About Us

IDEAL, a Tomkins company, is a leading designer and clamp manufacturer of worm gear, industrial, marine and specialty hose clamps for a broad range of fastening applications.

IDEAL is headquartered in St. Augustine, Florida, and manufactures Ideal® and Tridon® clamp products with operations in Smyrna, Tennessee; Matamoros, Mexico; and Suzhou, China. Together, the facilities manufacture worm drive hose clamps, high-torque clamps, constant tension clamps, T-Bolts, V-Bands, no-hub couplings and a host of specialty and custom clamping products.

IDEAL offers additional warehousing and distribution facilities along with local sales assistance to support your region. Whether you are located in America, Europe, China or a remote region of the world - we have someone who can service your account in a language that you understand. We can design a clamp for your production line or create a clamp mix for your re-sale location. Let us help connect you with our sales representatives. Click here.

The IDEAL philosophy promotes engineering ingenuity, progressive thinking and a commitment to excellence in both product and service. Customers can take advantage of our automated assembly processes, our advanced screw manufacturing technology, our high-speed stamping expertise and our automated packing and distribution.

With over 90 years of clamping expertise, IDEAL offers excellent customer service, experienced industry engineering talent and a broad range of high quality products. We are passionate people partnering to set the global standard of excellence in everything we do. Whether you want a standardized product or specialized attention - we have the team, the facility and the knowledge to give you what you want Right - the first time.

For more information about OEM
For more information about Replacement/Re-sale
For more information about Customer Service
For more information about Engineering/Testing/Quality

For more information about our Tomkins association

Our affiliated brands include: Amflo®, Camel®, Edelmann®, Gates®, PlewsLubriMaticTM, SchraderBridgeport®, Stant®, Trico® and Tru-Flate®.

IDEAL and the Tomkins Aftermarket Group (AMG) headquarters are co-located in St. Augustine, Florida. Tomkins Industrial and Automotive group serves customers worldwide in the industrial and automotive markets with a full line of products and systems components. Located in London, Tomkins Plc. headquarters a global engineering group with market and technical leadership across several business groups including Tomkins Industrial & Automotive; Air Systems Components; and Engineered & Construction Products. Find out more at www.Tomkins.co.uk.