Web Stiles founded the company from the back of his station wagon in 1965. With the assistance of Paul Longoni, Web began establishing partnerships with woodworking machinery manufacturers to serve the U.S. market.

Web also had an existing lumber supply company at the time, B&W Wood Products – which he operated with his five sons, Roger, Phil, Gregg, Don and David.

Stiles today is one of the world’s leading providers of advanced manufacturing equipment. We serve innovators in woodworking, architecture, furniture, fixtures, transportation, alternative energy and aerospace—propelling their success to new heights and dimensions.

Stiles moves into the new corporate headquarters building at 3965 44th Street, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Responding to the demands of a growing client base, Stiles moves into a new headquarters facility that is able to provide an expanded spare parts department and product showroom. Located within one mile of the Kent County airport, the new Stiles location was ideally suited to the requirements of its expanded mission.

Stiles joins the surface finishing technologies market.

Stiles acquires exclusive U.S. distribution for Altendorf sliding table saws in January of 1985 upon an intentional strategy focused on expanding business for the standard machines. Steve Jones partners with Altendorf Export Manager St. John Crabtree to formulate a plan to launch the Altendorf America division and build up a network of dealers to distribute a more standardized machine portfolio.

Stemming from the success of this plan, today, Stiles proudly boasts the most competitive dealer distribution network in the industry.

Beginning with the rebuilding of gluepots and spindle motors, Stiles initiates an innovative focus on refurbishing critical components of manufacturing equipment. Today, the program has grown to also include industrial electronics, vacuum pumps and machining aggregates to provide customers with remanufactured parts at a much more affordable price.

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A Stiles Advisory Board is formed with five senior executives to give them the opportunity to reflect outside normal business days. The first meeting was held in Traverse City, MI.

A company's greatest asset is its personnel and the goal of Stiles Education is to continue expanding programs and specializations to keep companies on the cutting edge of knowledge and expertise. Since 1990, Stiles has trained over 33,000 students via 40 accredited courses offered within the education program. Many students have taken additional classes to build their expertise and increase their company's ability to stay competitive in this rapidly changing industry.

Join Stiles Education for a conveniently scheduled session at one of our training centers, online or at your facility. Stiles can also tailor a training experience to meet your unique needs and goals for your facility.

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Through Stiles financing, you can get your equipment up and running, generating income right away. Expect economic advantages over the lifetime of your quality Stiles equipment. More than half of new equipment is purchased through capital leases, which are eligible for some of the same tax benefits and depreciation value of purchases financed through bank loans. Stiles offers competitive rates, affordable fixed payments, flexible structuring, lower down payments and more financing options.

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Today, Stiles answer an average of 100,000 spare part inquiries each year – supplying 24hour service (365 days a year) to over 14,000 of our customers nationwide. On average, over 9.4 out of 10 of your orders are shipped complete from our stock without the need to backorder a part – equating to 12% above the industry average of 82%. Stiles maintains a database that contains over 140,000 items and over $40 million in spare parts, because having the correct part available when you need it is the cornerstone to the business.

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Holzma US became a division of Stiles Machinery in January of 1992 as a result of the merger. Under the leadership of Bill Pitt, Holzma US brought an intentional focus on panel sizing technology to the U.S. manufacturing market. This focus included specific saw configurations and features with the American panel processing customer in mind.

Holzma remains as the largest manufacturer of panel sizing saws and systems in the world.

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Greg Jansen initiates a formal sales focus on enhancement technologies to help customers maximize their production capabilities. While he uses a conventional restaurant oven to service gluepots back in 1994, Jansen’s team now owns a number of industrial ovens that also apply Teflon coating to further enhance and improve the life of customers’ gluepots.

Stiles e-Tech remains aimed at helping customers apply new innovations to their manufacturing processes and improve factory efficiencies, performances and quality control.

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With field service technicians located in 17 states across the U.S., Stiles opens their fifth regional office to complete the implementation for a regional support strategy aimed at bringing local field service support closer to customers.

Today, Stiles offers a network of five regional service centers and a nationwide force of over 120 service engineers to place the industry’s best service where it belongs – close to you.

When you partner with Stiles, you will quickly learn that responsive, quality customer service is central to who we are.

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By 1997, Stiles had outgrown the original location and after multiple expansions it became obvious that a new facility was required. The decision was made to design and build a new location that would represent the company’s position as the largest independent woodworking machinery supplier in North America.

The new building features state-of-the-art conferencing, an expanded technology showroom and the facilities for Stiles’ E-tech and Rebuild group. Stiles welcomes visitors and customers from all over the world, and the company needed a facility to reflect this market position.

Stiles joins the Aerospace and Defense market with the installation of a Heian twin table machine for aluminum and composites.

Under the direction of Ray Klaassen, Stiles develops a new data management infrastructure to improve interactions with customers and vendors; the system becomes known as “SMILE” (Stiles Machinery Information Logistics Enterprise).

What began as a simple strategy – to improve support response time – has grown to become a state-of-the-art support service center that fields more than 40,000 service requests each year, with 90% of them resolved over a phone call by one of Stiles’ factory-trained specialists.

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When you connect with the Technical Support Call Center, Stiles can instantly access detailed data about your machine – including technical specifications and operator documentation, parts you’ve previously ordered for your machine, past calls or services you’ve requested for the machine or other machines within your operation. Stiles’ technical specialists can even perform remote diagnostics on your machines and recommend the right fix within minutes.

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Stiles carefully researches worldwide trends to develop a revolutionary line of solid wood machines specific to the U.S. market’s needs. The Kentwood line is launched to provide solid wood operators with high performance woodworking tools at an affordable price without compromising on features and quality.

Today, Stiles offers nearly 50 machines for moulding and planning profiles, ripping and crosscutting materials, optimizing manufacturing flow and more under the Kentwood machinery line.

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Ironwood, a brand of Stiles Machinery, is introduced in 2009 with boring and drilling equipment and straight line rip saws. The brand expands in 2010 to include our series of jointers, planers, shapers and cut off saws – and has grown to now offer a series of Ironwood wide-belt sanders. These machines are packaged with value in mind – quality equipment for the right price. Stiles has always been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small businesses in the woodworking industry, and these classic woodworking machines are the newest additions.

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Weeke North America was formed on October 19, 2008 as a joint venture between Weeke Bohrsystem GmbH, the majority shareholder, Homag Holzbearbeitungssysteme AG and Stiles Machinery Inc. Located in Grand Rapids, MI, Weeke North America’s 30,000-square-foot operation utilizes locally sourced parts to produce CNC machines to order, while maintaining minimal inventory and still offering short delivery times.

Due to the extreme success of this manufacturing strategy, the Weeke North America (WNA) management board has recently approved the contract for a new production facility. The new 100,000-square-foot building will be built in the same business park near the existing WNA site. Overhead cranes, better material flow, more production space and additional office spaces for the growing work force are some of the key benefits of the new location. Today, over 25 Weeke CNC machines are manufactured out of the WNA factory every month.

The HOMAG Group AG increases its shareholding in Stiles to 100%, intensifying the successful partnership that has been in place for over 30 years.

After 52 years in the industry, Peter Kleinschmidt retires as President. He sees the HOMAG Group as the ideal partner to build on his life’s achievement and continue the customer focused growth strategies for the future. Peter Kleinschmidt remains on the Board of Directors. Christian Vollmers, current president of HOMAG Canada, succeeds Mr. Kleinschmidt as president of Stiles.

Stiles celebrates 50 years helping manufacturers achieve high performance with quality machines, service and support.