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This list of the oldest companies in the United States includes brands and companies, excluding associations, educational, government or religious organizations. To be listed, a brand or company name must remain, either whole or in part, since inception. To limit the scope of this list, only companies established before 1820 are listed.
Metal [43] 1596 Gyokurinbo: Japan Hotel [379] 1596–1615 Nagata Bunshodo: Japan Publisher [380] 1596–1615 Heirakuji: Japan Publisher [380] 1596–1615 Hayashikan: Japan Clothing [381] 1597 Gold Ochsen: Germany Brewery [382] 1597 Kojima (sake company in Yonezawa, Yamagata) Japan Sake [383] 1597 Kojima (sake company in Inuyama, Aichi) Japan ...
From a combined iron and steel production of 203 million tons in 1979, US output fell almost in half, to 107 million tons in 1982. Some steel companies declared bankruptcy, and many permanently closed steelmaking plants. By 1989, US combined iron and steel production recovered to 142 million tons, a much lower level than in the 1960s and 1970s.
Pages in category "Metal companies of the United States" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Find out which American Companies have been around the longest. From John Deere and Jack Daniel's to Coca-Coal and Carhartt, these are some of the oldest companies in America, some of which are ...
There was no fundamental change in the technology of iron production in Europe for many centuries. European metal workers continued to produce iron in bloomeries. However, the Medieval period brought two developments—the use of water power in the bloomery process in various places (outlined above), and the first European production in cast iron.
The period immediately after the 10th century marked the widespread application of several innovations in the field of mining and ore treatment: a shift to large-scale and better quality production. Medieval miners and metallurgists had to find solutions for the practical problems that limited former metal production, in order to meet the ...
Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century.