Nordberg Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of steam engines, large diesel engines, pumps, hoists and compressors for the mining and quarry industries located in Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
6-542: The company was founded by Bruno V. Nordberg and Jacob Elias Friend in 1886 in Milwaukee. Nordberg had previously been working at steam engine and sawmill maker E. P. Allis & Co. Friend became the company's president, and later his son, Robert E. Friend, was president and chief executive officer. In 1917, Bruno Nordberg was contracted by Quincy Mining Company to design and build the world's largest steam hoist for their copper mine near Hancock, Michigan . The hoist
12-460: A stroke of 36 inches for wooden steamers (188nhp) Diameter of 19-32-56 and a stroke of 36 inches (330nhp) Diameter of 21-35-59 and a stroke of 42 inches (225nhp) Diameter of 21-35-59 and a stroke of 42 inches (307nhp) By 1926, they were manufacturing diesel engines , steam engines ( poppet - uniflow Corliss ), air compressors , gas compressors, mine hoists (steam, air, and electric) and blowing engines . In 1944, they designed and built
18-607: Is a cross compound steam hoist. It was installed in the Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House , began operations in November 1920, and ran until the mine closed in 1931. It is currently available for guided historical tours. Nordberg produced a number of marine triple-expansion steam engines for ships built under the United States Shipping Board program, ca. 1918-1920: Diameters of 19-32-56 and
24-762: The largest diesel engine that has ever been built in the United States. It was built for a Victory ship built for the United States Maritime Commission . In 1946, they bought the Busch-Sulzer Diesel Engine Company which was formed in 1911 by Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch Brewery . Busch had acquired the first American rights to the diesel engine in 1898. Nordberg was acquired by Rex ChainBelt Inc (formerly Chain Belt Company ) in 1970, and
30-702: Was a Finnish Swedish engineer that emigrated to the United States and founded the Nordberg Manufacturing Company . Nordberg was born in Turku . He studied from 1875 to 1879 at the Polytechnical School ( Finnish : Polyteknillinen koulu , Swedish : Polytekniska skolan ) in Helsinki, Finland (later Helsinki University of Technology ). After his studies, he emigrated to the United States in 1880 and started working at
36-613: Was to become a division of Rex. By that time, Nordberg had been manufacturing mineral and rock crushing equipment, screens, grinding mills, and hoists, heavy duty diesel and gas turbines, railroad maintenance machinery, hydraulic valves presses and other components. Nordberg was acquired by Finland's Rauma Corporation in 1989, which was later merged into Metso in 1999. Metso closed Nordberg's former Milwaukee factory in 2004. Nordberg engines were installed on several auxiliary United States Navy ships Bruno V. Nordberg Bruno V. Nordberg, (April 11, 1857 – October 30, 1924)
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