Raw Tools

What Raw Tools does

Raw Tools is a privately held, for-profit company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. According to its short description, the company supplies cutting tools used in printing circuit boards and in the advertising industry, and also offers customer support services. The business is a small-scale industrial supplier operating with a headcount of 1-10 employees, and its primary corporate website (rawtools.ro) is hosted in Romania, indicating a likely regional or domestic go-to-market focus.

The company's product scope is narrow and industrial: physical cutting tools serving two end-markets — printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication, which is a precision tooling requirement, and the advertising industry, which typically uses cutting tools for sign-making, vinyl, and related substrates. The bundled customer support services suggest a relationship-driven sales model rather than a pure e-commerce or catalog distribution model. No further detail on product SKUs, tool materials, machine compatibility, or technical specifications is available in the supplied source material.

The business model appears to be straightforward industrial goods resale or distribution with a service overlay, but the input data does not disclose pricing model, revenue mechanics, customer count, contract structure, or sales channels. The company website returned only a loading/verification page, limiting primary-source verification. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no M&A activity, no management team listings, no partnerships, and no certifications or patents on record. As a result, almost every dimension beyond the founding year, location, employee band, and product line category is unverified.

Name

Raw Tools

Website

https://rawtools.ro

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Raw Tools is a small Bucharest-based industrial supplier founded in 2016 that provides cutting tools for printed circuit board manufacturing and the advertising industry, along with customer support services. It operates with 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PCB Cutting Tools

NAICS

Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing (333515), Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing (334412)

SIC

Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (3541), Printed Circuit Boards (3672)

akta.pro primary industry

Metal Cutting Tools, Tooling & Workholding (Cutters, Inserts, Chucks, Fixtures) (IMAHADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

PCB Fabrication (Rigid PCBs) (HDAHAOAG), Surface Preparation Equipment (Shot Blasting, Scarifiers, Grinders) (IMAHALAL)

Keywords

• PCB cutting tools
• Circuit board fabrication
• PCB milling tools
• Electronic manufacturing tools
• Printed circuit tooling

Headquarters

HQ city

Bucharest

HQ country

Romania

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Core offering

Raw Tools supplies cutting tools used in the printing/manufacturing of printed circuit boards, and offers advertising-industry and customer support services. The core product line targets PCB fabrication workflows, with ancillary services in advertising and customer support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PCB cutting tools
• Advertising industry services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Union Tool: Union Tool is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in PCB drilling and routing cutting tools, directly overlapping with Raw Tools' core offering of cutting tools for PCB fabrication.
• Kyocera Precision Tools: Kyocera's precision tools division supplies PCB drills, routers, and related consumables, making it one of the most direct comparables to Raw Tools' PCB-focused cutting tool portfolio.
• HAM Precision (Hitachi Tool Engineering successor brands): HAM Precision and related Hitachi Metals brands produce micro-drills and PCB cutting tools, serving the same end-customers (PCB fabricators) as Raw Tools.

Broad incumbents

• OSG Corporation: OSG is a major manufacturer of taps, drills, end-mills, and other cutting tools, with product ranges that intersect with the cutting tools Raw Tools supplies to PCB fabricators.
• Sandvik Coromant: Sandvik Coromant is a leading global supplier of metal-cutting tools and tooling solutions; comparable as a broad incumbent whose product line includes cutting tools used in electronics and PCB-adjacent machining.
• Walter Tools: Walter Tools is a major European metal-cutting tooling brand offering drills, milling cutters, and indexable inserts, comparable as a broad incumbent competing in cutting-tool categories that include PCB-related machining.
• Tungaloy: Tungaloy is a global metal-cutting tools manufacturer with PCB-grade drill and end-mill lines; comparable as a broader incumbent offering overlapping cutting-tool categories served by Raw Tools.
• Kennametal: Kennametal manufactures a wide range of metal-cutting tooling and wear-resistant solutions, overlapping with Raw Tools' cutting tools offering at a broader portfolio level.
• Mitsubishi Materials: Mitsubishi Materials supplies a wide range of metal-cutting and PCB drilling tools globally; comparable as a diversified incumbent with product overlap in cutting tools used by PCB manufacturers.

Regional players

• Dixi Tools (DIXI Polytool): DIXI Polytool is a Swiss manufacturer of precision cutting tools including micro-drills; comparable as a European regional player in the high-precision cutting tools space that Raw Tools also occupies.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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