Stark Tooling Systems is the American marketing facility of STARK, Spa of Udine, Italy. Stark was founded in 1962. The North Carolina distribution center provides sales and technical support for a network of strategically located distributors in the United States. We also maintain a full inventory of the various standard woodworking tools described in this website.

Stark concentrates engineered excellence in design and production of technological superior solid carbide insert knife cutter heads and related tools for the modern production of windows, doors, furniture and cabinet manufacturing. Stark woodworking tooling is ISO9001 certified and approved under the stringent quality and safety standards of the German Safety Laboratory.

This website illustrates the broad line of Stark standard insert tooling designed specifically for the American woodworking industry and arranged in tool groups or families, applicable to machine type: moulder, shaper, tenon machine, finger jointer, router and specialty tools. Individual blank carbide insert knives, profiled inserts, backing plates, indexable insert knives.

Requirements for special tooling applications, such as window and door production stacked insert tooling systems and CNC router/work center tooling, are promptly quoted on request. Stark is the woodworking industry leader for this type tooling and universally recognized for exceptional performance.

Prompt response given to request for professional technical information on woodworking machinery and tooling applications. Optimized service and support in benefiting customer needs is vital to maintaining mutually beneficial relationships. Stark Tooling is "customer-centric."