Stahl Specialty Company | 7 STAHLWARTLY STEADFAST Glen Stahl established Stahl Specialty in 1946 when he began operating from a small, rented workshop in Kingsville, Missouri. He initially stayed busy by producing sanding drums and lathe faceplates, but his business was soon boosted when the owner of Goodall Manufacturing (a producer of lawnmowers) asked Stahl to cast a “G” insignia which could be applied to his line of lawnmowers. As this professional relationship grew, Goodall would later ask Stahl the feasibility of casting a lawn mower deck for a new type of rotary mower, but in this era, the general industry consensus was that these decks were too large for casting in a permanent mold. Stahl, however, went on to create the tooling and over the next few years, these casting would account for almost all of production by the foundry. By the 1960’s, Stahl had branched out into an extensive range of castings which included housing for gas grills, pans, truck parts, playground equipment and more. Stahl didn’t turn-away from challenges, or opportunities, for that matter. Seeing the potential in value-added services, his became one of the first aluminum foundries to include in-house heat treating, and by 1965, the enterprise had its own tool & die facility as well as another facility for steel fabrication and machining, making it one of the first one-source-of-solutions within the
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