Amteco Inc.

Amteco Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Middletown, Ohio, manufactures high-temperature laboratory and research furnaces for advanced materials testing, selling exclusively to federal agencies as a prime contractor with no subcontract presence. The company competes predominantly under small-business set-asides; recent awards show a 50/50 split between Total Small Business designations and full-and-open procurements, with no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other minority-ownership designations present in the source.

Amteco's capability portfolio centers on specialized thermal-testing equipment: hot-rail furnaces capable of reaching 1400 to 1700 degrees Celsius, two-zone and three-zone controller units, sapphire viewport assemblies, and complete furnace systems compatible with servo-hydraulic test frames such as MTS 810 load cells. The company is classified under NAICS 333994 (Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing) and PSC Laboratory Equipment and Supplies. Representative recent work includes a $37.6 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for an AMTECO High Temperature Furnace system with five hardware components, awarded September 18, 2026 (sole-source under FAR Part 12 commercial-item procedures); a $30.7 thousand purchase order for an AMTECHO High Temperature Furnace 1400C system, awarded August 28, 2025 (sole-source, with NASA determining Amteco the sole qualified provider); and a $40.9 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order for furnaces to test GRX-810 metal alloys on Glenn Research Center's MTS servohydraulic load frame, awarded August 27, 2025.

NASA's Shared Services Center dominates Amteco's customer base, accounting for six awards totaling $235 thousand (68% of all awards and 68% of combined potential value). The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, NASA Glenn Research Center, the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, and the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center round out five customer agencies across twelve prime awards (92% coverage). Combined potential value stands at $344 thousand with 100% obligation rate — all awarded work has been fully funded. Activity has been episodic over the past five years (one award in 2020, two in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2025, one in 2026), with one award ($38 thousand) facing completion within the next twenty-four months. Amteco holds no positions on government-wide vehicles, agency-wide IDIQs, or BPAs; all work flows through direct purchase orders awarded as sole-source or lowest-price technical evaluations.