New Ulm Precision Tool, Inc. (NUPTI) was founded in 1974 and located in a 12,000 sq. ft. facility in New Ulm, Minnesota. By 1989, the company had outgrown its first facility, so the founder of the company, Curt Asleson, decided to move the company to a larger facility located just down the road at 2217 South Broadway. With the need for yet another expansion in 2006, Curt added on to the building bringing the size of the plant to over 20,000 sq. ft.

In the early years, NUPTI was known for designing and building close tolerance stamping dies.  In the early ‘80’s, we expanded into workholding fixtures as well.  NUPTI has continued to evolve to meet the complex demands of continuous improvement in manufacturing by producing more challenging or difficult fixtures for workholding tasks. We design and build machines that involve sequenced hydraulic circuits, part present sensing, self-centering locators, etc.  We are known for thinking “outside the box”, and take pride in developing clean, solid and user friendly designs.

New Ulm Precision Tool, Inc. is a leader in the design and fabrication of quality tool and die products, workholding fixtures and custom machines. We accomplish this by putting our most important asset, the customer, first.  Along with producing quality custom tooling, NUPTI is known for top notch support after the project is completed.  All drawings, project information and notes are archived for future reference as needed. The partnership with the customer is important to NUPTI and support after shipment is a key role in maintaining that partnership. NUPTI hires and trains the best employees in the industry who use state-of-the-art equipment to meet the customer’s quality, delivery and cost effective tooling requirements.

In the spring of 2007, NUPTI was purchased by Specialty Manufacturing Company (SMC), a 110 year old privately owned company located in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.  With the acquisition, NUPTI became a member of SMC’s already diversified company portfolio. SMC is organized into six vertically integrated divisions. Please visit the websites for more information on each division.

The Specialty Mfg. Co. – Valve Division  manufactures a wide variety of ball valves and check valves made of brass, stainless steel and plastic materials. All products feature optional end connections, seals, and spring rates, configurable to meet specific user specifications. These products are used by wide variety of industries including automotive, agricultural equipment, water purification, medical, beverage, and chemical dispensing.

New Ulm Precision Tool, Inc. is a leader in the design and fabrication of quality tool and die products, workholding fixtures and custom machines.

SafeWay Hydraulics is a leading supplier of quick action hydraulic couplings for the industrial, agricultural and mobile equipment industries.

Specialty Dental manufactures small pneumatic valves, manifolds, and custom injection molded parts for the dental industry, light pneumatics and air logic applications.

SMC Contract Manufacturing offers decades of experience in precision machining, metal stamping and injection molding. This division has the unique advantage of combining high production screw machining with today’s most advanced computer controlled multi axis machine capabilities to provide the most price competitive parts available. Our full service plastic injection molding facility incorporates in-house mold design, fabrication, and on-site mold repair. We offer metal stamping technologies that produce small precision stamped components for the medical, electrical and communications industries. We also manufacture a broad line of cutting blades for the tape, paper and plastic industries.

Rola-Chem Corp. / Paradise Industries produces peristaltic pumps, controllers, flow meters and other products for the pool industry.