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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1242257876">.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-label{padding-right:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-below{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-logo img{background-color:#f8f9fa}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-locality,.mw-parser-output .ib-company-country{display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">SKIL Power Tools</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SKIL_Logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/SKIL_Logo.png/200px-SKIL_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/SKIL_Logo.png/300px-SKIL_Logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/SKIL_Logo.png/400px-SKIL_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="1434" data-file-height="528" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Skil logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Subsidiary</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Power_tool" title="Power tool">Power tools</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1926</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Edmond_Michel" title="Edmond Michel">Edmond Michel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois" title="Naperville, Illinois">Naperville, Illinois</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data">Power tools</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Chervon (HK) Ltd</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skil.com">Skil.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skil_jigsaw.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Skil_jigsaw.jpg/250px-Skil_jigsaw.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Skil_jigsaw.jpg/330px-Skil_jigsaw.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Skil_jigsaw.jpg/500px-Skil_jigsaw.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Skil jigsaw</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg/250px-Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg/330px-Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg/500px-Accuboorschroefmachine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1516" data-file-height="1116" /></a><figcaption>Skil cordless drill</figcaption></figure> <p><b>SKIL Power Tools</b> is a brand of electric <a href="/wiki/Power_tool" title="Power tool">power tools</a> and accessories located in <a href="/wiki/Naperville,_Illinois" title="Naperville, Illinois">Naperville, Illinois</a>, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a subsidiary of Chervon (HK) Ltd, a company based in <a href="/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company now focuses more on the do-it-yourself consumer, but at one time made professional construction-grade power tools, which are now being sold under their subsidiary, SKILSAW. </p><p>SKIL can trace its heritage to the invention of the circular saw by Edmond Michel in 1924, which led to the development of the SKILSAW <a href="/wiki/Circular_saw" title="Circular saw">circular saw</a> <i>Model 77</i> in 1937. Now referred to as “the saw that built America,” the <i>Model 77</i> set the industry standard for handheld <a href="/wiki/Worm_drive" title="Worm drive">worm-drive</a> circular saws which remains in production almost unchanged today.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an example of a <a href="/wiki/Genericized_trademark" class="mw-redirect" title="Genericized trademark">genericized trademark</a>, portable <a href="/wiki/Circular_saw" title="Circular saw">circular saws</a> are often still called <b>Skilsaws</b> or <b>Skil saws</b>. </p><p>Skil products include <a href="/wiki/Circular_saw" title="Circular saw">circular saws</a>, cordless <a href="/wiki/Drill" title="Drill">drill</a>/drivers, cordless screw drivers, cordless tackers, cordless sealant guns, <a href="/wiki/Belt_sander" title="Belt sander">belt sanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Random_orbital_sander" title="Random orbital sander">random orbital sanders</a>, multi-sanders, <a href="/wiki/Angle_grinder" title="Angle grinder">angle grinders</a>, hammers, <a href="/wiki/Drill" title="Drill">drills</a>, mixers, jig saws, lasers and <a href="/wiki/Measuring_instrument" class="mw-redirect" title="Measuring instrument">measuring tools</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reciprocating_saw" title="Reciprocating saw">reciprocating saws</a>, <a href="/wiki/Router_(woodworking)" title="Router (woodworking)">routers</a>, and planers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skil_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Skil_logo.svg/220px-Skil_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Skil_logo.svg/330px-Skil_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Skil_logo.svg/440px-Skil_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="440" /></a><figcaption>Old Skil logo</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early 1920s, <a href="/wiki/Edmond_Michel" title="Edmond Michel">Edmond Michel</a>, a French immigrant in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans</a> with a penchant for tinkering and inventing, watched a group of farmers hack away at sugar cane with large machetes. After observing the painstaking labor the workers went through, Michel began experimenting with how to mechanize the <a href="/wiki/Machete" title="Machete">Machete</a>. In 1923, Michel created a motorized machete, which had a 6-inch (150 mm) saw-blade mounted on carved wooden frame and powered with a motor taken from a malted milk mixer – the first electric handsaw.<sup id="cite_ref-greatdivide_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greatdivide-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After reading about Michel’s new invention, Joseph Sullivan, a Minneapolis land developer, set out to find the New Orleans inventor. After deciding to go into business together, Michel and Sullivan moved to Chicago and opened the Michel Electric Handsaw Co. in 1924.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After forming the company, six production models were made at $1000 each. Michel went to the new <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City's Million Dollar Boardwalk</a> to demonstrate the new tools, where the first portable electric saw was purchased for $160 by the Piers’ developer.