Inside PEKO Precision Products: A Custom Electronics Enclosure Fabricator Built on Precision and Pride
The hum of a fiber laser cutting through sixteen-gauge steel is a sound that tells you exactly where you are. At PEKO Precision Products in Rochester, New York, that sound is part of the daily rhythm — alongside the measured clank of CNC press brakes bending sheet metal to tight tolerances and the steady work of welders running clean beads on electrical enclosure frames. It's a working floor with purpose behind every step, and it's been that way since 1966.
Rochester has a manufacturing heritage that runs deep — Kodak, Xerox, Paychex all built their names here. PEKO has built its own in that same tradition, quietly and without fanfare, by doing difficult fabrication work that a lot of shops won't touch. After nearly six decades, they're still standing on the same core promise: complex custom sheet metal work, delivered with the kind of consistency that OEMs actually need.
What They Build
PEKO's core product line centers on custom sheet metal enclosures — but that phrase understates what's actually happening on their floor. These aren't off-the-shelf boxes with a logo stamped on them. PEKO builds custom electrical enclosures, electronic equipment housings, industrial control panel enclosures, rack mount enclosures, and sheet metal chassis — all engineered and fabricated to the buyer's exact specification.
The customers feeding work into PEKO are OEMs with real engineering demands. Medical device manufacturers. Industrial automation companies. Defense contractors. Instrumentation firms. These are buyers who can't afford dimensional drift, who need enclosures that fit into larger assemblies without rework, and who are often working to UL, NEMA, or customer-specific standards. PEKO's shop is built around that kind of accountability.
Technology on the Floor
PEKO runs the kind of equipment list that reflects a serious investment in repeatability. Laser cutting handles the precision blank work — tight holes, complex contours, and features that punch-only operations struggle to hold cleanly. CNC punching adds speed and versatility for production runs with repeating features. CNC press brakes handle the bending side with programmable back gauges and tooling setups that minimize operator variability on complex bend sequences.
Beyond the forming and cutting, PEKO operates welding and finishing capabilities in-house. For enclosure work, that matters more than it might seem. Welding integrity on an electrical housing affects both structural performance and aesthetics — and a shop that controls finishing internally can hold tighter standards on powder coat prep, surface condition, and final appearance. The ability to take a part from raw coil stock through to a finished, assembled enclosure without handing it off to a sub is a real operational advantage for the OEMs sourcing from them.
Beyond Standard Fabrication: The NPD Angle
What separates PEKO from a competent job shop is the depth of engagement they offer on new product development. Most sheet metal fabricators will quote your drawing. PEKO will help you develop the drawing in the first place — and they've built a formal structure around that capability.
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For hardware startups and OEMs launching new products, PEKO offers a New Product Development Self-Assessment Guide — a practical resource designed to help engineering and procurement teams figure out where they actually stand before they walk into a manufacturing conversation. It's the kind of tool that a shop offers when they've spent years watching customers show up underprepared and losing time and money because of it. It reflects a culture of partnership rather than pure transactional fabrication.
This matters to manufacturing engineers who are still working through design-for-manufacturability questions on a new enclosure. It matters to program managers running hardware development timelines who need a fabrication partner that won't wait for a perfect drawing before adding value. And it matters to procurement teams who are evaluating whether a supplier can scale with a product from prototype through production.
For teams doing initial research, PEKO's website is worth time before you pick up the phone. The capabilities pages are direct and technically honest — the kind of content written for engineers, not marketing audiences.
What Makes This Shop Different
There are hundreds of sheet metal fabricators in the United States. Fewer specialize in the enclosure space with PEKO's depth of focus. And fewer still have built a business model that deliberately takes on the complexity that other shops route around.
First, specialization creates competence. PEKO has been building enclosures long enough that their process engineers have seen most of the failure modes — the weld distortion that throws a door out of flat, the bend sequence that makes a feature impossible to reach, the finishing spec that looks fine on paper but creates adhesion problems in the field. That institutional knowledge is not something a generalist shop accumulates.
Second, their workforce reflects the region's manufacturing culture. Rochester is a skilled-trades town. The machinists and fabricators working PEKO's floor are part of a regional tradition of precision manufacturing that predates CNC by decades. The technology has changed; the standard of care hasn't.
Third, they operate at a scale that serves mid-market OEMs well. With a workforce of roughly 200 to 300 employees, PEKO is large enough to handle meaningful production volumes and complex multi-part assemblies, but focused enough that customers aren't lost in the queue behind higher-revenue programs. That's a useful middle ground that large-volume buyers often can't find at smaller job shops and mid-size OEMs can't always access at large contract manufacturers.
About PEKO Precision Products
- Founded: 1966
- Location: Rochester, New York
- Employees: 200–300
- Specialties: Custom sheet metal enclosures, precision sheet metal fabrication, new product development support
- Key Capabilities: Laser cutting, CNC punching, CNC bending, welding, finishing, assembly
- Primary Markets: OEMs in industrial automation, medical devices, defense, instrumentation, and electronics
- Notable Resource: New Product Development Self-Assessment Guide for hardware startups and OEM product launches
- Website: Visit PEKO Precision Products
Where to Find Them
PEKO Precision Products is based in Rochester, New York — a city with one of the strongest manufacturing legacies in the northeastern United States and a ready talent base to match.
Procurement managers, sourcing engineers, and operations teams evaluating custom enclosure fabrication partners can explore their capabilities, review their processes, and access their NPD resources directly at Visit PEKO Precision Products.
If your program involves complex sheet metal enclosures, tight tolerances, or a product that's still working through development — this is a shop worth a serious look.
