Home About Us Board of Directors Nomination Criteria Nomination Form Contact Us Peter Hedgewick Founder, International Tool Limited Windsor, Ontario You must have Windows Media 9 or above to see the video above. Click here to download the free player. Peter Hedgewick, the 92 year old talented, far-sighted and volatile founder of International Tool Limited (ITL) was a key figure in the development of the Canadian and North American mold industry. Peter learned his trade at Windsor Tool & Mould and in 1944 he founded ITL. ITL started in a two-car garage and over the next 43 years it grew to an 800 employee operation. The company was largely focused on supplying the automotive industry. Peter Hedgewick, was enlisted by Dr. Henri Breault, a Windsor pediatrician, to create the first child-resistant safety cap for prescription bottles in 1967. The "Palm-N-Turn" technology, which is still being used today, requires users to push down while turning. By 1974, Ontario had made the use of child-resistant packaging mandatory for certain products. Similar regulations were quickly adopted internationally. The incidents of child poisonings quickly dropped by 91%. A significant number of people trained at ITL started their own operations. On May 13 - 15, 2004, at the 6th Annual National Conference of the Innovation Systems Research Network at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver B.C. a case study estimated that as many as 80% of the current mould shops in Windsor trace their roots back directly or indirectly to ITL. Induction Category: Founder / Innovator Home | About Us | Board of Directors | Nomination Criteria | Nomination Form | Contact Us © Canadian Manufacturing Hall of Fame: 2000 Talbot Road W.- Box 43, Windsor, ON N9A 6S4 Phone: 519-972-2382 - Fax: 519-972-2733 - E-mail info@cmhof.ca Premier Sponsors: Cocktail Sponsor:

Announcing the 2009 Canadian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Inductees: (click the names below for their biographies) John L. Bragg Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd. Oxford, Nova Scotia Steve F. Krar Educator, Trainer, Author Welland, Ontario Dr. John S. MacDonald MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Burnaby, British Columbia Placide Poulin MAAX Inc. Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Quebec Peter Lymburner Robertson* Robertson Inc. Milton, Ontario * Deceased Gavin Semple Brandt Group of Companies Regina, Saskatchewan An induction ceremony and dinner will be held Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor, Ontario Click here for 2006 & 2007 Inductees