[3] Western Forge was founded in Defiance, Ohio in 1965 as a joint venture between Sears and C. William Schlosser to make torque wrenches.

[3] In the late 1990s, Western Forge moved its screwdriver production to a plant in Murphy, North Carolina.

In April 2006, it closed the Murphy plant and consolidated its operations in Colorado Springs, citing declining sales.

Sears Craftsman tools that were previously produced by Western Forge in the US are now supplied by an Asian supplier.

Our Western Forge employees delivered high quality product and did everything we asked of them to help us maintain the business.