Ampco

AMPCO SAFETY TOOLS is part of AMPCO METAL Group founded in 1914 in Wisconsin.

Between 1967 and 2002 the company experienced many changes; first becoming a public company; then a merger that formed Ampco-Pittsburgh, listing on the New York Stock Exchange; a management buyout in 1989 that took the company private again; and the divestiture of Ampco Pumps and finally bankruptcy in 2002.

As the bankruptcy concluded AMPCO was no longer the unified manufacturing company it had once been. Ampco Pumps had been sold off a few years earlier in 1995.

A buy-out group bought the Ampco Metal U.S. operations, later selling it to a European investor in 2009.

The “AMPCO Dallas Division”, consisting of AMPCO Safety Tools sales, marketing and manufacturing operations was acquired through a management buyout and continues to this day, owned and led by the same team that bought the division in 2002.

Today, Ampco offers over 2,000 different hand tools, the majority of which are made in America.