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About Us

OUR VALUES

roy-nosekOur grandfather and Keson’s founder, Roy Nosek, often said: “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”  We know he didn’t say it first, but he said it first to our fathers who said it first to us. He showed us what it means through the way he lived his life and the way he treated people.

  • BE POSITIVE.

  • WORK HARD.

  • RESPECT OTHERS.

  • HAVE FUN.

  • ACT ETHICALLY.

  • DO GOOD.

MAKE YOUR MARK.

We believe in these principles.
We strive to practice them in all that we do.

Keson products are for people who are passionate about their work and getting it done right.

We think this might be just about everyone.

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Aaron Nosek
President
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Jude Nosek
Marketing
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Dave Nosek
Human Resources

OUR VISION

To be the world’s most trusted source of measuring and marking products.

OUR MISSION

To provide reliable, innovative, and easy-to-use measuring and marking products to people who are passionate about their work and getting it done right. We will accomplish this by aligning our service, design, manufacturing, and distribution capabilities to meet the precise needs of our customers.

WE PROMISE THAT…

  • We will grow our company ethically and honestly by working hard, working smart, and having fun.
  • Our people will be friendly, respectful, responsive, and well trained.
  • Our products will be reliable, innovative, and easy to use.
  • We will not take short cuts.
  • We will enjoy the journey.

QUALITY

There is no substitute for quality. The quality of our product offering is ensured by select raw materials, unparalleled manufacturing, superior testing, and exacting control standards. Since measuring and marking tools are our only business, we can focus on supplying the best of these products. At Keson, our final measure of quality is total, customer satisfaction.

WHO WE ARE

Keson LLC is an alliance of two industry leaders

WE ARE A FAMILY OWNED COMPANY.

In 2018, the Nosek and Scheyer families joined together to form a new company – Keson LLC. Keson and SOLA are both family-owned, third generation companies currently led by the grandsons of the company founders. Keson started in 1968 in the basement of the Nosek family home in Berwyn, Illinois. SOLA started in 1949 with a leveling tool invented on the roof of the Scheyer family home in Goetzis, Austria. Both companies are leaders in measuring and marking tools, offer complementary product lines, and share very similar values. With a combined 120 years of market experience, Keson LLC builds upon Keson’s U.S. manufacturing, existing distribution network and strong relationships by adding SOLA’s European manufacturing expertise, precision engineering and industry-leading technology.

Keson is headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, and is well known in North America for providing reliable, innovative, and easy-to-use measuring and marking products to professional tradespeople who are passionate about their work. SOLA is headquartered in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the shadow of the Austrian Alps and is a market leader in spirit and screeding levels in 30 countries around the world. Now united, and operating from Aurora, Keson LLC will provide the outstanding products and service that will continue us to earn and keep the trust of tradespeople and of those who supply them with the tools they need.

 

FACT SHEET

ADDRESS 810 N. Commerce Street, Aurora, IL 60504
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FOUNDED 1968, by Roy Nosek. Roy’s wife, Evelyn, suggested naming the company Keson because it is the Nosek family name spelled backwards.
CORE PRODUCTS Measuring wheels, levels, long length tape measures, standard length tape measures, chalk line reels, chalk.
HISTORY In 1968 Roy Nosek started Keson Industries, Inc. in Berwyn, Illinois. Operating out of a small office with inventory stored in an adjacent trailer, Keson became a vital resource to professional tradespeople and contractors. The business plan was simple:

Outstanding service is just as important as outstanding products.

Five decades later, we are still family owned, and that idea is still our guiding principle. We’ve grown because our service meets the same exacting standards as our products.

In 2018, Roy’s grandsons Aaron, Jude and Dave partnered with the Scheyer Family, owners of SOLA Measuring Tools Company in Austria, to form Keson LLC.

KEY CONTACTS President: Aaron Nosek
Marketing: Jude Nosek
Customer Service: Sarah Durbin
National Sales Managers:
John Anderson
Denise Keller
Mike Herbolich
Eric Biersack
Patrick Kearl
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