About Us

Mission:
Midwest Industrial Tools, Inc. aspires to lead the distribution industry in the application and sale of advanced product, process, and service technology.

We will:
Commit and equip ourselves to serve in a personal, ethical, and expedient manner;
Consistently focus our energies and resources on our customer's current and future needs;
Creatively and reliably deliver solutions of exceptional value to our manufacturing customers; and
Continuously examine and enhance our products, processes, and services.

Thereby:
Earning the reward of repeatedly being selected first by our customers and suppliers; and
Protecting the mutual, long term prosperity and satisfaction of our customers, suppliers, associates, and principals.

Midwest Industrial Tools, Inc. (MIT) is a full-service industrial distributor of MROP (maintenance, repair, operations, and production) tooling and industrial supplies and sells to industrial manufacturing customers in Nebraska, Western Iowa, and Southeastern South Dakota. Our thirty (30) employees have many years of experience in servicing our customers and we continually work with our customers to lower the total cost of their products by finding the best manufacturing processes. We represent world class manufacturers such as 3M, Sandvik Coromant, Garr Tool, Dayton Progress, Cooper Power Tools, Reiff & Nestor Company, and Allied Machine & Engineering. These suppliers continually introduce new technologies so we can provide our customers with the best solutions for their processes. Our motto is "Your source for tomorrow's technology…. TODAY". Our greatest strength is the combined knowledge and conscientious attitude of our employees. They truly care about our customers and our suppliers.

OUR HISTORY
In 1969 MIT was headquartered in Minneapolis/St. Paul and operated as Minnesota Industrial Tools, Inc. The ownership decided they wanted to expand their business so they sent one of their salesmen to Omaha. He worked "out of the trunk of his car" until 1970 when the company moved into a small 500 square foot facility at 89th & J Streets. The operation was then named Midwest Industrial Tools, Inc. and they continued in that location until 1972 when the company purchased a 10,000 square foot facility at 14920 Grover Street. MIT occupied 2,000 square feet and the rest of the facility was sub-leased. As the company grew they expanded into the rest of the building until finally in 1974 they occupied the entire building. The most significant growth in the company took place between 1973 & 1976 when the employment quadrupled and sales grew by 50 % each year. In 1977 & 1978 sales doubled in both years. The reputation of the company continued to grow in this new market and throughout the industrial distribution industry. The parent company by this time had branches in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Omaha; Milwaukee; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; San Francisco; Los Angeles; and Tampa, Florida. Many of the employees who joined the company in these early years are still here today - namely: Gary Davis (1973), Allan Chartier (1974), Mike Lyons (1976), Bob Horton (1977), and Pat Croghan (1979). Many of our other employees have considerable industry experience.

In 1980 Midwest Industrial Tools, Inc. was reorganized and Allan W. Chartier was named General Manager with responsibility for running the Omaha operation for the parent company. In 1981 the parent company decided to enter the fast emerging telecommunications industry and in order to capitalize the new business they decided to sell the branches to the General Managers of each operation. Effective January 1, 1982 the Omaha branch was sold to three (3) of the employees with Allan W. Chartier, who was the majority stockholder, being named President and CEO. The company was reincorporated in the State of Nebraska and it remains so today. Two of the purchasers have since left the company and as they did so Allan W. Chartier purchased their stock from them. He now owns 100% of the stock.

Along with a very successful tenure in the MROP business MIT entered the machine tool business in 1975 and began representing Okuma Machinery. This was a relationship that lasted 30 years. During our involvement in the machine tool industry MIT also began relationships with other machine tool builders and opened branches in Denver, Colorado (1984) and Salt Lake City, Utah (1988). The company management made a strategic decision in 2004 to exit the machine tool industry and the machine division of the company was sold to Hartwig, Inc. who is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. This transaction was completed on January 1, 2005. MIT now spends 100% of it's time concentrating on the MROP business in the original territory. In 1994 the company had also opened a branch for MROP in Columbus, Nebraska which is about 90 miles northwest of Omaha. Today the company operates out of its two locations in Omaha and Columbus.

The company built a new 33,000 square foot facility in Omaha in 1995 and continues to operate out of that facility today. The facility has a 15,000 square foot warehouse, 12,000 square feet of offices, and a 6,000 square foot showroom.

MIT is a family owned small business. As previously stated, Allan W. Chartier is the President and CEO and most of his family works in the business with him. Lynda Chartier is Director of Administration, Jennifer (Chartier) Stolp is an Administrative Assistant, and Evan Chartier is a Sales Representative. The Chartier family enjoys being involved on a daily basis and they consider it a privilege to be surrounded by such great employees.