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 Some USA-made products. 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.
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
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
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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