Superior: American-Made Plumbing Hand Tools

Superior Tool has been in business for 60 Years

Superior is Preferred

Superior received an award from Ace Hardware as an Ace Preferred Vendor for partnering in the Quick Response Shipment Program to increase efficiencies in the supply chain in November, 2007.

Another Award for The UltraCut

Superior Tool was recognized for excellence in product design in the third annual Dealer Design Awards Program sponsored by The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News magazine. An independent panel of 51 contractors acted as judges in the contest. The UltraCut was the Silver Award Winner in the Tools Category. The ACHR News is the leading trade magazine in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration industries.

News Publisher John Conrad stated, "These awards give us a unique opportunity to recognize the outstanding research and development efforts that go into many of the products serving the HVAC/R industry and the awards issue gives our readers an opportunity to read about innovative installation and service solutions."

The UltraCut is Honored Again!

Superior Tool has won the 2007 Power of Partnership Gold Award for the "Manufacturer & Manufacturer" category from START-IT magazine.

The new UltraCut™ has won yet another accolade – this time an eVolution of Manufacturing Award presented by MAGNET and SmartBusiness magazine.

At the February 15th awards ceremony, COO Chuck Mintz accepted the award. “I was very honored to accept this award on behalf of the entire Superior team, plus our two partners in California, Maxwell Technologies and the Tecate Group. The product is the culmination of years of development, and it is gratifying to see all that work pay off in a product that the marketplace is embracing so wholeheartedly.”

Plant Engineering 2006 Product of the Year Award

The UltraCut™ was honored by Plant Engineering Magazine as a winner of their 2006 Product of the Year competition. We are humbled and excited to be chosen. Presentation ceremonies Took place in April, 2007.

60 Years of Service, 2007

We still think that having made it since 1947 is neat--and a tribute to all the great people who have worked for us over the years. This milestone is possible because of them.

We were awarded the 2002 Nortech Innovation Award for The DrainStick™. We are pretty pumped that our small company was able to do this two years in a row. There we were again among the picoammeters, the micro machinery and the giant companies. If you would like more info, go to the The DrainStick™ page.

Well, after years of begging, a customer finally got tired of our whining and said something nice. At the 2001 Source Tagging Council Meeting, Lowe's recognized us for our Outstanding Partnership Initiatives - part of their theft prevention program.

The same day of the Lowe's recognition, we were also presented the 2001 Nortech Innovation Award for Bayonet Threadless Tubular. The awards are presented by the Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition (NorTech) assisted by Enterprise Development, Inc. (EDI).

And with no begging at all, in 2001 we received a Retailer's Choice Award from Do-It-Yourself Retailing magazine for the DrainStick™.

Again in 2001 we received another honor for the DrainStick™. This was the Handyman Club of America's Member-Tested Seal of Approval.

Superior Tool Company was named a finalist in the Innovators in Customer Service category of the Inc./Cisco Growing with Technology Awards in 2000. This recognition celebrates the creative ways Superior Tool uses the Internet and networking technology to provide faster and more thorough pre-sales information, post-sales support and on-going interaction and service.

The Weatherhead 100 list is a compilation of the 100 fastest growing firms in Northeast Ohio based on net sales growth over a five-year period. We made the list in 1996, '97 and '98.

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Circle of Excellence

Normally, we do not get too worked up over awards from suppliers. However, our customers are really tough on us. We need outstanding results from our ERP (Computer Software) system. We think we are getting them. Fourth Shift thinks so, too. That makes these guys pretty important to us.

MRDD Award

1998 Inclusion Award. We are proud of the people that comprise the Superior Team. All of them.

A significant amount of our light assembly and packaging work is done by developmentally challenged workers in our facility. SAW Inc. is the Northeast Ohio non-profit organization that makes it happen. They honored us as Company of the Year in 1997.

50 Years of Service, 1997

It's not so much the plaque. It's just that we think that having made it since 1947 is neat. Plus, we actually were not sure about our founding date until we received the recognition.

Employer of the Year, 1996

More recognition of our using the best workers to do the jobs we have.