What ITW Global Brands makes

ITW Global Brands is the automotive aftermarket consumer-products division of Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW). It sells car care and repair products through four business units: ITW Car Care, ITW Engine Repair, ITW Tire Repair, and ITW Body Repair. The portfolio is built around brands that most US drivers recognize by name.

ITW Car Care covers Rain-X glass treatments and wiper blades, Black Magic appearance and detailing products, and Gumout fuel-system cleaners and performance additives. ITW Engine Repair covers Permatex gasket makers, thread sealants, and adhesives, along with Spray Nine cleaners, Fast Orange hand cleaner, Devcon, The Right Stuff, and VersaChem. ITW Tire Repair covers Slime tire sealant and inflators and Fix-a-Flat emergency tire repair. ITW Body Repair covers Evercoat auto-body fillers. The company also lists No Touch among its appearance brands.

By the company's own description, these brands compete in the wiper blade, engine repair, hand cleaner, appearance, cleaners and degreasers, tire repair, and performance product segments, and it states that many of them are number one in their category. Rain-X wiper blades hold the highest market share in North America. Several of the brands carry long lineages: Permatex traces to 1909, Rain-X to 1972, and Slime to 1989.

Ownership and history

ITW Global Brands sits inside Illinois Tool Works, a Fortune 300 global manufacturer founded in 1912 and headquartered in Glenview, Illinois. ITW reported revenue of $16.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up from $15.9 billion in 2024, and employs roughly 43,000 people worldwide across seven business segments. In the first quarter of 2026, the parent reported 5 percent revenue growth and a 25.4 percent operating margin, and in August 2026 it announced a 7 percent dividend increase and a $6 billion share repurchase program.

The car care platform came together in March 2011, when ITW acquired the car care business of SOPUS Products, bringing Rain-X, Black Magic, and Gumout under one roof. In July 2017, ITW Global Brands opened a 25,000-square-foot global car care headquarters at Park Ten Center I in Houston's Energy Corridor, consolidating that unit's staff in one building. The engine repair, tire repair, and body repair brands were folded in alongside the car care line to form the current four-unit structure.

Today the division runs from four US offices, each aligned to a business unit: the Car Care headquarters at 16200 Park Row Drive in Houston, Texas; the Engine Repair headquarters (Permatex) at 6875 Parkland Boulevard in Solon, Ohio; the Tire Repair headquarters (Slime) at 125 Venture Drive in San Luis Obispo, California; and the Body Repair headquarters (Evercoat) at 6600 Cornell Road in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Where the products sell

ITW Global Brands is a supplier to national retail, not to vehicle assembly lines. The company states that its products are sold through do-it-yourself retailers including Walmart, Target, AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts, Dollar General, Home Depot, and Tractor Supply. For a buyer or category manager, that retail footprint is the relevant signal: these are shelf-facing consumer brands distributed at national scale, backed by the advertising and product-innovation programs the company describes as central to its position.

The distinction matters for how the supply base reads. Unlike a tier supplier shipping components into an OEM plant, ITW Global Brands moves finished, packaged retail goods, and its own inbound imports reflect that.

Sourcing evidence

ITW Global Brands' US import record looks the way a consumer-products marketer's should: 1,821 sea shipments logged since January 2015, with the most recent on September 8, 2026. The importer of record is the Houston Car Care headquarters address, and the company imports under a small number of names across its four offices, per the customs record.

The inbound mix is dominated by finished tire-repair goods, the signature of the Slime and Fix-a-Flat units. The largest recorded suppliers and their typical goods:

By product code, the single largest inbound line is HTS 8414.80 (air and gas compressors and pumps), meaning portable tire inflators, followed by rubber tires and inner tubes, plastics, and hand tools. Origin countries are concentrated in China, with Thailand-origin rubber goods, a concentration worth noting for any buyer weighing tariff exposure or nearshoring options. ImportYeti estimates cumulative ocean shipping spend at roughly $4.2 million since 2015, with cost data covering about 62 percent of shipments, an order-of-magnitude figure rather than an audited one. Recent lanes remain active: shipments of inflator pump displays from Ningbo Chen Hao Electronics landed on the US Pacific coast in early September 2026.

Coverage caveats apply. These are US ocean-freight records only. Air, truck, and rail movements do not appear, some records name freight intermediaries rather than manufacturers, and product categories come from declared manifest codes, which are noisy. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence.

Frequently asked questions

What does ITW Global Brands make?

ITW Global Brands makes automotive aftermarket consumer products across four units: car care (Rain-X, Black Magic, Gumout), engine repair (Permatex, Spray Nine, Fast Orange, Devcon, The Right Stuff, VersaChem), tire repair (Slime, Fix-a-Flat), and body repair (Evercoat). The lines span glass treatments, wiper blades, fuel-system cleaners, gasket makers and sealants, tire sealant and inflators, and auto-body fillers.

Who owns ITW Global Brands?

ITW Global Brands is a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW), a Fortune 300 global manufacturer founded in 1912 and based in Glenview, Illinois. ITW acquired the SOPUS car care business, including Rain-X, in March 2011, and built the aftermarket brands into the division's current four-unit structure.

Where is ITW Global Brands headquartered?

ITW Global Brands runs its car care unit from a headquarters at 16200 Park Row Drive in Houston, Texas, opened in 2017. It operates three additional unit offices: Solon, Ohio (Permatex engine repair), San Luis Obispo, California (Slime tire repair), and Cincinnati, Ohio (Evercoat body repair).

What brands does ITW Global Brands own?

Its brands include Rain-X, Black Magic, Gumout, Permatex, Spray Nine, Fast Orange, Devcon, The Right Stuff, VersaChem, Slime, Fix-a-Flat, and Evercoat, plus No Touch. The company says many of these are number one in their categories, and Rain-X wiper blades hold the highest market share in North America.

Who are ITW Global Brands' customers?

ITW Global Brands sells to national retailers rather than to vehicle manufacturers. The company states its products are carried by Walmart, Target, AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts, Dollar General, Home Depot, and Tractor Supply. Its inbound import record is consistent with a consumer-products marketer distributing finished, packaged retail goods.

Is ITW Global Brands still importing?

Yes. US customs records show 1,821 sea shipments since 2015, with active lanes and the most recent shipment logged on September 8, 2026. Inbound volume is dominated by finished tire-repair goods, tire inflators, air compressors, and tubes, tied to the Slime and Fix-a-Flat units.

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