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Apex Tool Group is an American supplier of hand tools and power tools. It was formed as a joint venture of Cooper Industries and Danaher by the merger of Cooper Tools and Danaher's Tools and Components segment. In October 2012, Danaher and Cooper sold Apex to Bain Capital for about $1.6 billion.
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In January 2017, Apex Tool Group announced they would end the manufacturing of Allen and Armstrong hand tools in their Sumter, South Carolina manufacturing plant. With this, Apex Communications Director Kelly Rhoads confirmed the line would cease production on March 31. This ended production of the Allen brand in hex keys, L-key, and T-handle ...
The Saginaw plant was soon closed and a new plant in Apex, North Carolina became the chief U.S. manufacturing plant. The brand was a member of the Cooper Tools group until that group was sold off to form Apex Tool Group in 2012 and Cooper Industries was acquired by Eaton Corporation.
Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest
The Plomb company began selling tools under the Proto name instead. [4] In 1971, the Plumb Company was acquired by the Ames Company. In 1981, Plumb was sold to Cooper Industries; [3] in 2010, the Cooper Hand Tools division was spun off into Apex Tool Group. [5]
Xcelite was founded in 1921 by F. Birney Farrington (1886-1962), as the Park Metalware Company, Inc., a small metalworking shop in Orchard Park, New York. [2] John Zilliox’s (1874-1971) U.S. patent 1,386,217 for an adjustable wrench, launched the company into manufacturing hand tools for worldwide distribution.
Armstrong Tools was an American industrial hand tool manufacturer. [1] In its final years, it existed as a brand of Apex Tool Group , LLC and manufactured the majority of its tools in the United States, focusing mostly on aerospace, government, and military users.