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Marsh Bellofram
Marsh Bellofram
Marsh Bellofram
Mission Statement:
Marsh Bellofram is a world class instrumentation manufacturer, with powerful product support, and near flawless distribution. Our mission is to engage the current and future needs of our customers with swift, professional service while providing the highest quality instrumentation products at the most competitive prices.
Company History:
Marsh and Bellofram, sister companies of the Desco Corporation, were combined into Marsh Bellofram in January 1995. Marsh Bellofram Corporation has its headquarters in Newell, West Virginia, about 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the northeastern region of the United States.
Bellofram was originally established in the Boston, Massachusetts area in 1953 to manufacture elastomeric rolling diaphragms. John Taplin, the founder and original owner of Bellofram, designed air cylinders, air regulators, gauge protectors (diaphragm seals), and other pneumatic and hydraulic devices using his diaphragms. In the early 1980's Rexnord purchased Bellofram, and then in 1986 sold Bellofram to the Desco Corporation of Columbus, Ohio.
Desco moved Bellofram from its plants in Pelham, New Hampshire and Burlington, Massachusetts to a single facility just south of Newell, West Virginia. Bellofram has two divisions:
Process Control Division: air regulators, electro-pneumatic transducers, air cylinders, diaphragm seals, etc.
Diaphragm Division: elastomeric diaphragms
Marsh Instrument Company was originally established in 1865 in Skokie, Illinois, as the James P. Marsh Company. Marsh was acquired in 1988 by Desco and relocated to Hastings, Nebraska to share operations with Desco's Marshalltown Instruments. Marshalltown had been founded in 1918 in Marshalltown, Iowa.
The two gauge and thermometer product lines were consolidated by November, 1993 into a Marsh/Marshalltown product line. Marsh products are now also primarily manufactured in Newell, West Virginia.
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