Borg-Warner Corporation

• • • • • WOOSTER LOCATION ****

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About

Name

• Borg-Warner Corporation

Manufacturing

• Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

Facts

Founded

• 1952

Dissolved

• Date unknown

Related

Key Persons

Founders

• J. Robert McConnell

Location

• 1700 Old Mansfield Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
• 199 Vanover St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States

Quick Facts

• 1952 - Spring, Wooster Division of Borg-Warner Corp established under Grandstand at the Wayne County Fair; producing gear-type fuel and hydraulic pumps for jet aircraft
• 1956 - Switched to Farm & industrial equipment
• 1979 - July, became Rexroth Corporation, a German based company specializing in hydraulic pumps and valves
• 2001 - May, Became Bosch Rexroth, the Automatic Division of German company Rober Bosch GmbH merged with Rexroth Corp creating Bosch Rexroth
• 2004 - January, Contract ratification placed the UAW Local 1239 union in a position where there was no more room for negotiation... a wage freeze, insurance changes and combiing jobs into few position.
• 2004 - June, a major pump produced at this facility was discontinued 70 plus were laid off
• 2006 - Wooster location closed

Gallery

Historical documents

• Wooster, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 98.

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

Rexroth is closing