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Skil Power Tools is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chervon Ltd. (sic) and is a leader in portable power equipment and accessories that serves the consumer and professional do-it-yourself construction market.

SKIL can trace its relics to the discovery of circular saws by Edmond Michele in 1924, leading to the development of circular saws SKILSAW Model 77 in 1937. Now referred to as the "America-building saws," Model 77 > set the industry standard for handheld handheld saw saws in fixed production in virtually unchanged today. In the generic trademark example, portable circular saws are often still called Skilsaws or Skil saw .

Skil products include circular saws, cordless drivers/drivers, cordless screw driver, cordless clamps, cordless seal guns, sanders belts, random orbit sanders, multi-sanders, angle grinders, hammers, drills, mixers, jig saws, lasers and gauges, reciprocating saws, routers, and planers.

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Histori

In the early 1920s, Edmond Michel, a French immigrant in New Orleans with a tendency to tamper with and create, observed a group of farmers seizing cane with big machete. After observing the hard work done by the workers, Michel began experimenting with how to mechanize the machetes. In 1923, Michel made a motorized machete, which had six saw blades mounted on carved wooden frames and powered by a motor taken from the first malt - chainsaw mixer.

After reading about Michel's new discovery, Joseph Sullivan, a Minneapolis land developer, began searching for New Orleans inventors. After deciding to do business together, Michel and Sullivan moved to Chicago and opened Michel Electric Handsaw Co. in 1924.

After forming the company, six production models were made at $ 1000 each. Michel went to Atlantic City's new Boardwalk Million Dollar to demonstrate the new tools, where the first portable electric "Skilsaw" was purchased for $ 160 by Piers developers.

In 1926, the Skil brand name was born after Michel left the company to pursue another venture, and Sullivan changed the company's name to Skilsaw, Inc.

Skilsaw Model 77 Created

After surviving the Great Depression, Skil continues to make improvements to his saw. During the 1930s, Skil released Model E Skilsaw, the first generation saw with a worm drive. In 1937, Edward Sterba perfected Model E and built the first Model 77 with a "blade 7", which is considered a "hard worker at a building site." Model 77 celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2012.

World War II

During World War II, Skil developed PS-12 circular saws for military applications by installing an air-driven Thor motor on a 12-powered saw blade for use in several types of construction. Produced in camouflage colors, with black-painted blades and greenish bodies, the saws work almost everywhere, including underwater to cut piles or wood. The Navy told Skil to insert the device into a special camouflage box that was coated and sealed with plastic. When they can not enter the landing area, the unit will be discharged into the sea and floated or dragged for use in the aircraft landing area.

Post World War II

After the end of World War II, Skil began to expand into the international market by opening a distribution and service center in Toronto, CA in 1946. After selling directly to customers for 25 years, Skil entered the wholesale business and began distributing its products through device distributors hard.

In the 1950s, the company changed its name to Skil Corporation . Skilsaw remains the brand name used for the company product. European sales followed a few years later, when Skil entered the consumer market. In 1959, this device has a complete and successful DIY device.

The European factory of Skil was built in 1961 in the city of Breda, The Netherlands, soon followed by an electric motor factory in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Having successfully entered the European market, at the end of 1961 Skil has opened additional offices in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark and Germany.

Skil in Australia - 1960s

Skil Broke to the Australian market in the early 1960s, when they acquired the Australian Sher Powertools company, which is a good quality tool, and sold at a premium price intended to compete with the European brands Wolf and Desoutter of good quality. brand tool at the time.

Skil 1970s,

In 1970 and beyond, Skil built a network of factories, service centers and sales offices worldwide, its name being synonymous with power tools. Skil still has its European headquarters in Breda. All the manufacturing of power tools for the European market is being outsourced, especially in China. Pre-development, Logisitics, Sales, Marketing and Finance is one of the activities of the Dutch headquarters.

1979 to present

Emerson Electric acquired Skil Corporation in 1979. Under new ownership, Skil continues its growth. In 1982, the company embarked on a program to become the most successful power tool company in America by investing heavily in new manufacturing and quality control systems. In 1988, the company has achieved its goal.

In 1991, Emerson Electric Company and Robert Bosch GmbH entered into a joint venture by combining their electric appliance subsidiaries. In 1992, this new venture began to fruition as S-B Power Tool Co. In 1996, after four years of partnership, Robert Bosch GmbH took over the full ownership of Skil.

On August 23, 2016, Chervon (HK) Ltd., a power tool manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, agreed to acquire the SKIL brand from the Bosch Power Tools division, which gives them control over SKIL's business in North America and the European Market.