Keats Manufacturing Co.

Keats Manufacturing Co. produces the most intricate custom small metal stampings, wire and assemblies in the world. The Company was founded in 1958 and now has 3 locations that house more than 142 metal stamping and wire forming machines using four slide/multi slide and stamping press technologies that operate 5 days a week, 24 hours a day. This means that Keats can handle virtually any size order from prototypes to over 500 million pieces. Customers served include automotive, appliance, medical, aerospace, communications, electronics, military, construction, furniture and others who are looking for high quality metal parts at a fair and economical price. Keats engineers all its own dies and tools from inception to first piece sampling, ensuring that the most exacting tolerances are maintained from the very first to very last production run. Keats combines technological innovation including CAD/CAM, 8 EDM and CNC machines with 25 of the industries most experienced die makers to create tools of uncompromising quality Quality control and quality enhancement are important and ongoing focus points of the Keats Companies. A 12 person team reports directly to CEO Wade Keats. All of the locations are ISO 9001:2000 compliant and in addition, the Illinois and Texas facilities are TS 16949 compliant. Strict adherence to the quality control system results in customer satisfaction and, more importantly, customer confidence.