Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) designs and produces an array of highly engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems, and specialty products and equipment for customers around the world.
A Fortune 200 diversified manufacturing company with more than 90 years of history, ITW's approximately 600 decentralized business units in 43 countries employ nearly 52,000 men and women who are focused on creating value-added products and innovative customer solutions.


Spit began in 1949 when the two founders, a Frenchman and a Swiss, invented a unique system for firing hardened steel nails into concrete and steel. (Now generally known as Cartridge Tools or Powder Actuated Tools: PAT) Spit developed further technologies for fixing and anchoring in the construction industry and opened an office in the UK in 1959. Most of the product is still manufactured in the French factory in Valence, South of Lyon.


For over 50 years Ramset has been a market leader supplying construction fixings including PAT and metal anchors to the UK building industry. Ramset owns two manufacturing plants in Australia at Croydon (Victoria) and Lonsdale (South Australia).


Of USA origin, Buildex developed the first self-drilling and self tapping screw for metal building and structures, commonly referred to in the market using the Buildex brand name of Teks screw. Other innovative products developed by Buildex are Timber fix for self-drilling through timber and Tapcon for self-tapping into concrete.