Cambridge Brass History
As a leading manufacturer of brass fittings for the waterworks industry, Cambridge Brass takes great pride in quality, innovation and customer service. For over 100 years we understand the needs of a changing market and continue to develop products for today and the future. We offer a full line of corporation brass setters, and saddles in no lead brass. Here is our story
Canadian Brass Company Limited
1905 Canadian Brass Company Limited was established. Original location 415 Dundas Street, Galt, Ontario, Distribution Warehouse in Red Deer, Alberta.
Manufactured sink bibs (faucets), ground key brass valves, fittings and municipal water distribution products
1952 Canadian Brass Limited was sold to Fittings Limited, Oshawa, Ontario and subsequently became a subsidiary of that company
1977 Pedlar Fitting acquired control of Canadian Brass
Cambridge Brass
1979 Galt Brass purchased Canadian Brass and combined the two companies in to a new facility located at 140 Orion Place under the new name Cambridge Brass
1986 Cambridge Brass became part of EMCO Limited when they purchased Waltec Industries
1989 Arista Newman, a sister company that fabricated stainless steel sinks and security ware was closed. Cambridge Brass became the manufacturer of these
product lines in Canada. Product was carried out by Metcraft and Kindred Industries and was passed on to Metcraft in 1993
1992 Cambridge Brass was purchased by Masco Corporation from EMCO
1994 Expansion of the waterworks market in to the USA
1995 Manufacturing of Institution and Laboratory product lines were shifted to Delta Faucet Company
1999 Cambridge Brass purchased the Hays Waterworks Brass line from Lee Brass, Anniston Alabama and moved production of these to Cambridge
including meter setters capabilities. Two lines were relocated to Cambridge Brass and castings/machine processes converted to accommodate the product line.
2000 First contract for no lead waterworks product signed with Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
2005 100th Anniversary
2006 Cambridge Brass is Purchased by A.Y. McDonald Industries
2008 12,000 sq. ft. product warehouse added to the facility along with electrical upgrades to provide opportunity for capacity expansion
2013 Integration of the stainless steel saddle production into the Cambridge facility
2014 Development of Western Canada warehouse in Surrey BC. All waterworks product is produced from no-lead material