DATE |
EVENT |
1898 |
Thomas
W. Fitch started Pittsburgh Steel Shafting Co. in Rankin,
PA |
1902 |
Merged
with Columbia Bridge Co. in Carnegie PA.
Started outpost in Detroit, MI - "Pittsburgh Shafting
Company of Detroit" |
1906 |
Carnegie
Plant named "Columbia Steel & Shafting Company" |
1910 |
Summerill
Tube Company began operations in Bridgeport, PA |
1923 |
Columbia
Steel & Shafting joined with Edgar T. Ward's Sons Co.,
a service center |
1933 |
Columbia
Steel & Shafting / Edgar T. Ward's Sons Co. / Summerill
Tube Company unified |
1934 |
Rankin
operation discontinued and all facilities moved to Carnegie
Plant |
1946 |
Started
moving the equipment from Summerill Tube Company in Bridgeport,
PA. to Columbia Steel & Shafting in Carnegie, PA. selling
off some of the Ward service centers to finance the move |
1947 |
Three
companies merge with one name - "Columbia Steel &
Shafting Company" |
1948 |
Named
the Carnegie operations - "Columbia Steel & Shafting
Company, Summerill Tube Division" |
1957 |
Started
the Summerill Scottdale, PA plant - "Summerill Stainless
Tube Division of Columbia Steel & Shafting Company" |
1968 |
Teledyne
Inc. acquired both the Carnegie and Scottdale divisions.
Name changed to "Columbia-Summerill, Inc., a Teledyne
Company"
|
1971 |
Name
of each division changed to "Teledyne Columbia-Summerill-Carnegie
Plant" |
1990 |
With
closing of the Carnegie facility, Scottdale plant name changed
to "Teledyne Summerill Tube" |
1993 |
Name
changed to "Teledyne Rodney Metals - Scottdale Plant" |
1996 |
Teledyne-Allegheny
Ludlum merger |
1998 |
Scottdale
plant is one of five companies sold to investors creating
"Dynamic Metal Forming". Scottdale plant becomes
"Dynamic Metal Forming-Scottdale Plant" |
2003-Present |
Plant
purchased from Dynamic Metal Forming. Becomes "Summerill
Tube Corporation Subsidiary of Penn State Metals" |
