About Us

Our President, Mike Winter, grew up in the company, where his dad, Adolph Winter was co-owner with Olof Sedwall.  After obtaining an MS in Education and teaching for seven years, he returned to Sedwall in 1986, and began his journey to take up the baton and run the family business.  In 1988, Mike took over daily operations and has instituted many improvements over the years to make Sedwall the successful company that it is today, not the least of which is moving the entire company from Chicago to a purpose-built building in St. Charles, IL in 1997.  With the vision and the space to grow, he has reinvested the company’s earnings into high quality state of the art machinery and, most importantly, well trained expert machinists and tool and die makers, who can be counted on to provide the best tooling in the industry. 

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Our General Manager, Tom Sygowski has been working in the Tool & Die and Machine Building field serving metal container industries since 1990.  He apprenticed at Buhrke Industries, continued with Buhrke Tech Int. as a Tech Service Engineer and advanced to key management positions at Quantum Inc. and Alfons Haar.  With his experience, Tom has been providing Sedwall with the right know-how since 2015.  We have significantly increased new die construction and reconditioning projects under his expertise.  Tom’s responsibilities consist of overseeing Plant Operations, Sales, and Engineering. 

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Our Office Manager, Beth Harling, has been with Sedwall since 1997.  Beth is everyone’s “go-to” for everything from customer service to AR/AP, HR, IT, Traffic and Marketing.  If you need a question answered, Beth can either answer it or will know where to point you to get the answer you need. 

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Karl attended Illinois Wesleyan University majoring in Math and minoring in Art.  With the mind of a mathematician and the heart of an artist, he took well to the precision tooling manufacturing field, understanding the patience, skill and pride that goes into each tool we manufacture.  Karl spent over five years on the shop floor learning several of the machines we utilize and has transferred that knowledge into his current position in Technical Sales. 

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