Channellock
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- Headquarters
- Meadville, PA
- Manufacturing
- Meadville, PA · Overseas (countries not disclosed)
- Categories
- hand-tools-and-workshop
Channellock has made its blue-handled pliers in Meadville, Pennsylvania since 1886, and the site is unusually precise about which lines that covers: snips, non-locking pliers, professional drivers, pry bars and ratcheting wrenches are named as 100% Made in the USA, forged from US steel by associates in Meadville. That enumerated scope is the difference between a claim you can check and marketing.
It is a split line. The footer that names those US lines also says, in the next sentence, that a select number of Channellock products are imported from other countries — and unlike the US lines, the imported ones are not named, so the catalogue gives a buyer no way to tell them apart by sight. That is why the brand’s mark here is the floor. The pliers, snips, drivers, pry bars and ratcheting wrenches Channellock forges in Meadville are carried below as per-product overrides, each with the origin line from its own page quoted.
Check the product page before you buy. The forged lines carry “100% MADE IN USA” as a feature bullet; anything that does not is in the imported remainder Channellock declines to enumerate.
The record
Part of the range is imported, and Channellock says so in the same breath as the US claim
“All CHANNELLOCK® snips, non-locking pliers, professional drivers, pry bars, and ratcheting wrenches are 100% Made in the USA. A select number of CHANNELLOCK® products are imported from other countries as needed only after passing Channellock, Inc.'s rigorous quality standards.”
channellock.comRetrieved
The core hand-tool lines are 100% made in the USA
“All CHANNELLOCK® snips, non-locking pliers, professional drivers, pry bars, and ratcheting wrenches are 100% Made in the USA.”
channellock.comRetrieved
Cutting pliers are forged from US steel and made in Meadville, PA
“they're available in multiple different types and sizes, are forged from high-carbon U.S. steel, and are 100% made in the USA by dedicated associates in Meadville, PA.”
channellock.comRetrieved
A federal inspection record places Channellock's hand-tool plant at a street address in Meadville, Pennsylvania
“Channellock, Inc. 1306 South Main Street Meadville, PA 16335”
osha.govRetrieved
Domain record
channellock.com was registered on .It dates the domain, not the business: a maker that moved to a new address reads young here, and an old domain says nothing about who holds it now.
RDAP registry record · checked 19 Sep 2026
Products
Where to buyChannellock 430 10-inch Straight Jaw Tongue & Groove Pliers
Made in USAThis item carries a different mark from Channellock as a whole, so it has its own record.
The 430's own page states the plier is made in the USA
“CHANNELLOCK® Straight Jaw Tongue & Groove Pliers are made in USA and forged from high carbon U.S. steel that is specially coated for ultimate rust prevention.”
channellock.comRetrieved
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