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MILWAUKEE CYLINDER COMPANY PROFILE:
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Milwaukee Cylinder has been a leader and innovator in the hydraulic and pneumatic actuation field since 1956. We have the ability to solve customer problems with the highest degree of quality and service. No application is too special, as we consider specials to be standard and deliver what the customer needs. The highest quality materials are used with the closest tolerances to insure that all of the products exceed the customer requirements. Milwaukee Cylinder is part of Actuant.
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ACTUANT COMPANY PROFILE:
www.actuant.com
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Actuant encompasses a broad range of niche consumer and industrial manufacturing and distribution operations. Our businesses are focused on two main strategies – position/motion control and branded tools.
Businesses in the Engineered Solutions segment possess particular expertise in developing systems for OEMs using hydraulic, electromechanical and electronic motion control.
Our Tools & Supplies segment provides a wide array of electrical and industrial tools and supplies to wholesale distributors, catalogs and retail distribution channels.
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ACTUANT HISTORY:
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1910
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Founded as American Grinder and Manufacturing.
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1927
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Applied Power enters hydraulic business with Blackhawk.
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1958
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Enerpac founded.
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1959
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Gardner Bender founded by Jim Gardner.
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1970
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Power-Packer founded.
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1987
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Applied Power initial public offering, trades on NASDAQ.
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1988
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Applied Power acquires Gardner Bender from Gardner family.
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1989
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Applied Power acquires Barry Wright Corporation.
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1992
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Applied Power common stock trading moves to the NYSE.
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1996
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Applied Power starts a roll-up of electronic contract manufacturers with the acquisition of Everes.
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1997
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Applied Power acquires Versa Technologies, including Power Gear and Milwaukee Cylinder.
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1998
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Applied Power reorganizes into two business segments: Industrial and Electronics to reflect the growth of the electronic contract manufacturing business.
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2000
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Applied Power spins off its Electronics business segment into a separate public company called APW Ltd. The remainder of Applied Power, consisting of its former Industrial segment begins doing business as Actuant Corporation and trading on the NYSE as ATU.
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2001
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Applied Power changes name to Actuant.
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2001
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Actuant acquires Dewald Manufacturing Inc.
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2001
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Actuant divests its Mox-Med and Quick Mold Change (QMC) businesses.
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