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Beaver Drill & Tool Company is a family-owned industrial distributor on Mission Road in the Rosedale end of Kansas City, Kansas, founded in 1954. It supplies cutting tools and thousands of other industrial products to machine shops, fabricators, manufacturers and contractors across the Kansas City area and the Missouri Valley — a small firm, roughly a dozen people, with a regional footprint and seventy years of continuous family operation behind it.

Description

Beaver Drill & Tool Company is an industrial-products distributor at 3995 Mission Road, in the 66103 zip that covers Rosedale and the southeastern corner of Wyandotte County.1 It is a business-to-business supply house rather than a storefront: cutting tools first, then thousands of other industrial items stocked and shipped to the shops that use them.12

The customer base is the metal-working and construction economy of the Kansas City region. The company’s own description names aerospace, agricultural and automotive manufacturing plants, CNC and manual machine shops, fabrication shops, heavy construction, maintenance-repair-and-operations buyers, and government accounts among the industries it serves.1 Trade-press framing of the firm — “small team, big footprint” — captures the model: a headcount in the single digits or low teens covering the Kansas City area and the wider Missouri Valley region.34

The company runs a full online product catalogue and ordering system at beaverdrill.com, which was live and serving product data when checked in this pass.5

It has been family-owned and operated throughout, and describes itself as having served the region for over sixty years — a figure consistent with the 1954 founding date reported elsewhere and now, in 2026, over seventy.123

Goods and services

  • Cutting tools — the company’s founding and core line23
  • Industrial supplies and MRO products — described as thousands of stocked items across many categories12
  • Distribution to machine shops — CNC and manual — and to fabrication shops1
  • Supply to manufacturing plants — aerospace, agricultural and automotive1
  • Heavy construction and government supply1
  • Online catalogue and ordering at beaverdrill.com5

History

Beaver Drill & Tool was established in 1954 and has supplied the Kansas City area and the Missouri Valley region with cutting tools and industrial products for roughly seven decades.23 The founder is not named in any source located in this pass, and neither is the year the company arrived at the Mission Road address. “

The company remains family-owned and operated by its own account, carried on its Wyandotte Economic Development Council directory entry, which is written in the company’s voice.1 Billy Vielhauer is listed as president and Steve Smith as vice president in business-data aggregator records; those are the only sources found for the leadership names and should be treated as provisional.34

Beaver Drill was the subject of an Industrial Distribution trade feature, “Small Team, Big Footprint,” which is the only press coverage of the firm surfaced in this pass.6

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Wyandotte Economic Development Council — business directory entry, Beaver Drill & Tool Co — asserts: address 3995 Mission Rd., Kansas City, KS 66103; telephone 913-384-2400; website beaverdrill.com; and, in the company’s own words, “Welcome to Beaver Drill & Tool Company where we have proudly served the region for over 60 years! Our family-owned-and-operated business distributes thousands of products used in a vast array of industries including: aerospace, agricultural and automotive manufacturing facilities, CNC and manual machine shops, fabrication, heavy construction, MRO and government to name a few.” Also carried on the WYEDC local-owned business index at wyedc.org (Read directly 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Beaver Drill & Tool Company — official site, About Us (company home and catalogue: beaverdrill.com) — asserts: family-owned industrial tools and supplies distributor established in 1954; has provided the Kansas City area and the Missouri Valley region with cutting tools and thousands of other industrial products for some seven decades. (Reached via search-surfaced summary 2026-08-14 — the page itself is a JavaScript storefront and returned no readable prose to a direct fetch; see method note.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Explorium — manufacturing company overview, Beaver Drill & Tool — asserts: established 1954; family-owned; headquarters at 3995 Mission Road, Kansas City, Kansas 66103; Billy Vielhauer president, Steve Smith vice president; employee headcount of 9; distribution into agricultural, automotive manufacturing, CNC and manual machine shop, fabrication, heavy construction, MRO and government sectors. Aggregator source — leadership and headcount figures are provisional. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. LinkedIn — Billy Vielhauer, Beaver Drill & Tool Co — asserts: Billy Vielhauer’s association with Beaver Drill & Tool Co. Corroborates the name found in 3 only; not read directly. ↩ ↩2

  5. Beaver Drill & Tool Company — live product catalogue — asserts: the company operates a working online catalogue and ordering system with live product, brand and stock data, branch selection and account login. This is the freshest currently-operating evidence in this pass — the storefront responded and served catalogue configuration on 2026-08-14. ↩ ↩2

  6. Industrial Distribution — “Small Team, Big Footprint” — asserts: trade-press coverage of Beaver Drill & Tool as a small-headcount distributor with a wide regional reach. (Direct fetch blocked by the publisher; surfaced in search results as coverage of this company. Content not read — cited only as the existence and framing of the feature.) ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/beaver-drill-and-tool · record updated 2026-08-14