Business Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Most Saturdays: 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
North Central Machine opened its doors in 1994 starting out in a single car garage in Houghton Lake, Michigan doing short-run jobs nobody else wanted to do, and delivering them with an old Chevy truck and a utility trailer to customers as far away as Argos, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. Being new to the manufacturing industry of northern Michigan, the small company started out with Kurt Kuzimski figuring out how to process the jobs, and his father knocking on doors to find the work. The two worked hard at building a strong customer base by making precision parts as fast, and accurately as possible.
North Central Machine incorporated under the name of Kuzimski Enterprises, Inc. on October 15, 2014, hiring a small crew of 8 employees. Holding on to a vision for the future, Kurt Kuzimski, Vice President at the time, was able to make his dream become a reality in 2015 when he had a new 6,500 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility built at 9100 Knapp Road in Houghton Lake, Michigan. He became President and sole owner of the company that year.
Original Shop
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Current State-of-the-art Facility
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Having a strong work ethic has been key in Kurt Kuzimski’s success, and fostering that ideal in the small team at North Central Machine has created a warm and friendly atmosphere of caring individuals who are proud to create parts that are both Michigan Made and American Made!
North Central Machine has become an important supplier to customers throughout the state of Michigan, and has supported customers with functional design solutions of their critical components with a quicker turnaround time than most manufacturing shops in the area. This small job-shop strives to find cost saving solutions for its customers as well as create durable, accurate parts.
Kurt Kuzimski has become a trusted advisor, helping customers succeed with their projects throughout all of his 25 years in the business. He excels in finding cost saving solutions for his customers. By having access to the most common types of machining and finishing processes, or by having the equipment and technology in house, Kurt has found that he can help his customers with their need of getting things done quickly by becoming a turn-key shop. By designing fixtures to make his own processes faster and more accurate, he can also pass savings on to his customers by getting precision parts shipped out faster.
Kurt also excels in fine-tuning precision grinding processes to reach tolerance requirements as quickly as possible. One such process allows large parts to be ground within .0002 tolerances in its freestanding state. If you know anything about steel, you will know that after a part has been sent out for heat-treating (a hardening process used for durability of the part), the process changes the molecular structure of the steel causing it to bend and warp in unpredictable ways. The longer and skinnier the part, the worse this bending and warping gets.
These particular parts were sent to machine shops throughout the state of Michigan, yet none were able to match the results achieved by North Central Machine. A determined machinist, Kurt Kuzimski studied and defined a process that achieved the results needed in order to reach the high spec tolerances required for his customer’s key components.
Working closely with customers to meet their design needs without breaking their budget has made North Central Machine a trustworthy and reliable source in the machining industry of Northern Michigan.
