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Website: Ward
Address: 115 Gulick St.
Address: Blossburg, PA 16912
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Ward Manufacturing, Inc. is a leader in the American pipe fitting industry. Founded in Blossburg, Pennsylvania in 1924, Ward's products are distributed through manufacturers' representative groups in fifty states and Canada as well as off shore countries.
Ward Manufacturing, Inc. was founded in Blossburg, Pennsylvania by Mr. Joseph Ward in 1924. Beginning in a modest fashion with approximately thirty employees, a small line of cast iron steam and drainage fittings were manufactured along with cast iron plugs and bushings.
In the following four years, the demand for Ward products increased rapidly. In 1928 the manufacturing facilities doubled in size, and the product line was expanded to include the 4” size fittings. At the same time, Class 150 malleable iron fittings were introduced in sizes ranging from 1/8” to 4”.
During the next decade Ward continued to grow in size and stature to become an increasingly important factor in the American pipe fittings industry. Further expansion was completed in 1938 with the addition of a facility to produce malleable iron pipe unions.
Continued growth and the increasing demand for competitively priced products called for higher volume and more efficient molding facilities. To satisfy this business pressure, a totally new and highly automated foundry was erected in 1955. To this day, through careful maintenance, continued improvement and reinvestment, this facility produces fittings with the most automatic molding equipment available.
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