[2] In 1988, BP was discouraged from selling Chase to TBG Inc., a New York-based manufacturing concern, with a threatened anti-trust action.

The Justice Department warned TBG that it intended to file a civil suit to block its proposed $127 million acquisition of Chase Brass.

ECO BRASS no-lead properties meet Federal and State lead regulations.

This agreement was subject to a number of closing conditions, all of which have now been met, including approval by Global Brass and Copper stockholders and antitrust clearances, and the acquisition has now been completed.

The Chase Headquarters Building in Waterbury, Connecticut, is on Grand Street across from the city hall.

Chase Brass commissioned well-known architect Cass Gilbert to design it in 1916, across from his recently completed Waterbury city hall.

It is now known as the Chase Municipal Building and is part of Waterbury's Cass Gilbert Historical District.

[11][12] During World War II, the Chase Brass and Copper Company made more than 50 million cartridge cases and mortar shells, more than a billion small caliber bullets and, eventually, some of the components used in the atomic bomb.

Chase entered the consumer market with a line of chrome Art Deco household items in the 1930s, created by leading designers of the day such as Russel Wright, Rockwell Kent and Walter VonNessen.