About Us
What we do:
Leader in Precision Metal Components for over 80 years
The DRIV-LOK family of companies produces high-quality, precision metal parts, including fasteners and hydraulic components, for leading companies in various industries worldwide.
How we do business:
We Offer More Than a Product Catalog–We Offer Business Solutions
While quality, efficiency, and cost competitiveness will always be the cornerstone of our business, we aim to provide greater value.
Through open and ongoing dialogue with our customers, we develop a deep understanding of their business. We ask questions beyond quantity, specifications, and cost and quality metrics to uncover the underlying factors that shape their business decisions and success. Based on this information, we create solutions that support their unique performance, speed to market, volume, and financial goals and align our operations and investments to meet their precise needs.
Core Values
Precision is essential to our customers’ businesses, and it is also essential to ours. Without precision, products fail, profits are lost, and brand reputations suffer.
We are dedicated to manufacturing components of the highest quality at competitive prices, with rigorous attention to detail and consistency. We constantly strive for continuous improvement to ensure our products meet the highest standards.
We think about more than selling products; we want to help solve business challenges. We align our operations and investments to help our customers meet their goals.
We provide the industry’s best customer service with business-minded teams that are endlessly curious about our customers’ business, anticipate their needs, bring expertise and ingenuity to the table, and are always available when they need them.
Our History
A Resolute Focus on Contributing to Our Customers’ Success
Founded in 1940 with just one machine, one employee, and one customer, Driv-Lok has grown over eight decades into an industry leader with more than a thousand customers worldwide. Design engineers and distributors around the globe choose Driv-Lok as their preferred brand for dowel pins, alignment dowels, grooved pins, ferrol and barbed pins, knurled pins, and roll pins.
In 2022, Driv-Lok expanded its capabilities, capacity, and reach by acquiring Hanel. For more than 50 years, Hanel has been a preferred manufacturer of precision hydraulic components to leading hydraulics and off-road equipment manufacturers. Hanel products are made using the latest in machining technologies, produced by a highly skilled and trained workforce, and following rigorous quality management protocols.
These two proud U.S.-based companies, with a shared legacy of unparalleled quality and dedication to customer service, have come together as one focused on creating greater customer value. Bringing deep business expertise, flexibility, and ingenuity to the table, Driv-Lok offers solutions to their business challenges, which means we contribute more to their success. Whether it’s identifying new opportunities to cut costs or increasing our capacity to meet rising demand—we offer ideas and solutions.