Our History
Who We Are
CP Techmotive is a product, applications and customer center within the US-based Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company (CP). We engineer, assemble and deliver industrial screwdrivers, nutrunners, controllers, proprietary tightening software and networked multi-spindle tightening solutions to original equipment and Tier One manufacturers in transportation markets and general industry. We provide solutions for the most challenging multi-spindle tightening applications and follow up with impeccable service.
Critical Safety for Automotive Assembly
The CP Techmotive facility is located in the Detroit suburb of Novi, Michigan near the headquarters of GM, The Chrysler Group, Ford and numerous tier one suppliers and just across the Detroit River from Ontario, Canada which leads North America in the volume of vehicles manufactured. Our products and solutions focus on safety - to meet the critical joint tightening specifications for motor vehicles and to ensure the safety of assembly personnel. CP Techmotive is ISO 9000, 14000 and TE certified.
Global Customers
About 66 percent of CP Techmotive products and assembly systems are sold in the US. The balance of products are exported to Canada, the UK, Sweden, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China and other countries.
Our Past, Our Future
CP Techmotive's earliest products were rotary socket wrench torque transducers and instruments for testing the peak torque of pneumatic nutrunners (tools to tighten threaded fasteners) used in the manufacture of automobiles. Subsequent products included fastener force transducers, load cells, pressure transducers, and reaction torque sensors. Specialty transducers were developed to measure the force exerted on the neck and femurs of automotive crash dummies, the torque of robot wrists, and torque and force exerted on automobile wheels and tires.
Windows-based programmable torque/angle controllers and intelligent DC electric nutrunners brought the Techmotive brand into prominence at automotive assembly plants in the late 1980s and popularity into the 21st Century. So it was natural that CP retain the Techmotive brand.
CP and Techmotive - Joining Forces, Joining Assemblies
CP acquired Techmotive in March 2005. CP tools broaden the
Techmotive solutions capability. CP Tools include electric brushless (EB) nutrunners that
are largely marketed throughout Europe, current controlled tightening tools, pneumatic
impact wrenches, pulse tools, grinders, chippers, scalers, air compressors
and other products.
CP tools are used in assembly and vehicle service
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