- Chicago Faucet
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The Chicago Faucet Company, founded on the near west side of Chicago, Illinois, has been producing faucets and other plumbing fixtures since 1901[1]. The company founder, Albert C. Brown, invented the Quaturn Cartridge in 1913 that worked with the flow of water that made it both easy to open and close the spigots and forestalled the development of leaks.
The onset of the Great Depression hit the company hard because of the lack of new construction. Despite the depression,the company persevered by participating in the Chicago World's Fair of 1933 and briefly converted to the production of nuts, bolts, screws, and parachute hooks during World War II[2].
In 2002 the Swiss Geberit AG, part of Capital Group Companies, acquired Chicago Faucet. Currently the Chicago Faucet Company has its headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois, and employs over 500 people in Des Plaines, Milwaukee, Elyria, Ohio, Michigan City, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama.[3] Chicago Faucet has sales in the neighborhood of $70 million a year.[4]
Notes
- ^ History of Chicago Faucets
- ^ How Chicago Faucets survived the Great Depression
- ^ "Company History". The Chicago Faucet Company. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-05-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070513130444/http://www.chicagofaucets.com/history.php. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
- ^ "Geberit buys Chicago Faucet". contractormag.com. 2005. http://www.arcat.com/arcatcos/cos31/arc31418.html. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
Categories:- Companies established in 1911
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- Des Plaines, Illinois
- Companies based in Cook County, Illinois
- 1911 establishments in the United States
- Chicago, Illinois stubs
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