Aerospace supplier says Ball owes $600K for parts

BROOMFIELD — Kansas-based aerospace-parts manufacturer HM Dunn Co. Inc. sued Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. last week, alleging the soon-to-be severed division of Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) is refusing to pay a $601,000 bill. 

The lawsuit filed in Broomfield County District Court claims that HMD and Ball signed a contract last year in which HMD would provide Ball with parts that would ultimately be sold to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.

The parts were provided in March 2022, the complaint said, and in June 2022, Ball infomed HMD that the supplies did “not meet quality control specifications and requisite measurements prescribed” in the…