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Greenlee is an American industrial and electrical tool company headquartered in Rockford, Illinois.It was founded in 1862 by twin brothers Robert L. and Ralph S. Greenlee to manufacture their invention called a hollow chisel mortiser, consisting of a drill surrounded by four chisel blades used in making mortises (the hole) for mortise and tenon joints, for the furniture industry in Rockford. [1]
Illinois Tool Works Inc. or ITW is an American Fortune 500 [2] company that produces engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems, and specialty products. It was founded in 1912 by Byron L. Smith and has built its growth on a "small-wins strategy" based on decentralization, simplicity, customer-focused innovation, and ...
Vaughan was founded in 1869 in Chicago, Illinois by Alexander Vaughan, an 18-year-old blacksmith, as a plumbing business. Vaughan soon set up a blacksmith shop behind a hardware store in Chicago owned by Sidney Bushnell. On June 15, 1869, Vaughan was granted a patent for an improved post auger [2] and began producing custom tools.
In 1924, Becker relocated the company to its current location in Sycamore, Illinois. [7] By 1949, it had become the United States' leading producer of wire nuts. [8] In 2010, Ideal acquired three American hand tool manufacturers: Western Forge in January, [9] [10] Pratt-Read in March, [11] [12] and SK Hand Tools in August. [13] [14] [15]
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .
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Klein Tools was founded in 1857 in Chicago, Illinois by German immigrant Mathias Klein. [8] The first tool Klein made was a pair of side-cutting pliers for a telegraph lineman. [9] The company grew as the telegraph and eventually telephone and electrical industries grew after the Civil War by adding 100 types of pliers in the 1910s.
The company was founded in 1891 by Winthrop Ingersoll when he moved W.R. Eynon & Co. from Cleveland, Ohio to Rockford. Originally, Ingersoll Machine Tools focused almost entirely on milling machinery and processes for metal removal.