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Crane Packing introduced its “CHEMLON” line of Teflon-based packing material for use on pumps, valves, hydraulic fittings and cylinders, coaxial cables, and gaskets in 1948. [10] Old John Crane Advertisement. In 1950, Crane Packing purchased 26 acres (110,000 m 2) of land in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Construction began on ...
Crane Plumbing Corporation was a Canadian manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, established in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1906, as a subsidiary of the U.S. firm Crane Company (founded 1855 in Chicago by Richard T. Crane). Crane Company merged in February 2008 with American Standard Americas and Eljer to create American Standard Brands.
During the 1920s, when Crane expanded overseas, the company was the world's leading manufacturer of valves and fittings. Company sales rose to over US$300 million per annum by the mid-1950s. In 1959, the Crane family sold their control of the company, and the new owners began to turn Crane into a global conglomerate that made aerospace ...
The company reported current assets of $3.2 million and liabilities of $909,000. When it was learned that all of the Magnet Cove Barium's common stock could be acquired for $2.8 million in cash, the directors of Dresser quickly, without hesitation, approved the transaction on October 28, 1949. Five days later, the deal was done.
The following is a list of the world's largest manufacturing companies, ordered by revenue in millions of U.S. dollars according to the Fortune Global 500. Currently the 50 biggest companies by revenue are included.
Logo of the Crane Manufacturers Association of America. The Crane Manufacturers Association of America, Inc. (CMAA) is an independent trade association in the United States. It is affiliated with the United States Division of Material Handling Industry. The voluntary association was incorporated as the CMAA in 1955.
The business group is the world's second largest concrete pump manufacturer, behind Putzmeister, another German manufacturer and subsidiary of the Sany Group. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Product-wise, XCMG's 3,600-tonne, 88,000 tonne-meter rated lattice boom crawler crane for power generation plants and petrochemical facilities began its production that ...
The name, Hiab, comes from the commonly used abbreviation of Hydrauliska Industri AB, a company founded in Hudiksvall, Sweden 1944 by Eric Sundin, a ski manufacturer who saw a way to utilize a truck's engine to power loader-cranes through the use of hydraulics. Hiab invented the world's first hydraulic truck-mounted crane in 1947. [1]