ENDERES TOOL COMPANY was founded
in Albert Lea, Minnesota in 1911, the result of a merger
between Albert Lea Machinery Company, which was founded
in 1908 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, by Joe Pihl; and Enderes
Manufacturing Company, which was founded in 1896 in Littleport,
Iowa and was owned by Ernst Enderes. Enderes Manufacturing
Company produced three tools – a 14" cutting
nipper, a staple puller, and a drop forged cold chisel.
The Albert Lea Machinery Company sold those three tools
for Enderes Manufacturing Company.
Sales soon outstripped production capabilities, and an
expansion was required. The entire operation was relocated
to a new plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The old octagon
tool plant burned to the ground in 1966, and we built our
present plant. Enderes has always been a family-held corporation.
You can count on one hand, the tool companies in America
that have had that long a life span that are still owned
and operated by the same family. We take pride in that!
SINCE 1896, the primary thrust of Enderes Tool Company
has been to produce only the highest quality Struck Hand
Tools. We can document and illustrate that all of our tools
exceed any written specifications that have ever been generated
on struck tools. One of the keys to quality is the utilization
of time-honored manufacturing techniques. These “Blacksmith”
techniques impart a quality to struck tools, which cannot
be obtained with some of the modern mass production techniques
utilized by our competitors.
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