Cooper Hand Tools acquired by Apex Tools Group. Cooper Tools is a manufacturer and marketer of premium quality hand tools, chain, and specialty products for the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. Cooper Tools brands and products are recognized worldwide, and include many market leaders, such as Weller soldering products.
Cooper Hand Tools manufactures and markets many well-known brands of hand tools, chain, and electronic soldering products, including Campbell chain, Crescent brand wrenches and pliers, Lufkin measuring tools, Nicholson files and saws, Plumb hammers, H.K. Porter bolt cutters, Weller soldering products, Wiss snips, and Xcelite screwdrivers and nutdrivers.
Apex Tool Group is an American supplier of hand tools and power tools. It was formed as a joint venture of Cooper Industries and Danaher by the merger of Cooper Tools and Danaher’s Tools and Components segment.