Matco Tools, Inc. is an American professional tool manufacturer for the automotive and other industries and is based in Stow, Ohio, United States. This includes over 13,000 different tools such as wrenches, screw drivers, gauges, and specialty tools. Matco also produces their own line of high quality toolboxes in the USA at their Jamestown, NY manufacturing plant. They also contract several Chinese factories to manufacture their air tools, electric, and diagnostic tools. They also carry a similar lifetime warranty on all hand tools. The company was founded in 1946 and began selling direct to professional mechanics in 1979. Matco is an acronym for Mac Allied Tool Company. Originally Matco was the Toolbox manufacturing division of Mac Tools. However, they have not been associated with Mac s