Inland Tool Company is a full service metal stamper and assembler located in Central Illinois in Mt. Pulaski. Inland Tool Company began as a tool and die shop in 1974. At that time we were located on 3 acres in 11,000 sq ft of space. In the early 1980’s, in a effort to mitigate the boom or bust cycle associated with tooling, we expanded into the stamping area. We built a new facility, expanding to 25,000 sq ft. Most of the parts we produced were fairly small and made in progressive dies.

In 1988 when Diamond Star Motors (now Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America –MMMA) built their new plant in Normal, Illinois, Inland Tool Company became one of their earliest suppliers. Through MMMA work we greatly expanded our automotive exposure. Since then we have continued to expand to other transplants and large Tier 1’s.

In the mid 1990’s we greatly expanded our value added welding and assembly business. We added projection, spot, robotic arc welding, plus various assembly operations.

In December 1999 Inland Tool Company became QS9000 certified. With the elimination of QS9000 we are now ISO9001 2000 certified. More recently we have begun implementing lean manufacturing and SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) concepts and practices. Also, we have implemented vision systems to ensure part quality and to electronically verify poke yoke practices. All of these are recent initiatives of continuous improvement to maintain and improve costs, quality and service.

In April 2000 we completed our new 40,000 sq ft stamping and assembly building. This new facility is located on 25 acres on Route 121 and just across the street from our older facility. Then in August 2007 we added additional square footage to our stamping facility. This latest expansion increased our square footage to approximately 85,000 sq ft.

As we expanded into our new facility we added 11 stamping presses (for a total of 29) and 7 additional welders. The stamping presses included several big bed presses (up to 120”X60”). The larger, up to 600Ton presses, with a feedline capable of feeding material up to 72’ wide and handling coils of up to 20,000 pounds, now enable us to make larger progressive parts. We also greatly increased our tandem and hand transfer capacity.

As a full service stamper and assembler we design, build and maintain our own tooling. Building on our tool and die roots we build quality and ease of processing upfront into our tools. This ensures superior quality and ease of maintenance.

Our offering of services include metal stamping, CNC and high volume machining, spot and projection welding and robotic arc welding and general assembly. We service the automotive, appliance, electrical controls, leisure and lawn and garden industries, among others. Inland Tool Company is a strong, dynamic, growing, quality and service oriented company that builds on its strengths to solve our customers’ problems and meet their stamping and assembly needs.

Competitive Advantages – Why Use Us?

There are companies that are bigger or that may do more things than we do. However, we don’t believe there are any that do the whole picture – quality, service, technical support, tooling and that provide an overall value better than we do.

Our competitive advantages include designing and building quality in up front through the design and building of the tooling. We design tooling to minimize variability (cause of quality problems) and to run smoothly, with easy maintenance.

Also, our history of being able to develop and keep our key people is a competitive advantage. Our labor force takes pride in their work and in the Company. We sincerely try to meet or where possible exceed your expectations in quality, service and value. We try to live up to our motto of “Large Company Capability, Small Company Value and Service.”

Customers

Inland Tool Company seeks a match between our values, skills and capabilities and a customer which will value the contributions that we make to their long term business health. We seek long term relationships built on trust, quality, service and value. We honestly believe and have proven it in the past that we can produce stamped parts and assemblies better and at a better value than our competition. We can do that because we work with you upfront to provide not just parts, but solutions to problems. Are you the type of customer we are looking for? Are we the type of supplier that you are looking for? Hopefully the answer to both questions is a resounding “YES!”