Founded by Guy W. Kuhn in 1963, Kuhn Tool & Die Co. has built its identity around a simple rule: “Make it right.” The Meadville company serves manufacturers across industries, with particular experience creating precision gages for turbine-blade and vane production. It also manufactures the Original Clearview Radi-Angle Form Dresser.
Bra-Vor Tool & Die Company, IncFounded in 1968, Meadville’s Bra-Vor Tool & Die Company makes precision fine-metal stampings, tooling and gages for manufacturers in demanding markets. With more than 50 years in the trade, the company handles simple and complex designs in a modern, clean, temperature-controlled facility, including complete high-speed progressive dies and machining to tolerances as tight as 0.0005 inch. Its in-house quality system controls work from start to finish, with inspections shaped by customer quality plans.332999MEADVILLE, PA
Starn Tool & Manufacturing CompanyFounded in 1945 by toolmaker Gleason Starn, Starn Tool & Manufacturing produces precision-machined parts in Meadville, Pennsylvania, taking projects from prototype quantities of one through production runs. The company grew from Gleason’s garage shop into Crawford County’s first job shop and now employs more than 60 people across its manufacturing operations. Still led by the Starn family, it marks 80 years in business in 2025 and holds AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 certification.MEADVILLE, PA
Sure Tool & Manufacturing, IncSince 1969, family-owned Sure Tool & Manufacturing has made close-tolerance tooling and precision products in Dayton, Ohio, taking complex work from in-house design through manufacture. Its capabilities span custom gaging, difficult multi-machine jobs, and specialty tooling, with precision grinding holding and inspecting features within ±0.00005 inch. Now a third-generation family business, Sure Tool also maintains ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation for dimensional measurement and gage calibration.DAYTON, OH
Graybill's Tool & Die, IncFounded in Manheim in 1956, Graybill’s Tool & Die grew from H. Roy Graybill’s machine shop into a full-service job shop designing and building special machines, automation systems, tooling, and precision-machined parts. The company now works from a 20,000-square-foot facility with about 30–35 employees, taking projects from early design and prototyping through short-run production. Its long history includes a distinctive second life for the former Cinco cigar factory, renovated as Graybill’s home in 1978.MANHEIM, PA