Franklin Balmar

Franklin Balmar Corporation was a fabrication company in Woodberry, Baltimore, Maryland.

[1] It was incorporated in 1917 as the Franklin Railway Supply Company.

[2] They diversified into the aerospace sector making the aluminum skin for airplanes.

[3][4] In 1967, Aero-Chatillon Corporation purchased a controlling stake of the company.

[5] In 1969, with Franklin-Balmar remaining a division, Aero-Chatillon became Macrodyne-Chatillon Corporation through a merger with Macrodyne, Inc. and Shinn Industries, Inc.,[6] which became Macrodyne Industries in 1974.