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About Us :: History
Overview
From where Anson Greene Phelps was standing, the east bank of Connecticut's
Naugatuck River looked like a good place to build a new copper company.
After all, it had been 11 years since he had founded a small industrial
village on this site in 1834; a thriving town that now bore a latinized
version of his Christian name. But if little "Ansonia" was
to continue to grow, it was up to Anson to make it happen. And Anson
was a man who made things happen.
Ansonia, Connecticut has been a copper town for over 150 years now.
It was May 12, 1845, that Anson's original enterprise was founded.
At first, the Ansonia Manufacturing Company turned out copper sheets.
Twenty-four years later an expanded product line called for a new
name. Thus was born the Ansonia Brass and Copper Company, founded
in 1869.
A new name. A reborn spirit.
One hundred and seventeen years later, a reborn, refreshed and renamed
corporation - Ansonia Copper & Brass, Inc. - emerged from a melting
pot of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures with its long and proud
heritage of craftsmanship intact.
Today, the site of Ansonia Copper & Brass' corporate headquarters,
casting shop, and rod extrusion and flat wire mills straddles both
sides of the Naugatuck River in Ansonia. Farther up the river, in
Waterbury, Connecticut, the company maintains a smaller mill site
where large diameter tubing is produced. Over 200 employees work at
the two locations.
The most capable copper company in the country.
With the ability to process virgin copper and scrap into any of 71
different alloys and manufacture a wide variety of castings to finished
shapes, Ansonia Copper & Brass provides the most complete selection
of rod and wire fabrications of any domestic copper and brass producer.
All of the company's products conform to American Society for Testing
Materials (ASTM) standards. Ansonia also produces to military, federal
and unique customer specifications and requirements as needed.
Ansonia Copper and Brass manufactures and sells semifinished products
which then undergo additional manufacturing operations by its customers
prior to use. Machining, forging, cold heading, cold forming, electrical,
conductivity, welding, stamping, redrawing and hot heading are some
of the processes used to turn Ansonia's semifinished products into
final end products incorporating the company's copper alloy and brass
material.
A tradition of excellence for more than
150 years.
Since 1845, Ansonia has forged a strong tradition of providing innovative,
high-quality, cost-competitive solutions to the specialty metals industry:
It is a company that has been time-tested and tempered by over a century-and-a-half
of constant industrial revolution.
Employees of Ansonia Copper and Brass have weathered great depressions,
great floods and great wars while refining the tools and techniques
of their trade. Ansonia is noted for short cycle times, scheduling
flexibility, and emphasis on research and development as well as their
technical expertise.
From the first open furnaces and primitive black lead crucibles,
to today's computer-controlled melting, casting, extrusion and finishing
operations, Ansonia's workforce has continued to deliver superior
copper and brass products to the industry and there's more to come.
Making it happen by making it better.
In addition to an aggressive upgrading of its manufacturing operations,
Ansonia Copper & Brass is also adding more capacity and a complex,
integrated, computer-based manufacturing system that will allow instant
price quotes and delivery dates.
Where Anson Greene Phelps once stood and saw a new copper company,
now stand hundreds of dedicated employees with a common goal: to create
the best… by being the best at what they do.
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