How We Do Business

Here at Michigan Tool Works we are your partner from the initial phases of your project all the way through completion. Our focus is on pairing the customer with the correct tooling, maintaining high quality, and meeting lead times at a fair price. We have partnerships throughout the world, offering our customers the option of offshore tooling, as well as local service through our two domestic plants located in Michigan.

Why choose MTW for your next project?

The answer is simple—experience. MTW has built more than 10,000 molds for our customers, both domestically and globally. Our success, and long-term partnerships with repeat customers, are due to our commitment to strict standards. All domestic and global tools are held to the same quality standard. When you purchase an MTW-built mold, whether it is built domestically or overseas, you can rest assured it will maintain the same high commitment to quality. It is this experience and systematic approach that makes for high-quality molds at a competitive price.

Here at Michigan Tool Works we are your partner from the initial phases of your project all the way through completion. Our focus is on pairing the customer with the correct tooling, maintaining high quality, and meeting lead times at a fair price. We have partnerships throughout the world, offering our customers the option of offshore tooling, as well as local service through our two domestic plants located in Michigan.

Why choose MTW for your next project?

The answer is simple—experience. MTW has built more than 10,000 molds for our customers, both domestically and globally. Our success, and long-term partnerships with repeat customers, are due to our commitment to strict standards. All domestic and global tools are held to the same quality standard. When you purchase an MTW-built mold, whether it is built domestically or overseas, you can rest assured it will maintain the same high commitment to quality. It is this experience and systematic approach that makes for high-quality molds at a competitive price.

Do not be fooled, not all offshore tooling is created equally. Michigan Tool Works is not a broker. What’s the difference?

What is the difference between Michigan Tool Works and a broker? How is your approach better?

MTW is there for you, from beginning to end. A broker has a desk, maybe an office and nothing more. A broker will sell you a tool from the cheapest source they can find. A broker outsources the entire project, sacrificing control, timing, and service. If a tool is purchased from a broker and issues arise, repair work is needed, or there is an engineering change, it would be the responsibility of the customer to coordinate and source a tool shop to provide the necessary services. Additionally, the tool shop chosen would likely not be familiar with the tool, which could lead to timing and quality issues.

At MTW, we eliminate those issues because we are your partner from start to finish. We have worked diligently to seek out high quality global sources, traveling overseas on several occasions to determine which shops would be the best fit for MTW. These established exclusive partnerships with 3 shops in Shenzhen, China give us consistency and higher quality control. Our global partners are familiar with the personnel at MTW and abide by MTW standards.

In addition, MTW has a state-of-the-art mold building facility and sample house located in Sturgis, MI. Once a tool chosen by the customer to be built offshore arrives at MTW, it is disassembled, inspected, cleaned, greased, sampled and approved prior to shipping to your facility. MTW will stand by your mold and provide support throughout the life cycle of any tool we provide. This makes for the consistently high quality standards and service MTW demands and our customers expect.

"We cannot sell what we cannot guarantee."

Michigan Tool Works
1200 W. Lafayette St.
Sturgis, MI 49091
Phone: (269) 651-5139