Cascade Attachments - Cascade Manufacturing Company was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1943. They started out as a small machine shop at first hiring four people. Product sales for their initial year of operation amounted to about sixty thousand dollars. The very first recorded sales revenues involved the assembly and machining of stainless steel pipe fittings, valves and other components. Throughout five years of operation, the business had stretched to 40 staff and their annual sales volume had risen to $330,000. Nowadays, Cascade is among the top worldwide makers in the material handling industry.
Manufacture and design of the company's very first hydraulic cylinder paved the way in Cascade's aggressive quest of new business possibilities. During the last 60 years, the material handling industry has developed into a highly sophisticated area and Cascade has proudly played a part on this growth. Cascade currently continues to grow as the premier provider of forklift attachments and various related products. The company feels certain in their ability to continue to lead the way in the business by understanding buyer's requirements in the future and remaining aggressive within the international market.
In the nineteen fifties, Cascade began designing, making and advertising hydraulic attachments. Construction was finished in the year 1956 on a brand new facility so as to accommodate all of the plant and office operations in Portland, Oregon at the company's present headquarters. After 15 years of business, total employees reached one hundred eighty staff and sales had reached nearly two million three hundred thousand dollars.
1959 in Springfield, Ohio the next production plant was built. The year 1960 marked Cascade's preliminary move into the international world of the material handling industry while the company recognized interest in the Netherlands, England, and Australia.
In the year 1964, the company changed its name to the Cascade Corporation. Afterward in 1965, the company went public with an initial offering of two hundred thousand shares of common stock. Since then the business has expanded its manufacturing amenities within the continental US to the areas Warner Robins Georgia to go along with its already current plants in Springfield, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. Cascade merchandise are made globally thanks to many subsidiary operations. In the year 1944, a new facility was accomplished in Almere, the Netherlands which is Cascade's European head office. This plant is designed to be the essential customer support centre.
Cascade further expanded their product base in 1996 and the year 1997 after buying five companies, which included the Kenhar Corporation, the international leader in blades.
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