A service company, not just a manufacturing company
Precision Feedscrews Inc. manufactures new Extruder and Injection Molding Feedscrews for the plastics and rubber industry.
We provide complete services such as Screw Rebuilding, Special Repairs, Heavy Wear Solutions, Screw Design, Screw Re-Cuts, and provide expedited Emergency Service for your mission-critical applications! We help companies in the Plastics, Rubber and Food Industries, but can assist with any feedscrew application.
Precision Feedscrews Inc. was founded by James (Jim) and Eileen Fagan in 1986, after a long and very successful career in manufacturing feedscrews for other people. With more than 50 years experience in all phases of extruder and injection feedscrew manufacturing and rebuilding, we are uniquely qualified to work for you.
IN THE NEWS
Family Business Award Winner: Precision Feedscrews
When you discuss the history of Precision Feed Screws Inc. with owner Eileen Fagan, she paints a pretty straight-line history of the company.
“When my husband Jim got out of the service, he got a job working for a company that made screws,” she said. “I told him he was too good to be working for other people. I told him I thought we could do it ourselves.”
In 1965, Jim Fagan started his first company, Feed Screws Inc. He later sold the company, yet remained there until 1985. A year later, he founded Precision Feed Screws Inc.
Continue reading: Pittsburgh Business Times – May 4, 2017
Sisters ready to lead father’s business into its fourth decade
Two sisters are leading a manufacturing company into its 30th year in business.
Mary McAnallen and Jane Fagan are now running Precision Feedscrews Inc., the company they helped their father, James J. Fagan Sr., start in 1986.
“Dad was working all the time, mom was setting up and running the office and making us dinner every night so we could keep working,” said McAnallen, plant manager and secretary/treasurer. “When dad first started PFI, we all had to pitch in and do everything.”
McAnallen, 24 at the time, left her job in manufacturing to work in at PFI. The new company was working out of a bay at Louis Welding, with McAnallen polishing and her brother, Jerry Fagan, running the screw miller.
Meanwhile, Fagan was working full time in Texas, doing whatever she could long distance.
“I was typing mass mailers,” said Fagan, now vice president. “Dad came to see me five or six times a year, we would visit customers together and attend shows. Those trips taught me everything about his business, inside and out.”
Continue reading: New Castle News – November 1, 2016