Stewarts of America

What Stewarts of America does

Stewarts of America, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned industrial manufacturer founded in 1976 and headquartered at 2825 Kemet Way, Simpsonville, South Carolina. The company designs, machines, and fabricates precision pins, pinned products, perforating tooling, and converting machinery, serving customers in over 50 countries across at least ten vertical end-markets including automotive, aerospace, packaging, technical textiles, medical, food processing, construction, and home products. Core technical competencies include precision pin placement across a wide density range, multiple perforating modalities (cold, hot, laser, rotary die, vertical die punch, thermal/flame, vacuum, slit/razor, inline/cross tear, pinned punch, and hose/pipe/tube perforation), and trade-secret-protected technologies such as Excalibur Pins, HIDE-A-SPIKE retractable pin systems, and interlocking aluminum alloy staves.

The company generates revenue through three primary streams: (1) one-time capital sales of custom perforating tooling, machinery, and converting equipment; (2) toll/contract perforating services using its own equipment and a partner network of toll shops; and (3) recurring sales of precision pinned and drilled parts, technical textile machinery components, aftermarket parts for legacy textile equipment (DREF friction spinning, open end spinning, weaving), and used/refurbished textile machinery. Pricing is uniformly quote-based with RFQ forms available for each product category; no standard pricing tiers are published. Distribution runs through direct enterprise sales, a global network of international agents and partners, and a North American agency relationship with Tatham for non-woven machinery. The firm self-describes as a standard supplier to 35+ machinery OEMs globally and operates with 11-50 employees, consistent with a specialized, capital-intensive niche manufacturer with deep but narrow technical scope.

Name

Stewarts of America

Legal name

Stewarts of America, Inc.

Website

https://stewartsofamerica.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stewarts of America is a family-owned private manufacturer of precision pins, pinned products, and perforating tooling and machinery, serving industrial OEMs and converters across automotive, aerospace, textiles, medical, packaging, and food processing in over 50 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Simpsonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Perforating Tooling and Machinery Sales: Stewarts designs, machines and fabricates complete tooling and machinery in-house, including unwinds, rewinds, sheeting machinery, and automated methods. They sell custom tooling and machinery to customers for in-house production.
2. Toll/Contract Perforating Services: Contract perforating services where Stewarts perforates customer materials using their equipment and expertise. Customers can submit samples for testing and then continue with toll perforating or purchase their own tooling.
3. Technical Textile Products: Sale of pinned products, textile machinery components, replacement parts, and used/refurbished textile machinery including DREF friction spinning equipment and open end spinning parts.
4. Precision Pinned and Drilled Parts: CNC-manufactured precision pinned and drilled parts for various industrial applications including pet grooming combs, racing tire needler tools, dough docking rolls, and pinned mill discs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stewarts of America designs, manufactures, and sells precision metallic pins and pinned products, custom perforating tooling and machinery, and industrial rollers for web handling applications. The company offers a full range of perforation technologies (cold, hot, laser, rotary, vacuum, thermal, die punch, slit, tear-line, and hose/pipe/tube), components and refurbishment services for technical textile machinery, and toll/contract perforating services that allow customers to move from R&D sample testing to either in-house tooling ownership or ongoing contract perforating.

