The company designs and manufactures a diverse selection of product for the kitchen and bath, including faucets, toilets, sinks, whirlpool tubs, shower doors and bathroom accessories.

The company also provided services of chrome and nickel plating for auto parts and for doctor's and dentist's instruments.

[5] On October 1, 1936, the company requested a federal court to declare them insolvent and grant permission to reorganize under the U.S. Bankruptcy laws.

[11] During the United States’ participation in World War II, Sterling shifted the brass operations into military manufacturing.

Sterling Faucet Company operated plants in Reedsville, West Virginia, Tyler, Texas, and Oakville, Ontario, Canada employing about 2,000 workers.

On January 10, 1974, the Building Components division of Rockwell International informed the closing of its plant in Tyler Texas citing duplication of production facilities.

[25] On November 7, 1977, Rockwell International Corp, informed it may sell the Building Components division since there were several prospective buyers.

[29] After the acquisition, Kohler started expanding the offering of Sterling branded products adding in the following years, tube doors, shower doors, corner shower enclosures, bathing fixtures, vitreous china fixtures, and other bathroom accessories to the existing faucets line.

[30] On December 29, 1986, Sterling Faucet Co. announced the acquisition of Polar Stainless Products Inc. which owned a plant in Searcy, Arkansas since 1965[31] and employed 150 workers.

In 1987, Sterling Faucet Co. purchased the Bath Products Division and related patented technology of the then struggling company, Owens Corning.

On November 16, 1988, Sterling bought Kinkead Industries (a subsidiary of USG Corporation) and its manufacturing plant in Union City, Tennessee.

[35] From 1994 to 1996, the faucet operations at Morgantown, West Virginia were transferred to facilities in the cities of Sheridan and Malvern, Arkansas.

This brings back, in a limited way, a kitchen faucet to the current Sterling line of products, which did not occurred since 2004.