Cleveland®
High Performance
Cutting Tools
Trusted for over 140 years
Cleveland® is a superior cutting tooling brand providing solutions to industry for over 140 years. During their long history, they've earned a reputation for the highest quality tools, outstanding customer service, and expert engineering technical advice. Whatever your tooling need, whether you’re drilling, threading, or milling, contact your Greenfield distributor for the ultimate in product and support solutions.
Hole Making
Reamers
Threading
Thread Mill
Milling
Cleveland® offers an extensive array of tools. The Cleveland brand is known for performance tools that run faster, longer, and with more precision than competitive tools. We have a large selection of surface treatments, and industry specific application products.
A History of Excellence
The Cleveland® brand is well-known throughout the world for its wide selection of premium cutting tools for drilling, countersinking, reaming, threading, and milling operations. Its roots go back to the 1870's, when Cleveland Twist Drill was established as a premier cutting tool company in the United States. Cleveland® has always been famous for the quality and reliability of its tools, and the company grew to be one of the largest high-speed steel toolmakers in the US, expanding to overseas markets. In 1995, Cleveland Twist Drill was acquired by Greenfield Industries Inc. (GFII), a U.S. based manufacturer of precision cutting tools. Today, Greenfield Industries is part of WALTER Surface Technologies.
There were many ways in which Cleveland® contributed to the war effort here on the home front during World War II. The most notable of these contributions came in the manufacturing industry as many different companies in the Cleveland area were acknowledged nationally for their outstanding records of production during World War II. Acme-Cleveland Corporation was just one of the many companies to receive this prestigious award known as the “Army-Navy E” award for their efforts in production during the war. Acme-Cleveland Corporation is a product of Cleveland Twist Drill Co. and National Acme Co. merging in 1968. Cleveland Twist Drill Co., founded by Jacob D. Cox in 1876 in Dunkirk, NY and producer of twist drills, was moved back to Cleveland, OH in less than a year after its birth where it began producing general machine tools and drills.
According to Cleveland Twist Drill Co. history, “more than 90 percent of all the 30- and 50- caliber bullet cores produced…for the United States and Canadian military were made on Acme-Gridley machines.” The national Acme Co. was founded in Hartford, CT in 1895 and moved to Cleveland in 1901 where they concentrated on the production of screw machines specifically. While these two companies did not merge until 1968, they both played important roles in the war effort here in Cleveland. On May 23, 1942, both the Cleveland Twist Drill Co. and National Acme Co. were presented with their awards during separate ceremonies by high-ranking Army and Navy officials including undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal and Captain E. B. Almy, coordinator of machine tools for the Navy. The workers for Cleveland Twist Drill Co. and National Acme Co. were also represented at the ceremonies through Michael Bizovsky, president of Local 19 of the Mechanics Educational Society of America. Both companies were presented with white-starred pennants displaying the names of the Army and Navy which were to be flown in front of each company as well as lapel emblems given to each and every employee for their service in the war effort.