Buffalo Forge Company

History

Brothers William F. Wendt and Henry Wendt founded Buffalo Forge Company in 1878 and started selling a portable blacksmith forge. Henry sold his interest in the company back to William in 1916.

In 1903, the company absorbed all the plants of the George L. Squier Manufacturing Company. It did the same with the Buffalo Seam Pump Company in 1904.[[File:Willis Carrier Engineers Handbook.jpg|thumbnail|Engineering book published by the company in 1914, edited by [[Willis Carrier]].]] In 1902, Willis Carrier, an engineer at Buffalo Forge, submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. In 1915, he left the company to form Carrier Engineering Corporation.

The Buffalo Forge Company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1941.

The Wendt family retired from ownership of the company in 1981 after it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Ampco-Pittsburgh. The company was then sold to the Scotland-based Howard Group P.L.C. in 1993.

In 1997, Buffalo Machine Tools was created from the machine tool division of Buffalo Forge. The Howden subsidiary containing the remainder of Buffalo Forge was remanded Howden Buffalo in 1999. [[File:Buffalo forge co works.jpg|thumbnail|left|The Buffalo Forge Co. works, about 1899|204x204px]]

Other products

Heating equipment, dust collectors, and a range of metal cutting and forming equipment were also manufactured by the company. Buffalo Forge operated several other plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Mergers, acquisitions & significant events

References

References

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