A-1 Tool History

• 1946 Norm Sauey Starts A-1 Tool in the basement of a house
• 1948 A-1 rents factory space for their first expansion
• 1949 A-1 builds their first 3,000 square foot building
• 1953 A-1 puts on a 2,000 square foot addition
• 1963 A-1 is land locked at this location and builds the current building
• 1966 A-1 puts a 2 bay addition on that increases the square footage to 45,000
• 1968 Beatrice Foods buys A-1 Tool
• 1985 Walter Lovejoy buys A-1 tool from Beatrice Foods
• 1993 Triangle Tool buys A-1 Tool and Geoff Luther becomes the President
• 2004 A-1 Tool buys the north building adding 37,000 square feet and the land for future expansion as needed
• 2016 A1 Tool wins recognition as SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) Mold Maker of the Year