Cascade Clamp - Cascade Manufacturing Company was established in Portland, Oregon in the year 1943. They started out as a small machine shop at first employing four individuals. Product sales for their first year of operation totaled sixty thousand dollars. The first recorded sales revenues involved the assembly and machining of stainless steel pipe fittings, valves and different components. Within 5 years of operation, the business had stretched to 40 employees and their yearly sales volume had risen to $330,000. Nowadays, Cascade is one of the top worldwide manufacturers within the material handling trade.
Manufacture and design of the company's initial hydraulic cylinder paved the way in Cascade's aggressive quest of new business opportunities. Over the last 60 years, the material handling trade has developed into a highly advanced field and Cascade has proudly played a part in this development. Cascade currently continues to grow as the leader supplier of forklift attachments and different related products. The company feels certain in their potential to be able to continue to lead the way within the business by understanding client's needs in the future and remaining aggressive within the world market.
All through the 1950's, Cascade started to fabricate, design, and promote its hydraulic attachments. A brand new facility was built in the year 1956, to accommodate all the plant offices and operations in Portland, Oregon, which is still the company's present headquarters. Subsequent to fifteen years of business, total employees reached a hundred and eighty employees and sales had reached practically two million three hundred thousand dollars.
A second production plant was built in the year 1959 in Springfield, Grand Prairie. The year 1960 marked Cascade's preliminary move into the international world of the material handling industry as the company established interest in the Netherlands, England, and Australia.
In 1964, the company changed its name to the Cascade Corporation. After that in the year 1965, the business went public with a preliminary offering of 200,000 shares of common stock. Ever since then the business has expanded its manufacturing amenities throughout the continental USA to the locations Warner Robins Georgia to go along with its already existing plants in Springfield, Grand Prairie and Portland, Oregon. Cascade products are fabricated worldwide because of numerous subsidiary operations. In 1994, a new plant was accomplished in Almere, the Netherlands which is Cascade's European control center. This facility is designed to be the ultimate customer support centre.
Continuing to develop, Cascade expanded their product offering further in 1996 and the year 1997 with the remarkable acquisition of 5 corporations, together with the global best in forks, the Kenhar Corporation.
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