History

Ideas in Action
Since 1969

Armo Tool began in 1969 as a precision grinding and coating shop and to this day has kept roots in precision tooling. From tooling Armo grew to support customers with retrofits and upgrades to machinery, then soon took another step into designing, building and servicing stamping dies. From small subsystems and the retrofit of complete machines and systems were born a part of the complete offering. Armo quickly grew the team and started working with partners as well as nurturing the apprenticeship program to grow our talent base.

1969

Ross and George Whitney start Armo Tool in a 1200 sq. ft. building at our Longwoods Road location

1974

Began to rebuild machines; a 3 1/8 Acme screw machine was our 1st project

1976

1st expansion took place; 1600 sq. ft.

1981

Completed our 1st major progressive die project

1982

Expanded to 5000 sq. ft.

1983

Purchased our first CNC mill, a Hurco Kmb1. Graduated our first journeyman Tool and Die Maker

1984

Purchased our 1st Wire EDM, a ELOX model Q1986 Surpassed $1,000,000 in sales for the first time.

1987

Purchased our 1st CNC Lathe

1989

Hired our 20th Employee

1990

Purchased a 200 ton Warco tryout press

1992

George Whitney named President

1994

Began to build small-diameter tubing benders for the automotive industry

1999

Achieved certification to ISO 9001:1994. Expanded to 32,000 sq.ft.; Graduated our 25th skilled trade journeyman

2000

Reached the milestone of $10,000,000 in sales

2001

Hired our 100th employee

2002

Achieved ISO re-certification to ISO 9001:2000

2003

Graduated our 50th skilled trade journeyman

2007

Expanded our staff and sales to record level; Ben Whitney appointed as General Manager; Armo Tool named for Provincial Apprenticeship Award

2008

Ben Whitney named President of Armo Tool; George Whitney remains as CEO

2009

Acquired and integrated Sun Engineering into Armo Tool

2012

Added 5 axis CNC milling capability

2013

Installed 800 ton tryout press with rollout bolster and feedline

2013

Upgraded building 40,000 sq.ft with cranes to 25 tons

2014

Added blue light scanning capability

2017

Armo-Tool Acquires Abuma Manufacturing; Achieved ISO re-certification to ISO 9001:2015

2018

Armo is Controlled Goods Certified for business in the defense industry

2018

Automation division moved into Admiral Drive / Abuma Manufacturing facility

2019

Armo delivers first automation and tooling to the cannabis industry

2019

Armo delivers first automation to the medical device industry

2020

Armo responds to Covid with expanded runoffs on our floor and expanded remote support to keep customers globally successful

2020

Armo delivers first automation to the food and beverage industry

2020

Armo USA founded to provide support, service and installation excellence to our customers in the eastern USA

2022

Provided technical support to customers as diemakers, millwrights and controls people to help alleviate challenging periods like launches