MIDWEST

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Company (Midwest) began manufacturing metal cutting snips and related hand tools in Sturgis, Michigan in 1945. Today, Midwest is a privately held Michigan corporation that operates manufacturing facilities in Sturgis, MI; Grand Rapids, MI; Kalkaska, MI; and Caledonia, OH.

In the beginning, Midwest operated as the highest quality private label manufacturer of edge hand tools for many leading professional quality brands. Today, the company's Midwest Snips® national brand has become a leading tradesman brand both domestically and in many regions globally. All models of the company's Midwest Snips aviation and tinner snips are manufactured by Midwest in its USA facilities.

As a leading innovator and manufacturer of metal cutting snips and specialty hand tools, Midwest has developed and owns numerous product design and utility patents that enhance Midwest product performance.

See the Midwest product range here midwestsnips.com

KNIPEX

Knipex the pliers specialist.

Our fundamental idea is to focus. Only as specialists can we offer our customers top performance and survive against global competition. In over 140 years, we have accumulated a very extensive pliers and manufacturing know-how, which can be found in every single pair of KNIPEX pliers.

What we can do and know today is not enough for the future. That is why we work on constant improvement everywhere in the company – in terms of products, processes, our organisation and our skills.

Made in Wuppertal, Germany

We manufacture exclusively in Germany, at the founding location in Wuppertal.

With a vertical range of manufacture of almost 100%, we can control all production steps and directly influence and continuously improve them to the best possible quality.

From the product idea to the delivery of the finished pliers to our customers: we do everything under one roof. Short distances and direct dialogue enable close coordination of all processes and the exchange of all employees involved.

See Knipex product range here knipex.fi

STUBAI

The Stubai Valley has been a good ground for the metal processing for centuries. Since 1960, the cooperative network guarantees to forging under the name "Stubai tool industry" for quality.

Mother of companies operating under the brand Stubai is the Stubai tool industry reg.Gen.m.b.H.

17 companies belong to this association. Each of these companies is a specialist in a specific product category. The cooperative, as a strong roof, maintains the brand name, is responsible for marketing, sales and logistics. From the Stubai tool industry two subsidiaries emerged:

STUBAI ZMV GmbH – Agency for Marketing and Sales & Stubai KSHB GmbH – Production

Environmental awareness is a major concern of our traditional cooperative. Not without reason, the Stubai tool industry reg.Gen.mbH is proud to carry the national coat of arms. Responsibly we bear this seal on many export markets and thus do not only represent our company but also our home. Today, Stubai as a brand is present in over 60 countries.

See Stubai product range here stubai.com

EDMA

EDMA a range of professional tools since 1937.

The first nibbler, was created by engineer Pierre Gréhal in 1950. It has been joined over the years, in the EDMA catalog, by many other tools intended for building constructors and craftsmen.

Today, the EDMA offer includes over 900 hand tools.

They are dedicated to drywallers, painters, tilers, floor installers, roofers, facade installers, masons, landscapers.

The hand tools offered for these different professions specifically meet the needs of the constructor in the different phases of his work sites.

See Edma product range here edma.fr

VAUGHAN

VAUGHAN is known around the world for its assortment of exceptional American-made hand tools, which includes hammers, pry bars and more. 

In 1869, VAUGHAN began business with the "Improved Post Auger" and from there, expanded further into the hand tool industry with more than 50 different tools. With dedication to quality and innovation, VAUGHAN has become a trusted brand in the construction, woodworking, and metalworking industries for over 155 years.

JOKARI

From electric shop to specialist for cable & wire stripping tools - For more than 50 years the name Jokari has been standing globally for high-quality wire strippers made in Germany. 

Already led by the third generation of the family of the founder we assert oneself as an international acting company. But of course we started as a small company when the Krampe couple founded an electric and hifi shop in 1949. Almost every day they got insights into their costumers´ wishes, and by the time master electrician Josef Krampe saw where technics were in need of improvement. On this grounds he invented a couple of years later the revolutionary and patented Jokari-knife that made the painstaking wire stripping a lot easier. The grat success encouraged Josef Krampe to build up a manufacturing firm for wire strippers. By doing so the former craft business became a nationally and internationally successful industrial company. 

We act globally and have a worldwide sales network for our tools. We continually broaden our product range, realize innovative ideas and stabilize our leading position as a renowned producer for precision tools in stripping and dismantling technology.

See Jokari product range here jokari.de

OLFA

In 1956 Mr. Yoshio Okada, the founder of OLFA CORPORATION, invented the world's first Snap-Off Blade Cutter. The inspiration for this incredible idea came from breaking off segments of chocolate bars and analyzing the snap edges of broken glass.

This unique invention has since become a worldwide best seller and is commonly referred to as an OLFA® Cutter. Yoshio Okada also invented the world's first rotary cutter in 1979. It revolutionized how people cut fabric by switching them from using scissors to rolling a circular blade over the material. OLFA's rotary cutters are used around the world today by quilters.

Since then, OLFA® has been committed to making tools that improve how people cut materials by developing products that not only attain an inimitable level of sharpness but that are also practical to use from the user's standpoint. This includes -- for example -- professional-grade tools used at construction sites, in packaging and shipping operations, and office work, as well as tools used in the artistic world for papercrafts, quilting, modeling and more. OLFA® makes a wide range of products that are used in diverse ways.

The holders and handles that allow users to gain the full cutting performance of these high-quality blades are designed, developed and manufactured in Japan and subjected to stringent quality checks throughout the process. OLFA® is proud of the unwavering quality that goes into every product it makes.

See Olfa product range here olfa.com