California Tool & Welding Supply is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2026! The company started in 1976 when Robert C. Craig and Rick Davis opened the company out of a wooden shed on a dusty sand lot with a few bottles of compressed gases, an oxygen cascade system, and a small selection of hard goods. But what they lacked in resources, they more than made up for in vision.
The motto of the fledgling business was, “We provide service that only a family-owned and operated business can supply.” And that creed remains the cornerstone of Cal Tool half a century later, as the family’s third generation runs the company by those very same tenets.
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