About Us

Barber-Nichols started as a two-employee company that is still continuing to grow over 55 years later. With a dedication to the purpose and core values, Barber-Nichols has earned a 98% repeat customer base. In areas such as aerospace, cryogenics, military defense, energy, transportation, and more we are able to pave the way for the future. Would you like to help get rockets off the ground? Help create machinery that develops the latest medical technology? Help the military defend our country? And that’s just the beginning! Join us and start a career that makes a difference.

Purpose

Explore the universe, enable sustainable energy, and protect freedom through innovative turbomachinery solutions.

Our Values

• Foster each other’s strengths
• Connect passion with purpose
• One team, all in

Barber-Nichols is a subsidiary of Graham Corporation (GHM). Graham Corporation is a global leader in designing and manufacturing mission-critical fluid, power, heat transfer, and vacuum technologies for the defense, space, energy, and process industries. Graham Corporation is a public company with a main campus in Batavia, NY, USA. Dan Thoren, the previous President and CEO of Barber-Nichols is the current President and CEO of Graham Corporation.

Graham Corporation

BN continues to experience rapid growth in current business industries including undersea power & propulsion systems, thermal management systems, space-based applications, and advanced power generation & energy storage. To continue supporting our expansion, the company acquired and modified two additional buildings adjacent to the current campus.

Ken and Bob had a dream about working for themselves, doing things that could have a tangible impact on the world, and having a lot of fun in the process in Colorado. They founded Barber-Nichols (BN) as a turbomachinery engineering company in 1966. Early on, they saw the need to broaden the company’s capabilities to include manufacturing and testing their innovative custom designs. BN continues to grow into complex production and system integration programs rapidly. We are located in Arvada, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.

On August 19, 1985, Bob Barber set the land speed record for a steam-powered car. The vehicle was designed and built at Barber-Nichols and traveled at 234.33 km/h (145.607 mph). The vehicle is currently displayed in the National Automobile Museum in Reno, NV.

Do you want to know more about how Barber-Nichols got started and what we’ve done to get here? Check out our 50th-anniversary video. It’s a fun way to get a glimpse of BN’s history.