Toledo Metal Spinning Founded in 1929 Rudolph Bruehner of West Germany Founded Toledo Metal Spinning Company. The company started solely as a metal spinning company. Throughout the years that followed, the company started to acquire deep draw presses and special stamping machines.  It was discovered by Mr. Bruehner that the stamping process actually proved to complement the spinning […]

Toledo Metal Spinning Elevates to new Heights In 1964, Ken and Bill Fankhauser purchased the company and took TMS to new dimensions over the next generation. The Fankhauser brothers started to acquire a variety of carefully selected presses, new types of spinning lathes and welding equipment. As time marched forward, the customer base was purposefully […]

Toledo Metal Spinning Incorporates New Business Practices In 1987 the passing of the torch was initiated. Craig and Eric Fankhauser purchased Bill’s share of Toledo Metal Spinning. The next generation of management became increasingly involved. Craig developed the information systems of the company utilizing his degree in computer science and Eric involved himself in developing and […]

  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 […]

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 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, […]

  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, […]

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 […]