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 Established in Portland, Oregon in the year 1943, the Cascade Manufacturing Company started as a small machine shop hiring just four individuals. Overall sales for that initial year amounted to about 60 thousand dollars. The first recorded sales revenues involved the machining and assembly of stainless-steel valves, pipe fittings and various parts. During five years of operation, the business had expanded to forty employees and their yearly sales volume had risen to 330 thousand dollars. Today, Cascade is amongst the leading worldwide producers in the material handling business.
Manufacture and design of the company's original hydraulic cylinder paved the way in Cascade's aggressive quest of better business possibilities. During the past sixty years, the material handling business has matured into a very sophisticated field and Cascade has proudly performed a part in this development. Cascade at the moment continues to develop as the leader supplier of forklift accessories and different associated products. The business feels assured in their ability so as to continue to lead the way in the business by understanding buyer's requirements in the future and remaining aggressive within the world market.
In the nineteen fifties, Cascade started designing, fabricating and advertising hydraulic accessories. Manufacturing was completed in 1956 on a brand new office in order to accommodate all of the office and plant operations in Portland, Oregon at the company's current center of operations. After fifteen years of business, total employees reached a hundred and eighty workers and sales had reached practically 2.3 million dollars.
1959 in Springfield, Ohio the next manufacturing facility was built. 1960 marked Cascade's preliminary transfer into the global world of the material handling industry when the business recognized interest in the Netherlands, England, and Australia.
The company altered its name to Cascade Corporation in 1964. In the year 1965, Cascade went public with an initial offering of 200,000 shares of common stock. The company has expanded its production plants throughout the U.S. with areas in Springfield, Ohio, Warner Robins, Georgia, Portland, Oregon. Cascade merchandise are made internationally thanks to a lot of subsidiary operations. In the year 1944, a brand new facility was completed in Almere, the Netherlands which is Cascade's European command center. This plant is designed to be the ultimate customer service centre.
Continuing to develop, Cascade expanded their product offering further in the year 1996 and 1997 with the dramatic acquisition of five corporations, including the worldwide leader in blades, the Kenhar Corporation.
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