| Anchor-Harvey Components was founded in 1923 as the Harvey Metal Corporation. Harold Brown Harvey, founder and president until his death in 1949, was a man with a keen knowledge of the forging process. The company, located at 74th Street and Ashland Avenue on Chicago's south side, grew and prospered under Mr. Harvey's leadership and quickly earned the reputation of being a company which could produce intricate nonferrous forgings of exceptionally high quality.
After World War II the Harvey Metal Corporation was purchased by Chicago Extruded Metals Company, a brass mill in Cicero, Illinois which had been Harvey Metal's brass supplier during all of its years of operation. In the period that followed, a major modernization program was undertaken. The company's manufacturing capacity was substantially increased by the erection of a new building and the installation of new forging presses and machine tools.
In 1976, the Harvey Metal Corporation was merged with Anchor Screw Products, another division of Chicago Extruded Metals, located in Addison, Illinois. The merged companies were renamed Anchor-Harvey Components.
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