The first Badger Expansion Joints were designed, manufactured, and placed in
service by the Badger Engineering and Construction Company of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in the early 1900s. Soon after the Hyde Division of Bath
Iron Works acquired the product line in the 1960s, Hyde was purchased by
Flowline Corporation as an affiliate. In 1969, a separate company was
formed and began manufacturing the Badger product line under the new corporate
identity, Badger Expansion Joint Company.
Badger expanded its capacity in 1980 with the acquisition of the Sola-Flex
expansion joint product line, originally founded by the Solar Turbine
Division. In 1987, Badger changed its name to Badger Industries, Inc., and
moved its operations from the location near New Castle, PA to a newly renovated
70,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Zelienople, PA, approximately 20
miles north of Pittsbugh.
Today, Badger Service-Rated Expansion Joints are manufactured by Badger
Industries, a division of Markovitz Enterprises, Inc. Badger combines a
time-proven design of round and rectangular metal bellow-type expansion joints
in stainless and high nickel alloys, with it's high-quality metal
processing background to produce an expansion joint of utmost reliablity.
