Cascade Clamps

Cascade Clamps - Established in Portland, Oregon in 1943, the Cascade Manufacturing Company started as a small machine store employing only 4 people. Overall sales for that year amounted to about $60,000. The very first recorded sales revenues involved the assembly and machining of stainless-steel valves, pipe fittings and various components. Through five years of operation, the company had stretched to 40 employees and their yearly sales volume had increased to $330,000. Now, Cascade is among the top worldwide manufacturers within the material handling trade.

Design and production of the company's initial hydraulic cylinder allowed this new company to aggressively pursue better business possibilities. All through the last 60 years, the trade of material handling has grown into a very complex area with Cascade proudly playing a part in its development. Cascade at the moment continues to grow as the premier provider of forklift attachments and numerous associated products. The company feels certain in their skill so as to continue to lead the way within the business by understanding client's requirements in the future and remaining aggressive within the international market.

During the 1950's, Cascade started to make, design, and sell its hydraulic attachments. A new facility was built in 1956, to accommodate all the plant offices and operations in Portland, Oregon, which remains to be the company's present headquarters. After 15 years of business, total workers reached a hundred and eighty employees and sales had reached nearly 2.3 million dollars.

A second manufacturing plant was built in 1959 in Springfield, Ohio. The year 1960 marked Cascade's initial transfer into the international world of the material handling industry as the business established interest in the Netherlands, England, and Australia.

In 1964, the company changed its name to the Cascade Corporation. Then in 1965, the company went public with an initial offering of 200,000 shares of common stock. Ever since then the business has expanded its manufacturing amenities throughout the continental USA to the areas Warner Robins Georgia to go along with its already existing plants in Springfield, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. Cascade products are made worldwide thanks to a lot of subsidiary operations. In the year 1944, a brand new facility was accomplished in Almere, the Netherlands which is Cascade's European head office. This plant is made to be the ultimate customer support centre.

Cascade further expanded their product base in 1996 and the year 1997 after buying 5 firms, which included the Kenhar Corporation, the international leader in forks.

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