Company
Since 1966, BTM has been a leading global supplier of clinching tools and equipment, pierce tooling and equipment, and inserted fastener equipment, work holding equipment and fully automated assembly systems.
BTM serves a global customer base in automotive, appliance, HVAC, construction, electronics furniture, garage & entry doors, general industry, robotic integrators, machine builders and system integrators.
Mission
Our mission is to be the go-to source for clinching, specialty press, and work holding equipment that improves customer productivity.
How We Deliver on This Mission:
We fulfill this commitment by ensuring our engineering teams focus on reducing your cycle times, eliminating inefficient operations, and increasing your productivity. By designing equipment that maximizes uptime on your plant floor, we turn our mission into a measurable increase in your daily production output.
Vision
Our vision is to be the global leader in affordable clinching and specialty press technologies and applications, delivering world-class customer support from initial contact through after-sales service.
How We Put This Vision into Action:
- Standard & Custom Machinery: We offer a full spectrum of assembly options, from standard hand-held tools and high-speed floor presses to custom automation systems optimized for your production needs.
- Multi-Technology Systems: Our expertise covers the entire sheet metal assembly lifecycle, delivering industry-leading solutions for advanced clinching, precision piercing, hardware insertion, and rugged work holding.
- Empirical Validation: Prior to machine design, our metallurgical laboratory validates your sheet metal and fastener combinations, ensuring the final system is built consistent with empirically validated performance requirements.
- Disciplined Execution: Through the BTM Product Delivery System, dedicated project managers guide your custom project from kickoff to buy-off, providing total visibility via weekly, ERP-driven progress reports.
- Tooling Support: We protect your production uptime with a quick-ship fulfillment network engineered to deliver timely, affordable replacement tooling and service parts worldwide.
What BTM Provides
From premium tooling to standard press & work holding equipment to integrated production systems, BTM supports the tooling and equipment needs of companies that use sheet metal to assemble and manufacture products.
Our engineered solutions are categorized into our core areas of expertise:
- Clinching Tools & Equipment: Groundbreaking proprietary tooling paired with a comprehensive range of equipment spanning ultra-flexible mobile units to fully automated production work cells.
- Precision Piercing Tooling & Systems: Custom tooling, piercing units and production systems including an extensive solution set for the automotive industry.
- Mechanical Fastener Insertion: Specialized insertion equipment designed for automated, reliable placement of pierce nuts, studs, rivets, screws, and custom hardware.
- Sheet Metal Forming: Purpose-built forming machinery engineered to manipulate complex part geometries.
- Press Units: High-performance standard, modular, and custom-modified press units engineered to deliver precise tonnage and high-velocity cycles.
- Work-Holding Equipment: Robust power clamps and pin locator clamps that maintain strict part tolerances.
- Automated Assembly Systems: Turnkey production machinery that unifies core BTM sheet metal processing technologies with secondary manufacturing processes.
Our Story
In 1966, Milus Allison and Edwin Sawdon founded BTM (Bending Tools & Machinery) to engineer highly specialized stretch bending machines for structural components and decorative sheet metal trim. Recognizing an industry-wide need for compact, cost-effective, high-force press units, they invented the air toggle press—the first of many proprietary BTM innovations.
As demand for the toggle press grew, BTM pioneered new manufacturing applications, leading to the 1980 invention of the industry-standard sealed clinch joint, Tog-L-Loc®. Today, BTM Company proudly carries forward this six-decade legacy. We manufacture innovative, high-quality, customer-oriented solutions that give our global clients a distinct competitive advantage.
