Established in 1967 by William Dowdakin Sr. to provide finishing work on critical inside diameters on valve sleeves, over the years Rockford ID Shop has become known to it's customers as a source of high quality machining expertise. Rockford ID Shop is focused on precision lathe, mill work, and honing. We have over 100 years of combined experience in processing and machining aerospace, industrial, tooling, and automotive parts in materials that include aluminum, stainless, brass, and tool steels.

We have a close relationship with suppliers that provide us with special machine and tool design, heat treatment, surface treatments, jig grinding, surface, OD, and ID grinding, or almost any other process required for your parts. All of these suppliers are within twenty miles of our facility, thus reducing transit delays during processing. Established materials-suppliers can provide us with almost any material, or we can use your supplier if you prefer.

Many of our customers take advantage of our ability to process their parts in one of our focused cells; where we schedule manufacturing to their forecasts and then ship to their requirements from kanbans. This approach has allowed us to achieve an enviable on-time delivery rate, as well as a nearly flawless delivered quality record.