Company History

A Family Legacy - Tradition

The Waldo family has a legacy of owning and operating businesses that started in the late 70’s by Ray Waldo. Deciding to take his families future in his own hands he started providing programming and setup services to companies in and around the Kansas City Missouri area. Within a few years the service company turned into a manufacturing operation with several employees, including Rays’ sons Dennis and Daniel Waldo. The company grew into a multi-million dollar a year corporation and by the late 90’s Ray and Daniel decided to retire and sold the company to Dennis Waldo. Within a few years Dennis brought on board the third generation, his sons’ Chad and Jason Waldo and his daughter Amie Waldo. During this time Dennis’s wife Vicki had successfully owned and operated three businesses in the Kansas City area. MRI, The Bath House and the Whistle Stop Coffee shop were all successes by any measure. Vicki managed to startup and run all three, selling each in the end for a profit. Not wanting to be out done by the rest of his family Chad Waldo decided it was time he start his own company, and in late December of 2006 he started Nu-Forge Tool LLC.

A Company on the move

The company is well on its way with initiatives like ISO certification; industry best benefits, flex time work schedules and a laid back atmosphere were people can work comfortably.

With in its first year the company has exceeded its goal for sales by topping out over the half-million dollar mark. Sales for the ’08 fiscal year have been revised up to $750,000.00.

The operations moved into a new building in August ’07 adding thousands of square feet to its capacity. Plans are under way, ahead of schedule, to purchase several new pieces of equipment including CNC mills and automation equipment. With over 8,000sqft. to expand into there is ample room for increased capacity.

If your interested in joining this dynamic company have a look at our careers page and see if there is an opening for you.

The Perfect Storm

Chad Waldo started his career at the family company when he was just fifteen. Working in grinding and sweeping the floors he learned the value of a hard days work the hard way. After college he returned to the family company as the head of the QC department and started to delve into the CAD/CAM side of manufacturing. In 1998 he left the company for R&D Tool and engineering to become a draftsmen. Moving up the ranks quickly he became the sole designer for the prototype tools division and became involved in product design. In 2003 he moved back to the family business as the VP of Operations. There he helped the company through its largest growth period to date. It wasn’t until late 2006, early 2007 that he moved on again, this time with his own company, Nu-Forge Tool. The wide background in several disciplines of manufacturing over the past 10 years has become a perfect storm of sorts giving him the ideal background to lead the company into the future.