Shape Master Tool Co

Established in 1946, AJAX Tool Works Inc. manufactures industrial tools for various markets. Located in Franklin Park, Ill., the company specializes in heat-treating and forging. It offers tool accessories, such as chipping hammer tools, electric hammer tools, rivet buster and paving breakers/drill. The company serves various markets, including construction/industrial trade, foundries, railroads, utility and telephone industries. It has a network of about 1500 distributors and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. AJAX Tool Works Inc. processes specialty tools and accessories.

Founded in 1986, North American Tool Corporation is an ISO 9001:2000-registered special cutting tool manufacturer located in South Beloit, Ill. The company supplies a wide range of products, including special taps, threading dies, thread plugs, ring gages, solid carbide taps, thread mills, tapping fluids, combination drills, cylindrical plugs, screw thread inserts, and extension and pulley taps. Its subsidiary, Gaylee Corporation, is a manufacturer of solid carbide and carbide-tipped thin saws, as well as multiple saw gangs and special-purpose cutters. The company s other subsidiary, Bitner Tooling Technologies, is a supplier of solid carbide and carbide-tipped cutting tools, such as cut-off and shave tools, subland and special drills, circular and dovetail form tools, special reamers, combination tools and recess tooling, as well as custom and blueprint special tools.

Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company has long been one of the world's leading suppliers of metal removal tooling. Since its first cutting tool patent in 1889, the company has strived to provide the most innovative and productive metal removal solutions on the market. Ingersoll pioneered the development of indexable carbide end mills. It was one of the first to introduce the On-Edge insert configuration. It received the first patent for an indexable ball nose end mill and quickly followed with the first two-effective ball nose. Today, Ingersoll Cutting Tools offers a wide range of milling products and, with its close ties to the many various resources of the IMC Group of companies, it stands poised to bring forth even more exciting innovations to the metal removal process. Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company maintains a location in Rockford, Ill.