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SK Hand Tools

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SK Hand Tools Corporation is a major manufacturer tools for automotive and industrial customers. Major products include sockets and drive tools, wrenches, air tools, and other mechanic's tools. Outlets for their products include independent tool-truck dealers, auto parts stores, and major internet vendors such as Sears and amazon.com.

SK Hand Tools Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryManufacturing
FoundedChicago, IL (1921)
HeadquartersChicago, IL
Key people
Claude Fuger, President & CEO
Cliff Rusnak, Vice President & Board Chairman[1]
Websitewww.skhandtools.com

History

SK began as the Sherman-Klove Company, specializing in screw-machine products. A major customer at the time, Hindsdale Tools, ceased operations during the Great Depression, left SK with a large inventory of products and a tool division was created to sell it off.

SK invented and recieved a patent for the round head ratchet wrench[2], which remains a mainstay of their, and every major competitor's product line today.

In 1962, SK, along with manufacturing partner Lectrolite Corp., of Defiance, OH was bought out by Symington-Wayne. That company was later bought out by Dresser Industries. In 1985 SK became part of Facom Tools.[3] Following a takeover by Stanley Tools in 2005 of their former parent company, French based Facom Tools, they became independent through a management buyout.[4]

Manufacturing Locations

SK maintains manufacturing plants in Chicago[5], and Defiance, OH, in the former Lectrolite plant. Screwdrivers are imported from France, a legacy of the Facom era, and the air tools line is imported as well.

References

  1. ^ http://www.skhandtool.com/Default.aspx?fusemode=15
  2. ^ http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT1981526
  3. ^ http://www.alloy-artifacts.com/sk-knurled-sockets.html
  4. ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/product-management/7830433-1.html
  5. ^ http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Tourism/ThingsToDo/CityGallery/CityGallery.html

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