In today's competitive global marketplace, manufacturers are under pressure to continuously improve their processes
and products.  That's why when it comes to can and container end dies, the equipment that runs them, or almost any
type of precision machined tooling and componentry, companies looking for effective manufacturing solutions turn to
Apex Tool Works.

The end is only the beginning
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.  So whether your project
starts with furnished drawings or requires more extensive design and engineering support, Apex can manufacture
almost any type of part or assembly — under one roof — with the ability to select the most efficient production methods
for the particular project.

Powered by professionals
Although technology has made it easier to meet tight tolerances and even tighter schedules, people — capable,
experienced and committed — are still the essential part of the process.

We continually invest in every level of our staff, training them in the latest machining and production management
techniques.  And they respond in kind, by suggesting improvements in our methods that could only come from hands-
on experience.

Service from the source
Apex understands that web-enabled data sharing, E-mailing of status reports and progress photos, even good old
well-timed phone calls are essential to keeping the customer in a resilient loop for timely feedback, approvals and
changes.

But customers get a comfortable feeling knowing that beyond communications technologies, Apex is physically here,
centrally located in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, not far from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and major Midwest
ground transportation arteries.  Because customers know that communications, engineering changes and maintenance
get done faster with the firm that originally built the tool, component or machine, and that understands its unique
personality.