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Toolgal Entrance - today |
Tool Gal Degania Diamond Industrial Tools Ltd. is a factory specializing in the development and production of diamond tools for the cutting, drilling and processing of natural and artificial stones, and diamond edged wheels for the sharpening and polishing of stone, glass and hard metals.
The Tool Gal factory was established on Kibbutz Degania Aleph in 1968 and is under the total ownership of the kibbutz. It manufactures goods for customers in Israel and abroad.
Some one hundred workers are employed in the factory – seventy hired workers from Tiberias and the neighboring settlements and thirty kibbutz members.
The factory internet website is: www.toolgal.com
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Working on the lathe - Yossi Vardi - th 80's |
Saw making - Toolgal, the 80's |
From the 1960’s until the 1980’s, as a result of the economic situation in the country, a number of branches were eliminated: the fish
ponds, the grape vineyards, the rose greenhouses, vegetable cultivation and beehives. In recent years Degania ended its cultivation of cotton and fruit trees.
The distress in which the Valley settlements found themselves necessitated that efficiency measures be taken and that spending be reduced. This brought about the establishing of regional factories which had a communal financial basis, heavy equipment for agricultural processing and earth moving, a garage and a store house for spare parts, a delivery set up, a central packing house for animal feed and packing houses for bananas, dates, avocados and corn.
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