Gary Oden has known for weeks that the plant where he has spent the last 19 years helping build Vise-Grips, one of Nebraska's most famous products, would be shutting down. But he still wasn't ...

DeWitt, Neb. — Tool manufacturing returned to DeWitt, Nebraska, as Malco Products SBC, celebrated the grand opening of its new production facility on Oct. 19, a decade after the VISE-GRIP factory ...

Malco Products, SBC, the Annandale-based manufacturer of hand tools for trade professionals, announced it has expanded operations by purchasing the former VISE-GRIP factory in DeWitt, Neb. and is ...

A mural featuring DeWitt landmarks welcomes visitors to the southeast Nebraska town, home of the Eagle Grip factory. Eagle Grip tools are now produced in the former Vise-Grip plant. “These tools are ...

The future of the former Vise-Grip plant in DeWitt appears up in the air again just a few years after it reopened. Malco Products, which bought the plant in 2016 and reopened it in 2019 to make Eagle ...

The world would be a far less efficient place without Vise-Grip locking pliers.A Danish immigrant blacksmith named William Petersen patented the concept in 1924 and started a family business that ...

Gene Tyser started working at the former Vise-Grip plant in DeWitt in 1975 as a tool and die maker. Over the years he worked all the way up to be general manager of the plant in 2002, the same year ...

A vise grip is a pliers-like tool that tightly clamps onto an object. A lever enables the teeth of the vise grip to quickly release. It is one of the more useful tools around the home and shop. Israel ...