The Metal Slitting, Edging & Packaging Experts

Tool King, Inc. strives to source all of our raw material from RoHS and Conflict Materials compliant suppliers. In the world of metal distribution, there’s nothing “run of the mill” about Tool King. Since 1976, Tool King has served clients in several countries across the globe, and we’ll continue to evolve and flourish with our customers, through partnerships in the current and future market place for the products and services we provide. A “niche” metals services center, and an indispensable “tool” for metal buyers, we feature some of the finest flat-rolled inventories, complemented with remarkable slitting and edging capabilities, including:

• Cold Rolled Strip: High Carbon & Spring Steels, Low Carbon
• Stainless Strip, Copper based alloys & Aluminum
• Galvanized, Electrogalvanized, Galvannealed
• Narrow coil slitting, restricted-thickness and width tolerances
• Coil Edging (skiving): round, square, “safety,” deburred, round/square, beveled, custom
• Oscillate/traverse wound coils

You can have complete faith in Tool King’s impeccable quality, slitting and edging genius, supply reliability, expert service and knowledge, and outstanding value. We welcome and appreciate the privilege of being your supply “tool.”

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Our Heritage

Tool King was founded in 1976 by Peter and Bjorn Hestad, supplying manufacturers and job shops with tool steels (thus, the name “Tool King”). In 1980 they purchased their first slitting line, satisfying customers’ burgeoning needs for thin and narrow, tight-tolerance coil. Since then, the firm has evolved and expanded into today’s broad range of narrow-coil capabilities. Yet the company remains, heart and soul, a “family” business.

Plant Specifications

• 40,000 sq. ft.; heat & humidity controlled; brick construction; built 1984
• Docks: 3 recessed, 1 ground; 40-foot trailer accommodation
• Trade Organization Memberships
• Spring Manufacturers Institute; Tooling & Manufacturing Association.

How did we get the name Tool King?

Our name “Tool King Inc.” would imply we are some type of tool and die shop or stamping facility but we are actually a metal service center supplying various grades of primarily narrow width slit metals in coil to the manufacturing industry.

Way back in 1976, Bjorn Hestad (our founder) incorporated Tool King, Inc. as a tool Steel distributor selling blocks of steel and drill rod to Tool & Die Shops for manufacturing dies. We were selling Tool Steel, and that is how we came up with the name “Tool King”.

Over the years, we sold less and less tool steel. In 1980 we moved into a warehouse, purchased our first metal slitting line and began distributing narrow width slit coils.

Fast forward to today. We now have six slitting lines, three skiving/oscillate winding lines and have not sold any tool steel in years, we have maintained our name because of the high quality reputation we have gained as a metals supplier to the manufacturing industry.