Wayward Machine Co

Established in 1908, Hammond Machine Works Inc. is one of the leading companies providing production and fabrication works to a wide variety of industries across the United States. Located in Hammond, Ind., the company has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility based on an area admeasuring 42,000 square feet. The firm serves various industries, such as railroad, steel mills, chemical producing companies, paper factories, to name a few. The firm is ISO-9002/QS-9000 certified and uses computer numerical controlled machinery to achieve high quality standards.

Since 1946, Clipper Industries, Inc has been committed to producing quality products to clients in all types of industries, from brewing and security to agriculture and industrial stitching. We are ISO 9001: 2008 registered and feature high-quality state of the art facitilites and only the best in professional workmanship, which allow us to meet client needs efficiently at highly competitive prices. Near the end of World War II, a team of approximately 60 engineers were working on a project designing the Mericruser bus. Three of the engineers became good friends and wanted to go into business together. Working together in a basement, they developed a design that featured a shell constructed out of aluminum and named it the Clipper Cadet." The group produced approximately 12 trailers and started selling them to trailer dealerships in Wisconsin. In 1946 the company was incorporated under the name Clipper Industries, Inc after the Clipper Cadettrailer. Soon after, the company located to Evanston, Illinois. During the 1950s, Clipper Industries' business expanded to the design and fabrication of registers for doctors in hospitals, stacker pads for forklift trucks and LPG conversion brackets. The company received patents for many of its designs. With continued company growth and expanding product lines in the 1960s, Clipper Industries relocated to a larger facility in Skokie, Illinois. During this time, the firm began designing and fabricating Malting Equipment for the brewing industry and received numerous patents for these designs. Clipper also entered into a business agreement to manufacture gear reducers. In 1974, experiencing large demand for its malting equipment and LPG Conversion Brackets, the company required even more floor space and relocated to our present location in Itasca, Illinois. Today, we continue to expand our business in fabricating steel and stainless components for dental equipment, security gates, construction, commercial floor sweeping, industrial stitching, and agriculture equipment manufacturers, while also supplying the forklift and malting equipment industries. We are a distributor for Parker fittings/hoses and distributor of RegO LP gas coupling from Engineered Controls International.

F & C Industries, Inc is proud of our success, thanks to our employees, customers, suppliers and friends for their ongoing support. In a proud statement issued from their company headquarters, F & C Industries, Inc announced that 2007 is the 42nd Anniversary of the founding of their business. The company was started back in 1965, the same year the earth became a much smaller place, as satellites sent pictures of the moon and Mars back to Earth and Astronaut Edward White did a space walk. As the years progressed F & C Industries became a Class A Tooling and Stamping manufacturing facility with presses up to 250 tons. In 1990 Solidex Corp. came to F & C to develope and manufacture an adjustable sprinkler clamp allowing minimal adjustment of drop nipples through the small ceiling opening produced by the sprinkler head. In 2000 F & C Industries purchased the Ballard sprinkler clamp line. The Ballard Clamp is patented. The Model B Standard Clamp was introduced recently with the patented stand-off space.