Since 1854, Warwood Tool has hand-forged industrial hand tools in its Wheeling, West Virginia factory, where American steel is shaped into equipment for demanding work. Founded by immigrant Henry Warwood and still family-owned and operated, the company has remained in the same factory since 1907 and is known for tools such as its Pulaski axe, used by generations of forestry and firefighting crews. Warwood says it has never made cast tools, relying instead on skilled workers and time-tested forging methods to produce products made entirely in the USA.
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Wright Tool CompanyRooted in Barberton since C. Nelson Wright founded it in 1927, Wright Tool Company remains a privately held American manufacturer with one factory and only four presidents in nearly a century. Its employees forge professional-grade hand tools for the demanding work of industrial professionals, using U.S. steel and patented Wright Drive design.BARBERTON, OH
Channellock, IncSince 1886, Channellock, Inc. has forged professional hand tools in Meadville, Pennsylvania, with its identity built around American-made pliers. Still run by the fifth generation of the DeArment family, the company operates 260,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities with more than 350 associates and produces over 75 types and sizes of pliers. Its tongue-and-groove pliers, first developed in 1933, remain the signature of a company that continues to manufacture much of its line on U.S. soil.MEADVILLE, PA
Arthur R. Warner CompanyFounded in 1961 by former Latrobe Steel superintendent and World War II Navy machinist Arthur Richard “Dick” Warner, Arthur R. Warner Company manufactures high-speed steel cutting tools and related products in the United States. The Warner family continues the business under President Roxanne Warner, carrying forward Dick’s craftsmanship and a customer-and-employee-as-family tradition while supplying both custom-made and standard tooling.LATROBE, PA
Cornwell Quality ToolsFounded by blacksmith Eugene Cornwell in 1919, Cornwell Quality Tools manufactures hand tools and tool storage for professional technicians, selling directly through mobile tool dealers across the country. Now headquartered in Wadsworth, Ohio, the family- and employee-owned company still makes hand-forged tools at its Mogadore plant, where production dates to 1923, and operates the former Kennedy Manufacturing facility in Van Wert. Cornwell is the longest-running mobile tool company selling direct to professional technicians in the United States.WADSWORTH, OH