Company History

Roger designed a building to fully take advantage of the property and it's location. The final plans called for a 15,965 square foot building to be constructed in two phases. Phase I would house T & S. It's basic floor plan would be 11,400 square feet, but would have two-story capabilities. Thus for further expansion, 22,800 square feet of floor space could be fully utilized. Phase II would house three rental units; to be used by T & S for office space or storage areas if needed, or as rental space for retail stores or office units as a result of the high traffic area.

Phase I was completed in late 1994 and the move was fully completed by January of 1995. Phase II was completed in June of 1998 and all three units were leased within the year.

Company Management Team

President and Founder, Roger Thomas has an extensive background in industrial machinery and tooling. He grew up around machinery and tooling and wanted to pursue a degree in education, but the dream of owning his own business interfered with that goal. With teaching in his blood, Roger has taught business classes and economic classes at some of the local schools. Roger has also lectured at several vocational schools on industrial cutting tools and related products, as well as served on advisory committees to these local schools and colleges. With Roger's background he can recommend basic speeds and feeds on most machining applications, along with the proper tooling requirements.

Roger has also been very active in the community. He was elected by his peers to serve on the very first Board of Directors for the Holland-Springfield Chamber of Commerce. He also was Co-Founder and Charter President of the Holland-Springfield Rotary Club. With two sons, Roger has coached about 20 different athletic teams, from baseball to basketball to soccer. Roger has also been nominated twice for Entrepreneur of the Year in Northwestern Ohio, and was a finalist in 1991.

The management team at T & S, without a doubt, is the big reason for the company's continued success!

Phil Felzer is the sales manager and has an extensive engineering background. He oversees a Sales Department of 8-9 people who are all trained with tooling and their usages. Phil has over 20 years of sales experience and has been with T & S for over 15 years.

John Graff heads the Accounting Department. With his accounting skills, T & S has the advantage of doing a lot of accounting "In House" as opposed to many other companies who use outside firms. John has been with the company for over 20 years and has learned the "business". It's also not unusual to find him filling in at the sales counter during busy times.

Jeremy "Jay" Thomas heads our purchasing department. Jay grew up in the industrial tool business and has never worked anywhere except T & S. He not only handles our purchasing duties, but also does our hardware and software computer repairs. Jay has been full-time with T & S since 1995 and has been an integral part of our success.

Patricia Taber heads up the Editing and Marketing Department and has been with us since 1988. Proof of her work is clearly shown with the T & S catalog that we publish, along with several of the flyers, and the different ads that we print.

The glue that holds everything together is the Vice-President of the company, Jennifer Thomas. In 1978, Roger asked his wife if he could start the business and for her to help him for a little while, 20 plus years later she is still at his side. Jenny can not only take sales calls, but is very knowledgeable on all the products and can work in the Shipping and Receiving Department, the Accounting Department, and more! She has been a tremendous asset and T & S would literally not exist without her.

Company Consumers and Products

T & S has over 8,000 customers listed on its different mailing lists, and these customers circle the globe. T & S has shipped to Europe, India, Fiji Islands, South America, England, Canada, and almost all the 50 states including, Hawaii and Alaska. Our toll free telephone lines and FAX lines complement the ever increasing internet boom. Our website and e-mail address will expand that mailing list even further.

The company's mission is simple.........WE STOCK WHAT WE SELL! We pride ourselves on our massive inventory and continually add new products. We stock a full line of industrial machinery. We usually have 2 to 3 different milling machines on our showroom floor, along with 4 to 5 different metalworking and woodworking lathes. Every drill press that Jet manufactures and their entire line of woodworking machines, jointer, planers, dust collectors, etc. are also stocked.

We stock a full implement of safety supplies, abrasives, coolants, 30-40-50 taper tooling adapters, "All" R8 and 5C collets, sleeves, inspection equipment, and more! T & S is the largest Kennedy Tool Box Distributor in Northwest Ohio, one of the largest OSG Distributors in the state, and was Jet's 1999 Distributor of the Year!

But our real concentration is on cutting tools. We literally STOCK IT ALL! Almost every reamer in our catalog: extension, hand, adjustable, bridge, car, chucking, taper, pin, Morse taper, metric, and the list goes on. We feel we have the largest inventory of decimal reamers in this part of the state, over 700 sizes and still growing. We stock fraction taps in spiral pointed, hand, pipe, spiral fluted, forming, oversized, metric and more! We have taps in stock up to 4-14" in diameter and metrics up to 52mm with a full implement of special thread pitch taps in 1/4" over 17 different thread sizes alone!

In addition, we have manufacturers that can make almost any tap imaginable within 48 hours. In endmills we go up to 1" diameter in solid carbide, 3" diameter with 12" length of cut in single ends, and every single tapered endmill and double endmill that OSG has listed in their catalog. You want drills? We have drills! Over 20 different styles of any particular drill. Cobalt, masonry, solid carbide, carbide tipped, core type, parabolic fluted, taper shank, and more! In a 1/2 drill alone we stock lengths of 3-3/4", 6", 7-3/4", 8", 12", 15", 18", and 24". If you need it longer we can get it!

T & S carries some of the top brand names in the industry. Mitutoyo, Brown and Sharpe, OSG, Quinco, Keo, Morse, Wright, Kennedy, Jet, Starrett, Norton, Precision Twist, L & I, Crescent, Acer, Bison, Pratt-Burnerd, Clausing, Kalamazoo, Wellsaw, General, Milwaukee, ERB, Arc, Plumb, Bondhus, Eklind, Collis, Lyndex, Dremel, Bassett, Fullerton, Imco, Iscar, and Vermont to name just a few!

T & S...dedicated to stock...dedicated to its customers...with employees dedicated to serve you with the very best of service...try us!