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Triple/S Dynamics history
Triple/S Dynamics company history timeline
When Walter met Henry Sutton, they incorporated as Sutton & Steele in 1888, the third manufacturing firm in the small city of Dallas, Texas, population at that time was about 10,000 according to the Texas Almanac.
In 1896, Walter’s younger brother, Edwin G. Steele, 22 years old was the subject of an article in the Dallas Daily Times Herald dated July 31, 1896 titled “A Dallas Genius about to Solve the Problem.”
The photograph is an original hand-written bill of sale from 1897.
By the time AC power had begun to replace direct current in the early 1900’s, the young company had already begun to turn its attention to the new challenge of inventing and developing equipment to concentrate gold and other metallic ores without using water.
In 1900, Edwin becomes the second Steele to be a part of the growing business and the name is changed to Sutton Steele & Steele.
“The Wonder of the Age” was published in 1914.
By 1919, Sutton Steele & Steele dry concentrators were installed in every state in the United States except Maine.
The first patent application drawn by Edwin was in 1919.
In 1929, Walter Steele dies in November at the age of 63.
In 1931, The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia awards Sutton, Steele & Steele the John Price Wetherill medal of “Discover, Invention or Development in the Physical Sciences”. The next decade would see great change in the company.
In 1934, Overstrom & Sons was established in Alhambra, California.
1936 Office and Engineering Building
In 1938, Edwin Steele dies at the age of 64.
Sometime in the 1950’s, a partnership was formed between Sutton, Steele and Steele and Overstrom & Sons.
In 1954, a young engineer from Minnesota, James F. Sullivan, is hired to work in the laboratory and quickly developed a small gravity separator, the D-135, a variant of which is still made today.
Sullivan writes the definitive work “Dynamics, Design and Performance of the Sutton Steele & Steele Specific Gravity Separators January 1956”.
Finally, in 1959, two long parallel lines, marked by hundreds of patents, finally came together when Sutton, Steele & Steele acquired Overstrom & Sons.
In 1963, Frank E. Wood, longtime President of the company, dies.
A handwritten index from 1966 shows separators and stoners still dominated the product list.
The widows agree to sell the company to Jim Sullivan in 1968.
T/SD took a bold step in 1984 opening its third manufacturing facility in Texas, this one in Cibolo, a suburb of San Antonio.
In 2011, the Sullivan family sells its 43-year ownership of Triple/S Dynamics to the Thompson family and T/SD becomes a part of the KMC Global group of companies, with its corporate headquarters in Michigan.
Jeff and Jim Sullivan – 2013
In 2014, Triple/S built two of the largest rotary screens (trommels) to date for a solid waste processor in California.
In 2015, Triple/S engineered and manufactured the largest Texas Shaker® vibratory grain cleaner yet, a 55,000-lb. system that scalps corn at 60,000 BPH. 60,000 BPH is 3,000,000 pounds per hour!
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| Eriez | 1942 | $190.0M | 640 | 4 |
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| Pan Oston | 1968 | $150.0M | 200 | - |
| Accent Awnings | 1979 | $380,000 | 7 | - |
| Cobalt Boats | 1968 | $35.0M | 375 | - |
| KBH | 1951 | $44.9M | 100 | 22 |
| Federal Equipment | 1982 | $1.0M | 20 | 1 |
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