Norris Cylinder Company traces its lineage back to 1930 when company founder Kenneth T. Norris sold his home for $23,000 and opened Norris Stamping and Manufacturing Company. Shortly after, the metal-working enterprise conceived by Norris won a contract with US Spring and Bumper Co. to build the bumper parts for Ford’s Model A.
The rest, as they say, is history.
With its core competency in metal fabrication, the company went public as Norris Industries in 1950 and began a series of acquisitions. In June of 1950, the company acquired Compressed Gas Cylinders Inc. This marked the entry into high-pressure gas cylinder manufacturing. Over the next several years, the company continued to grow organically and through acquisitions, including such names as Thermador, Fyr-Fyter Co., Trade-Wind Motorfans, Weiser Co., Waste King Corp., Price Pfister, and notably, Pressed Steel Tank. With the Pressed Steel acquisition, Norris became the leading manufacturer of compressed gas cylinders in the USA.
The acquisition of Speedway in 1993 provided Norris with acetylene technology and supported the company’s efforts in the patenting of the first non-asbestos porous mass, initially licensed to nearly every major acetylene porous mass producer in the world. The company credits its superior porous mass and acetylene product quality to these roots.
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