A Legacy of Technical Innovation & Commercial Expansion
1960s-1970s: Foundation & Core Inventions
- Company Founded: BTM establishes its engineering footprint
- First Bending Machine: Manufactured for specialized sheet metal forming
- Purpose-Built Piercing: First dedicated workstations launched
- Air Toggle Press: Introduced to provide high force in a compact footprint
1980s: Global Expansion & Integrated Equipment Development
- Tog-L-Loc® Invented: The industry-standard sealed clinch joint is born
- Lance-N-Loc® Launched: Material joining capabilities expand
- Patented Tooling Systems: MultiClinch® enters production
- Cylinder & Clamp Lines: First air-over-oil cylinders and power clamps introduced
- Dedicated Operations: Special Machine Department and Marysville Campus ground breaking
- Integrated Manufacturing Equipment: First garage door production line launched, establishing a decades-long legacy of building integrated manufacturing equipment
- Global Footprint: Operations expand into Europe, Mexico, and the United Kingdom
1990s: Application Engineering & Facility Expansion
- V-Loc™ Introduced: To address challenging customer sheet metal joining applications
- Pin Clamps Launched: To add precision locating capabilities
- Power Clamp Product Lines: Scale and scope increased to meet automotive demands
- Infrastructure Growth: Marysville Campus expands to increase capacity
- Global Footprint: Operations expanded into Scandinavia and South Korea
2000s: Specialized Joint Profiles
- Oval-Loc® Introduced: Oval geometry locks part orientation with a single joint (Geo-Clinch®)
- Super-Loc Developed: High-strength joining technology engineered specifically for heavy-gauge materials
- Global Footprint: Operations scale into Turkey, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil
2010s: Modular Architectures & Key Acquisitions
- Clinching Solutions Expansion: Special-Loc® and Custom-Loc® lines introduced to address challenging, application-specific customer requirements
- Fixed-Loc® Launched: Engineered specifically to accommodate narrow flanges
- Portable Production: HHP hand-held and MCP press lines launched
- Modular Architecture: Standardized modular press systems engineered to reduce lead times
- Hardware Insertion: Pierce nut insertion tools patented
- Strategic Growth: Acquisition of Punch Tech Tool & Die; BTM Corporation transitions to BTM Company
2020s: Next-Generation Automation & Modern Infrastructure
- Joint Technology Expansion: Clip-Loc and Super-Loc technologies introduced
- High-Velocity Systems: Bearing Toggle and Floating Head Inserted Fastener presses launched
- Advanced C-Frames: Pseudo-Rigid C-Frames introduced
- Servo-Electric Capabilities: Strategic technology partnership with Kistler
- Scientific Advancement: Metallurgical Research Laboratory fully modernized
- Milestone Year: Celebrated 60 years of engineering, equipment, and tooling excellence
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BTM Today
BTM is a leading tooling and equipment manufacturer with operations in Germany, Sweden, England, Mexico, China and Brazil and sales reps around the world. Our expertise, resources and facilities include:
Expertise:
- Applications Specialists
- Component Engineering
- Clinch Joint Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgy Sciences
- Tooling Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Controls Engineering
Resources:
- Project Management Team
- Service Support Team
- Replacement Tooling Fulfillment
- Service Parts Fulfillment
Facilities:
- R & D Lab
- Metallurgical Lab
- Clinch Joint Testing Lab
- Prototype Shop
- Production Machine Shop
- Tool & Die Shop
- Paint Shop
- Panel Build
- Equipment Assembly
- Quality Assurance Lab
Values
How We Live This Value:
We engineer proprietary technologies—such as the Tog-L-Loc® sealed clinch joint and lightweight robotic tooling—that eliminate expensive fasteners and streamline automated assembly.
Innovation
At BTM, we are committed to creating solutions that improve production and reduce cost.
Craftsmanship
We take pride in producing the finest tooling and equipment. BTM has a reputation for outstanding reliability and durability and our team is committed manufacturing excellence. We directly oversee key machining, tool making, piping, and wiring operations. By enforcing strict quality control throughout manufacturing, we ensure our machinery thrives in demanding, high-velocity environments.
Our Team
Delivering reliable, innovative, high-quality affordable products requires a talented, dedicated and hardworking team of engineers, metallurgists, designers, quality control specialists and sales associates. We also believe it is important to have some fun.
Investing in Next-Generation Manufacturing Talent
To maintain our high standards of manufacturing excellence and craftsmanship, BTM proudly operates five Department of Labor-approved skilled labor apprenticeship programs. These structured training pathways guarantee our operations are powered by highly skilled, certified professionals, expertly trained to engineer, build and support our customers' production equipment and tooling.
Supporting Customers
We eliminate operational uncertainty with comprehensive support across the entire lifecycle of your equipment.
Our sales team, engineers, production support, and field service technicians provide support from your initial contact through development, engineering, testing, and installation. Our commitment extends well beyond startup, with long-term technical assistance, field service, and replacement tooling to maximize the performance and operational life of the machinery in your facility.
Quality & Compliance
BTM places strong emphasis on delivering high-quality products and services, meeting customer expectations, increasing customer productivity, and ensuring high customer up-time. To achieve these goals, BTM Company is ISO 9001 certified. We have an established, implemented, and continuously improved Quality Management System that complies with the requirements of this international standard. BTM maintains full conformity with ISO 9001. Click here to view the current ISO Certificate.
Enforcing Quality Through Disciplined Execution
To support our Quality Management System, BTM backs your manufacturing requirements with structured engineering workflows and verified data:
- Empirical Lab Validation: Our in-house pre-project metallurgical testing verifies sheet metal and fastener performance before custom machine design begins.
- Structured Lifecycle Tracking: The BTM Product Delivery System manages projects through disciplined milestone gating from initial kickoff to final customer buy-off.
- Proactive Reporting: Weekly, ERP-driven progress reports map critical paths and open issues to drive timely project execution and transparent customer communications.
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