Werk-Brau Co. Inc., Findlay, Ohio, celebrated its 75th anniversary with activities and events throughout the year for customers, dealers and employees. The manufacturer of buckets and attachments for excavators and loaders has been family owned and operated since its inception.
Werk-Brau started as a blacksmith shop, opened by Duke Werkheiser and Dutch Brautigam in 1947. The core vision of safety, quality, design and delivery of products and services upon which Werk-Brau was founded still drives it today 75 years later.
It has grown to span numerous North American locations with 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space and more than 500 employees. It maintains dealer direct partnerships with over 1,000 North American heavy equipment dealers from its headquarters.
“We’re humbled to see our attachments working on job sites,” says Jon Ballinger, Werk-Brau’s president. “Whether it’s a major highway project or disasters, such as working on the 9/11 cleanup, we’re proud that our people played a role in helping these projects happen. We’re grateful for the many dedicated employees, dealers, distributors and of course customers who have helped us to get to where we are today.”
One aspect of Werk-Brau that has changed in its 75 years is technology, which the company uses to help customers be more efficient, productive and safe on jobsites.
Technology also plays a much larger role in heavy equipment manufacturing than it did seven decades ago, with Werk-Brau employing robotics and high-definition plasma cutting into each product it manufactures.
