About the shop
The family behind the tool shop.
There is nobody between you and the people who build your tool. When it comes back in five years for a repair, it comes back to the same shop, under the same owners.
Since 1979
How the shop got here.
Two generations, no outside ownership and no holding company. The people who decide what happens to your tool are the owners themselves, and a tool built here comes back here for repair, to the people who cut it.
1979
Eugene Elpers founds C&E Mold in a small pole barn
1992
The shop outgrows the barn, moves to Locust Creek Drive and takes the Dexterous name. 22,500 sq ft
2001
ISO 9001 certification, first awarded 16 November 2001
Today
Eugene has retired. His sons Craig and Brian own the shop and sign off the work
The building
Same address since 1992.
The building the family moved into from the pole barn, and what it has become since.
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
The machines and the certificate have their own pages: every model and count and the ISO certificate.
The second generation
The people who sign off your tool.
Craig and Brian own the shop and sign off the work. If something on your tool is wrong, one of them decides what happens about it, and that is the whole escalation path. Their father Eugene started the business and has retired.
Craig Elpers
Owner
Brian Elpers
Owner
Eugene Elpers
Founder, retired
Looking for a job, not a mold?
This is a tool room, so the work is one-offs rather than production runs. A toolmaker here takes a job from steel through to the final fit instead of running the same operation all day, and the owners are on the floor with you.
Put 47 years of tooling to work.
Tell us what is in front of you. A description is enough to start.
Rather talk it through?
(812) 422-8046