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Buckeye Steel Castings was a Columbus, Ohio steelmaker best known today for its longtime president, Samuel P. Bush, who was the grandfather of President George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush. Buckeye, named for the Ohio Buckeye tree, was founded in Columbus as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, which made iron farm
The Wagner Manufacturing Company was a family-owned manufacturer of cast iron and aluminum products based in Sidney, Ohio, US.It made products for domestic use such as frying pans, casseroles, kettles and baking trays, and also made metal products other than cookware.
Named Cast-Fab Technologies, Inc., this foundry ceased operation in November 2016, transferring remaining business to Elyria Cast-Fab. [ 16 ] As of the end of 2012, the entire 100-acre site that once held the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company was cleared to bare ground, and now hosts a mixed retail/residential development.
Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio, 1942 In 1929 the company built its first midwestern plant, in Euclid, Ohio. That same year Chase became a subsidiary of Kennecott Utah Copper , which was the largest producer of copper in the U.S., and Ten East 40th St, New York City, the Chase Tower, was ...
The breadth of alloys in which pumps and valves were offered was also greatly expanded to include a variety of nickel-based alloys, one of which, Durimet-20 (a joint development and patent of Ohio State and Duriron), was to become a world standard for handling certain difficult chemicals. The redirection of the company would begin to reap great ...
Hogan, William T. Economic History of the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States (5 vol 1971) monumental detail; Ingham, John N. The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874-1965 (1978) Krass, Peter. Carnegie (2002). ISBN 0-471-38630-8. Livesay, Harold C. Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business, 2nd Edition (1999).
Interest in this item declined during the 1956–1957 period and the plant operations evolved to the casting of enriched uranium ingots larger than those being processed in the Metals Production and Metals Fabrication Plants. Ingots were cast up to 13-inch diameter, 38-inch length and having a weight approaching 2,000 pounds.
Midland-Ross Co. was an American steel, aerospace products, electronics, and automobile components manufacturer which existed from 1894 to 1986. Founded as Parish & Bingham, a manufacturer of steel components for bicycles, streetcars, and horse-drawn wagons, it merged with the Detroit Pressed Steel Co. in 1923 to form the Midland Steel Products Co.