Lynch Industries Inc history

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In 1917, Lynch Glass Machinery Company, the predecessor of LGL, was formed, and emerged in the late twenties as a successful manufacturer of glass-forming machinery.

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The company was then renamed Lynch Corporation, and was incorporated in 1928, under the laws of the State of Indiana.

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In 1946 The Lynch Company Inc. began manufacturing oil and gas furnaces, as well as fabricating and installing duct work for heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems in large institutional, commercial and industrial buildings.

Since 1960, The Lynch Company Inc. has developed into a formidable Steel Fabrication Contractor with a large capacity shop and state of the art equipment, to serve both light and heavy fabrication needs.

The company added another division when it acquired Cox Instrument Corporation in 1963.

M-tron Industries, Inc. (“Mtron”) was originally founded in 1965 as Mechtronics, Industries, Inc.

When he went to work for William D. Witter Inc. in 1975, Gabelli already enjoyed a reputation as a hard worker and a developing mystique for picking undervalued stocks.

In 1976, M-tron Industries, Inc. was acquired.

By 1981 he was managing $31 million for 81 accounts.

In 1982 he joined the Navy where he was a boiler technician operating and maintaining boilers and spent 4 years living in the far east.

Worked in the Hazardous Materials Industry until 1985 as Project Manager and Estimator.

In 1986 he then established Lynch Capital Corporation, a securities brokerage, followed by Lynch Asset Management Company, to which he added the acquisition of Tremont Partners, a Connecticut-based investment management consulting firm.

Furthermore in 1987, he bolstered Lynch's manufacturing segment by acquiring an 83 percent interest in Safety Railway Service corporation, makers of milling machines, heating equipment, and air pollution control equipment.

Discharged from the service in early 1988, Jon went to work for a small family run steel fab shop for a few months and later went to work for Canron Western, a Portland based Steel Fabrication facility.

In 1989 Gabelli and Lynch moved into the telecommunications sector, establishing Lynch Telephone and buying Western New Mexico Telephone Company.

After graduating from Oregon Institute of Technology in 1990 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Chris started his career at Industrial Alloy Fabricators, where he had worked his way through college as a machinist.

Although the SEC did not charge Gabelli or his funds with insider trading, it questioned a 1992 situation in which Lynch securities were traded shortly before financial results were released and Lynch's stock jumped 28 percent in five days.

The Morgan Group added to its Morgan Drive Away business by acquiring the assets of Transamerican Carriers in 1993, followed by Low Transportation, Inc.

In 1994 Pat made a career change accepting a position with Oregon Steel Mills in purchasing, managing a number of budgets and capital projects.

By 1995 Morgan companies had created a network of 1,800 independent owner-operators with 1,000 part-time drive-away employees.

Robert made a career change into the steel industry in 1996 as Project Manager.

A 1997 Wall Street Journal article noted that Gabelli's self-promotion no longer brought in the same number of clients, his funds were no longer producing stellar results, and his method of value investing had simply gone out of style.

He left Canron in 1998 for a position at Fisher Fab in Estacada as the shop foreman.

Started with the Lynch Company in 1999 as project manager.

Troubles with Spinnaker prevented the spinoff from occurring during 2000 and resulted in a restructuring of the business and a cost reduction program.

Joining The Lynch Company in 2002, Houston has held progressively more responsible positions and is highly respected by shop, management and office personnel.

In 2003 Pat worked for Ecklund Industries as a Project Manager, Sales and Estimating.

By the end of 2004 OSM lured him back to manage purchasing and assist in the project management of their new large diameter pipe mill.

In 2007 he returned to the steel industry to work for the Lynch company as a Project Manager.

In 2009, Nicole established her own small, full cycle bookkeeping business called GoBooks LLC. while also moving into work with the Internal Revenue Service.

2012 finds Pat back in Portland, joining the Lynch Team as its newest Project Manager.

In May 2015, 19-year-old Tavin Price was murdered for wearing the wrong color shoes.

In 2016 Chris Haney, who had been a long time employee and The Lynch Company General Manager for years, purchased the company in a seamless transition that guaranteed the consistent continuation of the successful service and outstanding reputation that the company had built over its first 97 years.

JR married Cheryl, his fiance of 15 years, in 2018, has an adult daughter he raised as a single parent, and a stepson who he is raising as his own.