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When Max Wetzler first started tinkering with clamp designs in New York City during the mid-1920s, he could not have forseen that his cast-iron and steel inventions would endure through the rest of the 20th Century and beyond. Yet, Wetzlers famous Quick Action clamp design was to become the benchmark of the clamping industry, imitated widely by competitors and revered by knowledgeable woodworkers, patternmakers, cabinetmakers and metalworkers for its simple effectiveness, strength and durability. Wetzler, together with his wife Hedwig, founded Wetzler Clamp Company in 1928, on the lower east side of Manhattan. Years later, they moved the company to a more spacious facility in Long Island City, NY. After Max passed away in the early 1950s, Hedwig Wetzler continued to run the company, and, in the early 1970s, when she could no longer deal with the fast-paced clamp business, she brought in her brother Ernest J. Seewald to run the family business. In 1984, the Wetzler family sold the company to an energetic entrepreneur named John Treacy, who they knew would uphold the Wetzler tradition of quality. Treacy moved the entire production facility to the foothills of Pennsylvania, near the Delaware River south of Stroudsburg. He ran the company until he retired in June of 2002, at which point he sold the company to long-time employees Kevin and Joan Steible, who maintain the Wetzler tradition to this day.

 

Address: Wetzler Clamp Company, P.O. Box 175, Mt. Bethel, PA 18343-0175
Telephone: 570-897-7101
Fax: 570-897-5891
Website: http://www.wetzler.com/