a growth spurt that would introduce its gundrilling products beyond  Aerospace into the defense products industry.

 Companies like General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors would soon be utilizing the gundrilling systems.  The company also entered into an agreement with Sandvik Coromant to design and build the first dedicated Ejector drilling system in the United States.  The system would increase drilling penetration rates up to seven times that of conventional gundrilling.   To date the company has built more Ejector drilling machines than any other U.S. manufacturer.

 In 1984 The Chief Executive would fall victim to a serious illness and drop from the scene.  Again the current Chief Engineer James Kent would take possession of the company and move the company to the next level. 

 The new name of Technidrill Systems, Inc. would be adopted in June 1985.  With a new name and James Kent as president the corporation would begin to supply equipment to new industries such as the oil field service providers like Halliburton Energy, Hughes Tool and Otis Engineering.  These customers would propel Technidrill to a new level of very large deep hole drilling systems utilizing Ejector, BTA, and Trepanning tooling. During this period Technidrill also entered the automotive part manufacturing industries, developing its multiple spindle gundrill and BTA machines for steering racks and transmission shafts along with machines for very small hole drilling for parts such as fuel injectors and rocker arms.

 The Growth in the plastic mold manufacturing industry fueled the design of Technidrill's three and four axis mold drilling centers.

In recent years the company began to design machines suited to sporting arms manufactures. Beginning with the development of a CNC controlled rifling machine. 

 Technidrill has been successful to date in the design and manufacturing of quality deep hole drilling machines by virtue of the high expertise and experience of top level management and shop personnel.

 Because of a strong reputation, for quality, service, continued technological advancement and our commitment to our customers, the company looks forward to continued steady growth