Columbia Marking Tools Adds New Canadian Representative Organization


Tool & Assembly Systems Inc. in Richmond Ontario to represent Columbia Marking Tools throughout the Province of Ontario.

In an effort to provide better sales and service coverage to users of marking tools, stamps and the complete range of marking machine types in Ontario, Canada, Columbia Marking Tools has added Tool & Assembly Systems Inc. to their North American network of distributors and manufacturer's representatives.

Andy Ruzzin, Columbia Marking Tools vice president sales, says, "Columbia Marking Tools continues to take an aggressive product development strategy and in support of that, have made a concerted effort with our sales and marketing strategy to utilize more manufacturer's representatives whose product lines and markets are complementary to ours. We recently completed a new sales agreement with Tool & Assembly Systems, Inc., a well-known Canadian sales company, to provide and service our marking products in Ontario, Canada. Tool & Assembly Systems has been in business since 1993 providing industrial products to the markets served by Columbia Marking Tools. We are confident they will be able to provide the knowledgeable and technical support required for our types of marking tools and machine products. Unique to Tool & Assembly Systems Inc. is the fact that they are both an industrial distributor and a manufacturer's representative organization."

Glen Fingado, general manager of Tool & Assembly Systems Inc. says, "We are extremely pleased to have Columbia Marking Tools as a principle. Their high-quality
products are very complementary to our other areas of expertise in the assembly area that includes assembly tools, leak test equipment, self-piercing riveting products as well as material handling equipment. We've been servicing the Canadian market since 1993.

Currently we have a six-man outside sales organization with three inside sales people to efficiently process orders and maintain the level of communication necessary to meet today's fast-paced quoting and delivery needs.

Columbia Marking Tools is a leading designer and manufacturer of metal and plastic
marking equipment including stamps, roll marking dies, roll marking and impact marking machines, fully programmable laser, peen/scribe marking and UID/2D Square ◙ Dot® machines, numbering heads and special marking machines. Columbia Marking Tools, Inc. is also a Certified Cognex Integrator and the master distributor in the United States and Canada for the Italian-based CIM tag marking systems.

Send inquiries to:

Sales and Marketing Department
Columbia Marking Tools,
27430 Luckino
Chesterfield Township, MI 48047
Telephone (800) 469-MARK
FAX (586) 949-8401
Email: ajr@columbiamt.com

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