{"id":260,"date":"2024-07-04T06:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haynesintl.com\/en\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:18:15","slug":"our-company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/haynesintl.com\/en\/our-company\/our-company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    1892<\/strong> Haynes and his family moved to Kokomo, where he became the manager of the gas plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1893<\/strong> Elwood attended the Chicago World\u2019s Fair, where he saw a gasoline-powered engine. He then purchased a one-cylinder, one-horsepower engine and attached it to a carriage he built in his kitchen. After doing considerable damage to the floor and filling the room with smoke, Haynes decided he needed a different facility to continue his experiment. Haynes hired brothers Elmer and Edgar Apperson for 40 cents an hour to construct the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1894<\/strong> \u201cThe ‘Pioneer’,\u201d as Haynes called it, was ready for its first test run. The car was towed by a horse and buggy (to avoid frightening horses on the busy Kokomo streets) out into the countryside on the Pumpkinvine Pike. With Haynes at the controls, the car traveled about six miles at a speed approaching six or seven miles per hour \u2013 becoming one of the first cars in the country to achieve such a feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1898<\/strong> Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers formed a partnership known as the Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company and started production of their automobile. The Haynes-Apperson automobiles were known for their long-distance running capability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1902<\/strong> The two Apperson brothers split from Haynes to start a company of their own. Haynes quite his job at the oil and gas company to focus on his business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1905<\/strong> The company was renamed the Haynes Automobile Company. He continued to seek both mechanical and metallurgical improvements for his automobiles, for which he received eight patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1907 <\/strong>Elwood Haynes receives a patent for an cobalt-based alloy he created. It is used for cutlery, dental instruments, automobile spark plugs, and other applications. He later named the metal STELLITE\u00ae<\/sup>. The name was derived from the Latin word for star, \u201cStella,\u201d which Haynes considered appropriate because of their bright, non-tarnishing surface. This metallurgical invention of these alloys is regarded by some to be more important than his automobile invention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1912 <\/strong>The United States Patent Office informs Haynes that he will be awarded two patents for his more advanced version of the STELLITE\u00ae<\/sup> alloys. Elwood Haynes forms Haynes Stellite Works on Union Street in Kokomo, Indiana. The four employees begin producing his STELLITE\u00ae<\/sup> alloy for use in machine tools, dental equipment, surgical scalpels, and cutlery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1915 <\/strong>Elwood Haynes and two local businessmen, Richard Ruddell and James C. Patten, incorporate the business as Haynes Stellite Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1916 <\/strong>Lindsay Street property is acquired, expanding the business under the leadership of James Patten, the plant manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1920 <\/strong>Union Carbide purchases the Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1921 <\/strong>A patent is granted for a nickel-molybdenum alloy composition range, which allows the development of many proprietary alloys, including HASTELLOY\u00ae<\/sup> B and A alloys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1922 <\/strong>HASTELLOY\u00ae<\/sup> trade name is invented. The name was created by taking letters from HA<\/strong>YNES STE<\/strong>LLITE ALLOY<\/strong> = HASTELLOY\u00ae<\/sup>. The hard-facing process is also invented. This process involves welding a surface layer of STELLITE\u00ae<\/sup> alloys over parts of tools and machinery that are subject to wear and abrasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1929 <\/strong>A new casting foundry is built to manufacture products for the growing chemical processing, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries that use the newly introduced HASTELLOY\u00ae<\/sup> alloys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1937 <\/strong>The precision casting process is used to make parts, such as dental restorations and surgical bone pins. This process, also known as the \u201clost wax\u201d or investment casting process, would lead to what might be considered the most important period of growth for us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1945 <\/strong>One hundred acres of land south of the main plant are purchased and become the Defenbaugh Street Operations, producing wrought alloys. This is a critical turning point because wrought products would eventually constitute the whole business of Haynes International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1948 <\/strong>Defenbaugh Street Operations\u2019 R-1 building is constructed. It houses a melting furnace, a steam hammer forge, a three-high mill for hot rolling plate and a two-high mill for hot rolling sheet, a 24-inch bar mill, and a 10-inch bar mill. Most of this equipment is still in operation today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1956 <\/strong>Manufacturing capabilities are expanded with the addition of the vacuum induction melting (VIM) facilities, which begin supplying General Motors with 360,000 pounds of investment casting remelt bar annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1957 <\/strong>The construction of the Park Avenue office complex, as well as centralized technology laboratories, an R&D test