AbbottMachineco.com
About AbbottMachineco.com
Plenty of entrepreneurs dream of starting a home business that thrives and puts people to work. Bill Abbott is one who did just that. In 1946, he opened a machine shop in his basement on Seminary Street in Alton, Illinois. It grew into Piasa Tool & Die Company and then into Abbott Machine Company, a firm that today markets used machinery all over the world and employs 25 people, including Abbott's sons, Bob and Rick.