VAC-U-CLAMP is a company dedicated to engineering and producing the highest quality, vacuum driven products designed especially for the woodworking professional and serious non-professional. We started out about 30 years ago, in a production furniture environment, and have progressed through almost all stages of woodworking, learning a little at each stop. For years we often discovered a need for that "special" tool or fixture that just wasn't available unless we made it ourselves. After a while we realized that it was more fun creating tools that really provided a solution than it would building case goods and so, about 6 years ago, we discontinued all furniture production to concentrate on making new tools and refining many of the tools that had been used every day in the factory and offering them to the trade.

The decision was made early to limit the section of products to tools powered by vacuum. It was and still my opinion, that vacuum, properly applied, can be the most effective energy source in any shop or factory. It's different than compressed air or electricity, energy sources that we're all familiar with, but once understood, it's applications are virtually limitless.

Today, we produce a broad line of products that range from the now famous "hockey puck" hold-downs and all it's relatives to circle fixtures that enable you to cut a perfect circle of any diameter; "track" hold-down systems from CNC equipment and an extensive product group of vacuuming bagging equipment for veneering and forming that are quickly becoming favorites for their economy and durability by the trade and hobbyist alike.

The future for us is to continue just as we are, creating new products that answer a need, make you're job easier and enable you to do things that you otherwise couldn't do all at a price that you can afford.

Barney Rigney
President