Helmel Engineering Products, Inc. is located at 6520 Lockport Road in the Town of Niagara, just outside of Niagara Falls and a few miles from the Canadian border. This location has strategic advantages since the three important industrial cities of Rochester, Buffalo and Toronto can be reached within 1 1/2 hours. The airports of Toronto and Buffalo provide easy access to any airport in North America and Europe, important for sales and service. The thruway entrance is only two miles away.

Helmel Engineering is engaged in the design, manufacture, sales and service of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and related software. They are built mainly for the manufacturing industry in the automotive, aerospace and business machine sector and for tool and die shops, moldmakers, machine and fabricating shops, stamping houses, etc. Practically anyone having to verify aphysical part to dimensions on a blueprint to a high degree of accuracy is a potential customer. A complete line of Bridge style machines are offered for manual and automatic operation.

Helmel Engineering occupies over 22,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space. The building sits on 5 acres of industrial property owned by the company. This facility is air conditioned with the exception of the storage and loading areas. The extensive machine tool park includes several fair sized machining centers and two large surface grinders with a length capacity of 168". Surface grinding to a very high degree of straightness is a specialty of Helmel Engineering and probably few, if any, companies could match this with the required consistency. This capability enables Helmel to build intrinsically accurate CMMs. Most operations to manufacture the above machines are performed in house i.e., milling, turning, drilling, welding, painting, measuring and assembly. The electronic cabinet, which is part of the motorized machine, is also assembled in house. Measuring machines are calibrated with a laser before shipment. Field installations and training are performed by in-house technicians and engineers. Full employment in this facility is approximately 28.

Specialty Components such as; granite plates, precision bearings, optical measuring systems, computers, digital readouts, motors and controllers that are part of the measuring machine are purchased from reliable vendors. Helmel Engineering has developed a genuine relationship with most of these vendors; some go back to 1973.

Helmel Engineering participates and has always participated in most of the relevant industrial exhibitions i.e., the IMTS and Quality Expo in Chicago, WESTEC in Los Angeles and several local SME shows. The majority of the sales are accomplished through independent dealerships. Most of these are in the USA, but they also have representation in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Korea, Australia, Turkey, Israel, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Machines have also been delivered to countries of Pakistan, Denmark, Sweden and Hungary. The deliveries to China were originally based on Helmel's reputation for reliability.