Nail Jack Tools, an Idaho-based company, is moving forward with plans to use the former Irwin Tools Vise-Grip factory in DeWitt, possibly with help from someone to share the plant. Three-hundred and ...

“An outstanding tool that makes handling electrical work a breeze.” ...

Pliers might not always be the right tool for the job, but they’ll save your skin more than any other. Last night, I got into an engine project where some rounded-off nuts and hot parts were a little ...

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 ...

When a factory that sent its jobs to China a decade ago reopens, that ’ s cause to party. And the village of 500, a place whose obituary was practically written in 2008 when its famous Vise-Grip tools ...

DeWitt, Nebraska, has suffered hard times since the closing of the Vice-Grip plant in 2008, and especially after the flooding of the Big Blue River and the Turkey and Swan Creeks in 2015. Hand tools ...

DeWITT — For the 84 years that Vise-Grip tools have been manufactured here, it’s been difficult to tell where the town ends and the business begins. The brick sign welcoming visitors the Saline County ...

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 ...

DEWITT, Neb. (AP) - As 1,300 tons of force pounded steel into tools here last week, every bang was a welcome sound for a southeast Nebraska town eager to get back into the manufacturing world. Just ...