facility, and a technical library is completed. To retain its commanding position in the high-performance sheet market, a new Sendzimer sheet cold mill is installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1958 <\/strong>The purchase of a 2000-ton Birdsboro forge press is needed to reduce billet conversion costs. The forge press proves to be very crucial to the growth of the wrought alloy operations during this period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1963 <\/strong>Due to the rapid growth of air-melted alloys, a 15-ton Swindell electric arc furnace is added and immediately scheduled for production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1964 <\/strong>A new 5-ton Stokes vacuum melt furnace begins operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1965 <\/strong> United Steel Workers begin a two-year contract for hourly employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The 150,000-sq.-ft. Schloeman cold strip mill begins operating on the south side of Defenbaugh Street. This greatly expands the production of sheet, coil, and strip products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Showing its commitment to research and development, the Technology Department expands to more than 200 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1967 <\/strong>Electro slag remelting (ESR) capability for wrought alloys is introduced. This results in considerable yield improvements, enhanced alloy hot workability, and overall quality improvements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1970 <\/strong>Cabot Corporation purchases the Company. As a measure of respect for tradition, Cabot management continues the \u201cStellite Division.\u201dThe argon-oxygen decarburization (AOD) process is added and dramatically expands the applications for the Stellite Division\u2019s corrosion-resistant products in the chemical process industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Brussels, Belgium, sales office is opened, marking our first sales office in Europe. Additional European sales offices and service centers will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1971 <\/strong>HASTELLOY\u00ae<\/sup> S, HAYNES\u00ae<\/sup> 718, 625, and 75 alloys are introduced. For the first time in 50 years, we begin to produce a significant volume of alloys, which have neither been invented nor commercially introduced by us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1975<\/strong> Nickel Contor GB formed in Corby, Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1976 <\/strong>A service center opens in California to focus more efforts on value-added services. Processing equipment includes both laser and water-jet cutting machines. Additional U.S. service centers and sales offices will open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1977 <\/strong>The Tubular Products Manufacturing Facility in Arcadia, Louisiana, opens to help support the growing level of tubular product sales in the chemical processing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1978<\/strong> Lille, France service center opened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1980 <\/strong>The UK facility changed  its name to Cabot alloys UK Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1981 <\/strong>Due to significant demand for superalloy products, the four-high Steckel mill is installation began, creating opportunities to increase market share for both high-temperature sheet and wide, corrosion-resistant alloy plate products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1982<\/strong> 4-Hi installation finished, which is still the largest, most powerful Stekel mill devoted to the rolling of nickel- and cobalt-base superalloys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1983<\/strong> A facility that manufactures round products opens in Openshaw in the United Kingdom. The Corby service center is subsequently moved there. This is our first manufacturing facility outside of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1985 <\/strong>Cabot Corporation sells the Stellite Hard-facing Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1987 <\/strong>After the sale of the Stellite Division, the remainder of the Kokomo-based company is named Haynes International, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1987<\/strong> The Corby UK center changed to Haynes International Ltd in February 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1989 <\/strong>The investment banking firm of Morgan, Lewis, Githens, and Ahn, purchases Haynes International.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    1997 <\/strong>The Blackstone Group investment banking firm purchases Haynes International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1999 <\/strong>Haynes Singapore opens, marking our first sales office in Asia. Additional Asian sales offices and service centers will follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    2004 <\/strong>Seeking to expand our wire business, we purchase the assets of the Branford Wire Company in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and change the name to the Wire Products Manufacturing Facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2007 <\/strong>We complete an initial public offering, become a public company, and are listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. (HAYN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2012 <\/strong>We celebrate 100 years of innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2024 <\/strong>On November 21, 2024, Haynes was acquired by Acerinox, a leading global company in the manufacturing and distribution of stainless steel and high-performance alloys, through its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary \u2013 North American Stainless (\u201cNAS\u201d). Together, Haynes and VDM Metals will form Acerinox\u2019s High-Performance Alloys (HPA) Division in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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