page_title: Maxtech Consumer Products
section_title: Company history
hierarchical_section_title: Maxtech Consumer Products / Company history
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of a Maxtech 50 Piece Wrench Set
context_page_description: Maxtech Consumer Products Limited, a Canadian design and manufacturing group, markets hand tools and power tool accessories under its brands and private labels throughout North America and Europe. Their headquarters have been in Waterloo, Ontario since they began operating in 1977.
context_section_description: Maxtech developed as part of a larger manufacturing group under the name Mastercut Industries Inc., until splitting into its own company in the 1990s.  The company was started by Kacee (Kailash, K.C.) Vasudeva, who also started Maxtech Manufacturing Group, originally Maxi-Flow.  The manufacturing company, that produced automotive parts and tools for the Consumer Products business, was forced to shut its doors because of rising costs and an uneven Canadian dollar. The majority of production for the Consumer Products group had been moved overseas, and at that point the remaining production was moved there as well.  Vasudeva and the company have been recognized with multiple honours since they began operating.
  The company engineers and designs hand and power tool accessories under several in house brands, as well as for major retailers under their private labels in North America.  The company started with one product, a hacksaw, and one retailer, and has grown to a major supplier of private label products.
caption: 50 Piece Wrench Set by Maxtech
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