So rest assured that we will never offer a too cheap tool that will keep manufacturers happy today but do nothing more than frustrate them tomorrow. Our professional ongoing working relationships are just too important to jeopardise.

There are no such issues within this powerful hierarchy.  Scale brings solidity and reliability, and that is good for everyone.

Downtime due to the wrongly specified cutting tool reduces profitability because a workforce stops, but paying them to be present, does not. The broader the range the more likely it is that the cutting tool supplier can provide the best tool, quickly. Almost 15,000 cutting tools means that there is a direct and positive impact in manufacturer uptime because matching tool-to-job is easier to get right, first time.

Missed deadlines due to an incorrect cutting tool or delayed provision of a cutting tool damages the toll manufacturer’s reputation, the distributors reputation and the manufacturer’s reputation with their customer. The knock-on effect can be quite severe.

These are just a few reasons why the huge choice available at FORMAT Tools creates great win:win opportunity.

In our experience, six key factors that affect such an important decision include:

1.    The quality of the cutting tool itself
2.  How cutting tool distributors are chosen and monitored by the cutting tool manufacturer
3.    Breadth of cutting tool choice
4.    Speed of delivery of the cutting tool
5.    How the cutting tool manufacturer runs their business and is structured
6.    Cutting tools pricing policy

In this blog story we will focus on number one, ‘The quality of the cutting tool itself.’

Quality and Safety

Because we develop tools for the real world, we understand their strengths and their limitations. We will make sure that through our distributor network you are advised honestly and clearly about the safest tool for the job too.

Quality and Price

Here at FORMAT Tools we don’t try to be the cheapest, but we are far from the most expensive too. We represent great value because we balance practical requirements of the busy manufacturing workplace with the practical requirements of the typical FD. This is a hard thing to do, to find the perfect balance of cost and performance on every job, but it is a challenge that we embrace every single day.

Quality and Research and Development

At FORMAT Tools we want the performance of our cutting tools to be better tomorrow than they are today. This means on-going investment of time, money, energy and inventiveness into researching and developing new tools and new ranges. Better never stops.

Quality and You 

To experience FORMAT Tools quality yourself, please contact your dealer.

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In our experience, six key factors that affect such an important decision include:

1.    The quality of the cutting tool itself
2.  How cutting tool distributors are chosen and monitored by the cutting tool manufacturer
3.    Breadth of cutting tool choice
4.    Speed of delivery of the cutting tool
5.    How the cutting tool manufacturer runs their business and is structured
6.    Cutting tools pricing policy

In this blog story we will focus on number one, ‘The quality of the cutting tool itself.’

FORMAT Tools. A Commitment to Quality. 

FORMAT Tools sells in to many tens of thousands companies across the UK. This is fantastic news but there is one other statistic that is even more important to us than that. It is how many of our customers buy from us more than once.

In competitive environments, distributor incentives exist help new and existing brands to be chosen, and whilst such offers are great opportunities for win: wins in the short term, the real test is how the relationship develops in the longer term.

At FORMAT Tools we don’t just focus on selling cutting tools – we want to build on-going working relationships with our distributors and the users of our cutting tools. That is why we are very proud of the fact that so many UK based manufacturers choose FORMAT Tools over and over again.

OUR Commitment to Quality is YOUR commitment to quality.

We understand that the quality of our cutting tool impacts directly on the quality of our customer’s output. That is why our dealers are so well trained to make sure that the quality we create ‘in here’ translates ‘out there’ too.

Quality and Trust

Another important issue to FORMAT Tools on the subject of quality is trust and transparency. So in our world our dealers will only promise what we can deliver, and we will always deliver on what we promise.

We worry that too much choice in the cutting tool market can lead to over-promising, so we do avoid this at all costs. We know the best tools for the job and if that sometimes means it’s a little more expensive in the short term, our distributors will tell you that. After all, it is the quality of the job you are doing that is so important to you, and us.