Apex Tool Works

In today’s competitive global marketplace, manufacturers are under pressure to continuously improve their processes and products. Apex is a worldwide supplier of products, equipment and services that include: single, double and multiple-cavity can end dies; curler tooling; coil sheeting and rescroll dies; specialty tooling for producing lug caps, aerosol domes and shallow-drawn food cans; can end research and development; die resharpening; spare parts service; customer press overhauling and retooling; and even complete can end production systems. Additionally, our Swangren Machine Division offers a wide array of machines for production of lugs caps; compound pouring; cap lining; and specialty applications that include blanking, trimming, flanging, curling, beading, upsetting and hemming. And our extreme range of capabilities means Apex can offer everything from dies to ideas. Our state-of-the-art facilities provide Apex engineers, toolmakers, designers and production operators with the resources they need for fast, efficient response to any customer requirement:. Military Specification practices backed by state-of-the-art electronic inspection routines. Chicagoland enjoys a strong manufacturing infrastructure with more than 20,000 manufacturing concerns. The region has one of the highest proportions of manufacturing jobs in the USA with a tradition of metalworking, machining and machine design and innovation that extends well into the nineteenth century.