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In 1956 H. Roy Graybill of Manheim founded Graybill's Machine Shop located on E. Ferdinand Street.
In 1959 his son H. Reid Graybill began to work for the company. In 1960 the name was changed to
Graybill's Machine and Tool. The company's name was changed to the present Graybill's Tool and Die,
Inc. in 1974. Shortly thereafter the old Cinco cigar factory located at 147 W. High Street was
purchased. Graybill's Tool and Die, Inc. renovated this building and moved into it in 1978. Due
to growth of the business, the property next to the east side of Graybill's was purchased and an
addition was added in 1993.
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The original building at 147 W. High St. was built in 1912 by the N. W. Gingrich Construction
Company of Manheim to be a modern cigar factory. The building held it's grand opening in 1913
and began manufacturing hand-rolled Cinco cigars. Around 1923 the William R. Noggle Shirt Company,
a producer of men's shirts and pajamas, purchased the building and used it as a sewing factory for
many years. If you look very carefully, once in a while you can find a straight pin still lodged
in a crack in the floor boards. The building had several different owners until Graybill's Tool
and Die, Inc. purchased it in 1977.
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Presently the company averages around 30 - 35 employees and operates as a full service jobber in
the business of providing complete design and build of special machines, manufacturing systems,
machine controls, panel building, prototypes, custom tools, dies, jigs, fixtures and precision
machined parts. Designers employ full solid modeling software as well as 2D CAD (Computer Aided
Design). Computer controlled as well as traditional machine tools and techniques are used to
complete business operations.
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For more information contact us at:
Graybill's Tool and Die, Inc.
147 W. High Street
Manheim, PA 17545
Voice: (717) 665-5546
Fax: (717) 665-3107
E-mail us at: info@graybills.com
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This page last updated January 2009.
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