Superior Tool: What's New Archive

Superior Tool Hosts their 6th Annual
United Way Kick-Off Lunch

Superior employees opened space in the warehouse and set up for our guests to enjoy fried chicken, potato salad, fruit and many delicious deserts. We all enjoyed another great lunch and successfully kicked off our United Way Annual Campaign this month!

Superior invited its suppliers, SAW clients & families (SAW is the work-oriented initiative partnered with the Cuyahoga County Board of MR/DD), business neighbors, friends and families for the annual fried chicken lunch on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Thank you to all who attended. We couldn't have done it without you or the support of:

All those who donated door prizes and items for the raffles
The staff at United Way for their help
The Superior Tool Company employees who cleaned, set up and tore down, before & after the event
Those who baked and/or donated deserts
And the band, Academy for Rock Stars, who donated their time to play at the lunch

And special thanks to our Gina Sopko who again coordinated and lead the entire event for Superior. Thanks, Gina!

July 2008

UltraCut Improvements

Superior Tool announces several design improvements to the UltraCut, making it even easier to cut tubing. Read the press release.

May 2008

Yellow Submarine Available at Fred Meyer

Our newest product, the Yellow Submarine Power DrainStick™, is now available from Kroger's Fred Meyer, a multi-department store chain mainly in the western US.
Get more information on the Yellow Submarine.

February 2008

Yellow Submarine
Available from Improvements

Our newest product, the Yellow Submarine Power DrainStick™, is now available from the Improvements website for $24.99.
Get more information on the Yellow Submarine.

January 2008

Superior Introduces the Yellow Submarine

Superior Tool has brought yet another innovation to market: the Yellow Submarine Power DrainStick™ for environmentally-friendly cleaning of clogged household drains. The new Yellow Submarine is a lightweight, battery-operated tool that has a slow-turn/high-power motor that drives a flexible DrainStick to quickly clear clogs created by hair, grease and food. It eliminates the need for harmful poisonous liquid chemical drain cleaners, and it clears drains instantly!
The attachment is 18 in., which is long enough to reach common clogs. It can be cleaned and re-used over and over. Replacement DrainSticks are available. You can review all its features at: http://www.drainstick.com.

November 2007

Superior is Preferred

Superior received an award this month from Ace Hardware as an Ace Preferred Vendor for partnering in the Quick Response Shipment Program to increase efficiencies in the Supply Chain.

August 2007

Superior's Buyer Gets Hitched

Our Buyer, Mike Cintron, got married August 4, 2007 to Elizabeth Hotchkiss in a lovely ceremony at Gesu Church on the campus of John Carroll University. The weather was lovely and all their friends and family had a great time.

Mike & Elizabeth met through martial arts training and have known each other for 7 years.

Congratulations Mike & Elizabeth!

August 2007

Fifth Annual United Way Lunch

Thanks for another great lunch! With hard work from the folks at SAW (Solutions at Work) that do our packaging at Superior, from the staff at United Way and from the Superior Tool Company employees, we pulled off another great lunch for the kick-off of this year's United Way campaign.

SAW logo We couldn't have done it without the support of our suppliers, our friends and business neighbors, and the families of our SAW team (SAW is affiliated with the Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities).

And special thanks to our Gina Sopko, who not only coordinated the entire event, but headed the raffle and door prize activities.

July 2007

Another Award for The UltraCut

Superior Tool was recognized for excellence in product design in the third annual Dealer Design Awards Program sponsored by The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News magazine. An independent panel of 51 contractors acted as judges in the contest. The UltraCut was the Silver Award Winner in the Tools Category. The ACHR News is the leading trade magazine in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration industries.

News Publisher John Conrad stated, "These awards give us a unique opportunity to recognize the outstanding research and development efforts that go into many of the products serving the HVAC/R industry and the awards issue gives our readers an opportunity to read about innovative installation and service solutions."

Winning entries in the Dealer Design Awards were featured in the July 16, 2007 issue of The ACHR News, which is distributed nationally to over 33,000 HVACR contractors, wholesalers, and other industry professionals.

June 2007

The UltraCut is Honored Again

Superior Tool has won the 2007 Power of Partnership Gold Award for the "Manufacturer & Manufacturer" category from START-IT magazine. Our vice president of Operations, Annette Dockus, accepted the award in Chicago, IL, this month.

