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B U I L D I N G C O N N E C T I O N S T H A T L A S T
We built our reputation from the ground up.
Anvil’s history stretches back to the mid 1800s,
when a company named Grinnell ® began providing
its customers with the finest quality pipe products.
Since 2000, those quality products and services—
and the people who provide them—have been
known as Anvil® International. Anvil® customers
receive the quality and integrity that have been
building strong connections in both products
and business relationships for over 150 years.
TRUSTED
FOR 150 YEARS
Focused Product Line:
Anvil® Malleable and Cast
Iron Fittings
Anvil ® Hangers, Supports
and Struts
Beck Welded Pipe Nipples
Anvil® Seamless Pipe
Nipples
Anvil® Steel Pipe Couplings
and Small Steel Fittings
Merit ® Tee-Lets and Drop
Nipples
Gruvlok ® Couplings,
Fittings and Valves
SPF TM Malleable and Cast
and Ductile Iron Fittings
SPF TM Grooved Fittings
and O’Lets
J.B. Smith Swage Nipples
and Bull Plugs
Catawissa ® Wing Unions
and Check Valves
Today Anvil® International is the largest and most complete fitting and hanger
manufacturer in the world.
2004 Anvil® International acquires Star Pipe Products, Building and Construction
Divisions (SPF) and forms AnvilStarTM Fire Products Division.
2001 Anvil® International acquires Merit® Manufacturing
and Beck Manufacturing.
2000 The industry’s trusted manufacturer of pipe
fittings, hangers and grooved fittings
is renamed Anvil® International, Inc.
1999 Tyco sells the distribution and manufacturing
operations known up to this point as ”Grinnell
Supply Sales”, but keeps the Grinnell® trademark.
1994 J.B. Smith™ and Catawissa™ join the Grinnell
Supply Sales and Manufacturing division.
1850 Providence Steam & Gas Pipe Co. is formed, and
Frederick Grinnell purchases a controlling interest.
1909 Frederick Grinnell opens a foundry in Cranston, RI.
Companies express interest in buying its piping
products, laying the groundwork for what would
become the Grinnell Supply Sales Division. It would
be these manufacturing and sales operations that
eventually become Anvil® International.
1919 General Fire Extinguisher Co. becomes Grinnell Co.
1960 Gruvlok ® line of grooved fittings is introduced.
1969 Grinnell Co. acquired by International Telephone
and Telegraph. Two years later, ITT divests the Fire
Protection Division, but keeps the manufacturing
and sales divisions that will become known as
Anvil® International.
Grinnell® is a registered trademark of Grinnell Corporation, a Tyco International Ltd. company.
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