Would you happen to know any of the motor companies by name? I’m often trying to find quality motors and it’s surprisingly difficult.

This was the best one I dealt with https://www.mabrobotics.pl/ma-actuators

It's been a while and I can't recall the other big one. I know some engineers from one of them went on to work for Clone Robotics, which seems to be doing interesting stuff with other types of actuators.