fortive industry manufacturing founded 1946 ; 70 years ago 1946 headquarters stow ohio u.s. products professional hand tools website www.matcotools.com matco tools inc. is an american professional tool manufacturer for the automotive and other industries 1 and is based in stow ohio united states . this includes over 13 000 different tools such as wrenches screw drivers gauges and specialty tools . matco also produces their own line of high quality toolboxes in the usa at their jamestown ny manufacturing plant . they also contract several chinese factories to manufacture their air tools electric and diagnostic tools . they also carry a similar lifetime warranty on all hand tools . 2 the company was founded in 1946 and began selling direct to professional mechanics in 1979 . 3 matco is an acronym for mac allied tool company . originally matco was the toolbox manufacturing division of mac tools . however they have not been associated with mac since 1979 . former corpoate owner danaher spun off several subsidiaries including matco in 2016 to create fortive . 4 contents 1 distribution 2 motorsport sponsorships 3 references 4 external links distribution edit similar to snap on cornwell and many mac tools dealers matco tools are sold by a local tool distributor who owns a territory by means of a franchise . 5 6 the franchise owner drives to the work locations of potential customers and typically offers financing to individuals looking to buy their tools . matco trucks are easily identified by their white color with large blue and red matco logo on the side . nmtc inc. d b a matco tools matco is a delaware corporation incorporated on january 12 1993 with its principal office at 4403 allen road stow ohio 44224 . matco is a wholly owned subsidiary of matco tools corporation mtc . mtc is a new jersey corporation with its principal office at 4403 allen road stow ohio 44224 . motorsport sponsorships edit matco sponsors or has sponsored several professional racing teams including 16 time nhra winner antron brown 7 and nhra super comp champion and top fuel racer jack beckman . 8 references edit detail matco tools.com http autorepair.about.com cs tools a aa081800a.htm about.com comparison of different professional tools about matco tools zacks equity research . danaher completes fortive spin off trading to begin today . yahoo finance . retrieved 5 july 2016 . http www.franchising.com matco franchising info http www.selectfranchiselist.com franchise matco tools franchising info http www.racingone.com article.aspx artnum 39020 antron brown article jack beckman to replace whit bazemore at dsr external links edit matco tools official site v t e hand tool manufacturers current dasco pro inc. apex tool group allen armstrong tools crescent diamond gearwrench k d tools lufkin nicholson plumb sata tools wiss xcelite bondhus buck bros. channellock cornwell tools digitool solutions disston saw works ega master eklind emerson ridgid empire level estwing felo few 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