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OUR HISTORY IS THE
DISTINGUISHED HISTORY OF OUR BRANDS, STARTING WITH HART & COOLEY
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Howard Stanley Hart was a
turn-of-the-century entrepreneur, inventor,
industrialist, and builder. In 1892, in partnership
with Norman P. Cooley, he established the Hart &
Cooley Manufacturing Company in Chicago, the first
cold-rolled steel plant west of Pittsburgh. One of
Hart's many inventions of the next few years was a
steel heating register that proved superior to
traditional heavy cast-iron models.
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1901 the two sold their Chicago plant and organized
the Hart & Cooley Company in New Britain,
Connecticut. It became the first in the nation to
manufacture warm-air registers from stamped steel, a
product line that gained almost instant success. |
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Howard Stanley Hart |
Norman P. Cooley |
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The Roaring Twenties saw Hart &
Cooley expand their register business to Holland,
Michigan, where they formed the Federal
Manufacturing Company. In 1928 they moved their
Connecticut operations to Holland, merging with
Federal under the name Hart & Cooley Company, Inc.
Warm-air products made in Holland, Michigan, quickly
found their way to customers nationwide. Despite
the Great Depression, by the early 1930s the company
had become the world's largest producer of warm-air
registers.
By June 1942, the Holland plant
had grown to 238,750 square feet of floor space with
"unmatched facilities for research and
manufacturing." During the war, however, register
production took a backseat to national defense
needs. During these years Hart & Cooley worked
three shifts on a 24-hour basis to produce
watertight shipboard electrical boxes and
60-millimeter mortar shells.
During the 1950s, when forced-air
heating became widespread, the company added many
new products to its residential and commercial lines
of registers, grilles, and diffusers. It introduced
the Metlvent gas vent for gas-fired appliances in
1959, a product that won Michigan's Achievement of
the Year honors in 1962. Hart & Cooley introduced
the Metlvent all-fuel chimney system that same year. |
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Rapids, Michigan H&C Headquarters |
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Carol Stream, Illinois CPG Headquarters |
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In June of 2001, Hart & Cooley
celebrated its 100th anniversary of producing HVAC
products for commercial and residential markets.
Hart & Cooley is owned by the
London-based investment company,
Tomkins PLC (NYSE
listed- TKS). Hart & Cooley continues to be a major
supplier to the HVAC industry and has grown to the
point that it has manufacturing locations in four
states as well as Mexico. Howard Stanley Hart and
Norman P. Cooley would be proud to see that the
business they started over one-hundred years ago is
still thriving at the beginning of a new
millennium. |
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AMPCO |
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| AMPCO has been
furnishing quality steel construction products for over 50
years. AMPCO specializes in flue venting systems and
premanufactured grease vent systems. AMPCO was acquired in
2002. |
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Portals Plus |
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| Portals
Plus was established in 1977 and grew to become the leading
manufacturer of pre-manufactured stock rooftop accessories
for all systems. Portals Plus was acquired in 2005. |
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Milcor |
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| Milcor is
a premier brand with a history reaching back to the turn of
the previous century. Well-known among specifiers and
contractors for superior roof access hatches, heat & smoke
vents, and access doors for walls, ceilings, and floors.
Milcor was acquired in 2005. |
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Selkirk |
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| Selkirk
is the recognized leader in commercial/industrial pressure
stacks, grease ducts, venting systems, and Saf-T Vent
AL29-4C Special Gas Vent Systems. Selkirk has a long
history of innovation and quality products dating back to
1925. CPG became the USA authorized representative for
Selkirk Commercial & Industrial Piping Systems in September,
2008. |
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Ward Industries |
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| Ward
Industries was started in 1991 to manufacture sheet metal
products for commercial and industrial applications. In a
short ten years, Ward Industries has experienced great
growth. Product quality and customer service has made
Ward Industries a leader in the industry and one of the most
respected names in the industry. Ward Industries was
acquired in 2002. |
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Roof Products & Systems (RPS)
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| In 1963,
the founder of Roof Products & Systems Corporation (RPS),
and the innovator of prefabricated roof curbs, began
manufacturing roof curbs. Now, RPS offers a complete line of
conventional roof curbs, metal building curbs, equipment
rails, roof top transition curbs, Pipe Portal Flashing
Systems®, pipe
& duct mounting pedestals, expansion curbs, as well as
custom designed roof curbs. RPS was acquired in 2005. |
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Heatfab |
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| Heatfab manufactures
the unique Saf-T Vent systems which are Type BH Special Gas
Vents manufactured using only high-grade stainless steel
alloys. Wherever condensing flue gases can possibly come in
contact with the flue, we use components made only from
special superferritic stainless steel alloys such as AL
29-4C®. |
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