Taylor Tool Celebrates Milestone
They have built bar stock special tooling to customer machining specifications for 100 years.
Posted: January 18, 2018
Established in 1918, J.A.M. Taylor Tool Co. Limited (Cambridge, ON) is a family owned, fourth generation Canadian manufacturing company specializing in quality cutting tools comprising of taps, reamers and dies. “Today we celebrate the evolution of J.A.M. Taylor Tool as we enter our second century,” noted Todd Hinde, a fourth generation family member who is carrying on the family tradition of delivering high quality standards in bar stock special tooling made to blueprints and customer specifications for machining applications.
Over 100 years, their reputation for quality specialty tooling expanded to include all of Canada, the U.S. and Europe, with many of the tools being sold worldwide by their distributors. Their story begins in January 1918, when John Alexander MacDonald resigned from Canadian Fairbanks Morse (Toronto, ON), a cutting tool distributor, and founded J.A.M. Taylor Tool Company in Toronto. The firm began distributing cutting tools as agents for British and American tool companies. By 1922, the company incorporated as income rose prior to the Great War. In 1941, they began manufacturing cutting tools for the war effort and, as business grew, the second generation of the family joined the operation, signaling the need for further expansion. In 1965, the third generation took over operations and began focusing manufacturing on popular special tools in their newly built manufacturing plant.
This expansion enabled them to become a pioneer in the soft conversion process from Imperial to Metric. They added metric to the range of sizes available from Imperial, Pipe, Locknut, Acme, special and standard sizes for reamers and the Right and Left Hand Taps market. Forward thinking led to a joint venture between Taylor Tool and Arnos Tap and Die from England in 1981. After completion of an addition to accommodate the need for more manufacturing space, the company began manufacturing dies in Canada under the company name Arch Tool. Since that time, and after two more additions to the manufacturing plant, the company remains commited to research and development in the cutting to field to offer users engineered systems for their toughest threading needs.
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