1875 Ajax is founded by Mr. J.R. Blakeslee Ajax has been in the machinery building business for over 135 years.  In this time over 6000 machines have been built and put into production around the world.  Ajax-CECO has maintained a reputation for building and designing rugged machinery that serves forge shop owners for decades, producing products at closer tolerances than most of our competitors' machinery. 

We have also rebuilt hundreds of our own machines and those of our competitors over the last 30 years.  We maintain an experienced staff of service technicians and machinists to serve our customers' needs.  Forging machinery repairs, press parts, and new forging equipment are constantly flowing through the factory in order to meet customer requirements.At Ajax-CECO, our mission is to serve the global forging industry as the preferred supplier of high quality, custom forging machinery with the widest range of capabilities - and to be the single source for forging innovation, from concept to implementation.