Precision manufacturing is a rapidly emerging industry in Alabama. But, for Huntsville’s Brown Precision, it’s been emerging for over 30 years. And the company is now strategically expanding to the state’s southern aerospace corridor.
Brown Precision Manufacturing started out as a “little machine shop” in Huntsville in the 1960s, says Greg Brown, CFO, who co-owns the company with his brother, Dan Brown, president. Their CPA father handled the shop’s financials for years, and when the original owner planned to sell, the employees asked their accountant to purchase the business. The Browns’ father bought the business, then known as Simco Inc., in 1986.
At the time, the business was exclusively a government contractor, supplying spare parts to the Department of Defense. “We were constantly bidding on government jobs,” Greg Brown says. “Eventually, we got frustrated with government contracting and decided to do commercial work.”
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