Acquired by FLSmidth in 1990, the former Fuller Company has been a main stay in the cement and minerals industries since its formation in the mid-1920s.
The descendents of Edward Fuller, who came from England aboard the Mayflower, were well-known as businessmen and industrialists in New England. In 1850 Col. James W. Fuller moved his business interests and family to the Lehigh Valley, an important center of the American industrial revolution. Col. Fuller was involved in a number of business ventures and companies in the Lehigh Valley culminating with the formation of Fuller Company in 1926. With no less than 18 cement plants in and around the Lehigh Valley, Col. Fuller realized this industry was an important market base, and his earlier patents had relevance to cement manufacturing.
Col. Fuller applied his patented products to the cement industry and also acquired the Kinyon Pump, invented by Alonzo G. Kinyon, just before World War I. This product became known as the
Fuller-Kinyon™ Pump, the central product upon which the company was founded. The Fuller-Kinyon Pump is now more than 80 year old and still sets the standard in its industry. While we boast pumps dating back to the 1920s that are still in regular use, continuous design improvements have kept this Roaring Twenties concept relevant in the 21st Century.
From this and other core products and acquisitions, Fuller developed the company into an engineering organization engaged in the planning of individual plants which included machinery, equipment, and supervision of manufacturing and plant construction.