As we look back on 2025, we would like to thank everyone who supported us in our second year of business. It was a year full of surprises, both exciting and challenging, and throughout it all your support helped us deliver high quality, custom metal parts for customers across the country. We’d like to share some of the progress we made in 2025.
Expanded Capabilities
Our new capabilities enable us to offer more services with shorter lead times.
- We invested in a microbulk nitrogen gas tank, which improves uptime, cut quality, production efficiency, and scalability – all resulting in faster, better quality cut parts.
- We added a wider variety of tooling to our press brake that enables us to expand the range of parts we can bend, achieving tighter radiuses and bending smaller features.
- We added more, larger vibratory tumblers to handle larger part volumes and sizes. Vibratory tumbling deburrs edges, smooths surfaces, and produces a consistent finish across large order quantities.
- We expanded our network of trusted, local vendors to expand the value-added services we offer, which include assembly, welding, powder coating, anodizing, electropolishing, black oxidizing, hard coating, heat treating, passivating, chromating, galvanizing, chemical conversion coating, electro plating, hardening, and annealing.
Growth
Ward’s Manufacturing’s investments in website improvements, online services listings, sales representatives, and other sales/marketing strategies accelerated our growth in 2025. Despite the tariffs increasing our metal costs and impacting many of our customers, we’ve built a stronger and more varied customer base with several exciting projects lined up for 2026.
- 82.35% of customers repeated business in 2025.
- Exceeded Q4 sales goals by 13.82%
- Served customers in 44 states
- Expanded to new industries including medical, data centers, mechatronics, and metrology.
Success Stories
- An original equipment manufacturer had only 4 weeks until their powder coating line would be down for 2 months. Ward’s Manufacturing was able to deliver several months of forecasted demand in only 3 weeks, giving the manufacturer time to powder coat everything before the line went down and ensuring they would be able to meet customer demand during the downtime.
- An aerospace company had an urgent need for a custom prototype to unblock their project. Ward’s Manufacturing fiber laser cut, CNC press brake bent, and delivered the custom prototype same-day, saving the customer time and money.
- A mechatronics company was hand cutting metal parts – a slow, manual process. Ward’s Manufacturing adapted the part design to be fiber laser cut and bent on a press brake in mass quantities, and then fabricated the parts ourselves. This automated process enabled precise repeatability in a tenth of the time.
A Sample of the Successful Products We Manufactured
- Electronics components for chips and circuit boards
- A stunning public sculpture in Los Angeles
- Baseball foul poles
- Robotic surgery equipment
- Data center parts
- Decorative wall sconces
Green Manufacturing Certification
Ward’s Manufacturing, along with Raytheon and Senesco Marine, were the first businesses in Rhode Island to receive the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Green Certification for Green Manufacturing, in recognition of our commitment to sustainability and efficiency.
Looking Ahead
In 2026, our goals include strengthening our long-term partnerships with repeat customers, expanding production capacity to support even higher volumes and faster turnarounds, and deepening our work in our top industries; electronics, aerospace, energy, original equipment manufacturing, and consumer goods.
We’ve met many of our strongest partners via word of mouth. We would be grateful if you could refer us to anyone who might need metal fabrication or have services that could complement ours.
Thank you for supporting our work as part of the movement to strengthen domestic metal fabrication.
Thank you,
The Ward’s Manufacturing Team