Product overview

Stewarts of America is an industrial manufacturing company offering a comprehensive portfolio of precision-engineered products centered on pinned tooling, perforating technologies, and technical textiles. The core product lines include: (1) Pins and Pinned Products - precision metallic pins and needles for industrial applications; (2) Perforating Tooling, Machinery and Services - a full range of perforating technologies including Cold Perforation, Hot Perforation, Laser Perforation, Rotary Die Perforation, Vertical Die Punch, Thermal/Flame, Vacuum, Slit/Razor, Inline/Cross Tear, Pinned Punch, and Hose/Tube Perforation, plus toll/contract perforating services; (3) Technical Textile Solutions - machinery components and refurbishment for DREF friction spinning, open end spinning, carding, drafting, fibrillation, waste opening, non-wovens, and weaving; (4) Industrial Rolls - precision rollers for web handling including anvil, bow, brush, felt, grooved, idler, urethane, and pinned/spreader rolls; (5) Embossing Tooling and Machinery - pinned embossing rollers and post-gusset tube embossing; (6) Converting Technologies - unwind/rewind stands, sheeters, slitters, and web handling equipment; (7) Web Cleaning Technologies - cleaning systems for debris removal and Air-Sense porosity testing equipment; and (8) Pinned and Drilled Parts - CNC-machined precision parts for racing, pet grooming, food processing, and industrial applications. The company operates from Simpsonville, SC and serves customers in over 50 countries as a standard supplier to 35+ machinery makers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pins and Pinned Products Precision-engineered metallic pins, loose pins, custom pins, pointed wire products, talons, claws, and picker teeth manufactured with tight tolerances using CNC machinery for industrial applications across multiple industries.
• Cold Perforation Technology Cold pin rotary perforating using sharpened pins to pierce substrates, creating volcanic-style apertures; positioned as the least expensive and fastest perforating method.
• Hot Perforation Technology Heated pin perforating that creates melted holes with reinforced rings, producing stronger holes that resist tearing and do not close back up.
• Laser Perforation Systems High-speed laser perforation for moving web or stationary applications; non-contact method capable of burning holes smaller than mechanical methods, suitable for foils, poly films, textiles, paperboard, and medical applications.
• Rotary Tool and Die Perforation Precision mating rotating cylinders (male and female) that shear shapes or perforations at high speed; commonly used for computer labels, punch cards, parking tickets, and straw holes.
• Vertical Die Punch Perforation Precision die ground set with male pins, stripping plate, and female plate that shears material to create clean, open, round holes; used in one-way vision films and acoustical panels.
• Thermal/Flame Perforation Ultra-high density hole patterns using an etched copper drum with a burner for precise, consistent holes in bi-oriented substrates such as BOPP, PET, and Nylon.
• Vacuum Perforation Air suction through fine holes forces material to form 3D volcanic apertures, increasing the surface area of substrates.
• Slit and Razor Perforation Slit perforations using razor blades, crush blades, or rotary tools for tear lines and subtle perforation in thin sheet materials.
• Inline and Cross Tear Perforation Tear line perforations for easy-open pouches, tear-off bags, toilet paper, and shaped punch-outs in machine direction, web direction, or both.
• Pinned Punch Perforation Targeted perforation using pinned punch die sets, particularly useful for specific product areas, bagging lines, and thermoformed lids or bases.
• Hose, Pipe, and Tube Perforation Perforation tooling for circular objects including hand tools to industrial machinery for skin perforation or through-perforation for air/liquid evacuation.
• Converting Technologies Complete converting machinery including unwind/rewind stands, sheeters, slitters (razor, crush, shear, tangent), safety chucks, and air/mechanical expanding shafts for roll-to-roll processing.
• Web Cleaning Technologies Web cleaning systems including ionizing bars, vacuum systems, air knives, brush rollers, sticky rollers, and perforation testing equipment for quality control.
• Industrial Rolls Precision-engineered rollers including anvil rolls, bow rolls, brush rolls, felt rolls, grooved rolls, idler rolls, urethane rolls, pinned/spreader rolls, and air/mechanical expanding shafts for web handling applications.
• Embossing Tooling and Machinery Pinned embossing rollers and internal post-gusset tube embossing technology ('inside-out') for creating non-slip surfaces, textures, and logos in films and bags.
• Pinned and Drilled Parts Precision CNC-machined pinned and drilled parts including racing tire needler tools, pet grooming combs, pinned handheld tooling, pinned mill discs, and pinned dough docking rolls.
• Air-Sense Porosity Testing Equipment Perforation and permeability testing devices (Air-Sense-GO, Air-Sense-LAB, Air-Sense-HYBRID) for quantifying nano, micro, and macro perforations in films, papers, foils, and nonwovens.
• Technical Textile Solutions Pinned products, machinery components, and refurbishment services for textile manufacturing including DREF friction spinning, open end spinning, carding, drafting, fibrillation, combing, waste opening, non-woven, and weaving applications; supplied as standard to over 35 machinery makers worldwide.
• Toll/Contract Perforating Services Contract perforating services offering various perforating technologies for R&D sample testing, short-term, and long-term production needs, allowing customers to validate requirements before purchasing in-house tooling.
• Used Textile Machinery Purchase and sale of used textile equipment for yarn manufacturing, open end spinning, DREF spinning, and non-wovens, with refurbishment services and worldwide logistics handled.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 135 years of experience in pinned product innovation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• International Agents and PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGlobal network of agents and partnerships worldwide to provide customers with local, personal responses. Serves customers in over 50 countries through this network.
• Tatham (Non-Woven Machinery)coreTechnology or IntegrationStewarts of America is the North American agent for Tatham, a worldwide manufacturer of non-woven machinery and supplier of used textile machinery.
• 35+ Machinery OEM PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorStandard supplier to over 35 machinery makers worldwide, indicating long-term OEM supply relationships.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tatham: UK-based manufacturer of non-woven machinery and supplier of used textile machinery. Stewarts of America is Tatham's North American agent, making this a partner relationship and direct peer in textile/perforating machinery distribution.
• H.G. Weber & Co. Specializes in perforating equipment and machinery for industrial web processing, including cold pin, hot pin, laser, and rotary perforating systems. Direct peer with comparable technology portfolio in perforation machinery.
• Schmetz: Leading manufacturer of industrial and sewing machine needles and pins. Direct peer in industrial pin manufacturing, with overlap in precision-engineered needle products for industrial and textile applications.
• Groz-Beckert: World's largest manufacturer of industrial needles, precision pins, and system components for knitting, weaving, felting, tufting, carding, and sewing. Direct comparable in precision pin and textile machinery components, though at materially larger scale and broader product portfolio.
• Fehrer AG: Austrian manufacturer of DREF friction spinning machines and other nonwoven/textile equipment. Direct peer in technical textile machinery, particularly for the DREF spinning components that Stewarts services and refurbishes.
• Spilker GmbH: German manufacturer of perforating and cutting tools for industrial applications, including pinned rollers and custom perforating solutions. Direct peer in industrial perforating tooling with overlapping product categories.
• Zenith Cutter: Manufacturer of perforating blades, cutting tools, and related industrial cutting equipment for converting and web processing applications. Direct peer in precision perforating tooling serving similar converting and packaging customers.
• Foster Needle Company: US-based manufacturer of industrial needles and specialty pins for textile and industrial applications. Direct peer in industrial needle/pin manufacturing with similar customer base in North America.
• Organ Needle Co. Japanese manufacturer of industrial sewing machine and specialty needles. Direct peer in industrial needle and pin manufacturing, serving overlapping industrial and textile customers.

Broad incumbents

• Böllhoff: Global fastener and assembly technology company offering screws, bolts, nuts, rivets, and related fastening solutions across automotive, aerospace, electronics, and industrial markets. Broad incumbent in fasteners with overlapping customer base but much wider product portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

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