Timeline Stories

TMS Earns Ohio Strong Award Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel speaks to Toledo Metal Spinning employees about Ohio Strong award. The Ohio Strong Award is presented to “those who excel at manufacturing and the trades” in order to help young people have an interest in entering manufacturing. The Toledo Blade made a feature about TMS earning […]

  Toledo Metal Spinning Restructures Company In 1999, with the challenge of the fire behind them, the company initiated the implementation of Lean Manufacturing Techniques to increase efficiency and decrease lead times.  The one piece flow system required the company to organize its manufacturing space into cells, rather than departments. Toledo Metal Spinning began working as usual,

Toledo Metal Spinning Burns to the Ground in February of 1998.  Toledo Metal Spinning suffered the most devastating event in its almost 70 years of existence. A wild midnight fire ripped through the company destroying a majority of the manufacturing space and almost all of the manufacturing equipment. Through the efforts of all the dedicated,

TMS Earns Precision Metal Forming Association Award of Excellence In 1991 and again in 2001, the company was awarded the Precision Metal Forming Association’s (PMA) Award of Excellence for the conical hopper design and its affect on the company’s productivity.  This is an honor for Toledo Metal Spinning Company, especially after earning the Award of

  Toledo Metal Spinning Creates New Standard Parts In 1988, the TMS standard line of stainless steel conical hoppers was born.  TMS currently boasts over a dozen different sizes of stocked conical hoppers where customers can call and order off the shelf hoppers able to ship the same day.  For those customers desiring special welding fabrication, the