20 Examples of New Tools & Equipment from 2025 to Add to Your Shop
Key Highlights
- Companies have released tools throughout 2025 for use in MROs and repair shops, like bit socket sets, mobile lighting systems and bold breaker sets.
- New products come from manufacturers like Milwaukee Tool, Mayhew Tools, Streamlight and Air Turbine Tools.
- Equipment like new infrared heaters and Quality Air Breathings Systems can enhance comfort and safety in the repair shop.
Longtime favorite tool companies released several game-changing new products this year, from new hand tools to hands-free lighting solutions to cutting-edge shop equipment.
Here are 20 new repair shop products and tools launched in 2025:
1. Milwaukee Tool: Bit Socket Sets
These new FOUR FLAT side options are additions to Milwaukee’s current line of bit sockets. The recently released line includes bit sockets in an array of types, including tripe square, long reach, low-profile and more.
2. Streamlight: Sl-Sidesaddle Hands-Free Lighting System
Streamlight’s versatile lighting system the Sl-Sidesaddle can be mounted for mobile use on surfaces like hard hats and helmets. Available in AAA battery-powered or USB-rechargeable models, this solution won Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) Magazine’s 2025 New Product of the Year Award in Lighting.
3. Mayhew Tools: 4-Piece Demo Tool Set
This new tool set includes four heavy-duty punches and chisels, ideal for metalworking and other industrial repair applications. This set is designed with ergonomic handles and capped ends, making them durable and comfortable to use.
4. Platinum Tooling: New Product Catalog
In mid-2025, Platinum Tooling unveiled an all-new product catalog containing tools like live tools and angle heads, collets and guide brushings and knurling and marking tools. The product lines contain favorite brands like REV, Heimatec, Rineck and Tecnicrafts.
5. Milwaukee Tool: BOLT Full Brim Safety Helmets
For a new PPE offering, Milwaukee debuted the BOLT Full Brim Safety Helmets, available in Class C (vented) and Class E (non-vented). Key draws for these helmets are their ability to stay 15 degrees cooler than similar helmets and their status as the lightest weight full-brim safety helmets in the industry.
6. Evident: IPLEX One Remote Visual Inspection Tool
The IPLEX One platform is a cutting-edge solution for aviation inspections that enhances optics and maintains modular scalability. This tool lets users switch between NF/FF and D/S focus without removing the scope and offers monocular 3D modeling.
7. Milwaukee Tool: Multi-Function Compact Utility Knife
Milwaukee’s new utility knife is designed for versatile use in different applications, from cutting to scraping to prying. Key features of this knife include a prybar, a guthook and a nail and staple puller.
8. Southco: R4-15 Rotary Latch
The new rotary latch from Southco aims to mitigate the common maintenance challenge of accessing panels on heavy machinery by working as a sort of universal key. This means that mechanics can use one single key to access all the panels they encounter, with the option for tool-actuated varieties to match specific machines.
9. Mayhew Tools: 3-Piece Bolt Breaker Set
This is a new addition to Mayhew’s pneumatic tool line, made for heavy-duty fastening and unfastening. It’s particularly suited to loosen components affected by rust, corrosion or design elements that make access more difficult.
10. EMUGE-FRANKEN USA: End Mills for Aerospace Cutting
Optimized for use in machining tough materials, the TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills line includes four end mill types for finishing and semi-roughing applications. Three of these come in 4 and 5-flute configurations, with the Trochoidal cutters also offering 7-flute designs in metric sizes.
11. Milwaukee Tool: Double Sided INKZALL Jobsite Markers
Expanding its INKZALL lineup of jobsite markers, Milwaukee now offers double sided options for added versatility. They’re available in two configurations: fine point and chisel tip or ultra fine point and fine point.
12. Air Turbine Tools: 0145SSV Angle Hand Tool Series
This new series of angle hand tools offers increased efficiency, with no gears to vibrate or high frequency brushes to heat up, reducing repair costs. It also operates under-67 dBA sound level and at a vibration level that does not require a working time limit.
13. Streamlight: Ultra-Thin Wedge SL
This inspection light is designed for industrial applications, with an unbreakable acrylic lens, multi-function tactile switch and integrated lithium polymer battery with USB-C recharging. It also has special features like THRO Mode, which provides a burst of bright light at 500 lumens, 1,600 candelas.
14. Mayhew Tools: 5-Piece Curved Pry Bar Set with Green Handles
Adding to its line of Dominator pry bars, Mayhew Tools now offers a five-piece curved pry bar set with green handles. The set includes five pry bars of varying lengths for different prying applications, designed for improved durability and power.
15. Milwaukee Tool: STEELHEAD Metal Cutting Blades
With a range of Diamond Blade cutting tools already popular, Milwaukee adds a nine-inch version built with the same solid steel core and high-quality diamonds. This and the rest of the Diamond Blade line can perform 375+ cuts in rebar and 250+ cuts in strut.
16. Sunnen: SV Systems for Aerospace Honing
Sunnen’s advanced SV systems are cutting-edge solutions for aircraft component applications like honing through aerospace alloys, with the ability to be tailored to aerospace needs with air gagging, brushing, multiple columns and more. The design also considers future integration with robotic systems, creating a way for repair shops to embrace automation.
17. Motion Highlights New Lube Caddy for Industrial Environments
To keep all lubrication products and tools easily accessible, Motion’s new Lube Caddy features a towable dual reservoir, air-operated pump with automatic shutoff and three operation modes. It aims to reduce lubrication time and reduce the need for forklifts to move oil tanks.
18. Sonic: Toolbox Wrap
Sonic offers a unique way for mechanics to personalize their workspaces by applying custom wrapping to their toolboxes. Through the “Pimp My Toolbox” program, Sonic applies decorative wrapping to Gen 1 S12 XD Toolboxes, offering several design options to choose from, like Orange Hot Rod Flames, Skull and Wrenches and Hot Pink.
19. Martech Services Company: Quality Air Breathing Systems
Shops that want to ensure they comply with the OSHA requirement for Grade "D" Breathable Air can use Martech’s Quality Air Breathing Systems that feature four-stage filtration and an onboard carbon monoxide monitor. These systems are ideal for protecting technicians who work on welding, blasting, painting and similar tasks.
20. Marley Engineered Products: Infrared Heaters for Aircraft Hangars
Upon expanding its line of infrared radiant heaters, Marley Engineered Products now offers heaters that are ideal for use in environments that host aircraft maintenance and storage. Key benefits of these infrared heaters include silent operation, versatile mounting options and clean, energy-efficient heating.
