Honey bottles shaped like a teddy bear, clothing thread, candle wicks, diesel engines for semi-trailers and fabrics for building roofs.
Here are some of the products that may come with a “Made in Washington County” label.
Come to think of it, we might also make the labels.
With the Washington County Department of Business Development, some of the businesses and the Herald-Mail archive, we have compiled some highlights from Washington County manufacturers, beyond and present.
It’s far from being a complete database or All-Star list. But we hope it awakens some concepts and memories. You can complete the list. Email us at news@herald-mail. com.
Hub Labels operates a 110,000-square-foot facility at 18223 Shawley Drive north of Hagerstown. All 90 painters produce self-adhesive and unsupported labels. You may have noticed your paints on products at the grocery store, for example. It was the first printing company in Maryland to have a state-certified apprenticeship program. He received a Pace Setter Award as a component of Maryland’s Healthier Business program. And it is one of the few corporations in Maryland that holds SHARP certification for the protection and health of painters.
IKO Industries manufactures roofing membranes and insulation forums for the flat roofs seen in advertising and advertising constructions. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canadá. Su U. S. headquarters. UU. se located in Wilmington, Del. , across from Western Maryland Parkway, marks the company’s return to the U. S. roofing market. UU. To date, another 40 people paint there. But that can only build up to about a hundred when the plant is operating at full capacity.
Earlier this year, the Volvo Group hired around 1700 more people at its Hagerstown powertrain plant at 13403 Volvo Way north of Hagerstown. The plant develops and manufactures diesel engines, transmissions and heavy-duty axles for Mack trucks, Volvo trucks, Prevost coaches and Volvo buses. Therefore, it probably outperformed or exceeded factory products on Interstate 70 or Interstate 81. Last year, the company introduced an expansion of its vehicle lab in the Washington County complex. The Volvo Group, founded in Sweden, manufactures trucks and heavy equipment. . It is independent of the company that manufactures Volvo cars.
The list of existing brands is long. But here are some highlights:
• Parker Plastics at 105 Enterprise Lane manufactures a variety of inventory and traditional bottles, and adds those cute teddy bear shaped bottles that involve honey.
• You can use Fil-Tec products on everything from shoes to shirts and candles. Smithsburg-based technical fiber production cable, wick and wick products.
• Ring Container Technologies, at 16522 Hunters Green Parkway, manufactures the types of plastic boxes you find in a grocery store or convenience store. The company, founded in Oakland, Tennessee, is considered “one of the largest brands of plastic boxes in North America. “
• Holcim cement produced here has been used for the reflective basin at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. , the runways at Dulles Airport and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Security Route.
At one point in the 1930s, Southern Shoe hired another 660 people at its 22 N plant. Mulberry St. , and produced about 10,000 pairs of shoes per day, according to Herald-Mail records. The factory began in the 1920s, but construction vacated in 1979. The three-story U-shaped building has been renovated at Mulberry Lofts and houses Hagerstown’s school, businesses and children’s offices.
The construction of Moller Organ Co. in Hagerstown once housed the world’s largest and best-known organ builder, according to the company’s history. The original component of the North Prospect Street design dates back to 1895 and expanded over the following decades. Over the years, thousands of other people have worked there. Pipe organs manufactured through the company found a safe haven in churches at West Point, New York, in Pasadena, California. The plant closed in the early 1990s.
During the early 1900s, the Pope Tribune, along with the Crawford and Dagmar automobiles and some taxis, were built in Hagerstown. In 1924, Ruth Malcolmson of Philadelphia was crowned Miss America and won a specially designed Dagmar automobile. Hagerstown to attend the local fair and be invited to a banquet at the Dagmar Hotel on Antietam Street and Summit Avenue. The car company owned by M. P. Moller: yes, renamed Moller Organ. The hotel and the Dagmar car are named after his daughter.
Of what may be just a long list of others, here are 4 more:
• Before cars, there was pedaling. Pope and Crawford bicycles were manufactured in Hagerstown in the late 1800s and early 1900s. And in July 1889, Hagerstown and Washington County organized a national recollection of the League of American Wheelmen (now League of American Cyclists). According to a story about . com bodies, Robert S. and George Crawford, the two Hagerstown brothers who had been successful in making bicycles, sold their business and used the product to start the automobile business. They convinced Moller to sign up and Moller then bought the other investors.
• There is an explanation as to why the last component of the Hagerstown Cultural Trail is called Hatter’s Plaza. It is a nod to the business reminiscent of the Updegraff circle of relatives, who made gloves and hats. The Updegraffs operated from a building that once stood at 43-47 W. Washington St. , now the Hatter’s Plaza house, and a four-story layout at 49-53 W. Washington St. On the east wall of this building are a legible but faded sign advertising the Updegraff company as “weavers, milliners and vendors”.
• Fairchild Aircraft once hired thousands of other people and the company ranked as the largest employer in Washington County. The company has produced many types of aircraft, and some examples are now in the hands of the Hagerstown Aviation Museum. The army still uses the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, known as the “Warthog”. The company closed its local operations in the 1980s.
Hagerstown was once the headquarters of The Pangborn Corp. , founded in 1904 by Thomas W. Pangborn, which evolved sandblasting with compressed air and sand to obtain raw metals. At its peak, the company hired more than 1,000 people at the Hagerstown plant, which had 17 buildings spread over two plots. After several adjustments to ownership, the company closed the plant in 2000 and moved its headquarters to Georgia in 2007.
Mike Lewis covers business, economics and topics. Follow Mike on Twitter: @MiLewis.
Correction: This article was updated at 8:37 a. m. m. of October 5, 2022 to correct the spelling of Fil-Tec.