Milwaukee Tool to break ground on hand tool factory

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Milwaukee Tool announced it will open a manufacturing plant in West Bend, Wis. Located near the company’s headquarters, the facility will manufacture new-to-market hand tools for professional customers. “With a focus on core users in the electrical, plumbing, and mechanical trades, our strategy for hand tools from the beginning has been to disrupt the market with superior performance, quality and user-driven feature sets,” said Tim Albrecht, president of hand tools for Milwaukee Tool. The company will break ground on the new plant in April, with an initial expected investment of about $26 million, and expects mass production to begin in early 2021.