Channellock
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | Evansburg, Pennsylvania, United States (1886) |
| Founder | George B. DeArment |
| Headquarters | Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Products | Hand tools |
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Number of employees
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400 |
| Website | www.channellock.com |
Channellock is an American company that produces hand tools. It is best known for its pliers—the company manufactures more than 140 types of pliers—particularly its eponymous style of tongue-and-groove, slip-joint pliers. Its pliers have distinctive blue grips; the company has been using the same trademarked shade of blue since 1956.
It also produces cutting pliers, linemen's pliers, long nose pliers, adjustable wrenches, screwdrivers, nutdrivers and special purpose pliers, as well as multi-function tools for the fire service and other first responders. According to the company, as of 2009[update], all of its pliers were manufactured at one of its two facilities in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
The company was founded in 1886 when George B. DeArment, a blacksmith from Evansburg, Pennsylvania, began hand-forging farrier's tools and selling them from town to town out of the back of a wagon. The business eventually became known as the Champion Bolt and Clipper Company.
In 1904, the company moved to a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) facility in Meadville, Pennsylvania and added nippers, pinchers and open-end wrenches to its product line. George B. DeArment’s two sons, Almon W. and J. Howard DeArment, became partners in the company in 1911 and expanded the product line again to include hammers. In 1923, the company moved again to a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) facility at its current location in Meadville. Four years later, the name of the company was changed to the Champion–DeArment Tool Company.
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