CS Tool Engineering Inc

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Founded in 1967 by brothers Don and Tom Mabie, CS Tool Engineering was originally known as Cedar Springs Tool and Die. Housed in the back of a produce market on the north end of town, the young company’s first jobs were repairing stamping dies for a local stamping house.


1967 - Innovation from the Beginning


But it wasn’t long before they began to take on new projects. Such as producing the tooling for an ice gripper attachment for a standard set of wooden crutches. (Highly practical for snowy Michigan winters.) The device had to be designed to allow deactivation when the crutches were used indoors.


Company growth continued and in 1974, a new 6,000-square-foot building was constructed at CS Tool’s present site -- the corner of Cherry and Fifth Streets in Cedar Springs. Regular additions to the building continued over the years, until today, the current physical plant occupies almost 40,000 square feet. [Details]