About Craig Tools Inc.

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who we are

Founded in 1958, Craig Tools, Inc. is a supplier of rotary cutting tools to the manufacturing industry throughout the world. Our focus is on the airframe industry while also serving the automotive, machine tool, hydraulic valve, and machine shop environments. We are a prime source of “microstop” tooling for the major airframe builders and repair facilities around the world. Our product line includes: high speed steel, cobalt steel, solid carbide, carbide tipped, and polycrystalline diamond tools. The fastest growing segment of our product line is solid carbide and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tooling, which we have developed for composite material applications. This has opened the door to worldwide sales as airframe companies search for solutions to these difficult applications. 

iso

ISO 9001 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements.

our promise

Our promise is to strive for excellence in our products. We take pride in the quality of our work and the managing of keeping up to date our ISO 9000 Quality Management requirements.

our quality

We strive for Continuous Improvement. Total Quality and Continuous Improvement are absolute necessities for long term survival in a rapidly evolving global marketplace. A manufacturing business is only as good as its products. Our name and reputation is in every product we create.

company history

Timeline | Craig Tools History

Our Team

Don Tripler

Vice President

Tel: 310-414-5707 ext. 1100
Fax: 310-640-8756
e-mail: dont@craigtools.com

Willie Cifuentes

VP - Manufacturing

Tel: 310-414-5707 ext. 1600
Fax: 310-615-0455
e-mail: williec@craigtools.com

Alex La Torre

Inside Sales Manager

Tel: 310-414-5707 ext.1500
Fax: 310-615-0455
email: alexl@craigtools.com

Tom Malone

Application Engineer

Tel: 310-414-5707
Cell: 714-271-7960
e-mail: malone.65@att.net

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