On Friday, July 31st, Allegheny Bradford Corporation closed the sale of its Top Line division to Steel & O'Brien Manufacturing of Arcade, New York. Dan McCune, President and CEO of Allegheny Bradford states, "This is a win/win opportunity for both businesses, allowing Steel & O'Brien to expand its presence in the flow control technologies industry while Allegheny Bradford focuses all its energy and resources on the opportunities developing in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry." He adds, "Allegheny Bradford is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the developing US policy of on-shoring America's medical supply chain."

Over the next couple of months, the Top Line operations will be integrated into the Steel & O'Brien operations, which will create much needed manufacturing floor space for Allegheny Bradford. This sale, along with the changing business environment and the Allegheny Bradford's ongoing process improvement programs, gives the Corporation the ability to excel in coming years.

Allegheny Bradford Corporation is a fabricator of sanitary, code stamped pressure vessels and systems worldwide.

First, I just want to say that our hearts go out to everyone impacted by this global pandemic. We extend our heartfelt wishes to anyone who is sick for their full recovery. As much as this pandemic tries to bring morale down, we are inspired every day by selfless healthcare workers and first responders.

Gov. Tom Wolf closed all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania due to COVID-19.  We are exempt and we will continue to ship high-quality equipment, components, and provide services in support of our customer’s efforts to supply the nation with life-sustaining food and medicine.   

Our Safe Workplace Plan

We want to maintain a safe workplace and adopt practices to protect the health of our employees, customers, visitors, and others.  We have asked all of our employees to cooperate in taking steps to reduce the transmission of communicable diseases in the workplace.  

  > Employees are encouraged to follow CDC and WHO guidelines like staying home when they are sick, washing their hands frequently, and using sanitizers in high touch areas.
  > We are deep cleaning the buildings every Friday evening as employees go home.  We support natural disinfecting by keeping the buildings closed from Friday evening until Monday morning.

  > We are taking preventative actions like workplace social distancing through the limiting of third party facility access, limiting inter-facility employee contact, and many employees are working from home.
  > Employees are encouraged to use telephone and video conferencing instead of face-to-face meetings as much as possible.

Service and Support

While this is an ever-evolving situation, currently we anticipate no interruptions to our customer service, support, and shipments as part of the critical infrastructure industry.  As the situation changes, we will keep you informed.  Thank you for trusting us with your business.  We will work together in these challenging circumstances to best serve your customers.   

Sincerely,

Dan McCune
President/CEO
Allegheny Bradford Corporation

To our customers, employees, suppliers, channel partners and business partners.

Allegheny Bradford Corporation remains open for business.

You can rest assured that Allegheny Bradford Corporation, has taken and will continue to take all measures necessary to ensure no disruption to our manufacturing capability and ability to deliver our high-quality products to the pharmaceutical industry, while at the same time complying with all governmental mandates towards reducing the transmission risks related to COVID-19.

We have implemented strict safety protocols and rules for factory and office access.

Protecting our employees’ health and well-being is our top priority. Should you have any questions about this please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Congratulations to Smethport Area School District students for winning the Outstanding Career Pathway video for the North Central region’s What So Cool About Manufacturing video Award Ceremony held at St. Mary’s High School on March 11, 2020. A big shout out to teacher/coach: Kelly Tarbox and her 9 students - Brennan Donavan, Madison Faes, Jaidyn Goodman, Emily Higley, Ruth Line, Mara Ours, Haydn Riekofsky, Fisher Szuba, Caleigh Wolosewicz.

Eleven middle schools and manufacturing companies from throughout the PA counties participated in the video contest. Each team, consisting of 6th through 8th grade students along with a teacher coach, was provided video equipment and training and was matched with a manufacturing company located in the region. The teams created a short video profile of their companies and the career opportunities they offer. By improving the image of these careers and creating awareness for them, the contest not only aims to sustain manufacturing careers, but aims to help them thrive. The event is led by Workforce Solutions, the Workforce Development Board serving North Central PA region in collaboration with community partners. Tim Roff, ABC Human Resource Manager, accepted the Outstanding Career Pathway Award.

https://www.whatssocool.org/

We are pleased to announce that Allegheny Bradford Corporation has again increased our manufacturing capacity to further reduce shipment lead times. 

