History about the
Company
The Peerless Saw Company opened its doors in 1931, with a
factory located in
German Village, Ohio.
Peerless started in business manufacturing bandsaw
blades for the auto industry.
Over time they eventually started to manufacture
circular saw bodies for wood and metal cutting applications.
Today Peerless produces custom made circular saw
bodies ready for carbide tipping in sizes from 4” to 40” in diameter.
These are industrial saw bodies used in Primary and
Secondary wood cutting.
Customers for the primary wood cutting applications
would be saw mills.
Where they are converting logs into green lumber.
The Secondary market would be those customers
cutting dried lumber while manufacturing furniture, wood flooring, or window
frames.
There are other niche markets that Peerless sells to and
they include metal cutting saws, paper tube saws, tree pruning, etc.
Up until 1985 the company was under private ownership.
In 1985 Ted Montegue sold the company to the Hackman
Corporation.
Hackman was a Finish company based in
Helsinki, Finland.
Peerless was a part of the TTT division of Hackman
for 14 years.
In September of 1999 the company came back under private
ownership when it was acquired by Tim Gase and Ken Lloyd.
Both of whom were employed at Peerless at the time
of the acquisition, Tim as the President for 4 years and Ken as the Sales
manager with 25 years at the company.
They are still the owners today.
Manufacturing History
Prior to 1981 nearly all manufacturers of circular saw
bodies utilized punch
presses and mills to generate the saw blade profiles.
The lead-times were very long and the process was
not flexible.
I
n 1981 Peerless became one of the first companies in the
world to utilize laser cutting in a manufacturing environment.
It created unlimited flexibility in the design of
the saw body and reduced lead-times dramatically.
Currently Peerless is known
in the market for producing one of the highest quality bodies available.
We rely on fast deliveries and our high quality product to maintain and
grow our position in the market place.
There are several key components to our ability to make a
high quality product in a very short time.
It starts by having good people.
Our workforce has a great deal of experience to know
what it takes to get the job done right.
The average tenure of our people is well over 15
years.
The next key major component to our business is our
exclusive heat treating process.
The heat treating system at Peerless was design
specifically for our needs.
It is a one piece flow system that instills great
flatness into the product from the very start of the hardening process.
In addition to our hardening we rely on our precision laser
cutting and
grinding machines to give us the flexibility to process
orders through our plant more efficiently than anyone in the industry.
With our Gold Medal customer service we are able to
ship orders in 1 day if the customer has an emergency need.
This premium service does not come for free but
typically price is not the underlying issue.