Milwaukee

Milwaukee Tool was founded in 1924 by tool and dies manufacturer A.H. Petersen. At the end of World War I, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, asked Petersen to produce a portable and light, quarter-inch capacity power drill to replace the large, cumbersome units used on Ford assembly lines. Petersen created the Hole Shooter, the industry's first lightweight, one-handed drill that drastically increased productivity for assembly line workers. The Hole Shooter was game-changing for the industry. When Petersen’s facility was destroyed by a fire, his colleague A.F. Siebert bought the business, with the aim to develop the Hole Shooter under his new enterprise, the Milwaukee Electric Tool Company.

Standing side-by-side with tradespeople on the job site, Milwaukee learn firsthand where their products are most needed, and how they can make them even better. They develop solutions that overcome the very real challenges and frustrations that users face on the job site, in ways that have never been done before through disruptive innovation. The result? Products that offer unrivalled performance, durability, and productivity. Milwaukee Tool has engineered and developed technologies that have revolutionised the way industrial trades work.

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