Nordberg Manufacturing Company

[1] The company was founded by Bruno V. Nordberg and Jacob Elias Friend in 1886 in Milwaukee.

2 Shaft Hoist House, began operations in November 1920, and ran until the mine closed in 1931.

[6][7] In 1946, they bought the Busch-Sulzer Diesel Engine Company which was formed in 1911 by Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

[9] By that time, Nordberg had been manufacturing mineral and rock crushing equipment, screens, grinding mills, and hoists, heavy duty diesel and gas turbines, railroad maintenance machinery, hydraulic valves presses and other components.

[11] Nordberg engines were installed on several auxiliary United States Navy ships[12]