Keats Manufacturing Company was founded on October 1, 1958, by Bert and Glenn Keats, on Cicero Avenue on the northwest side of Chicago. Keats Manufacturing started out as a small storefront shop with just three employees and two machines; however, our company has significantly grown throughout the years to meet the demand and our variety of customers. 

Both of Keats’ locations house more than 142 metal stamping and wire forming machines using four slide/multi slide and stamping press technologies, which operate 5 days a week, 24 hours a day. This means that we provide prototyping services to facilitate high volume orders of up to 50 million parts.

Customers served include automotive, appliance, medical, aerospace, communications, electronics, military, construction, and furniture, among many others looking for high-quality metal parts at a fair and economical price. We are dedicated to the highest quality and responsive customer service.

Keats Manufacturing Company 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. We combine innovative technological processes including CAD/CAM, five EDM and CNC machines, operated by 25 of the industry’s most experienced die makers, in order to create tools of uncompromising quality.