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1926, the Skil brand name was born after Michel left the company to pursue other ventures, and Sullivan changed the company name to Skilsaw, Inc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Skilsaw_Model_77_Invented">Skilsaw Model 77 Invented</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Skilsaw Model 77 Invented"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the Great Depression, In 1928, Skil released the Model E Skilsaw, the first generation saw with a worm drive. In 1937, Edward Sterba built the first Model 77 with a <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">7<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span>-inch (180 mm) blade, considered the "workhorse on building sites".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 75th anniversary of the Model 77 was in 2012. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During World War II, Skil developed the PS-12 circular saw for military applications by mounting an air-driven Thor motor on a 12-inch (300 mm) worm-driven saw for use in several types of construction. Manufactured in camouflage colors, with saw blade painted black and the body a greenish color, the saw worked just about everywhere, including underwater to cut piles or timbers. The Navy<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Whose navy? (January 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> had Skil put this tool into a special camouflage box coated and sealed with plastic. When they were unable to get into a landing area, the unit would be dumped overboard and floated or dragged in for use on aircraft landing areas.<sup id="cite_ref-greatdivide_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greatdivide-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post_World_War_II">Post World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the end of World War II, Skil began expanding into international markets by opening a distribution and service center in Toronto, CA,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="CA for California or CA for Canada? (January 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> in 1946. After selling directly to customers for 25 years, since the company’s inception, Skil entered the wholesale business and began distributing its products through hardware distributors. </p><p>In the 1950s, the company changed its name to the <i>Skil Corporation</i>. <i>Skilsaw</i> remained the brand name used for the company's products. European sales followed a few years later, by which time Skil had entered the consumer market. By 1959 it had a full and successful range of DIY tools. </p><p>Skil's European factory was built in 1961 in the Dutch town of <a href="/wiki/Breda" title="Breda">Breda</a>, followed soon after by an electric motor plant at <a href="/wiki/Eindhoven" title="Eindhoven">Eindhoven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>. After successfully entering the European market, by the end of 1961 Skil had opened additional offices in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Skil_in_Australia_-_1960s">Skil in Australia - 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Skil in Australia - 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Skil broke into the Australian market in the early 1960s, when they acquired the Australian company Sher Powertools, which was a good quality tool, and sold at a premium price intended to compete with the European brands of Wolf and <a href="/wiki/Desoutter_Tools" title="Desoutter Tools">Desoutter</a> which were well established fine quality brands of tools at the time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s_onwards">1970s onwards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1970s onwards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1970s onwards, Skil constructed a network of factories, service centers and sales offices all around the world, its name becoming synonymous with power tools. Skil still has its European head office in <a href="/wiki/Breda" title="Breda">Breda</a>. All manufacturing of power tools for the European market is outsourced, mainly in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>. Pre-development, Logisitics, Sales, Marketing and Finance are among the activities of the Dutch head office. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Since_1979">Since 1979</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Since 1979"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Emerson_Electric" title="Emerson Electric">Emerson Electric</a> acquired Skil Corporation on March 23, 1979. Under new ownership, Skil continued to grow. In late 1979, Skil redesigned many of its tools to have heavy-duty plastic, double-insulated housings. In 1982, the company embarked on a program to become the most successful power tool company in America by investing heavily in new manufacturing and <a href="/wiki/Quality_control" title="Quality control">quality-control</a> systems.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1985, Skil's heavy duty and super duty tool lines were renamed "Skil/ Skilsaw Professional". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skilsaw_Model_5625,_Top_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg/250px-Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg/330px-Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg/500px-Skilsaw_Model_5625%2C_Top_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3120" data-file-height="4160" /></a><figcaption>A 1985 Skilsaw Model 5625, Formerly Model 552.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1991, the Emerson Electric Company and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Bosch GmbH">Robert Bosch GmbH</a> entered into a <a href="/wiki/Joint_venture" title="Joint venture">joint venture</a> by combining their power tool subsidiaries.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1992, the new venture came to fruition as S-B Power Tool Co. In 1996, after four years of the partnership, Robert Bosch GmbH took over complete ownership of Skil. </p><p>On August 23, 2016, Chervon (HK) Ltd., a power tool manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, agreed to acquire the SKIL brand from the Bosch Power Tools division, which gave them control over the SKIL businesses in both North America and the European market.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skil&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skilsaw" title="Skilsaw">Skilsaw</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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