Lead times on new quotes for heat exchangers and filter housings are as much as 50% shorter than those we quoted several months ago. Please contact us for details.

If you have any questions about our improved capacity and shorter lead times or any other aspect of heat exchanger or housing design and manufacture, we at Allegheny Bradford Corporation would be happy to answer you. Please contact us at sales@alleghenybradford.com.

Our industry has been busy the past couple of years. ABC has seen record-breaking orders due to high demand for our products. At the same time, unemployment rates have plunged, making it challenging to hire machinists and welders. These trends pushed ABC’s shipment lead times beyond what we and our customers want.

ABC has implemented several programs to address this. These are bearing fruit. For instance, since July we have been quoting 3” – 5” heat exchangers and 1-round filter housings at seven-to-nine weeks lead time. We’ve also reduced lead times for other products by several weeks.

Although we are hiring critical positions, our strategy has not been to simply hire a lot more people. This would raise costs and put pressure on pricing. Rather, we are attacking the issue by increasing throughput via manufacturing efficiencies that also yield improved quality and employee satisfaction.

You can be assured that our entire organization is working for you to reduce lead times while maintaining the high quality you have come to rely on from ABC.

6^th, 7^th and 8th-grade students from Smethport Area School are participating in the 4^th annual “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing” contest and toured our facility on Thursday, October 24th. 

Students from different schools in the area work with a local manufacturer to create a 3-minute video showcasing the manufacturer's product and how it is made.

On Friday, July 31st, Allegheny Bradford Corporation closed the sale of its Top Line division to Steel & O'Brien Manufacturing of Arcade, New York. Dan McCune, President and CEO of Allegheny Bradford states, "This is a win/win opportunity for both businesses, allowing Steel & O'Brien to expand its presence in the flow control technologies industry while Allegheny Bradford focuses all its energy and resources on the opportunities developing in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry." He adds, "Allegheny Bradford is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the developing US policy of on-shoring America's medical supply chain."

Over the next couple of months, the Top Line operations will be integrated into the Steel & O'Brien operations, which will create much needed manufacturing floor space for Allegheny Bradford. This sale, along with the changing business environment and the Allegheny Bradford's ongoing process improvement programs, gives the Corporation the ability to excel in coming years.

Allegheny Bradford Corporation is a fabricator of sanitary, code stamped pressure vessels and systems worldwide.

First, I just want to say that our hearts go out to everyone impacted by this global pandemic. We extend our heartfelt wishes to anyone who is sick for their full recovery. As much as this pandemic tries to bring morale down, we are inspired every day by selfless healthcare workers and first responders.

Gov. Tom Wolf closed all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania due to COVID-19.  We are exempt and we will continue to ship high-quality equipment, components, and provide services in support of our customer’s efforts to supply the nation with life-sustaining food and medicine.   

Our Safe Workplace Plan

We want to maintain a safe workplace and adopt practices to protect the health of our employees, customers, visitors, and others.  We have asked all of our employees to cooperate in taking steps to reduce the transmission of communicable diseases in the workplace.  

  > Employees are encouraged to follow CDC and WHO guidelines like staying home when they are sick, washing their hands frequently, and using sanitizers in high touch areas.
  > We are deep cleaning the buildings every Friday evening as employees go home.  We support natural disinfecting by keeping the buildings closed from Friday evening until Monday morning.

  > We are taking preventative actions like workplace social distancing through the limiting of third party facility access, limiting inter-facility employee contact, and many employees are working from home.
  > Employees are encouraged to use telephone and video conferencing instead of face-to-face meetings as much as possible.

Service and Support

While this is an ever-evolving situation, currently we anticipate no interruptions to our customer service, support, and shipments as part of the critical infrastructure industry.  As the situation changes, we will keep you informed.  Thank you for trusting us with your business.  We will work together in these challenging circumstances to best serve your customers.   

Sincerely,

Dan McCune
President/CEO
Allegheny Bradford Corporation