May 2007

Superior Tool at NHS

Superior Tool made quite a splash at the National Hardware Show in Orlando, FL, earlier this month:

'Home & Garden Television' (HGTV) stopped by our booth to film our president, Chuck Mintz, demonstrating the UltraCut (they included us during the Builders' Show, too). The footage will air in June and September (check with HGTV.com for the listing).
The Carey Bros. radio show, "On The House" interviewed the UltraCut and Chuck (that's him on the left). You can listen to his 3 minutes of fame here (mpg file, 3.5Mb), or go to the "On the House" website to download the entire podcast from the May 12, 2007 show.
Thank you to "On the House" for generously sharing Chuck's interview with us.

March 2007

The UltraCut is available at more locations

Not only can you buy the UltraCut™ at all Lowe's locations and at www.lowes.com, it's also available at select Menards (in the Midwest), through the Black Book of Tools catalog (www.blackbookoftools.com or 800-345-8665) and from HD Supply (www.hdsupply.com or 800-431-3000).

February 2007

UltraCut at IBS

We had a tremendous response to the UltraCut™ demos at the International Builders Show in Orlando, Feb. 7-10, 2007. Thanks to the distributors and exporters who asked to carry our tool--if the professionals we spoke to are any indication, you'll be selling a lot of them.

'Home & Garden Television' (HGTV) stopped by our booth to film--here's our own photos of them...

HGTV films at our IBS booth

January 2007

UltraCut in Action

We featured the UltraCut™ at the AHR Expo (ASHRAE) in Dallas on January 29-31, 2007. We were encouraged to see so many professionals, distributors and exporters in our booth, asking questions and watching the UltraCut demonstrations. The response to the tool was very positive. If you'd like to see the UltraCut in action, contact us for our trade show schedule.

January 2007

The UltraCut™ was featured in the "Made Here" column of the Sun., January 14, 2007, Cleveland Plain Dealer Business section. As they say, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Check it out at http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1168682137185130.xml&coll=2

January 2007

The UltraCut™ had been chosen as a Plant Engineering magazine 2007 Product of the Year. The Awards ceremony is in March, so we'll have another Accomplishment to add to the list then.

This exciting new product was not enough, so we also introduced the technology that made it possible, AnyFuel™. AnyFuel makes possible cordless tools where there were only corded or hand tools before, creating a new category of tools and appliances. For the first time, cordless tools can give professional results because of AnyFuel. Download the UltraCut press release here and the AnyFuel press release here. We have more info and downloadable videos available. Check it out here.

November 2006

6oo Cuts in a Day

The UltraCut™ was the hit of the ISH plumbing show in September, 2006, the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) show in Tampa in October and the STAFDA show in Novmeber. At ASPE, our fearless demonstrator cut 600 pieces of tubing in about a day, leaving his thumb exhausted. In fact, he hasn't worked the thing so hard since playing Space Invaders in 1983.

If you cut more than 600 pieces of tubing in one day, let us know through the Contact page on this site and we'll enroll you in a drawing to win a coveted prize. Let us know if we can share your story, too.

August 2006

Suddenly the media is really taking notice of us

Excitement is building now that we have begun production of the UltraCut. We have been telling people we will be in production in July and we made it. It was July 33, but, who's counting. Expect to see it in dealers in September. After the Hardware Show, we had a nice mention in Popular Mechanics online http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog/home/2776961.html.

Also, our Director of Operations, Annette Dockus, was extensively quoted in the August issue of Smart Business Cleveland. The link to that is http://cleveland.sbnonline.com/marticle.asp?particleKey=11947 We like the article, not so much because of how we do leasing but that we try in every relationship with our suppliers to develop the same kind of relationship.

August 2006

Superior Tool Company/SAW 4th Annual United Way Lunch Went "Over the Top"

The team really outdid itself. With hard work from the folks at S.A.W. that do our packaging at Superior, from the staff at United Way and from the Superior Tool Company employees, we pulled off the greatest event in the history of events. (that's what I told my mom, at least).

Even more important was the support of our friends, our suppliers and, even the family members of our S.A.W. team, we had a rousing good time and more than doubled the results from 2005. Over $3000 was raised. A terrific result. Everyone talks about co-operation between government (S.A.W. is affiliated the the Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation/ Developmental Disabilities), non-profit and for profit (at least we're supposed to be). We did it. And had a barrel of fun. It was also the tenth anniversary of the collaboration between S.A.W. and Superior so we had a cake.

July 2006

New Products

In addition to the UltraCut, we are also introducing the innovative, best in class, SuperWrench™ - the one handed pipe wrench. Lastly, we are also introducing the DrainKey™ Tub Drain Remover - the "if you gotta have it, you gotta have it" tool.

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